The former head of the Toronto District School Board Chris Spence recently had to resign after a spate of criticism over plagiarism in newspaper articles he had

The former head of the Toronto District School Board Chris Spence recently had to resign after a spate of criticism over plagiarism in newspaper articles he had written for the local paper. Then plagiarism was found in his University of Toronto doctoral thesis. So it's just not a German thing. Maybe more interesting is how much easier it is now to find plagiarism.