Bell Canada mobile technicians are on the verge of lodging a formal complaint with the federal Privacy Commissioner.

They say Bell Canada is spying on them.

The company is a lot like the corporate record labels and movie studios. There’s no limit to how low it’ll go with respect to the people who work for it, and the people who keep it in business.

After a year-and-a-half of negotiations, the $52-billion BCE takeover deal is officially dead, the group of potential buyers announced Thursday.

Canadian media magnate Ted Rogers, founder and CEO of Rogers Communications, has died.

Rogers, 75, died at his Toronto home early Tuesday surrounded by loved ones, said a statement from the company's board of directors. He had recently been admitted to hospital for a cardiac condition.

Analyst cites top 10 reasons for Bell-Telus merger but cash constraint, phone regulators a key hang-up

With the $52 billion deal to buy BCE all but scuttled, investors and analysts have once again turned their attention to the idea of marrying the phone company with rival Telus Corp. 

TORONTO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - BCE Inc's C$34.8 billion ($28.3 billion) leveraged buyout stood on the brink of collapse on Wednesday after accountants ruled that the company that would emerge from the deal would fail a solvency test because of its huge debt load.