Major yawns today as Halifax lives up to its reputation as the city that sleeps. The only vaguely unusual mention of our town on the world’s wonderful web comes from a site based in Washington, DC, that appears to specialize in telecommunications news. According to TeleGeography.com, some Canadian phone companies are trying to…actually, I’ve got no idea what’s at stake. The story is about “telephony services” and it says “Bell Canada has applied for so-called ‘forbearance’ in the six largest markets in Ontario and Quebec: Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa-Gatineau, London, Hamilton and Quebec City, whilst its subsidiary Bell Aliant has applied in Halifax, Nova Scotia.” The whole thing is here. Please, please, if you come across some better Halifax mentions — it should be easy — email me here.
This article appears in Apr 12-18, 2007.