From cbc.ca:

Canadians are ditching their landline phones at a rate that will escalate over the next few years, according to a Toronto-based market research company.

A report released Monday by the Convergence Consulting Group, which specializes in cable and internet companies, suggests that domestic wireless subscribers will abandon their landline telephone subscriptions at a rate of nine per cent each year in 2010 and 2011.

That compares with a line-loss rate of seven per cent last year, and predictions of a 7.5 per cent rate this year.

The report also says that 45 per cent of subscribers who cancel residential phone subscriptions with telecom companies in 2011 will do so because they’re using wireless phones instead. That’s up from a current rate of 20 per cent, it said.

From cbc.ca:

Most of Wal-Mart Canada’s stores will be operating 24 hours a day throughout the holiday shopping season.

The move, announced Thursday, is an extension of its four-year-old program of keeping certain stores open round the clock from Dec. 1 to Christmas Eve, and during the back-to-school shopping season.

What’s new this year is the number of stores open for the entire period starting Monday and running to Dec 24.

Last year, just 50 of the chain’s 310 Canadian stores remained open. This year there will be 192, said Wal-Mart Canada spokesman Kevin Groh.

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"Albertans spent more money on average in 2006 than any one else in the country, reflecting that province’s strong resource economy, Statistics Canada said Tuesday."

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"The CRTC has picked Bell Canada to operate the National Do Not Call List, giving the company a five-year mandate to block calls from telemarketers for customers who request the service."

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