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Lets ban Bell Canada. Here the list of Bell's subsidiaries to ban :

  - Bell Canada
  - Bell Media
  - Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (37.5%)
  - Bell Mobility
  - Bell Aliant
  - Virgin Mobile Canada
  - Bell Internet
  - Bell TV
  - Bell Fibe TV
  - Fibe
  - Bell MTS
  - Lucky Mobile
  - The Source (retailer)
  - CraveTV

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Looks like I manage to boycott them entirely without really trying.

> Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (37.5%)

MLSE owns every Toronto pro sports franchise except the Blue Jays. (The Blue Jays, it turns out, are owned by Bell's competitor, Rogers.) But if Bell Canada only owns 37.5% of it, logically we only need to boycott 37.5% of the MLSE teams. Starting from the educated guess that the Maple Leafs are almost half of MLSE's value, the next biggest chunk--probably the closest to 37.5%--would be the Raptors, with their Canadian Football and MLS teams taking up the remaining sliver of value.

So, just boycott the Raptors and it'll work out.

I'd rather boycott the leafs because I'm tired of losing.

And because Buffalo's a long way to drive to see a pro hockey game in person?

Bell Media produces some of my favourite shows and I’ve really enjoyed CraveTV. Also, lifelong leafs fan. I think the only time Canadians boycotted pro hockey was when the NHL locked out the players and there were no games anyway!

So that’s not for me. But I am all for improving the CRTC and even nationalizing parts of our telecom infrastructure.

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