It’s not a new story, but more and more regions are mov­ing away from print­ing and deliv­er­ing a tele­phone book to every­one, every year. In Canada, the list includes
Toronto, Van­cou­ver, Cal­gary, Edmon­ton, Ottawa-Gatineau, Mon­tréal, Que­bec City, and Win­nipeg, all of which will sup­ply a tele­phone book only upon request. In many cases, one can prob­a­bly expect that the edi­tions to only be updated bian­nu­ally, which makes sense when the dis­tri­b­u­tion has sud­denly dropped to 0.1% of what it was previously.