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Public Interest News: G20 consumer protection / Le taux de pauvreté / ROE Ontario utilities / Digital locks / Canadian Payments Association / Aug. 31, 2011 / Recall unsafe products
PIAC Annual Dinner, Nov. 5: Featured Speaker, Ellen Roseman (PIAC 19/Oct/2010) The Public Interest Advocacy Centre cordially invites friends and colleagues to the PIAC Annual Dinner 2010. This year’s featured speaker is Ellen Roseman, the Toronto Star columnist for personal finance and consumer issues. Roseman is also the first public representative on the board of […]
Consumer Groups demand monthly bill detail by Bell and Aliant – Supplementary comments
Ms. Diane Rheaume Secretary-General Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission Ottawa, ON K1A 0N2 BY FAX AND EMAIL Dear Ms. Rheaume: Re: Follow-up to Decision CRTC 2002-34: Monthly Detailed Billing Statements Comments of The Consumer Groups on Bell and Aliant Interrogatory Responses 1. We are in receipt of responses from Bell and Aliant to Commission interrogatories […]
Why Phone Service is Deteriorating for Most Consumers
For Whom Bell Tolls: Why Phone Service is Deteriorating Philippa Lawson Senior Counsel Public Interest Advocacy Centre Over the last few decades Canadians have enjoyed superior telephone service. We have become accustomed to phone service that is available almost everywhere we can travel in this great country, that is largely reliable and of high quality […]
https://www.piac.ca/2002/10/01/why-phone-service-is-deteriorating-for-most-consumers/
Public Interest News, Vertical integration, Reserve spectrum, Québec s'attaque au sur endettement
Vertical integration, We need rules PIAC says “Canada’s telecommunications regulator needs to set rules to prevent possible “cartel-like behaviour” from telecommunications companies such as Bell and Rogers that also own content such as TV shows that competitors would like to be able to offer online, said Chris Peirce, chief corporate officer for MTS Allstream,” CBC […]
Public Interest News: Telcom complaints / Bell Canada rebate hustle / Whitelisting / Le courtage hypothécaire
All telcos must fund the Commissioner for Complaints (PIAC 7/Dec/2010) “For the first time, the CRTC has issued a ruling from the bench at the end of a regulatory hearing, rather than after the usual 120 days, mandating that all telecom providers in Canada must become members of the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services […]
Public Interest News: Interprovincial trade / Cell complaints / Cell rates / Belus: Probable fusion / TV fees up in September / Copyright Consultation / Merchant Processing Fees / La surtaxe de carburant
Interprovincial trade and the consumer interest: New report (PIAC 20/08/09) Next week PIAC will release “The Consumer Perspective of Trade & Commerce Powers”, a report that examines the use of federal trade and commerce powers to regulate interprovincial trade and the consumer interest in interprovincial trade. In recent years, there have been increasing political efforts […]
Public Interest News: Sept. 2008 – Feb. 2009
Astronomical Ontario payday loan cost cap: PIAC (PIAC-10/02/09) “Ontario should cap the cost of payday loans at $21 for every $100 borrowed and review that limit in two years, an independent advisory board has concluded,” the Canadian Press reported on Feb. 6. “The $21 proposal is “astronomically high” and a “gift to payday lenders,” said […]
https://www.piac.ca/research-reports/public-interest-news-sept-2008-feb-2009/
Public Interest News: July – November 2007
Telecommunications Consumer Agency: CRTC hearings Nov. 14 (PIAC – 12/11/07)—On Nov. 14 the CRTC will begin hearings on a telcom consumer protection agency. PIAC will bring the consumer perspective including a critique of the plan for an ombudsman put forward by the industry in July. The Public Interest Advocacy Centre will base its arguments on […]
https://www.piac.ca/research-reports/public-interest-news-july-november-2007/
PIAC comments on CSA Privacy Code
CSA Model Code for the Protection of Personal Information, CAN/CSA-Q830-96 2002-2003 Review Comments of Philippa Lawson, Public Interest Advocacy Centre Introduction It has now been six years since the introduction of the CSA Model Code for Data Protection. A number of organizations have modeled their own privacy codes and policies on this standard, and businesses […]
https://www.piac.ca/research-reports/piac-comments-on-csa-privacy-code/
PIAC application to CRTC for disclosure by telcos of long distance rates
Ms. Diane Rheaume Secretary-General Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission Ottawa, ON K1A 0N2 BY COURIER AND EMAIL Dear Ms. Rheaume: Re: Part VII Application by PIAC for enforcement of CRTC ruling regarding Basic Toll rate disclosure by ILECs, 1. The following is an application made pursuant to sections 24, 48, 51, 55, 56, 57 and […]
