Bigger question -- do Canadian content rules apply to
iPods bought in Canada?  Why take the risk that you
HAVE to have Glass Tiger and Rush on your iPod...

Mike Bennett

NP:  Def Leppard -- ROCK OF AGES
--- Stewart Mason <craigtorso@verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <bob_hutton@standardlife.com>
> > Also, how much do iPods cost Canada?  Do they work
> out pretty cheap?
> 
> Nope.  Factor in the exchange rate and they cost
> pretty much exactly 
> the same, if not slightly more.  The only benefit
> you would get is 
> that if you bought an iPod in Canada, you could fill
> out a form when 
> you got home and a couple months later, you'd get a
> check for the 
> amount of your sales tax.  Big whoop.  (However, you
> *should* do this 
> for your hotel bill, because the federal sales tax
> on that is around 
> 15%, and for our annual trips to Toronto for the
> film festival, that 
> usually ends up a little over a hundred bucks.  You
> can download the 
> proper form as a PDF from 
>
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pbg/gf/gst176/gst176-03e.pdf
> -- beware of 
> the ones that charge a processing fee, because all
> they do is file 
> this form on your behalf.)
> 
> I can point you towards several excellent
> inexpensive restaurants, 
> especially around Yonge and Bloor, but
> unfortunately, most of my 
> favorite record stores in the city are no more and I
> haven't found 
> much to replace them.  But if you're looking for day
> trips and you 
> have a car, two things: the zoo, out in Jaimie V.
> and Paul M.'s 
> hometown of Scarborough, is truly excellent, one of
> my favorites in 
> the world, and the McMichael Canadian Art Museum out
> in Kleinburg 
> (www.mcmichael.com) is a must-visit if you're at all
> into art museums, 
> if only for the permanent installation of many works
> by the Group of 
> Seven, an early 20th century collective of landscape
> painters who did 
> some truly amazing work.  (Indeed, many of the GoS
> are permanently 
> installed there themselves -- several of them are
> buried on the 
> property!)
> 
> Finally, if you see a hot dog cart, get one.  Trust
> me on this.
> 
> S
> 
> 

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