Well the morning brings even stranger news. Amazon.ca emailed me yesterday to say it had shipped via canada post. This morning, after reading the newspapaer to check on the strike (which is still not happening), I recieve another e-mail.
It says due to the strike (???) they shipped my package via Purolator. And here is a $5 gift certificate as well. They gave me the tracking info, and sure enough my package is in the good courier people's hand.
So, I guess Amazon didn't want to risk peoples deliveries on a Maybe Strike and went a head and shipped via alternate means. Kudos to them.