Oh don't be sorry. Nothing to be sorry about.
I know it's really hard to tell in a typed post but I was posting in mock indignation. I hope it didn't read as if I was genuinely angry because I certainly wasn't.
No, sadly the price of goods between the US & Canada often varies greatly. It stings moreso when you can read it on the back of things like books & magazines. With the dollars now being so close and for so long, more & more Canadians are complaining about it. Retailers blame the gov't for taxes & duties, the gov't blames retailers for being greedy and we're stuck in the middle. And let's not even bring up the topic of car prices.....