"The law, at least in Canada, allows anyone to record a conversation they are apart of without the consent of the other party for their own personal reference,

"The law, at least in Canada, allows anyone to record a conversation they are apart of without the consent of the other party for their own personal reference, or journalistic purposes." In my view, the US Federal and State laws on wiretapping are crazy and all over the place. Things that are illegal for the cops should not be the same as things that are illegal for citizens. And there seems to be a lot more good reasons to allow citizens to record calls (without notification of the other party) they are part of than there are reasons to disallow them.