Postal services
Post office
opening hours are Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5.30pm, though a few places open on Saturday between 9am and noon. Offices are sometimes found inside larger stores, so look out for Canada Post signs, or Postes Canada in Québec.
Stamps...
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Telephones and telegrams
Coin-operated telephones
are available in most public places. Whenever you are dialling a number outside the telephone region of the call box you are using, you have to prefix the number with 1; this puts you through to the operator, who will tell...
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Fax and email
Fax
machines are found at hotels, city post offices and at photocopy shops, Internet cafés and similar establishments in main city centres. Charges are generally $1 a page.
Most major cities and small towns now have cybercafés, where...
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The media
Canada has no truly national
newspaper
. The closest thing is the daily
Globe and Mail
, a Toronto broadsheet also published in a western edition and available more or less throughout the country. Most cities have a quality paper,...
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