Good news for our friends in the north. Dell has announced that it will launch the WiFi-only version of its Streak 7 Android tablet in Canada on April 29th. The tablet will cost you $399.99 via Dell Canada.

You might remember, the Streak 7 features a 7-inch 800 x 480 Gorilla Glass capacitive touchscreen display, an NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, a 1.3-megapixel front camera, a 5.0-megapixel rear camera, 16GB of internal memory, a microSD/SDHC card slot, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth and Android 2.2 is running the show.

Netflix has now landed a multi-year deal to bring new movies and TV shows to the service’s streaming-only service in Canada. It covers about 350 titles that includes some recent hit movies like Iron Man 2 if you like superheroes and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button if you like an old Brad Pitt. The agreement includes exclusive subscription TV rights to first-run movies and puts movies in the “premium pay TV window” for releases.

This is great news for Canadian viewers. The service first came to Canada in the fall but suffered from a lack of content compared to the US. This deal should help with that problem.

Canadian Best Buy stores will not be missing out on selling the iPad 2. In fact they will start selling them on March 25th, according to one store worker who quoted a manager on the matter. You can apparently expect them to be available at 10am friday when stores open on a first come first served basis and obviously you can expect long lines.

It might be more difficult to get an iPad 2 in Canada at launch though, due to the small number of Apple Stores around cities like Montreal and Toronto. There’s also the fact that Apple has also traditionally made the US a priority, diverting the bulk of inventory to the US. Despite these things, hopefully most Canadians who want one can get one without too much trouble at launch.

Remember that ExoPC Windows 7-powered tablet? Well, the company has finally decided to release this touchscreen tablet in Canada and Portugal. Portuguese retailer Probitas has started selling this tablet as the Mobi One for 692 Euros or about US$965.

In Canada, the ExoPC tablet is called the Ciara Vibe tablet and retails for $599. The ExoPC Tablet features an 11.6-inch (1366 x 768 pixel) display with a capacitive multitouch screen, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, an optional 3G, an HDMI port and an SD card slot.

Netflix has released details of its new Internet Movie subscription service launched today in Canada. It’s the first Netflix service outside the US. It will be available for $7.99 per month on a number of different devices, with the possibility to sign up for a free trial month.

Netflix also revealed that it has now signed Canadian license agreements with major studios such as Lionsgate, MGM Studios, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox and Universal Pictures, as well as Canadian distributors Alliance Films, Maple Pictures, eOne and Mongrel.

Speed bumps are so last century. That’s why the Canadian city of Vancouver is experimenting with a speed control solution that uses an optical illusion to trick you into thinking there is a child in the road. I’m sure that will slow people down and give some people heart attacks too.

The program is being piloted near École Pauline Johnson Elementary School, where they use a very lifelike painted optical illusion that looks like a little girl chasing a ball into traffic.

Hard to believe, but Canadians still are not enjoying the smooth streaming of Netflix. Well, that will soon be cured. Netflix has just announced that it will be taking its first baby steps abroad with a rollout of its video streaming service in Canada.

We don’t have any specifics yet, but Canadians can sign up now to be informed as soon as those details drop. I wonder if it will invade the UK after Canada.

Samsung announced the availability of its new Vice for the Canadian market via Bell. The 3G phone features a sliding full QWERTY keyboard with standard number keys that should make texting, emailing, and Facebook easier.

The phone also comes with a 2.2-inch color display, 2MP digital camera, built-in GPS, Bluetooth 2.0, integrated media player, and a microSDHC card slot for expansion. You can get the Samsung Vice through Bell Canada for $49.95 with a 3-year contract.

Unlikely to bring the fanfare that the Canadian iPhone launch did, or even Zune’s own U.S. launch over a year ago, but nevertheless the Zune is launching in Canada on June 13. We had heard that the Canadians were going to get the media player from Microsoft on their own store shelves sometime in the near future, but no one had put a date on it until now. Microsoft is going to launch the 4, 8 and 80 GB capacity players with prices from $140 to $250 Canadian dollars. The launch will be limited to models in red, black and pink colors, only.

via Engadget