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The Gladstone Hotel is offering “truly affordable works of art” for sale in their front lobby. For $2.01—two dollars for the art plus one sacrificial penny—you can choose from four different designs by Canadian artists Douglas Coupland, Marian Bantjes, Burton Kramer, and Paul Butler.

If you’re stopping by Dundas Station while riding the rocket anytime soon, you might mistakenly think you’re pulling into Compton. A series of posters lined along the platform walls—that look like stop-motion animation from the subway cars as you pull into or out of the station—strangely resemble plate-glass windows with bullet holes punched through them. Is it a plug for 50 Cent’s new album? Good guess, but not quite.

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!

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:

Mayor Miller's cronyism is at an all-time high - or should we say low. Seems like Miller and those bozos from downtown care more about hiring buddies from their local supermarket than buying healthy groceries for our city. So where was Miller when we hired Dash Domi? In the produce section, apparently.

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 of TV commercials starring cerealspokesmodel Cindy Crawford, buying groceries (just like regular mortals!) and officially anointing Canada as the new Japan of foreign celebrity commercials. Can Adam Brody expounding the glories of the Royal Canadian Mint be far off?

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 greed came from as far as the U.K., the "remember our veterans with Tim Horton's donuts" campaign disappeared. Though strong demand could see the coins released into circulation through the more traditional outlet of Canadian banks, the implications here are obvious: exploiting WWII veterans could be Canada's next boom industry.