Just like Koodo, which is a rebrand/subsidiary of Telus.

All of the carriers share the towers, but the tower owner (usually Telus) gets the top spot. Bell usually bids highest and gets the second spot, Rogers next and Mobilicity and Wind are usually lowest. Mobilicity and wind also have microcells in some dense areas in Vancouver too which is why they have better coverage in places like Metrotown but sketchy coverage away from dense areas.

Last time I checked, Telus, Bell, and Rogers had nearly identical plans and you had to go to the rebrands (Fido, Koodo, Virgin) or small carriers (Mobilicity, Wind) to get any differentiation, Sadly Mobilicity and Wind have roaming-only coverage on Vancouver Island, so they are ruled out in my case.

Also of interest in some cities in the province.... If you are a shaw internet customer you can connect your phone to the "Shaw Open" wifi access points and once you register the device (you need your shaw email address and password), it will be remembered so you can save on your data plan and get wireless-n speed. You can register up to 5 devices per account. I have "AutoSync" on my phone which toggles my sync when connecting and disconnecting wifi so emails come in pretty steadily as I drive past the access points.

Also, I usually find dealing with Telus about anything to be an absolute nightmare but koodo's customer service seems to be pretty decent... but then again I have only ever delt with them for registration changes - most of the changes you'd want to do to your account can be done online with minimal frustration.

Koodo. They are a brand of telus so they use the telus antennas at the tops of the telus-owned towers (almost all the towers in BC), so they have great coverage. $45 gets you 200 min (unlimited incoming), 500MB, unlimited text. $60 gets you unlimited/unlimited/unlimited. No long-distance charges if both ends of the call are in Canada.

  Also the people at their mall kiosks don't look at you like you're crazy if you ask for just a sim card. I have a Nexus 4 which serves me well on their $30 plan but I almost always have a data overage and end up paying $40... which is still less than the $45 plan... Now that there is a really good phone available unlocked I would not touch a locked phone on a multiyear contract with a 10 foot pole.

The corporation sole and "free person" nutjobs are the ones that are nutjobs.

The corporation sole nutjobs believe that if you write to any regent (King, Queen, or Pope) and put "Coropration Sole" as your job title and their staff respond then it makes you not subject to the laws of any country (nor international law) since you have been recognised as a regent (never mind that the constitution of pretty much every country makes the head of state subject to the law too).

The "free person" nutjobs believe that all persons are not subject to the laws of any country since their name is spelled in all-caps on their birth certificate but the correct spelling is mixed case and therefore it is the corporation that was registered that is subject to the law and therefore they don't need to file income tax, get a drivers license, stop at red lights etc.

I am not talking about people who simply disagree with regulation or legislation.

The asking price is redonculously high for Crowsnest Pass. Fyi it is nowhere near the oilpatch - in size of Texas units for americans, It's about the same as driving from Corpus Christi to Kansas City. Much of it on secondary routes.

My first thought was tax evasion, but currency manipulation seems more likely now that I've looked up the MLS listings in Crowsnest Pass.

Also that area is known for having a lot of tax refuser/corporation sole/"free person"/gold standard etc nutjobs because for a while it was officially claimed by neither AB nor BC due to one province's boundary legislation being based on a river (which moved) and the other being based on survey points of the river before it moved.

If you crashed it (any distro... actually a fresh install of any OS) copying some files around and now it won't boot, either they were not non-important files or your hardware is not OK.

Ubuntu or mint is probably good for a beginner; Debian, SUSE, Redhat, etc are good for companies that have corporate systems with IT depts; Arch and Gentoo are good for hobyists or experimenters who want ultimate flexibility.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Real-time_Transport_Protocol

...ironically...

Acklands Grainger actually rents these machines out stocked with whatever you want that's relevant to your business... the display model in our local distributor has boxcutters, pens, high-viz vests, etc...

Shaw is probably the least abusive of the canadian major telecom companies. I've been a shaw customer for 14 years and this is the only incedent I've had other than lines being blown down in a storm. My wife's email was effected but mine was not. This is a normal (and rare) human error... most of the actual abuse telecom companies dish out is abusive contracts and misleading advertizing like 3-year cellphone contracts and "Optik TV and Internet" ... which is actually satellite and DSL, not FTTH.