The price of Amazon Prime in Canada isn't going up, despite a pending bump to the cost of the annual membership fee in the United States. Amazon revealed Thursday that the Prime fee for U.S. consumers will rise to $119 US a year, up from the current $99 US. However, Prime membership in Canada will remain at $79, an Amazon spokesperson told CBC News. Back in January, Amazon bumped up the monthly rate for a U.S. Prime membership to $12.99 US amonth from $10.99 US. Amazon says it has 100 million Prime members around the world, but the company said it doesn't break out its Prime members by country.

Source: CBC News April 27, 2018 16:52 UTC