New Alberta area code - mandatory 10-digit dialing

I saw this on the news tonight. It's going to be weird dialing 10 digits for local calls! I just just got this story from the CBC News page:

Albertans had better start exercising their fingers because they will soon have to dial ten digits to make a local call.
Ten-digit dialing means adding the area code even when making local calls. The province is also getting a new area code — 587.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission announced the changes Thursday. The federal agency warned that Alberta will run out of telephone numbers in the 403 and 780 area codes by 2009.
Ten-digit dialing will be mandatory in September 2008, the same month the new area code kicks in. People who need a new telephone number will likely be assigned the new area code.
Ten-digit dialing is part of a North American trend. Phone services have already changed in Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver.
Shawn Hall, a spokesman for Telus, said Alberta's growing population and the increased use of wireless devices are to blame."If nothing is done, sometime next year communities are going to start running out of phone numbers," he said.