During the dot-com boom, I was working at CANOE’s financial site, CANOE Money. The ride was fast and crazy and less than a year after I left the site underwent a drastic redesign that rebranded it Webfin.

Two years later, CANOE Money, the brand, is back with an appearance reminiscent of the way it looked in 2000, although the green is much more…vivid.

Strangely, the mark-up looks similar to the way it was when I started in 1998. The last CANOE Money design, and the last one I built the original templates for, used CSS quite extensively despite having to degrade to Netscape 3 (thus the fonts). (You can still see the remnants of that design.)

The CRTC’s Broadcasting Policy Monitoring Report for 2003 has been released, and with it are some interesting findings about Internet usage in Canada. Computer ownership has levelled at 64 percent, but 68 percent had Internet access and 12 percent had wireless access. And for the first time, there are as many high-speed users and those on dial-up.