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Good question though obviously asked assuming the opportunity to judge and belittle judging by the "...you can't just complain online in your little bubble."

I actually did and ended up with a purely political answer blaming the difficulty of regulation and consumer-beware-ism. Even though in this particular case there really is no opportunity to beware - its either go with the banks that are all part of this or live on a commune singing about flowers -- and it is way too cold here in the winter for that!

I'm most disappointed in the Canadian gov't and their lack of action. This would have been the perfect opportunity to mandate change - We don't have to send data on all of our people and their credit history to this American company. Or at least without actual legislation and rules around governance, security, and actual penalties for breaches.

Instead we let them get away with - no more than a handful of Canadians were affected - followed by - oops, yup lots of Canadians - followed by - holy heck, how many Canadians are there way up there?

We don't need to go along with this. Yet it never seems to get better.

The Amazon gods seem to be playing pranks on me at the moment: I use your link to look at the product on Amazon US "Zojirushi NS-TSC18 Micom Rice Cooker and Warmer – 1.8 Liters"

Clicking the link on the page to view the product on Amazon Canada gets me to "Zojirushi NS-TSC18 Micom Rice Cooker and Warmer, 10 cups"

Strange, The US site lists the Liters held while the Canadian site switches to telling me how many cups it can handle.

Ergh. I'm Canadian. I can handle the litres.

Huh, the AWS IOT Button doesn't ship to Canada. And it isn't available on Amazon.ca.

Not to be a party pooper... but, huh? Why not?

I don't know anything about the ownership but I do see the value and good that is created locally. Sometimes doing what's good locally may help somebody local and still make somebody else stinking rich. That doesn't mean I should stop helping out locally.

At least with Value Village I can see that people are being helped. f I donate elsewhere the benefits are difficult (if not impossible) to see.

On a related note - it turns out that he's been running the New Screen Savers show for a while now - didn't even know about it. Happy memories watching the original show - I'll have to give this a try.

Oh, and some of the old team pop in Kate Botello, Patrick Norton, etc.

So there's one benefit to suing Twitter - it gets your name in the media again and all of us old timers can reminisce and catch up on the new series.

Sears Canada had a similar approach... millions to a bunch of sr. execs and complete default on pensions to the workers. "We need this to save the company" was their cry. We need those sr. executives to get us out of this situation that they've been in charge of for years.

Oh, Sears Canada is now out of business and the workers got nothing... but don't worry the executives that the company was so worried about received their bonuses.

"Residents in the U.K. and Canada were also impacted." Yet Equifax is only providing lookup or TrustedID protection for Americans.

Hm, I'm East of Toronto and thought my small town library was closed Sunday and Monday... just checked - no, open 7 days a week. Pleasantly surprised.

The small, small, small town north of here though is closed on Sunday.

Thank you. I've now had a similar discussion with my two girls (Aged 11 and 4). Was a far better way to spend the evening than a typical night of Netflix.

Living an hour east of Toronto new houses are going for $800k. No, these are nothing more than 1400 sqft homes packed together with no room to breathe. A few years ago those would have been $300-400k (and overpriced at that).

I love the idea of this and hope that it expands to other countries... If only I were a billionaire - CanadaFacts.org

I'd place it in the hands of habit. We're used to dealing with strange keyboard symbols (like %@*# - and having them mean something). Personally I find that I use dashes far more than any human should while writing (but like others) I do engage in a bit of parenthetical shenanigans as well.

When I learned to drive I was taught to always drive defensively - basically to avoid situations that could result in the 'chance of a risk of an accident'. Sure, 16-year old me and my friends joked about the terminology but the lesson stuck with me.

  Other driver going faster than they should? Switch lanes and avoid the situation.

  Turning into traffic and there is a car in your intended lane signalling that they're going to move out of the lane?  Wait for them to actually move and make space for you - don't trust that their lights are the whole truth.

Being a safe driver means not causing accidents but it also is on you to avoid being in situations with greater risk - "identify and reduce".

$125/household - that's an amazing deal. We're blessed with some high-quality programming from the CBC here in Canada but would happily bump in a contribution to add BBC to the mix.

Microsoft Solitaire Collection has been available on Windows Phone for quite a long time. Actually many of their casual games are available as universal apps on Windows 10 desktop/mobile.

Runs very well on my Lumia 950 XL

And even then the benefits to ignoring the warnings for companies is still pretty powerful. VW may have been caught and punished in the US but here in Canada they are still dragging their feet with any mention of compensation to victims and our courts are letting them.

