Stories by Austin Blake

Three Tesla fans just drove across all of Canada without touching the wheel once, leveraging the latest version of the company's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) tech, version 14.3.3 on a new Model 3. David Moss and Spencer from the U.S., plus Devin Olsen from Langley (BC), left Horseshoe Bay Terminal in Vancouver on Monday and pulled...

Quebec is getting another new area code. Starting February 27, 2027, the 273 area code will be added to the region currently served by 367, 418 and 581, covering major centres like Quebec City, Saguenay, Lévis and Rimouski. The new code is being introduced because the existing area codes are running low on available numbers....

DuckDuckGo is threatening to pull its VPN from Canada if the federal government's lawful access bill, known as Bill C-22 becomes law. Gabriel Weinberg, the company's founder and CEO, confirmed the move to The Globe and Mail. The search engine itself will stay available to Canadians, but the VPN is gone if Bill C-22 passes....

About 120 Waterdown residents have been without landline service for nearly two months, all because someone decided to steal copper wire from local telecom infrastructure. Waterdown is a suburb located in the southern part of Ontario, sitting about 60 kilometres west of downtown Toronto as part of the city of Hamilton. It started April 4...

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree wants Bill C-22 passed before Parliament breaks for the summer, and he's not being subtle about it. "My expectation is to get it done before we rise. I want this as law before we rise," Anandasangaree told the National Post on Wednesday. The House of Commons is set to rise...

Prime Video Canada has released its list of titles coming to the streaming service in June 2026. Two fan favourites are back, as The Legend of Vox Machina returns for season four, while Jeremy Clarkson is back on the farm for season five of Clarkson's Farm. As for what's new, Every Year After is a...

More than half of Canadians considering an electric vehicle say they'd buy from a Chinese brand they've never heard of. Ford, GM, and Toyota probably aren't thrilled about that. According to Automotive News Canada, a new J.D. Power Canada study found that 56 per cent of EV-curious shoppers would look at Chinese brands not yet...

Public Mobile customers across Canada are dealing with a widespread data outage, and some say they've been without reliable service for days. The Telus-owned prepaid carrier acknowledged the problem in a community forum yesterday, saying it is "aware that some of our customers have been experiencing data-related issues" and that teams are "actively investigating intermittent...

Valve has quietly restocked the Steam Deck OLED after a three-month inventory drought, but the return comes with serious sticker shock. The company is blaming a global surge in memory and storage costs, with Canadian consumers taking the biggest hit at increases of over 60%. Here's where Canadian pricing stands now—get ready: 512GB OLED: $689...

Bell Media's Crave is loading up in June with something for everyone. The biggest arrival is HBO's House of the Dragon season 3, premiering June 21 with new episodes every Sunday. Love Island USA returns June 2 with Ariana Madix back as host for season eight. Power Book III: Raising Kanan wraps up its run...

Google showed up to Parliament Hill this week with a blunt message for the Liberal government. Bill C-22 isn't a modernization of Canadian law enforcement. It's a surveillance regime that goes further than anything in the democratic world, and nobody at Google was even consulted before it was written. Jeanette Patell, Google's director of government...

Telus is once again targeting its Public Mobile prepaid customers with a discounted home internet offer, pitching them on an upgrade to its PureFibre 1.5 Gigabit service. The promotion texted today to customers and obtained by iPhone in Canada, offers Public Mobile subscribers the PureFibre 1.5 Gbps plan for $95 per month on a 2-year...