The Globe and Mail reports that getting your hands on an iPod mini in Canada before Christmas is virtually impossible. “Apple’s iPod mini has become the must-have toy of this Christmas season–it is so popular that the diminutive, colourful digital-music player has joined Cabbage Patch Kids and Tickle Me Elmo on the short list of gifts that have made marketing history by triggering a consumer frenzy and widespread shortages. On the last shopping weekend before Christmas Day, electronics retailers across Canada said they were sold out of iPod minis and could do little more than offer condolences.”