Does McMaster sell PICs? If not, anywhere nearby I can get them? I dont want to wait weeks for China shipments.

Sayal electronics in Burlington will have some selection of PICs in stock: http://www.sayal.com/index.asp.

There's also Active and a couple others in the Mississauga area that should have them in stock.

There's always ordering from Digikey (which often arrives in 48 hours).

You can also get them from the IEEE Office in ITB

The IEEE Student Branch has a supply of kits based on a PIC24H. However they are solely for those students taking CoE 2DP4.

I have some kicking around. Which model are you interested in?

you could register at microchip.com and get free samples which come in a few days