Trust...Lost

It seems Canadian banks are having a rather difficult summer. First, the Royal Bank had a system meltdown that messed clients up for weeks. Earlier today, I caught sight of a news piece that the CIBC was experiencing hiccups of its own. How long till this one explodes over your breakfast newspaper like a badly-poached egg?

Let's get this straight. Among other things, they reduce service, jack service fees through the roof, and pay us as little interest on savings as they can legally get away with. Just about the only reason left for not keeping our money stuffed in pillows was the whole security thing.

Now, apparently, this is also evaporating. I think I'll use the Buzz Lightyear pillowcase. He is, after all, a member of the Universe Protection Force, and a sworn enemy of Emperor Zurg, leader of the Galactic Alliance (click here for story time with the Darth Vader wannabe).

Zurg has got to be a safer financial bet than some caffeine-deprived geek who executes the wrong software install routine from his laptop and blows millions of accounts into the next millenium.