Now that we are seeing the beginnings of FM stations in Canada "going IBOC", or "HD Radio" as the technology owner calls it, the question becomes "how am I going to hear this?".
Most Canadian "HD Radio" listeners have discovered that their car radio automatically tunes into the primary HD channel, rather than the analogue signal of an FM station that is running HD channels. Looking around, I've been unable to find any directories on-line that are at all helpful in determining, for a given Make, Model, and Year of vehicle, whether or not the factory radio "does" HD.
And there seems to be no rule of thumb. Normally the luxury brands get the new technology first, but I was able to determine conclusively that the Acura RDX just started HD in 2016, while the MDX has had HD for "years".
What about outside a vehicle, whether at home or elsewhere? I have yet to see any HD receivers in stores, and looking on-line at the sites of Brick and Mortar stores did not turn up any either, though I confined my search to below $300. Amazon.ca and eBay.ca offer U.S. HD radios at pretty outrageous prices.
Recognizing this issue, for Canadians without U.S. postal addresses, the Corus AM stations that have officially launched as HD channels on their FM sisters have worked with a Toronto consulting firm to have the firm sell radio on-line at a pretty good price: if you don't count shipping and GST, you couldn't do much better with Amazon.com's free shipping to a U.S. address, thanks to our seventy cent dollar.
Each Corus AM station's HD Radio page points you to this URL and gives you a code ("CKNW" for CKNW) for a 10% discount: http://www.myhdradio.ca/ [Editor note, September 2016: we now have our own discount code "radiowest"]
I chose this one: http://www.myhdradio.ca/product/shd-tx2/
Because it is is one of the few that also covers AM and IBOC there, not so much for the unlikely event that a Canadian AM station goes IBOC, but to see if I can get any U.S. AM stations running IBOC. In addition, though not documented elsewhere, I did read one seemingly technically competent Amazon reviewer indicate that the radio also displays RDS data on FM stations, something I currently am missing.
A third way to go for HD Radio reception is a dongle for your computer or smartphone. I have not looked into that at all, other than to notice that they are extremely cheap. For example, Gigaware makes one specifically for the iPod Touch and iPhone. One seller had it for $6.95 on eBay.