Yep, I've seen Parasound and totem in the Calgary stores for ages. They did have Nuance speakers advertised in one of their flyers quite a few years ago. Smaller towers for $600cnd a pair.(50% off the retail prices they said) I think that was the only time they had Nuance for sale.
Yes, that Nuance sale was the result of an odd-lot at a liquidation auction where our buyer at the time bought up a whole bunch of stuff, some of it very odd indeed.
It did give us a magnificent opportunity to dismantle a Nuance speaker and see what was inside it.
My beloved confreres at Int'l Stereo were pretty cheezed that we were taking a poke by actually demoing their pet speakers against real speakers.