Toronto The initial response from Rogers, one of the big three telecommunications giants in Canada controlling internet and cable, was not all we needed or wanted, but it showed progress and a path forward for future discussions. ACORN’s similar letters to Bell Canada and Telus were met with opposing corporate strategies. Telus dug its head …
Category: Canada
ACORN Love Feast Lies in Critical Political and Labor Partnerships
Toronto An organization’s convention is of course going to bring forward its supporters to speak to its faithful, so it was not a surprise to find a love feast in the remarks made by speakers at various events of the ACORN Canada bi-annual convention in Toronto, but the “why” behind the remarks were as …
Constant Complaints on Cable and Internet Rip-offs
Toronto In a classic community organizing case of people discovering that what they had thought was a personal problem was actually a collective issue, a workshop on campaigning to bridge the digital divide at the ACORN Canada bi-annual convention became group bonding over virtually universal experiences of telecom rip-offs, price gouging, bad service, predatory practices, …