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Brace Yourself: Nearly Every Phone in Canada Rings at Once Tomorrow

Canadians should prepare for their phones to chime and televisions to broadcast a test signal tomorrow nationwide. Alert Ready, the national emergency alert system managed by Pelmorex (they own The Weather Network), has scheduled a test for Wednesday, May 6, 2026. The coordinated event is designed to ensure the system works effectively during real life-threatening...
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1Password Finally Adds Native iPhone Integration and New Transfer Tool

Toronto-based 1Password just pushed out a round of updates focused on making things smoother for mobile users, mostly around importing your data and saving new accounts on the go. Moving from one password manager to another has always been kind of a nightmare, usually involving exported files you have to hope nobody intercepts. 1Password is...

Bell and Virgin Axe $80 Connection Fee, But New $40 Charge Debuts

Bell and Virgin have updated their websites to remove the $80 connection fee banned by the CRTC, but customers won't be getting off entirely fee-free. Both carriers have introduced a new "one-time device handling charge" of $40 as of today in changes on its website as seen by iPhone in Canada, described as covering "fulfillment...
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B.C. Telus Outage: Botched Copper Theft Knocks Out 911 and Cell Service

Thousands of residents across northwest B.C. are currently without phone or internet service after a failed attempt to steal copper cables cut off crucial Telus fibre lines. The outage began around 3 a.m. Monday near Sheraton, B.C., roughly 20 kilometres east of Burns Lake. According to Telus, vandals targeting copper cables accidentally cut through the...