ESA Canada employs games to push anti-piracy legislation

I don't really care how serious you are... But a couple things to note...

Here in Canada (for whatever reason) we feel like there is a big distinction between what we call College and what we call University. College is for more direct applicational knowledge (think dental assistant or plumber), University being more for academic knowledge (think the arts, science, maths etc). I just wanted to say that before I went on, since I'll use the word University (see as that is what I attend).

Our education is far from free, however, it is most definitely cheaper than it is in the United States. My tuition for the entirety of this year was approximately 6800, and that included several extra services offered by my school, such as a supplemental health care plan (Dental, optical, prescription drugs... the things that aren't 100% covered by our health care system). I think it is interesting how we complain so much about the cost of our education here, but the US it is several times more expensive. If you are thinking about coming here for a cheap education, it doesn't really work out... We have a different tuition for foreign students as the government matches every dollar I pay with 4 of their own (my own through taxes?), something that they don't do for people from out of country.

The best is actually in the province of Quebec, where they only recently removed the governmental freeze on tuition costs (2006 or so I believe). Since then they have been raising their tuition at the maximum legal amount per year, but back in 2006 their average tuition was about 1900 a year while the rest of Canada was around 5000.

I suppose something else to note, however, is that the scholarships are a fair bit smaller here. I applied to chemical engineering with a 97% average out of high school, and got 4000 a year, plus an additional 1500 the first year (conditional on maintaining a cumulative, weighted average above 83 or so). Correct me if I`m mistaken, but marks that high in the US could have gotten me a free ride. The scholarships that I received is one of the largest standard (school supplied) scholarships in the province of Ontario (the only exception are a few scholarships that are given to 1-3 people per school, and require a great deal of essay writing and the such). There are of course scholarship/award giving groups that can be applied for, but they are generally based on volunteer work/financial need and not so much on marks. Highschools too generally have a few small awards to give to graduating students, I received about 2500.

I would never say that we have it rough here in Canada... We have the benefit of not having to pay for as extensive of a military... I suppose instead we just pour money into Healthcare (it now takes about half of our taxes). Something interesting to note is our tax scale as well (this is a bit old information, but not much has changed lately); as of 2002 52.6% of income tax was paid by the upper 10% wage earners, meanwhile the lowest 50% only paid 4.4% of the national income tax. I'm a leftest haha, so any effort to equalize wealth and supply national services are a big win in my opinion.

wow, long response to a stupid comment >_> back to surfing pr0n and not studying.

Canadian bacon... Pemeal maybe, big maybe.
Regular bacon yes. Funny how I've only ever heard Canadian bacon in the states. Yet the regular cheese at subway is known as American cheddar at an American franchise.

WOW i hate the comment system... that comment was for the guy who had said we had free education... Who's comment has been entirely removed... woooooot

What is Canadian Bacon, anyway? Is it what we call peameal bacon? Or something else that's weird and not really Canadian at all, like igloos and saying eh (The only person I've ever met who uses 'eh' is Native) .

"third-largest game developer in the world, behind only the U.S. and Japan"

in my entire 20 years of gaming, this is news to me.

I totally agree. Seems to suggest that an MP is some kind of joke (hey, it just a title, and one not only used in Canada). Good old joystiq strengthening relations between the US and the rest of the world.

That's customs job to go through everyones mail. I know I've had HDMI cables take over a month at the border from Monoprice because customs wanted to check it for some reason or another.

Yeah, what's that aboot, eh?

Mod chips are losing their legal value due to systems being built region free. good 'ol HDTV standands :)

so you wont need it to import, and PS3 runs linux so that reason is gone. wouldn't be terribly suprised to see that trend continue.

Canada taxes blank CD's but not DVD's hence why a pack of 50DVDs is about 15$ and 50 CDs are $25-30.

back to Day of the Tentacle now :)

Hehe, I love Pacific Mall. And Asians.

D'Oh! My mistake! Wrong article!