Martin Cleaver, masterfully.

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The reason Rogers is tight-lipped about why it hasn’t struck a deal to bring Apple’s iPhone into Canada is because it would involve an embarrassing admission: To make the iPhone financially attractive, Rogers would have to cut the rates it charges its customers for data. And what company wants to cut its prices when there […]

Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) wants to double charge for the internet
Many ordinary internet users are unaware: there’s a war being fought by the net savvy for everyone’s right to get to the internet. Net Neutrality centers on the argument that:
Everyone pays for their own Internet connection.Google is paying lots of money for lots of […]

Would you be happier on a Mobile Virtual Operator’s network?
Given I am currently on Rogers, and the sort of service I would pay extra for (mobile data) is just a rip off, I’m looking at other options, and scaling back my ambitions. My contract with Rogers is up in about 10 days (and what’s with […]

In the same the theme as my posting Rogers: 1.124 mb? That will be $57.55 please, my friend Thomas Purves just posted the above stark graphic contrasting the rates people living in Canada pay compared to others around the world. In the following I summarize an investigation of my own and what I think are […]

http://www.gagglescape.com/index.php/site/comments/528/ :
According to [Roger] Martin, [Dean of the Rotman School of Management] - and he pulled no punches - Ontario could not go out of its way to devise a more business unfriendly, non-competitive taxation system. “Taxing businesses at high rates is just counterproductive,” says Martin.
The article also covers key steps Ontario’s policy makers can […]

Travellers’ groups cheer ‘open skies’ plan

Airline and travellers’ groups are cheering a government plan to open up Canada’s skies to more competition, saying open-skies agreements with more countries will allow them to reach new markets and reduce ticket prices for consumers.
Currently, Canada only has two open-skies agreements, with the United States and Britain, while the […]

According to the Toronto Star, M&A has reached a new high. Canada is being sold off to foreign investment, and no-one cares. I argue that Canada’s corporate culture of subservience can be transformed using Social Media tools, and that Canada’s leaders have a responsibility to their country to empower staff.

In one time goodwill gesture, Ryan comments on Canada’s extortionate anti-competitive corporate culture.
So, when I call to say “Hey you guys missed something” I don’t expect to be informed that YOU’RE doing ME a favour by fixing your own mistake.
I’m from the UK, and “let me tell you”, (in a stern voice), few Canadian […]