The printed cover price for the November 2007 issue of Consumer Reports Canada was $5.99 USD/$6.99 CAD. The printed cover price for the December 2007 issue of Consumer Reports Canada is $5.99 CAD.
Good news! Well, sort of…
A Canadian subscription to Consumer Reports Canada will set you back $39.99 CAD. An American subscription to Consumer Reports [...]

If, after reading this morning’s post, you found your eyes rolling so far back in your head that you could actually see your hypothalamus… If you recoil from a salesman who says “I think we could have some fun with this tie…” Well, I have just the antidote for you: Jaybles and Kage [...]

Like most gay-themed magazines, Genre has been through several incarnations, from fluffy (lifestyle!) to relevant (political!) to completely and utterly worthless (today!). It’s edited these days by Neal Boulton, formerly of Men’s Health Magazine and lifetime Gawker punching bag, with a substantial focus on the trivial, the clichéd and, predictably, a version of sexuality best [...]

We’ve kinda been beating up on IKEA — though it’s richly-deserved — for the disgusting disparity in U.S./Canadian pricing for the same product. And the difference is “justified” by shipping costs, manufacturing costs, the nebulous and ill-defined “cost of doing business” in each country and so on. But what happens when the manufacturer of goods [...]

Throughout the month of October, the Canadian dollar was worth at least as much as the U.S. dollar and, if you’ve been following my recent, IKEAcentric bitching, retailers are not responding quickly or significantly enough to the strength of our currency.
IFR Monitoring recently released an eye-opening (and jaw-dropping) study in which advertised prices for consumer [...]

You might recall a previous post — and, apparently, a Google fave — in which I compared U.S. and Canadian prices for an identical IKEA product: the Hemnes chest of drawers. I calculated that Canadian consumers were paying 53.85% more at IKEA Canada than they would at IKEA USA.
Some other Canadian retailers have responded to [...]

Making matters worse, my hands are best described as “small, childlike.”

The Real Ben Cohen:

Any complaints that Mr. Cohen has already been featured in this series
will be met with total indifference.
Feel free to make any suggestive, weapon-pointing-related comments; resistance is futile.