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Fashionably Yours is a Toronto consignment store that specializes in reselling second-hand, brand-name fashion items. Exposure to counterfeiting is part of the business.

“There are some people who come in and say, ‘Oh, look at this bracelet I just bought.’ And I say ‘Oh, that’s not real,’ ” said Michelle Cross, a store employee.

China’s bustling Silk Market is renowned for selling knock-off electronics.

Business at the Silk Market has boomed in the past few years, according to David Gruels, a tour operator to China who said he has visited the country over 50 times.

iPads are among the recent surge of counterfeit electronic products being sold to foreign consumers wary of North American prices.

Counterfeit bills have been battled for years by increasingly sophisticated technology and techniques — one of the most recent being a new polymer-based bill that Canada is introducing.

A walk through the streets of Montevideo, Uruguay during Carnival 2005 turned into a race to escape for Robert Huish, an assistant professor of international development at Dalhousie University.

With a single act of violence, the festive streets of Uruguay became a mass of screaming, panicking people.

It began with an argument. A man and a woman were arguing loudly in the street and when the woman tried to walk away, the man “drop-kicked” her, sending the woman flying, Huish said.