Both Loblaw and Sobey's (and their discount off-shoots No Frills and Price Chopper) offer organic free-run eggs for around $5.49 a dozen. While they're not free-range, and not as ideal, I buy these when I can't get to a market, just because if these stores see that people are buying these products, they'll continue to carry them or make a better effort to carry more.

But... to be truly ethical, you'll need to do some research and find a farmer (if one even exists) that lets the male chicks live to become capons, otherwise all eggs, even free-range, are technically unethical in that the male chicks are killed as soon as they can be sexed. Unless they're allowed to grow to become capons and sold as meat, they're useless (and a waste of money) to any farm operation. This doesn't happen very often because laying breeds tend to not be as meaty as breeds raised for meat. So those little baby chicks on the conveyor belt - likely male chicks headed to a grinder, or if they're lucky, a gas chamber. Sorry, but it's a hard fact of the egg business, and even if you go for the backyard hen option as we've been discussing on my personal blog, you're gonna be wanting females, not males.

$5 to $6 is standard, eh? Do you happen to know how much of that actually goes to the people who are keeping the hens?

(Mmmm, thanks for the reminder about Gamjatang (pork bone soup))