Bell set to get even bigger: Weekly update from OpenMedia.ca

Every week, the people at OpenMedia.ca, a Vancouver-based nonprofit organization that advocates an open and affordable Internet, bring us up to date on Canada's telecom news and their campaigns.

Big Telecom giant Bell will soon be in control of Astral Media, and the cellphone, Internet, radio, and television holdings that come with it. This means that Big Telecom—a group notorious for engaging in anticompetitive practices—is now set to wield an unprecedented amount of power over communications in Canada.