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Toronto, 2013.11.03

I was seriously hoping to get some studying done this weekend. Then when I got home on Friday I found a letter from the small trust company where I had my TFSA. My name, email, phone number, address, date of birth, and SIN have been compromised due to a break-in on their website, where, inexplicably, they were storing information from applicants for accounts. So I wound up speaking with my banks and the police, sending emails to various regulators and bloggers, and posting with fellow account-holders at a forum. Tomorrow I have to resume the struggle, with calls to Equifax and to the SIN people.

We still managed to get in a visit to the Science Center today, and yesterday we got to the bank to open Ken's first RESP.

And all's well that ends with shabu-shabu.

rand()m quote

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupery