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8 March 2021 at 17 h 32 min
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By Dian Cohen
Read this column if you suffer from Internet Insufficiency. It’s an insidious disease that strikes regularly and elicits symptoms of spinning circles and no connection at all to the rest of the world.
This disease is rampant in rural Québec; in the urban parts of the province, Cogeco, Telus, Bell, Rogers and other telecommunications companies make money providing customers with appropriate Internet connections – their upload and download speeds are sufficient to use online learning resources, or high-definition streaming videos or telehealth services. If you’ve chosen to live “in the country” as I do, you are penalized. We are second-class citizens who pay our taxes and our connectivity premiums and get bupkis. (Dictionary meaning: bup.kis; nothing at all. Example: “you know bupkis about football”.)