"We can't keep driving these and feel good about ourselves. So something needs to be done and I just want an answer.… It's not about the initial mistake — it's what you do to make things better." http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/vw-emissions-1.3708372

At the time I wrote to one of the team members who worked there (maybe a Program Manager - I forget exactly) and they sent me a beautiful book showing off each of the fonts with a description of why the font was made, how it achieves the goals, and some info on the font's designer.

I still have it at home - really impressed me with the attention to detail and the self-styled publicity.

There are always lines to be drawn - this is "in" or this is "out". Are performance enhancing drugs in or out of Baseball? What about catamarans in the America's Cup or Oscar Pistorius' running blades. Or more interestingly the running blades on a non-paralympic athlete's legs?

Researching technology and techniques to determine if they are good for the sport like the Curling Federation is doing is little different from the MLBA deciding on whether wood, metal, or corked and testing the effects on the game.

I'm not sure the manufacturing changes "improved" the sport so much as "changed" it which could be good, bad, or indifferent depending on the team, skill, strengths, and weaknesses. But testing and understanding the changes is a worthwhile goal.

Could be. If they don't want to compete solely based on price. Or don't believe that price is their strong point.

There are many reasons to compete on price but just as many reasons to not compete on price including service, support, delivery charges, home delivery options, shopping local. Or simply not wanting to support a race-to-the-bottom Walmart world.

Yes, forcing retailers to be part of your system is great for your business model but that doesn't equate to necessarily be good for theirs. And since they may never know that you even exist (if a customer doesn't visit because of your site how will they know?) they may be losing traffic without even knowing why.

Pop Will Eat Itself - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Will_Eat_Itself

Hmm, and they're still touring. Wouldn't mind seeing them do "Wise Up! Sucker" live.

I "own" a Nest Protect alarm. I liked it and was planning on outfitting the rest of the house with them during renovations this summer. I will not be buying any more Nest products/services now. The risk is too high to have them in my home.

... then I would fully expect that I can replace their software with that made by others. Then feel free to make a business decision that part of the original product is no longer profitable and you're leaving the marketplace for sw/support - I still won't like it but at least the consumer has options to live with their not-fully dead hardware.

As a consumer - "hey too bad you didn't want to make a business of this but you suckered me in with your shiny new fangled thing and I gave you money for it - I didn't give you permissions to then decide that you didn't make enough money so now you're going to take your ball and go home leaving me with an expensive door stop"

Thank You!! This is the best news I heard all day. I loved MS Money and only moved away because I thought it was inevitable. I didn't know about this option.

And not just any part of Toronto - High Park. They were pretty well off to start with going with that as the base.

Good for them on using their money to fund a great learning/growing experience for their kids.

One of my neighbours a few doors down actually has an original DeLorean. He only gets it out on the road 3 or 4 times a summer and is constantly working on it although fixing it up is more of a hobby for him than anything else so I don't think he considers that to be a negative.

It is quite exciting to see it go.

Unfortunately the doors locked in the open position last summer which took him quite a bit of fiddling to get fixed. I suppose that was better than having it locked with users inside though.

I loved my local Canadian Target store while it existed. Probably for some of the reasons it eventually went out of business...

Target was always easy to shop at - nobody else was there - I could walk down any aisle and not have to deal with other people getting in my way.

Fresh food delivered from the local Sobey's distribution centre (at least I'm pretty sure that's where it came from). And nobody else pawing through it before I chose what I wanted.

Somewhat unique stuff - sure they had all the same mass-produced junk that WalMart did - just slightly different. So it was basically the same but just different enough to be say "Ha! I'm unique"

Good prices - I know people were always complaining that WalMart was cheaper but that wasn't necessarily true. Target had some good deals as well. And if you combined your Target shopping with an occasional trip to Costco you were pretty well covered.

Just a few weeks ago Vimy Ridge Day popped up in my calendar as a Canadian holiday - I asked around and although everybody knew of Vimy Ridge nobody in my group of contacts realized it was an 'official day'. This was in Toronto.

Likely due to the day not being a recognized holiday.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimy_Ridge_Day

At this point I would consider it in line with what they did for Windows 8. For the first while after release it was possible to upgrade from Windows 7 for $15.

This looks to be an embrace and extend :) of their own idea.... Now free for a whole year.

Obviously more details once it is closer to release but sounds great so far.

Hearing Fahrenheit in Toronto does surprise me on the few occasions that it happens (usually either retirement-age seniors or American visitors).

Recently I noticed the medical profession has come on board with cm/kilos for measurement which is pretty surprising since hearing inches/pounds is still fairly common.

Having grown up in the 70s and 80s I still find I float between the two fairly easily but I sure did find Scotland confusing last time I visited - as a metric country they sure do a lot of things non-metricy.