There’s also a very detailed breakdown of the changes the Toronto Star and Valerie Hauch have made to the articles both online and in print.  None of these changes have been accompanied by the standard footnote  explaining what changes have been made that you might expect to see from a reputable news source like the Star. Not impressed, but at this point not terribly surprised. 

However not everyone has the benefit of designing games within a large, supportive community. The fact that David will be ok doesn’t make this journalists actions ok.  On that note I just noticed that the link actually goes to her follow up, non-apology, article rather then the one that actually got him fired (the link title is the headline of the original which confused me), my bad. Though I do wish it wasn’t linking to any article written by that journalist given her conduct.

I ponied up the minimum for the game as I don’t even know if I’ll play it. I like his chutzpah.

I did not like the purchasing interface that insisted on my address and telephone number. feh.

Do you prefer living in a world where things are what they look as, or the world where they don’t?

That said that it came down from the Minister? That’s something else. A conservative minister acting like a heavy-handed autocrat? No kidding. I’m not sure I’d have gone as far as firing him… it’d be close though.

If “the game wasn’t about the government or particulars”, well he could have made it just that. He could have turned SIN numbers into account numbers, he could have completely hidden who his employer was and did this whole thing without revealing who his employer was. I have a personal policy never to mention my employer by name online, as I think most people do. Not that it’s much of a secret to anybody that knows you offline.

Also http://www.canlearn.ca/eng/main/spotlighton/privacy/index.shtml  Yeah they really did nothing about the lost data.

Wait, when real data is leaked because of the incompetence or refusal of management to do the right thing, that’s OK, but when no data is leaked at all in a fictional game made by a lower-level employee, that’s reason to cry foul. What evil bureaucratic bs is this? Seriously, you couldn’t even make a satire of this nonsense that would be worse! 

For severance, it depens if he’s permanent, how long he was on the job.

He threw a 28$ per hour job by is own negligence (and i’m not even putting all the perks). Public servant have a training which deal espcially with this.

For part time working in CRA, I doubt you get any severance package either, you might get your unused vacation pay.

I guess the guy can sell the part he’s recently hired by CRA.  Being fired that way you’re not longer obligated to them in any other way.  You’re not leaking personal information of course, but you *can* state how CRA worked at the time you’re working there.  Should be useful information for someone.