I just came across this via a post at LiveSide but according to Mark Akers and Jessica Zahn from the Zune Insider podcast Canadians are going to be lucky enough to be able to buy their own Zune HD instead of having to sneak them across the border.

From the podcast:

04:28 Jessica Zahn:
So if you go to the Zune Originals site, and you’re from Canada? We’re selling the Zune HD, viaZune Originals, in Canada…We don’t have a Music Marketplace there, we don’t have an ETA on when we will have a marketplace there. It’s all about, first the licensing, and then about the development work we have to do to bring that to Canada.

Matt Akers:
There’s been some talking about it though

Jessica Zahn:
Definitely talk – many words – have been said

So we get the Zune HD, which might be going away but no definite word either way, but thanks to the media companies and Canadian government we won’t be getting a marketplace that amounts to anything more than a shell of the US version.

Now I did try to get some more information from the Zune Originals site, which is where you have to order it from; but this is as far as I got after waiting for about fifteen minutes:

Not a great start to say the least and I did try the address in other browsers as well with the same result.

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