NEXT WEEKS EXECUTIVE VISIBILITY WILL BE AT BIRCHMOUNT. SEE YOU THERE !
WORKPLACE COMMITTEES
We are still seeking interested candidates for the position of Workplace Committee members. We seek from each Work Centre the following.
1 FT member
1 RPT or SPT Member
1 Visable Minority.
Please email Brian Lowery at 1996treasurer@gmail.com
We are Unifor Local 1996-O
Just a couple Local members during visibility and handing out Union Membership cards at our work centres
BCE closes $3.1-billion MTS deal
BCE Inc. has closed its $3.1-billion deal to acquire Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. and says it will begin investing in networks and offering its Fibe-branded television and Internet services in the province.
The companies announced the friendly takeover last May but only received the final necessary federal approvals last month. BCE announced Friday it has completed the transaction as planned and will pick up a total of 710,000 wireless, TV and Internet customers.
Manitoba was one of the last provinces with a regional telephone company that offered competition in the wireless market to the Big Three national carriers: BCE, Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp.
Wireless prices in the province are lower than in many other parts of the country, and to win the blessing of the Competition Bureau and the federal Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, BCE agreed to transfer 24,700 of its wireless subscribers (plus cellular airwaves and retail stores) to rural Internet provider Xplornet Communications Inc., which plans to launch a new mobile business in the province.
U.S. internet service providers get green light to sell user data — but what about Canada?
ISPs here can only share your personal information with your express consent
Privacy protections designed to prevent U.S. internet service providers from sharing or selling subscribers’ personal information with third parties — without permission — were dismantled by U.S. Congress on Tuesday.
It means that information about the apps American internet subscribers use, the websites they visit, and the things they purchase online — among other things — can potentially be tracked, shared, and monetized by third parties, unless those users opt out.
You might be pleased to learn that Canada, which often follows the U.S. lead on technology issues, has taken a different approach. Here, internet service providers can only share your personal information with third parties with your express consent.
Tamir Israel, a staff lawyer at the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, says you have the privacy commissioner of Canada and the CRTC to thank.
Both organizations have released decisions in recent years that effectively limit the information internet service providers can collect and use for secondary purposes, such as marketing, without your consent………………
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No, your Canadian internet service provider can’t sell your information as in the U.S.
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