I attended the University of Western Ontario in 2003-2004 on the WISE (Western Initiative for Scholarly Excellence). This program allowed me to take a full regular university course at no cost concurrently with high school. Ironically, had they charged me a small amount of money, it would have cost me less since I would be eligible for part-time student refundable tax credits. But on the plus side, it wasn't a scholarship (despite the name), so I didn't need to claim it as income (though it probably would have been beneficial to me if I could). See how one course in economics can change your way of thinking?
I took Economics 020 via Distance Studies. I purchased the textbook online from Amazon.ca with a $10 coupon code to save myself a trip to a campus bookstore :). The textbook, written by Michael Parkin and Robin Bade is still useful to me today, and I would recommend it to any individual that wants to do a self-study in introductory micro/macro economics. The course consisted of near-weekly assignments (submitted electronically, usually about 15 minutes before the deadline), a midterm exam and a final exam. I chose to just write the exams in London to see the university.
Based on my experiences in the course, research about the university and career/social goals. I chose to pursue my undergrad studies at UWO as well. However, I only got to spend one short year there full-time as I was accepted into my professional program of choice shortly thereafter.
Here is a collection of links to the sites that I run, or at minimum have some kind of interest in. I hope Google values Canadian University's addresses as much as it does .edu links. Just entering random UToronto and UWO personal web pages into a PR checker does seem to give a PageRank of 3 or 4, so I have some hope that this will help things out for me a bit, at least over time.
So here it goes.
Quick EPass Canadian Passport Renewal
DealExtreme Details and Casio Digicam Return
I've decided to start covering the whole idea of consumer-to-consumer lending in Canada on my C2C P2P Money Lending Website. So far, there aren't any well-established companies, but a couple startups are looking promising. The idea has taken off very well in the USA and UK, as well as other countries, and I really think that Canada is a good country for the new industry for many of the reaons that I specified on the website itself. Take a look!
Hopefully I'll develop other useful websites in the near future as I see a need.