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While online holiday shopping in the US remains robust things are different north of our border in Canada. Canadians lead the world in broadband penetration, time spent online, electronic banking and bill paying. Clearly they are an Internet savvy country but when it comes to making online purchases Canadians prefer to buy at a store.

Universities in Canada fear the potential for abuse that could take place under the US Patriot Act, so to avoid the gaze of American investigators they have moved their RefWorks accounts to Ontario.

It's been difficult for the layman to conceptualize what is meant by the neologism "Network Neutrality." It floats over heads like the word "neologism." Advocates typically have cited scenarios that could happen without a neutral Internet and, when they can, cite real life examples - like yesterday's report of a Canadian ISP shakedown.

RBC Capital Markets believes Google's new online payment system, called GBuy, could be the next big thing. The financial services provider, based in Canada, is maintaining its "outperform" rating on Google due to the perceived potential of GBuy.

Imports of Canadian cattle into the U.S. have been banned for two years in an effort to keep mad cow disease out of the country, but that ban has now been lifted by a U.S. federal appeals court.

A ban on imports of Canadian cattle has been lifted by a U.S. federal appeals court. The ban was originally in effect to keep mad cow disease out of the country.

Yesterday, a federal appeals court overturned a ruling that banned Canadian cattle from being imported into the United States due to mad cow disease concerns.

Arthritis drug, Vioxx, a cox-2 inhibitor made by Merck & Co. Inc., has been cleared to return to market by Canadian health officials, nearly a year after it was pulled off the shelves amid fears of increasing cardiovascular problems.