The Toronto Star features a masthead editorial on the do-not-call list, arguing that it is losing credibility and noting that if the CRTC waits much longer it will become "an invitation to harassment."
The Star on the Do-Not-Call List
May 6, 2009
Share this post
5 Comments

Law Bytes
Episode 252: Len St-Aubin on the CRTC’s Plan To Modernize Canadian Content Rules
byMichael Geist

December 1, 2025
Michael Geist
November 24, 2025
Michael Geist
November 17, 2025
Michael Geist
November 3, 2025
Michael Geist
Search Results placeholder
Recent Posts
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 252: Len St-Aubin on the CRTC’s Plan To Modernize Canadian Content Rules
Why Freedom of Expression Must Not Become a Right to Harass or Intimidate
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 251: Jennifer Pybus on the Debate Over Canadian Digital Sovereignty
Reversing the Reversal?: Government Puts Privacy Invasive Lawful Access Back on the Agenda
Canadian Government Introduces New Stablecoin Act as Part of Budget Implementation Legislation

Gotta love a newspaper (exempt from the DNCL) sniping about the ‘credibility’ of enforcement!
What’s really needed is a way out
Given the huge spike in my calls (you can Google the numbers to see who they are), it appears that the Do Not Call list is an invitation to spam calls. What is really needed (since I never answer any of them) is a way to get off this useless list. That way my failure to answer will gradually diminish the attempts and the spammer’s lists won’t be refreshed.
It’s “Do not HESITATE to call”
Because if they sell all Toronto numbers for $50, anyone from Nigeria can buy it to make calls about “NIGERIAN BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES”
never got marketing to my cellphone until I put it on the list…
deadly disappointment.
these calls are good – for YOU
Very easy people. You WANT these unsolicited calls. WHY? Because you have already sent the company a list of your fee schedule and the cost they will incur for calling you. I charge $165 a call. They pay it. Yes, REALLY.
Hit them where it hurts, the bottom line and they will stop calling. Mailing, I charge more. 🙂