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I worked in a financial brokerage house in 2000 in NYC, and the guys I worked with told me "Canadian" was the code word for black in the financial business.

There must be some kind of global training centre for telecom co's customer service... here is part 1 of experience with Bell Canada:
http://hughmcguire.net/2007/08/11/love-letter-to-bell-v1/

the penny was designed in 1937 by a fellow who died in 1943. Under copyright law, copyright on images expires 50 years after the death of creator. Even if the copyright is owned by the Government, crown copyright in canada lasts 50 years after publication.

In this case the design of the penny went out of copyright in either 1987 or 1993.

So moral/idiocy issues aside, the Mint cannot even own the copyright it is claiming to own.

Just a clarification, dr. cavoukian is Ontario's privacy commissioner, not Canada's.

it's great to hear public servants talking good stuff, and lets hope we hear some of this talk at the national level, not just the provincial level.

says my wife, an emerge doc:
"That is not an xray, it's some kind of 3D reconstruction from a CT scan.
But, cool."

says her friend, an eye surgeon:
"The article claims it was a metal frame chair. So if the legs were metal too, there is no way this is a real CT, as we would have metal artifacts... But I have never seen an x-ray that looks like this. Is there a way to confirm that this is real? It seems fake...."