Agreed that Amazon.ca's price was the worst, but it's at least directly comparable to Amazon.com (and usually their prices are slightly better than Future Shop's, at least on less popular stuff).

Still, $27 as the best sale price in Canada is still 35% more than the common US promotional price. And even the MSRP is $50 Canadian, $40 US, which still shows a 25% increase when the difference hasn't been that high in a long time.

Zellers was the best deal, but there's actually no Zellers close by to me, and you'd still have to find something else to buy on another trip (fine if you're a frequent Zellers shopper, but I haven't been to one for a decade).

The news keeps trying to tell us how good it is to have a Canadian dollar at parity, but historically we do not see proper representitive savings in the cost of imported goods (which is the ONLY REASON a high dollar would be worthwhile), and otherwise it severely hurts all exporters along with the tourism and film industries, as your products/services end up being significantly more expensive to everyone else.