It will continue to go up and down. For Canada's manufacturing sector a lower dollar is what is needed. Over 80% of Canadian made products are sold to the USA. The lower dollar helps our products sell very well. Bad for Canadian Tourists, and us, buying new USA made pinball machines.

On new Stern games, from what I have seen, any of them that get built for Canada have the Tournament Button included.

I've seen Pinsiders Premium and LE games in the States with out the Tournament Button. I seen Pro games here in Canada with the button.

Possibly it is something that Stern Pinball installs on all 'EXPORT' pins. It could be a bonus for Export distro's. No clue really, some one could contact them regarding this.

Here is a brief run down on the Dollar.

July 11 1864 - 1 CDN Dollar = 2.77 US Dollar, (this will never happen again).
Then the US Dollar rises and they stay fairly close to parity until WW1.
Mid 1950's CDN Dollar depreciates.
Aug 20 1957 CDN$ peaks at $1.06 US.
May 1962 Canada Gov't sets Dollar at 92.5 US.
April 25 1974 CDN$ peaks at $1.04 US.
1979 CDN$ sinks to .84 cents US.
Aug 1985 CDN$ sinks to .77 cents US.
Feb 1986 CDN$ is .69 cents US.
1998 CDN$ hits a all time low of .63 cents US. (referred as the Paso of the North)
2006 CDN$ raises to $1.10 US.
March 2009 moved down to .76 cents US.
April 6 2010 was back up to parity.

The up and down exchange rate is never going to end.

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Here is some info on Canadian Pinball manufactures. Now your are thinking, What? From scanning IPDB here is what I have found.

Automatic Industries Ltd., Toronto. Made Pure Mechanical table top models 1930-1931.

North Star Coin Machine Company, Montreal. Made Electro-mechanical pins 1949. 2 models, Sea Breeze & Richelieu.

Phillips Electronics Ltd., Toronto. Made a Home Model, Star Explorer, a Solid State, around 1977.

Professional Pinball of Toronto. Made Conversion kits in 1981, Challenger I to V. 5 different conversions for Bally Eight Ball.

Ro-S-Co of Canada. In 1930 produced a Pure Mechanical machine.

The Richelieu and Sea Breeze have been seen on Pinside, on the EM Forum.

Clearly this is off Topic! We just called it, "Lethbridge!" Cheap, resembled beer, and we managed to guzzle many.

I would let that slide. As Old Style has been sold on the Prairies for a very long time.

He is a Canadian, born in Ottawa.

Great to watch Robert Gagno nail that 1,000,000,000+ score on Sterns GoT LE at Expo. World Class Player for sure.

Here are some differences for Canada. Shipping, and do not forget the C.S.A. testing, C.S.A. certification on new manufactured consumer goods must add something to the cost of each pin destine for Canada, unless U.L. testing is the exact same.

Actually 3 country's do not officially use the Metric System. U.S.A., Liberia, and Myanmar. You were close .

A few years ago I phoned them to find out if they had any pins set up in the arcade. The guy that answered, asked me what is a pinball machine? Did not bother to go there after that conversation.

There are roughly 985 Canadian Pinsiders on the Pinside Map. Could we come to a consensus, and each of us mail or Email Garry Stern on their use of Playdium/Starburst as the only official Stern Pinball Distro for Canada. Nitro Pinball if it becomes a distributor will surely out sell Starburst. So write Mr. Stern let him know we want another option for Canada. You might get a nice letter back thanking you for your comments.

If it is one of the ultra rare never seen, Solid State Prototypes, then maybe, just maybe, that $4350.00 could make sense.

This pricing stuff is total BS. If you ran your business the same way, you would be out of business in 3 months. Maybe you can tell this gas pricing stuff ruffles my feathers. The price of a barrel oil went up yesterday. So gas is priced accordingly, instantly! If a barrel of oil price takes a drop, those gas prices do not drop at the same rate of speed, that is BS. Last night fresh fuel wasn't delivered to your local gas station, but they will still raise the prices.

An oil refinery goes off line in Chicago, or Dallas, why and how does this effect fuel prices here?? Fuel is not shipped from here to there, yes, oil is, but not fuel.

Thanks for putting up with my rant. Today it is $1.24 per Litre, some stations are still at $1.11, but that will change tonight.

Here is a scenario... I just can't resist.

The owner of a sub sandwich shop raises his prices say $2 from 11:30 am to 1:00 PM. Then, Oh My! A bakery burns down in Florida, he then raises his prices because now buns must be harder to get locally. Then lastly, he contacts his competitor that next Thursday he will be changing his prices. That competitor happily raises his price the same amount.

Luckily we can't make our own gasoline at home. Vehicles do not run on love or air. The different prices at different times of the day was/is happening in the Lower Mainland. The fact that no one can find any evidence of price fixing between the oil companies is very interesting.

I'm done, with this, back to Pinball please. (My Apologies in advance, to the Pinside Team.)

"What's Up?" It is November 4th in the Edmonton area it is MINUS 16 Degrees Celsius. Think that is around Zero F. Chores are done, and for the next 10 hours it is Pinball Time,

Also, be careful with rags or towels that have chemicals wiped into them, do not, just toss it onto the next pin. Waxes, solvents and other cleaning chemicals can effect that antiglare coating.

Hope you got your pins back inside, out of the lanai, before that happened.

That is AWSOME!! That is great news times 10, and congrats.

Looks like Jay Richardson has his hat in the ring as a Stern supplier too.

Purchasing across provincial borders with wine , spirits, beer, and tobacco. Has many restrictions.

In the 1990's buying more than one new car was also a problem. With dealers refusing to sell more than 1 unit at a time to out of area buyers. No fleet sales out of the car dealers sales district, was very common.

The only issue I can see is that provincial sales tax. Or were a province has that H.S.T.
If you are a tourist buying a pin on a trip. In B.C. you might not be exempt from the provincial sales tax. Surely Tom has that all figured out.

Klr650 you missed a comment. 'Marco Box arrives inside a IGlobal box." The Marco box looks likes it has been passed through a planer, then an inkpad was swiped across it. Oh! and that it shows up 9 weeks later. With several nice Emails from iGlobal stating it has been found and is on its way. Good thing it is only pinball parts and not something really time sensitive.

I would bet dollars to doughnuts that iGlobal doesn't use their own company to send their pay packets out.

Also, New Westminster.

For Canada if the New Stern Pin was assembled for export to Canada it will have $1 and $2 coin mechs. No Quarters.

The PIN MAP shows 2 other Pinsiders that have allowed their location to be seen, near or in Fredericton.

The locked case is more for anti theft. In some areas minors can not buy rattle cans.

They had a Hercules. It was just inside the main door.