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Cellphone Choices for Canadians: A Practical Guide to the Canadian Cellphone Marketplace – Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA)

Cellphone Choices for Canadians: A Practical Guide to the Canadian Cellphone Marketplace – Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA)

To quickly estimate how many minutes you may use in a month, think of daily use of a cellphone as about 575 minutes per month, using the cellphone a few times a week as about 350 minutes and very brief occasional calls, just to say where you are, as about 30 – 50 minutes per month. Keep in mind that the way you originally planned to use the cellphone may change over time. This could cause an increase or decrease in the amount of minutes you require. At this point you should reconsider the plan you have subscribed to.

The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

“The No 1 agenda item: get the money out of politics. Most often cited was legislation to blunt the effect of the Citizens United ruling, which lets boundless sums enter the campaign process. No 2: reform the banking system to prevent fraud and manipulation, with the most frequent item being to restore the Glass-Steagall Act the Depression-era law, done away with by President Clinton, that separates investment banks from commercial banks. This law would correct the conditions for the recent crisis, as investment banks could not take risks for profit that create fake derivatives out of thin air, and wipe out the commercial and savings banks. No 3 was the most clarifying: draft laws against the little-known loophole that currently allows members of Congress to pass legislation affecting Delaware-based corporations in which they themselves are investors. When I saw this list and especially the last agenda item the scales fell from my eyes. Of course, these unarmed people would be