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A decision by Canada’s telecom regulator to force the Big Three national wireless carriers and SaskTel to open up their networks to eligible regional competitors is unlikely to have a meaningful impact on competition in the industry, according to analysts and consumer advocates.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced Thursday that it will require the large wireless carriers to sell network access temporarily to regional carriers in the areas where those players own licenses to spectrum, airwaves used to transmit wireless signals. The regional players will have seven years to build out their own wireless networks in those areas and transitio
Richmond Hill City Hall will reopen to the public on May 17, having been closed since March 2020 because of the COVID pandemic, as noted in Tuesday’s regular city council meeting by City Clerk Dawnne Greene.
City Hall and all city administrative offices will then maintain regular business hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, Greene, adding that face masks and other COVID protocols will be required.
Land rezoning at the intersection of Cranston Bluff Drive and Belfast Keller Road was up for its first reading before city council. The request was from Tim Casey on rezoning of approximately 1.61 acres of land. The land is near the new I-95 exit at Belfast Keller Road.
Brandon Sun By: Kyle Darbyson
Eleanor and Marlin Beever survey the Crown land that runs adjacent to their own property located just south of Rivers. The farming couple told the Sun on Tuesday afternoon that they’ve fallen in love with this land over the last couple decades and don’t want to see it destroyed by a proposed aggregate mining operation that is being brought forward by Western Asphalt Products. (Kyle Darbyson/The Brandon Sun)
RIVERS The Riverdale Municipality hosted a public hearing Tuesday evening to gauge residents’ reaction to an application for a conditional-use order that would allow Western Asphalt Products to set up aggregate mining operations just south of town.
The non-jury trial of former Maricopa County “Sheriff Joe” Arpaio concluded with the judge announcing her guilty decision via electronic communication, rather than by reading the verdict aloud during a hearing with the defendant in attendance, and omitted significant portions of evidence in reaching her conclusion. One defense attorney says this unprecedented and unconstitutional action is grounds for an appeal.
By Mark Anderson
PHOENIX, Ariz. Former Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio on July 31 was found guilty of misdemeanor criminal contempt for what the government claims was his willful decision to disregard a 2011 federal injunction, issued to bar him from rounding up illegal aliens during his time as sheriff of a border county. And that county is often nearly overrun by the mass migration of illegal aliens.
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