Rogers
Rogers’ acquisition of Shaw shouldn’t be able to happen
April 7, 2021by Emma Jean, Staff Writer On March 15, it was reported that Rogers Communications had signed a deal to purchase Shaw Communications for a whopping $26 billion. That not only leaves three national cellular providers in Canada — Bell, Telus, and Rogers — but less than 10% of the country using any other provider. Unless the perspective comes from a high-stakes investor with financial gain from this big merger, this is bad for everyone. As it is, Canadian consumers pay some of the highest prices in the world for their cell phones, internet, and television; in other words, their telecommunications.…
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Three notes and a question on the Don Cherry situation
November 24, 2019By: Dylan Webb, Sports Editor Earlier this month, Sportsnet, a subsidiary of Rogers Communications, decided that it was time for the controversial co-host of Hockey Night in Canada’s Coaches Corner segment, Don Cherry, to step down. Sportsnet President Bart Yabsley…
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Student-run science camps for kids get funding boost from Rogers
September 3, 2017The youth science camps held at the SFU Burnaby campus this summer hosted some big names on a recent tour. Executives from the communications giant Rogers and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Burnaby North-Seymour, Terry Beech, visited the Science…
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