Canuck

  Tuesday, 12 March 2002

 < 10:32:13 PM>.

Tariff on Blank CDs? Blame Canada. The Private Copying Tariff would impose a tax on all recordable media in Canada. Opponents say many things, including how this would create a new industry in CD smuggling. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] "Independent Canadian musicians also plan to fight the proposal, saying the new tax would result in their paying a fee to the recording industry in order to distribute their music."

Earnest do-gooders, the cpcc, miss the point. Sigh.

< 9:49:25 PM>.

Yeah. 'What the hell are you up to down there?!'

< 8:26:54 PM>.

Still, it's only right to point out the success of Canada Revenue's Netfile service, which allows people to file their personal income tax returns over the Internet."

 < 11:35:41 AM>.

Thestar.com/GTA population jumps 9.8% since '96: "Canada's biggest city just keeps growing, according to 2001 census data released today by Statistics Canada. More than 400,000 new residents settled in metropolitan Toronto between 1996 and 2001, pushing the area's official population to 4.68 million. The country's population grew 4 per cent to 30,007,094 residents.

Canada's population climbed by 4.0 per cent in the last five years of the 20th century as immigrants grabbed the wheel from fertile baby boomers as the main drivers of growth."

Immigration is the key in this country.

< 11:29:13 AM>.