Since I haven't heard anything back from the Arduino USA store, I'll go ahead and source the MKR1000 instead. They're a bit more expensive but have WiFi....and I can buy them from amazon.ca. I will use the MKR1000 for now until I make my own board for the SAMD21 part.
Having said all that, Arduino have really under-advertised this board compared to the promotions that they make for almost every other one of their official boards. I wonder why...perhaps they didn't want to compete with Sparkfun's and Adafruit's offering of similar boards. If that's the case then why release it in the first place.
It also not encouraging for the average user that wants to support Arduino by buying official hardware.