Canada’s national Do Not Call registry

1-866-580-3625

Finally, people in Canada can call a number, give their phone number, and tell telemarketers not to call them.

Here’s what you need to say::

1. “English” or “français”
2. Your number, starting with the area code, one digit at a time (or beep it in)
3. “Register”

You can listen to the rest, which is mostly a long legal disclaimer, or hang up.

The telemarketers have been lobbying against it and have managed to get some exceptions:

• Political parties
• Charities
• Newspapers trying to get subscribers
• Any business that you’ve dealt with in the last year

Those you must tell individually, yourself, to take you off their calling lists. To register a number, you must call from it. What that means, of course, is that you can’t register Ident-a-call numbers with special rings by telephone. But you can use the web site: National Do Not Call Registry (Canadian).

It takes 31 days to get the message to telemarketers but is good until November, 2011.

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Here’s another version:

I like this one:

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Bruce Springsteen on aging heroes:

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We had a productive meeting tonight, planning the shape of the general meetings and events for the next two years. We voted to carry out the program that we’ve been hashing out for the last couple of months.