Another Canon fan here... The new model's Dabhand is refering to are the Pro series 9000 model (available now, £500) and 9500 model (available soon, no price yet).
They do look the business, no review's that I've seen yet but here's a link to download a .pdf of Canon's printer range, there's a few details about them in there -
Canon Download Site
The model that blow's the skirts up of all the photography mags is still the Epson R2400 (£500'ish) which regularly gets 5 stars, it's supposedly very good for B&W prints (3 black ink tanks) and seems to produce slightly higher saturated colour prints making landscapes look punchier. However it seems to be getting caught up by other printers like the HP B9180 (just released, £500) which according to a head to head review with the R2400 in this month's Practical Photography mag produces more natural results, the R2400 still got 5 stars though, to the HP B9180's 4 stars.
