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Verizon has an option to include Canada, but if you go very far north, there'll be no cell service at all. Rogers Communications won't let anyone else use their towers so if you don't have their phone, no service. If you use a land line (remember pay phones?), the ATT calling card costs 6 times more per minute in Canada for long distance.
Canada is big on sin taxes—alcohol and cigarettes are very heavily taxed. Bring as much as you can (legally of course) and a full tank of gas—that's taxed a lot too. I don't think every province has liquor sold only at gov't stores, but really don't remember.
The Canadian dollar today was 90.77¢ US, so other things can be bargains—like a 9% discount because prices of many things are pretty much the same. We did notice a couple of months ago that food prices in supermarkets had gone up a lot and was higher than the US.
If you travel in October, Thanksgiving comes a month earlier in Canada and you can stuff yourself twice!
Gene
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