Stories by Austin Blake

Two U.S. lawmakers want to stop Chinese connected vehicles from driving into the United States through Canada and Mexico. Congresswoman Haley Stevens and Senator Elissa Slotkin in Michigan announced the Protecting America from Chinese Cars Act at the Mackinac Policy Conference on Mackinac Island last week. The bill would ban connected vehicles made in China...

Next time you're passing through Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, there's a new reason to show up early. Wealthsimple has signed a three-year deal with Nieuport Aviation to become the exclusive financial services partner in the airport's transborder lounge. To kick things off, the company is running a pop-up experience called Something To Do from...

Walmart Canada is officially rebranding and expanding its subscription service this week, giving customers a major upgrade that directly takes on Amazon Prime. According to an email sent to current customers and obtained by iPhone in Canada, the existing Delivery Pass subscription will automatically upgrade to a new Walmart+ multi-benefit membership starting on Thursday, June...

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...