Stories by John Quintet

Actual Black Friday is here, folks. Freedom Mobile has made a change today for its Canada-US-Mexico plans, ramping up its $39 plan with an extra 10GB data bonus for Black Friday. This makes it a $39/70GB plan with 10GB of Roam Beyond, which is better than before. Here are Freedom Mobile’s Black Friday plans for...

Crave is stacking December 2025 with holiday movies, new originals, big doc premieres and a ton of classic films. Here’s everything hitting the platform next month. Holiday Collection now streaming Crave’s Holiday hub is live with tons of favourites, including Dr. Seuss How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Holiday, Love Actually, Gremlins, National Lampoon’s Christmas...

Some Android users in Canada are reporting problems with RCS chat features getting stuck on “Setting up” or “Connecting,” especially on Bell. A few Reddit users say they’ve finally found a workaround after years of trying to get RCS to activate. One Bell customer said the issue went away after changing how their Google accounts...

Environment and Climate Change Canada (formerly known as Environment Canada in 2015) is changing how it issues weather alerts, introducing a colour-coded system meant to make warnings easier to understand at a glance, it announced on Wednesday. The federal agency will now label alerts as yellow, orange, or red, depending on how serious the expected...

SpaceX’s Starlink now has cheaper internet plans in Canada, with prices starting at $70 CAD per month. The company expanded two new options called Residential 100 Mbps and Residential Lite, joining the regular Residential plan. The idea is to give households more choice based on how much speed they need and how heavy their internet...

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, the eighth film in the long-running action series starring Tom Cruise, begins streaming on Paramount+ in Canada and the U.S. on December 4. You got that right, just in time for holiday streaming. The story picks up two months after Dead Reckoning. Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and the IMF are...

1Password is adding official support for OpenAI’s new AI-powered Atlas browser (which debuted in October), making it easier for users to manage logins and autofill credentials inside the app from day one. The password manager’s browser extension now works on Atlas, and 1Password says setup is simple: users can install the extension, authenticate through Touch...

Disney+ is running a limited-time Black Friday promotion in Canada, offering one of its lowest prices to date. From November 25 (today) to December 1, new and eligible returning subscribers can sign up for the Disney+ Standard With Ads plan for $3.99 per month for 12 months. The deal works out to about $60 in...

OpenAI has released a new update for its AI video tool, Sora, adding a feature called Sora Styles. The update arrives just in time for the U.S. Thanksgiving weekend and lets users apply preset looks to their AI-generated videos. The first six styles are Thanksgiving, Vintage, News, Selfie, Comic, and Anime. They give creators quick...

OpenAI has launched a new feature called shopping research that’s meant to help people figure out what to buy without digging through dozens of websites themselves. The tool asks you what you’re looking for, checks reliable sources across the internet, and builds a personalized buying guide in a few minutes. The feature is now available...

When we told you Koodo and Virgin started to revamp plans one week before Black Friday, we knew Fido was set to follow with their own changes in response, and here we are. Below are Fido’s latest updated plans as we head into Black Friday: $40/50GB (new) with 10GB data bonus and $0 hotspot promo...

Tesla has officially launched Model Y Performance orders in Canada, giving buyers a faster, upgraded version of the company’s best-selling SUV. The catch for shoppers: both federal and provincial EV rebates are gone, meaning everything is full price (well, except in Quebec as you can get $4,000 off the Long Range). The Model Y Performance...