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You're traveling to a new country and either because you have a prepaid in your home country without roaming privileges, or because roaming is too expensive, you want to get a local SIM card to send and receive text messages (SMS), check your email and use Google Maps for directions. Where do you go and what do you get? In this series, we’ll have an answer (or more) for you for the countries we are travelling to most often. Today, Canada.

Over the years, I tried many hardware solutions to bring “convergence” to the PC desktop, but I found most implementations to be flawed one way or another. The new contender from Silicon Dust seems to be the perfect solution.

As most consumers can no longer ignore economic news, we are taking a long, hard and detailed look at the data spewed by the financial press.

As expected, smaller, nimbler operators were in the spotlight in the J.D. Power’s Satisfaction Study. More specifically, Koodo and Virgin Mobile left far behind giants like Rogers and Bell.

During a "terrorist search", a Canadian warship boarded a Pakistani vessel in the Arabian Sea and found four tonnes of hashish during a 17 hour search. The catch was dumped in the sea.

If you're anything like me, and you don't happen to know who The Right Hon. Lester Bowles, P.C., C.C., O.M., O.B.E., B.A., M.A., LL.D. is, you might think "So What?!?". I think he was one of the most important politicians Canada ever had and quite possibly the best.

We just learned about a very serious security flaw in the Passport Canada website accepting online applications .

In this Economist article several world cities are rated for their "liveability".