Popularly known as Humble and Fred, ex-radio personalities Howard Glassman and Fred Patterson have announced a new partnership with Rogers that will see their podcast being promoted on 19 of the company’s radio stations’ websites across the country, and on the stations themselves. It’s the first time Rogers has gotten involved in a purely online [...]

Excerpt from a letter from Rogers to the CRTC, dated March 22, 2011. With the outcome of the CRTC’s deliberations over usage-based billing still uncertain, it can sometimes seem as though the large companies that provide Canada with internet access aren’t accountable to consumers. But that isn’t necessarily true. Here’s how two strangers, working independently, [...]

A lot of people do a lot of weird stuff on the internet, and ground zero for commercial e-weirdness is Craigslist. In Declassified, Torontoist combs over our city’s listings to find the best (and worst) of the bunch. Welcome to the End of Civilization edition of Declassified, where your faith in humanity will be replaced [...]

Photo by marc falardeau from the Torontoist Flickr pool. Pat yourselves on the back, Canadians. Enjoy the victory—a great one, for sure—but don’t get complacent. This isn’t over yet. That was the message OpenMedia.ca was trying to get across this morning. The victory, for anyone currently living under a rock, is in the fight against [...]

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While it may seem a tad cliché to take a few whacks at Bell and Rogers, Canada’s foremost internet service providers, this year they deserve our scorn more than ever for one clear reason: bandwidth caps.

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Rogers On Demand’s front page. Canadians looking to rent films on the web now have one more option with the launch of movie rentals from Rogers On Demand Online. Unfortunately, most of what you need to know about the service right now is captured by a bit of unintended symbolism: upon launching the site, the [...]

Rogers ads at Parliament and Carlton on Monday morning. Photo by deadrobot from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Yes, Rogers—the beloved telecommunications giant—has once again spray-painted illegal ads on sidewalks across the city. On Monday night, at around 10:30 p.m., R.T. Lechow spotted two Rogers agents tagging the corner of Bathurst Street and Barton Avenue, and [...]

Rogers On-Demand Online premieres today. Starting today, the Canadian media giant that is Rogers is offering Rogers On-Demand Online—Rodo—to all of its cable, Internet, home phone, and Fido customers. The one-stop beta site will stream current and archived TV shows, movies, sports, and music videos, available anytime and anywhere in Canada. We were able to [...]