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Facebook Inc.’s new Home is making its way to Canada today.

On Tuesday, the world’s largest social network announced that its new Home service will be made available to Canadians later today. Facebook unveiled Home earlier this month at an event at its Silicon Valley headquarters, and the service was initially only available to users in the United States.

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Canadians will be able to download Facebook Home from the Google Play online marketplace.

“When downloaded to select smartphones running Google Inc.’s Android software, Home is designed to place Facebook services at the centre of the user’s mobile experience, essentially turning the device into a “Facebook phone.”

At the Home unveiling, Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said the new software was created with the intention of organizing a smartphone around people, rather than applications.

Instead of being greeted by a wall of applications when users turn on their smartphones, Home replaces both the Android lock screen and home screen with images, status updates and notifications from Facebook friends.