Canadian Expatriates, its contributors, and readers have been invited by Foreign Affairs Canada to participate in a series of eDiscussions. The current topic is “Showcasing Canadian Culture and Know-How Abroad”.

We are asked to consider the following questions:

What role does Canadian culture and know-how play in our foreign policy?

How might the government best promote Canadian talent and expertise in the world?

The eDiscussion runs from April 4 to May 6, 2005. At its conclusion, a summary of the discussion will be sent to senior policy planners.

The Expat admin team encourages its readers to join in the eDiscussion at the Canadian International Policy website.

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If you are a Harry Potter fan, Coquitlam, British Columbia was the place to be last Thursday!

Fourteen copies of the new Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, were inadvertently sold from Coquitlam's Great Canadian Superstore by an employee who was unaware of the security surrounding the book. The sale sparked the books publisher, Raincoast Books, to seek a court injunction that forbids copying or disclosing any part of the book before 12:01 a.m. on July 16, the day of the book's formal release.

Store management is now scrambling to locate the books, offering those customers who bought them to return the books in exchange for an autographed book plate and a T-shirt.

For more on this story see Canada.com's Book Store Jumps the Gun.

For Fun:
The Harry Potter obsession quiz.
Test your knowledge of Pottermania.
Make a frugal Harry Potter Costume.
Which Harry Potter character are you most likely to date?

July 13th Update:
Harry Potter Book Accidentally Sold in New York