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Extra, Extra: New Area Codes, Orthodox Jews, and Harsh Criticism

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  • The GTA is getting two new area codes on Monday: 437 and 365. The Grid explains why, exactly, this is necessary.

  • Also phone-related: Wind Mobile is up for sale. If the outcome is a takeover by Rogers or Bell, Toronto’s wireless market could very well go from bad to worse.
  • Mayor Rob Ford appeared before a crowd of orthodox Jews, at a religious event. What did he talk about? How much he loves the idea of casino in Toronto, of course.
  • Toronto Sun columnist Sue-Ann Levy doesn’t have her own Wikipedia page, which is sort of surprising considering how controversial she is, and how much source material is available. The Academy of the Impossible is holding a “Wikipedia contribution party,” in an attempt to right this wrong.
  • Canadian Music Week is happening right now, but not everyone is enjoying themselves. In the midst of the festivities, a Tumblr called Honest Reviews has been semi-anonymously churning out harsh commentary on the festival and the bands playing in it. “A majority of Canadian bands are stuck in 2004 and/or 1994,” says one of the blog’s writers.

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  • Testu

    I would really like to believe the CRTC will actually follow its mandate and prevent the incumbent carriers from purchasing Wind and extending their monopoly over literally all telecommunications markets in the country. Given their past performance in that realm I’m not particularly hopeful though.

  • http://twitter.com/Titertin OneLinetoLive

    Isn’t the CRTC around to keep the content sumwut Canadian….. heck, I work in telecomm and never have I heard of the CRTC caring ’bout the monopoly… if anything, it makes they’re job easier.

    • Testu

      According to their website they list “encouraging competition in telecommunications markets” as one of their key activities*. Their mandate covers both telecom and broadcast media.

      Of course almost every decision about both telecom and media ownership that’s come out of the CRTC for as long as I can remember shows that to be absolutely laughable. I guess that’s what happens when you have a revolving door between the CRTC and Bell Globemedia/Rogers Communications/Telus/Canwest.

      * http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/backgrnd/brochures/b29903.htm – The more you know…