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Canadian Kindles benefit from the same 3G connectedness as US, and many other countries. There is no additional fee for surfing the web, wikipedia and the Amazon Kindle store directly from your Kindle -- it's built-in to the initial $189 purchase price. It's important to note that the Kindle is an e-reader and not optimised for web-browsing -- so this is nice to have in a pinch, as opposed to a substitute for a laptop.
At the Amazon Kindle store, you'll find some e-books available in Canada that are NOT available in the US; and sometimes the Canadian e-book price is cheaper. Generally, the Canadian titles are up to $2 more expensive because the Whispernet delivery fee is baked into the price. This is changing: increasingly, titles are free of this extra fee.
The major drawback is the inability to display ePub files (DRM or open), which is the standard of many other devices and the Overdrive system used by the public library.
Look for mobi, prc or Kindle as the format to download and you'll find tons of great material -- including right here at Mobileread thanks to members who have formatted books for your enjoyment.
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