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Public Interest News: OEB acts / Second Life / Net throttling / Produits hypothécaires / Competition Bureau works / Competition Act amendments / Aviation safety / Big Brother
Ontario Energy Board takes action for low-income consumers (PIAC-19/03/09) A province-wide program to help low-income households cope with high gas and hydro costs was announced by the Ontario Energy Board on March 10. The Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (LEAP) will provide emergency financial support, require energy utilities to be flexible with customers and increase access […]
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/
Consumer Group Report Reveals High-interest Borrowing Pitfalls
For immediate release Attention News/Business/Banking/Student News Editors Consumer Group Report Reveals High-interest Borrowing Pitfalls Not Ready for Prime Time: Canadians In the Sub-Prime, High-interest Lending (OTTAWA)—A report released today by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), “Not Ready for Prime Time”, sets out some key findings of its research in the field of high-interest lending […]
https://www.piac.ca/research-reports/consumer-group-report-reveals-high-interest-borrowing-pitfalls/
Public Interest News: December 2007 – September 2008
Air Canada Westjet: fees and surcharges (PIAC — 19/09/08)—On Sept. 17 the Montreal Gazette reported: “Air France, Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Singapore Airlines have reduced their fuel surcharges this month. But U.S. and Canadian carriers, contending with lacklustre travel demand in the face of a weak U.S. economy, say they’re not planning to cut fees.” […]
https://www.piac.ca/research-reports/public-interest-news-december-2007-september-2008/
Travel Protection Initiative slams airline advertising decision
(June 20-2008)—Today the Travel Protection Initiative, a coalition of Canada’s travel industry and consumer groups, responded to federal Transport minister’s Lawrence Cannon’s submission this week to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Transportation, Infrastructure and Communities that he would not bring into effect the provision of Bill C-11 passed in June of last year […]
https://www.piac.ca/2008/07/20/travel-protection-initiative-slams-airline-advertising-decision/
Ontario Natural Gas Customers to Pay $100 Million More Annually to Texas-based Owner of Union Gas
(Ottawa—16/04/08)— In a one sentence decision issued late yesterday, the Ontario Cabinet rejected an appeal by consumer groups, representing residential and industrial natural gas customers, of the May 22, 2007 Ontario Energy Board (OEB) decision confirming the deregulation of the natural gas storage industry in Ontario. The decision means Enbridge Gas customers, after a three-year […]
Complaint about Telephone, Cellphone, or Internet Services?
If you have a problem with your telephone, cellphone, or Internet service and could not settle the problem with your telecommunications provider (TSP), you can complain to the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications (CCTS). The CCTS will listen to your complaints fairly and settle them appropriately. Best of all, the CCTS is free for you. […]
https://www.piac.ca/2008/01/31/complaint-about-telephone-cellphone-or-internet-services/
Media Release: Union Gas Gobbles Up Ontario Storage Competitors
For Immediate Release November 29, 2007 Recent announcements by Texas-based multinational corporation, Spectra Energy Inc., owner of Union Gas Limited, reveal that it intends to gobble up what little competition it currently faces from Ontario storage providers. The gas pools of Midway Petroleum Company located in Sarnia, Ontario as well as a controlling interest in […]
https://www.piac.ca/2007/11/28/media-release-union-gas-gobbles-up-ontario-storage-competitors/
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/
Media Release: Ontario Gas Customers Slam Billion Dollar Giveaway to Texas–Based Energy Corporation
Attention News/Business Editors For Immediate Release August 22, 2007 OTTAWA/TORONTO – The McGuinty government is being asked to overturn an Ontario Energy Board (OEB) Decision that means that Union Gas’s Texas-based owners, Spectra Energy (formerly Duke Energy) will get to pocket an estimated billion dollars over a ten year period that would otherwise gone to […]
