Olympic pin trader has collected 200,000 pins since 1984 Part currency, part status symbol: Pin-trading becomes 2nd sport for people at Canada Summer Games With files from Brady Van Druenen ...

Barry Taman, vice president of The Pin People, has been making pins for 30 years, including for the last 10 Canada Games. “Pin trading is really the social part of the games,” said Taman.

Therapy dogs help Canada Games athletes feel at home Taman owns The Pin People, a souvenir-pin company in Regina, and he designed official pins for the Games. "They're a social part of the Games.