Finding inexpensive Canadian domain names is hard, but I managed to get them for $8.45/year. My American friends will be wondering, I’m sure, what the big deal is. The US has had cheap domain names for years. But somehow it’s been incredibly difficult to find a good provider of Canadian .ca domain names that...
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Given the astronomical iPhone plans that Rogers is foisting on Canadian consumers, it’s a good time to support David McGuinty’s cell phone costs petition. (McGuinty is a Liberal member of parliament.) Here’s the petition: Get Connected Fairly Act I’ve signed. 15 people have signed in the last 10 minutes while I’ve been putting this...
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I recently had to pick up the Apple QuickTime MPEG-2 playback add-on. Since I’m Canadian, I paid $30 … while the US price is $19.95. This is somewhat annoying, given that $20 US is actually worth only $19.60 Canadian today.
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Well, I just made my first iPhone call.That’s no biggie to hundreds of thousands of people in the US, of course, but the iPhone has not yet been released in Canada.Mike Skovgaard, a buddy at work, has been buying them in the US and taking them up to Canada to unlock them to work...
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Is it any wonder that Americans hardly know where continental Europe is? Check out this excerpt from a AP story on Congress passing a law authorizing Canadian drug imports into the US: Supporters of the idea say it would save consumers great sums by allowing them to purchase U.S.-made medications from other countries where...
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When the business you’re involved in is evil, you know it’s time to get out and start doing something else. Otherwise you will inevitably become evil as well. There are plenty of examples of that in the US health care system, which Sicko is highlighting right now. Here’s just one of them … Palmer...
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