I ♥ Canadians

Very sad and lame, though I’m still kind of curious how relavant Pandora will remain in the age of services like Ping, Rdio, and Spotify:

“Online streaming music services such as Pandora are abandoning plans to launch in Canada, claiming licensing fees are too high: ‘These rates … are astronomical,’ Tim Westergren, founder of California-based Pandora, wrote in an email to The Canadian Press.