#bell canada

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Bell Canada LaPuce/QuickChange prepaid payphone card 1998 (x)

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Important notice regarding your Internet activity black hours (2025)

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I had a VERY interesting day at FanExpoCanada - I can't wait to tell you all about it! Come see me tomorrow at booth AP50!

P.S. tell Bell Canada and FanExpo that AI is theft and a slap in the face to everything and everyone we celebrate at conventions!

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Portable and Emergency phone booths, 1980s.

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Anyway we gotta end the duopoly that Rogers and Bell have over telecommunications in Canada

Rogers went out for like 18 hours on Friday, and several provinces were out of internet, phone, and debit services. Literally millions of people couldn’t work, couldn’t communicate, and couldn’t make debit purchases or withdraw money. I even heard some people couldn’t call 911 because this company was down. A clinic in Niagara had to cancel radiation appointments for cancer patients. I can’t even find a statement from them explaining wtf happened.

Not to mention that, because Rogers and Bell own most telecommunications in the country, our phone/internet/cable bills are off the charts. They can make up whatever prices they want because who else are we going to turn to? Some rinky dink local provider that may or may not have consistent coverage? Telus is really the only other competitor. There’s a Rogers-Shaw Communications merger planned so who knows what’s going to happen with Freedom Mobile.

I can’t help but laugh at this titanic fuckup but I’m so over getting railed by these two. There were warning signs for years that this is bad, but today’s massive outage should be a wake up call: one company should not have the power to disrupt millions of lives across one of the largest countries in the world.

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[image ID: the “was anybody going to tell me” meme, captioned to read (in the first frame) “Okay, was anybody going to tell me that the first episode of leverage: redemption quotes Mishneh Torah Hilchot Tshuva“ and (in the second frame “or was I just supposed to sit through ten thousand ads on the ctv site, with no hope of watching the rest of the show anytime soon, to discover that myself?”]

Anyway rights to show Leverage: Redemption in Canada were bought by the absolute hellscape that is Bell Canada, so I genuinely don’t know when if ever I will be able to watch the rest of the show, but that “In the Jewish faith” line that Hardison gives at the end is accurate and A+ Jewish content, this is direct from Rambam, like Leverage was always a show about tshuva but now they made it explicit and I love that???