Stories by Austin Blake

Telus customers in B.C. and Alberta can now file claims in a long-running class action over the company’s old call set-up billing practices. Claims first opened in June of this year, but the December 6, 2025 deadline is coming up fast, and vouchers will be handed out on a first-come, first-served basis. The settlement was...

Bell's Lucky Mobile and Rogers' Chatr have kicked off a full-on early Black Friday battle, each trying to outdo the other with bigger data buckets at the lowest possible prices. The two budget carriers often shadow each other, but this year’s Black Friday updates show Lucky pushing harder while Chatr trims and reshapes its lineup....

Telus’ flanker brand Koodo is starting to warm up its plans for Black Friday, lowering prices and adding more data to select plans, while its Bell-owned rival Virgin Plus is doing the same. Here’s what we’re seeing today from Koodo, with prices dropping $5 and data increasing for its two entry Canada-wide plans: $40/50GB (was...

Google Chromebook buyers will soon get a new gaming perk. Google and NVIDIA are have announced GeForce NOW Fast Pass, a new version of NVIDIA’s cloud-gaming service made only for Chromebook users. The pass lets people stream more than 2,000 PC games directly to a Chromebook using NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX servers. This means no downloads,...

Usman Rogers-owned Chatr’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals are now live, now adding bonus data to plans. Here are the Chatr plans from today: Monthly Plans $19/month — Unlimited Canada-wide talk + 0.5GB Auto-pay bonus $28/month — 3.5GB (3GB + 0.5GB Auto-pay bonus) + Unlimited Canada-wide talk $29/month — 25GB (20GB + 5GB Auto-pay...

A Canadian telecom joint venture is rolling out a new tool to help businesses spot when a phone number has been reassigned—a big deal because recycled numbers are quietly becoming a major source of fraud. EnStream, a company owned by Bell, Rogers and Telus (founded in 2005), has teamed up with Proximus Global to launch...

B.C. is scaling back parts of its electric-vehicle strategy while it waits for the federal government to decide what Canada’s national EV targets will look like. The province says it will update its zero-emission vehicle rules in spring 2026, including revisiting its sales targets. Officials say they want B.C.’s targets to line up with whatever...

Telus’ new Sovereign AI Factory in Rimouski, Quebec has been officially ranked as Canada’s fastest and most powerful supercomputer, according to the latest TOP500 list. The system placed 78th worldwide, making Telus the only Canadian telecom provider on the list. The TOP500 ranks supercomputers using the High-Performance LINPACK (HPL) benchmark, which measures sustained performance in...

The CRTC says it’s modernizing what counts as Canadian content for TV and streaming, but the reaction from digital-rights groups suggests the regulator has once again managed to make a complicated system even more confusing — and even less connected to real Canadian life. The update is part of the CRTC’s job under the new...

Telus’ flanker brand Koodo has released Black Friday deals for 2025, the same day as its parent company. Now, it says there’s a Black Friday sale on its website but the deals aren’t exactly huge. Here are Koodo’s current plans: $45/10GB $40/40GB ($10 off, was $50) $55/60GB ($5 off, was $60) $75/100GB So there’s $5-$10...

Telus has launched their Black Friday deals for 2025, offering saving on smartphones and even teasing free Sony PlayStation 5 consoles with internet purchases. The company previously teased it was going to post its Black Friday deals on November 18 and it stuck to its guns, despite Rogers and Bell sharing their “deals” last week....

The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) is accusing the CRTC of drowning radio and TV stations in pointless paperwork and decades-old processes, arguing the regulator has failed to modernize even basic administrative systems. In a sharply worded letter to CRTC Chair Vicky Eatrides, the group says the Commission’s so-called “red tape reduction” efforts amount to...