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Coinbase.com will allow you to buy up to $100 with a 1% fee. It's pretty much what I'm recommending these days to Americans.

See my post below. I factor the deposit fee not just the wallet transfer fee.

I replied to your post, although if your bank takes 10% off the top to begin with, the issue isn't with bitcoins, it's your bank's deposit fee.

Cavirtex takes a flat rate of $3 when depositing money directly into their bank aact regardless of the amount, as I mentioned above. Not 10%...

Oh please, and then they charge you 3.0% when you do a trade on your first 100 bitcoins.

So if you buy $5 worth of bitcoins, it costs you 61.2% in fees.

If you buy $50 worth of bitcoins, it costs you 9% in fees.

If you buy $100 worth of bitcoins, it costs you 6% in fees.

Ouch yeah, another example of Canada lacking proper competition in an industry.