Canada Says Goodbye to the Phone Book
Last week was a sad one for Canadian Luddites; Yellow Pages announced that residents of Canada’s seven largest cities will no longer be receiving phone books.
Print-lovers shouldn’t panic yet, though. Residents of Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa-Gatineau, Montreal, and Quebec City (in case you were wondering what Canada’s seven largest cities were) can still receive the typed tele-tomes by making a request to Yellow Pages — for now, anyway. While there’s still no word as to whether or not print production will be retired altogether, the list of cities is expected to expand, and will soon include Winnipeg.
Read the full article from The Globe and Mail »
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