Too much of Atlantic Canada is off the grid. What's being done about it?
As schools, churches, funerals, meetings, working from home, grocery and other shopping all morphed on-line in early 2020, the inadequacies of broadband access in this region were heightened. Sarah Benetto O’Brien, owner of the PEI Handpie Company on the Trans Canada Highway in Albany, Prince Edward Island, says her spotty Bell internet service is hurting her business. “We’ve had it go down several times and that has an impact on business, especially during the last few months because nobody is carrying cash,” she says. “We are trying to stay contactless but for the past six and a half years, the service has been inconsistent. … If it’s wet or windy or there’s a little bit of rain, or they’re working on the road, the service goes down. And, this year with fewer tourists, we need to be able to operate as much as possible in order to survive.”...

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Brand expert extraordinaire Phil Otto has a simple message for everyone in these tough times: Be brave, be kind, and take no B.S.
On this late-summer afternoon, when the light glides through the window of Phil Otto’s office like it belongs in the company of a man who could sell shine to the sun, not even the lousy video connection clouds this branding wunderkind’s point. “So, what I’m saying…uh…saying,” he’s saying between bouts of screen snow, “is step up.”...

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