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OWNER: BRIAN TOBIN, 46
OCCUPATION: Federal Minister of Industry
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CONTENTS: Diner's Club card; 2 bank cards; driver's licence; Esso card; Aeroplan card; Canadian Tire card ("I'm a hardware guy. There's nothing better than hours spent running around a hardware store"); Sears card; Bell Advantage card; photo of family (wife and three children); receipt from Wenches and Rogues (clothing store in St. John's).
STATEMENT: "My wallet is like a web page - it has all of the documents, all of the plastic, all the materials I need to do business, travel, drive a car, etc. But I'm not wedded to my wallet. In fact, I usually carry credit cards and bit of cash, just in my pocket, all jumbled up together."
OWNER: RICK MERCER, 31
OCCUPATION: Actor, host of This Hour Has 22 Minutes
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CONTENTS: 2 credit cards; bank card; driver's and motorcycle licences; health card; $20; phone card; Aeroplan card; car insurance; TV- and film-academy card; ACTRA card; ACTRA fraternal card; Avid Reader card from Coles; receipts for Toronto airport limo, and from Da Maurizio (3), an Italian restaurant in Halifax ("Always start with the calamari"); business cards for: Gino Empry, publicist; an editor at Playback magazine; Shelagh O'Leary, Newfoundland photographer.
STATEMENT: "I'm a guy, so my wallet pretty much looks like every other guy's wallet. I must admit that when I'm standing in line at the store, I sometimes sneek a peek at other people's wallets. I've determined that mine is about average, or a little below average. I've never received any complaints about its size."
OWNER: ERIKA DE VASCONCELOS, 35
OCCUPATION: Author and teacher
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CONTENTS: 2 Visa gold cards (one for family, one for personal spending); 3 health cards (her own and one for each of her daughters, ages 7 and 12); 2 bank cards (her own and that of her 7-year-old); $20.66; St. Michael's Hospital card; Bay card; Bell calling card; Indigo Circle member card; Indigo CD-club card; Harbourfront Moves dance card; ticket stub from Premiere Dance Theatre; ticket stub from The Vagina Monologues; 3 pictures of her children; receipts from The Gap, eatons, Banana Republic, Indigo Books, and for dry cleaning (2), baby clothes from the Bay. (She's...