The City of Toronto may have been calling for one cent of the GST, but we may end up spending a pretty penny in penalties for the image used in that ad campaign. The marketing campaign, which appeared on bumper stickers, buttons and in bus shelters, uses a coin photo sourced from the Royal Canadian Mint. The problem? Any image of Canadian currency is the intellectual property of the federally-run Mint, and the City......

Thousands of college and university students rally across Canada for lower tuition fees and greater education funding. FUN FACT:This is approximately the 17th or so national day of rallies for lower tuition fees and greater education that I have seen, and interestingly, tuition fees have never actually gone down during that time, but instead gone up steadily! A Toronto man who slapped and allowed his elderly mother to lie in filth and squalor for......

If you've noticed a dearth of cheap tinfoil at Dollarama recently, it could be due to a warning this week from the U.S. Defense Department stating that certain Canadian coins contain tiny radio transmitters that may have been intended to mark or track American defense contractors. The report states: On at least three separate occasions between October 2005 and January 2006, cleared defense contractors' employees traveling through Canada have discovered radio frequency transmitters embedded......

Frank Magazine is unwelcomely back. For those unfamiliar with Frank Magazine, take a look at the NOW Magazines' Up Front feature. It's a fairly basic formula: take an unflattering picture of a public figure, use photoshop to prove your point, and write unfunny pejoratives to match the graphic. An example of what you might see in Up Front on Thursday: Mayor Miller's cronyism is at an all-time high - or should we say low. Seems......

Forget no-assembly-required toy whistles and Dinky cars: classic cereals don’t want to have fun anymore. Currently enjoying prime placement in the local Canadian grocery aisle, boxes of Special K include not only cereal from the eccentric Dr. Kellogg (whose sanitarium in Michigan made for a tepid film), but also one of three 30-minute instructional Stott Pilates DVDs by Toronto’s own stretch and tone guru Moira Merrithew (née Stott). The promotional blitz is an endless loop......

The poppy has traditionally been a reminder of Canadian WWII veterans, but now might be more closely associated with Tim Horton's Maple Glazed donuts. The wildly popular commemorative quarter has been available exclusively at the American-owned coffee and donut shop, despite being produced by the Royal Canadian Mint. Moreover, Timmy Ho's stores initially refused to give the quarter out to Canadians, unless of course they made purchase at the store. After snarls of commercialism and......