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For all Canadian Educational Institutions:

I recently made a discovery that potentially could save my deparment a
considerable amount of budgetary funds every year.  Many Canadian
members of this listserv may be aware of the tax levy that the
Government has imposed upon all recording devices in response to
lobbying from the CPCC (Canadian Private Copying Collective).  This
amounts to 29 cents on every blank audio cassette that is more than 40
minutes in length.  (It also applies to various other recording devices,
such as CD-R, etc.) What I had been unaware of, and in fact, my
University as a whole had been unaware of, was that educational
institutions can apply to be exempt from these tax levies.

Since this information was unknown to myself and my colleagues, I
decided that it may be of some use to other educational institutions in
Canada.  Below is the email that I received from the Centre for Business
Development, Government of Canada.

Thank you!
Deanne Cobb


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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 10:34:09 -0500
From: Helene Lareau <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Levy on Digital Recording Devices
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Deanne - please contact the CPCC for information on
exemptions to the levy on cassettes, CDs.....etc.

Canadian Private Copying Collective
http://www.cpcc.ca/english/index.htm
     ...Zero Ratings & Exemptions
or contact them by mail/phone/E-Mail - below:150 Eglinton Avenue East
Suite 403
Toronto, Ontario M4P 1E8
416-486-6832 or 1-800-892-7235
416-485-4373 (fax)
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Helene Lareau
Information Officer
Centre For Business Development
1925 Rose St, Regina, Sask. S4P 3P1
Phone: (I306)780-8331
Toll Free: 1-877-780-8331

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Deanne Cobb
Language Lab Manager
Language Resource Centre
University of Regina

Recommended CALL article:
Yoshii, M. & Flaitz, J. (2002). Second Language
        Incidental Vocabulary Retention:  The Effect
        of Text and Picture Annotation Types.  CALICO
        Journal, 20 (1), 33-58.

Quote:
"All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors."
-Anon.