International Texting

I have a go-phone account, and I was texting someone in Canada, and my account balance seems to be taking a pretty big hit when it hasn't been doing that before. I'm on the $25/month plan, and Canada is supposed to be included in the unlimited texting, so I'm pretty confused. Is it also dependant on images and video you send internationally (or could it be my friend's incomining pics)? I don't have data, but none of the messages I've sent even go over MBs of data anyway, and when I check my history on my account, everything says it's $0.

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