Giant Inernet Brain, help me find a cell phone!

So pay as you go is a nightmare and if it looks like there may be actual (if inconsistent) income in the future, I need to be consistently reachable. That being the case, anyone have a recommendation for cell phones and plans for Montreal in early 2010? Or are they all equally terrible?

Crisis Camp report

Here's the report by the Clark Boyd from The World from Crisis Camp. Why on earth I have as much voice time I do is beyond me, there are people who are going to be far more effective than I involved.