Kijiji is actually quite big in most of Ontario. As far as I've seen, Toronto is about the only place where Craigslist is bigger than Kijiji.
This is really irritating, as Kijiji is stuffed with adertising, tries to upsell you for higher placement, etc. etc.
not sure why it happened in the first place, but it's the state of things.

Even within North America there are places on a 30 minute offset timezone: Program will be broadcast at 3:00, 3:30 in Newfoundland

One of the really interesting Canadian examples is Sasktel.

They're a crown corporation (government owned company) that provides phone and broadband service.

I was getting good service, a fast connection, and no bogus "unlimited-unless-you-actually-try-and-use-it" HDTV over IP, and they don't do traffic shaping, screwing with bittorent, or any of the other usual crap. All for less than I'm now paying in downtown Toronto.

Oh, and Saskatchewan has an exceedingly low population density. The only two cities are only about 200k each, and the total population of the province is only just over a million.

50 years ago film had already been around for a fair while the 120 film standard, that used for most medium format cameras, was introduced in 1901. Reasonable quality digital has only been here for about a decade. The technology is still evolving in leaps and bounds. A decade after film photography was invented, the technology had yet to stabilize. give it a couple decades, and the same thing will probably happen to digital, the cameras will hit the reasonable limit, and their value will stabilize.

This trick works well for reading dieting and health advice as well.

I'm from Saskatchewan, Canada, and somehow we have the only ISP in Canada not thoroughly devoted to screwing the customer. Who would have thought that a government owned telecom would actually end up LESS scummy than the commercial alternatives?

It's actually a bit more restricted than that. The requirements vary somewhat by province, but Ontario's require:

• be at least 18 years old;
• be a citizen or permanent resident of Canada;
• be of good character;
• meet Education Standards established by PEO;
  - that would be the engineering degree from an accredited university
• meet engineering Experience Requirements ;
  - 4 years work experience (you can get a max of one year for work experience while doing your undergrad degree, and one year for doing a grad degree)
• pass the Professional Practice Exam (PPE) on engineering law and ethics.

And they are VERY enthusiastic about enforcement.

As my engineering ethics proffesor so elegantly put it: "What consenting adults choose to do behind closed doors is their own business. That doesn't necessarily mean that it is a good or bad idea"