[cmaxwe]

Yeah I am Canadian so neither Coinbase or BitInstant work for me. As far as I can tell my best option is adding a Bitcoin payment site as a "Bill Payee" in my online banking and paying it like a bill. Not exactly mainstream... :-)

Even BitInstant and Coinbase are kind of clunky and require the user to have an understanding of how Bitcoins work. (e.g. understand wallets, etc). That is the nice thing about Paypal...you can either login and pay with your paypal account or use them as a CC processor if you don't have an account.

[mrb]

As a Canadian, you can walk in any branch of 3 banks and deposit cash to get Bitcoins through Canadian Virtual Exchange, see https://www.cavirtex.com/methods