Lots of Canadians already give a large portion of their paycheque to Rogers.

Now Rogers is looking to just take the whole thing.

In 2011 Rogers applied to the Finance Ministry for a patent incorporating a “Rogers Bank”, and on Friday the ministry came through.

With that out of the way, Rogers will now seek to have its own branded credit card, and push mobile payments through their smartphones.

Of course any bank has to have bank accounts, meaning Rogers is looking to cut out the traditional banking “middle man” and just have their customers give them all of their money straight away.

I mean, why wait? Considering how much they are overcharging Canadians, and locking them into punitive long-term contracts, they’re going to get a lot of it anyway. (Full story here)

Or Canadians could chose to not do that, and instead shop around for services that make sound financial sense.

That’s “Bank Talk” for signing up for a Worldline service, like our Unlimited High Speed Internet Bundle over there that saves Canadians $600/year compared to a certain other provider.

$600 per year, every year.

Bank on it.

…someone who entered the Worldline Facebook 50/50 Contest. We just don’t know who yet.

It will take a couple of days to go through the list, eliminate spammers etc, and to pick and notify the winner.

Then we’ll post who that is all over the place. But first we want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who entered. To say this contest was a success is an understatement. Sure, we were looking to increase attention to the Worldline Facebook Page, but what we got was totally surprising:

Fantastic feedback from a bunch of our customers.

99% positive, our customers are a pretty satisfied bunch, but there were a few who had some issues that were bothering them – and they let us know about it.

Some of them really let us have it.

But that’s what we need to hear. We’re a pretty great company, but we are not perfect.

We’ll never get there of course, but we want to try to get as close as possible and the quickest way for us to improve is to get direct input from our most valuable asset, the folks who are using our services.

So, keep it coming. It’s all good.

Oh, and in May, be on the lookout for these:

…and you could win one of these:

The Canadian version of the Huffington Post are heavily into lists. And here’s one that every Canadian can appreciate, or not.

There’s plenty to be grateful for here in Canada, but we certainly do our fair share of complaining.

It seems Canadians have our own set of “first world problems”, or frustrations over fairly trivial things in this privileged country of ours.

Is it really so bad when your favourite store doesn’t ship to Canada, or when you get mistaken for an American while travelling abroad?

Yes. Yes, it is.

The 15  things that can totally drive Canadians nuts can be found here.