.ca domains in suspended animation @googlegroups

One ongoing issue at Googlegroups is the problem that some accounts at .ca domains cannot get out of pending status, and thus cannot get functionally subscribed. I believe that this is an issue of the Google Accounts process:

https://www.google.com/accounts/

where something is preventing the account confirmations from either being sent to or arriving at some .ca domains.

While we are waiting for a fix, one workaround is to get a webmail account somewhere (but not a .ca webmail account ) and subscribe to GGs with that for now. This will give you web access to your groups, and you can post via email from your webmail account.