Canada finally joins the ranks of Western Civilization with the advent of being able to retain and switch your telephone number to another service provider.

A little note from Anita that I received last week (March 14th, 2007):

Starting today, if you live in a Canadian Metropolitan area, you can finally switch cellular providers and keep your current number!  This isn’t something that the cell phone companies are going to announce because it’s kind of their worst nightmare.  The bad news is that there are still only three carriers in Canada so competition is less than fierce.  At least we now have the freedom to switch to the carrier that we hate the least and still keep the same number.

More details at Wireless Week and on the CRTC website. It’s about time and I can hear the mobile companies scrambling with people moving their forwarded mobile phone numbers to VOIP providers and other mobile providers.

Any experiences out there, yet?

A quick update from the illustrious Nina:

The space formerly known as Capri 19 located at 332 Water Street will be known as So.Cial at Le Magasin, features an Oyster Bar and Restaurant and opens up in late March. City food has the scoop HERE.

The space formerly known as the attrocity at 52 Powell Street, Curious, will be known as Cobre which means copper in Spanish. Nuevo Latino cuisine. Waiterblog and Waiterforum have the scoop.

RareOne at 1355 Hornby Street rebrands to RareTwo on April 18th. They should be celebrating an anniversary soon. Tim Keller’s other restaurant, Metro, located at 200 Burrard Street is 14 weeks away from completion.