I've owned cats my whole life, by my count 13 cats have come through my life in various ways be they mine, my roommate's, girlfriend's, or a foster. I currently have two and have finally figured out the best possible cat-litter solution.
First you want to get yourself a litter box with a tray for a pee-pad:
This next part might be a little complicated, but I think I've figured out the North American solution...
THIS is the type of cat litter you want. The bag looks like this:
Now, I'm not 100% sure if you can get this stuff in Canada, but having done some google translate, I believe this is a
zeolite cat litter. The big key is that it is
non clumping. It looks like pine litter, but isn't. Pine litter breaks down into dust as it absorbs moisture, but this stuff doesn't break down. It does however completely eliminate any ammonia smells, it's freaking amazing.
Change the absorbent bad and scoop the litter every two to three days and there will be essentially no cat odor. I have two cats and two litter boxes in a three-bedroom apartment and everyone always mentions how they can't actually smell the cat litter. Even if you're using the bathroom that one of the litter boxes is in, still can't smell a thing. Here's an English website about zeolite cat litter:
http://purenaturepets.com/what-is-no...-kitty-litter/
Cannot recommend this highly enough.
Oh, you're going to want a lot of these:
like A LOT. Get ready for your whole life to be covered in cat hair. There is pretty much no way around it. Based on the colour of your cat you may as well set any dark upholstered furniture you have on fire right now. If all your furniture more-or-less matches your cat, you'll be quite happy.