This is quite interesting.
I'm also in Canada and use the bank with the "Green" logo... Fortunately I haven't had any problems cashing US checks directly into a CDN account. I've been thinking of setting up a US account, but like RawAlex sez, you can't automate anything with US accounts in CDN banks... I couldn't even deposit the US$ checks directly into the US account without going through a teller!
Maybe time to looking at another bank...
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