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Public Interest News: Rogers regulation / Mauvais service chez Bell Canada / Is your teen on Nexopia / Credit cards / La loi 60 / Globalive / Net neutrality
Rogers asks CRTC for regulations to help collect unpaid bills (PIAC 27/Jan/2010) “Customers porting out mid-contract with unpaid balances are costing Rogers, and most probably other wireless carriers as well, millions of dollars each year,” the company said in its letter. “The task of collecting these unpaid balances is made much more difficult once a […]
Next Steps on the Loyalty Points Story
During the last six months of 2016, there was much discussion about the plan by Air Miles to let miles five years or older expire starting January 1, 2017. However, in December, the Ontario Legislature passed Bill 47, Protecting Rewards Points Act, prohibiting the expiry dates on reward points programs based on time alone in […]
https://www.piac.ca/2017/01/19/next-steps-on-the-loyalty-points-story/
Commissioner’s Findings – Bell Mobility
Privacy Commissioner Commissaire a la protection of Canada de la vie privee du Canada 112, rue Kent Ottawa (Ontario) K1A1H3 Tel.: (613) 995-8210 Telec: (613) 947-6850 1-800-282-1376 www.privcom.gc.ca File: 6100-0216 Ms Philippa Lawson Public Interest Advocacy Centre 1 Nicholas Street, Suite 1204 Ottawa, ON K1N7B7 Dear Ms Lawson: This letter constitutes my report of findings […]
https://www.piac.ca/research-reports/commissioners-findings-bell-mobility/
Public Interest News, Fees, Miss Grundy UBB, Une surabondance des écolabels, Facebook, Skype
Vertical Integration, PIAC recommends skinny service packages In its final comments filed this month to the CRTC Broadcasting panel examining Vertical Integration, PIAC recommended the adoption of a much reduced (“skinny”) basic service for cable and satellite services that would be costed and capped. PIAC noted that basic service rates have doubled since deregulation (CRTC transcripts) […]
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: 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 […]
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/
Identity Theft News and Links
Competition Bureau To Spearhead First International Anti-Fraud Public Education Campaign (March 2, 2004) Identity Theft Fact Sheet from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada Ontario Ministry of Consumer and Business Services Fact Sheet on ID Theft Consumer Measures Committee – Identity Theft – Information for Consumers Resolution 2002-02 of the Canadian Association of […]
https://www.piac.ca/research-reports/identity-theft-news-and-links/
