Cyprus IS the canary in the mine But what we need to concern ourselves with is the miners (us).
Potentially all accounts are not safe when a government faces bankruptcy.
We have a perfect example from the 1930s of US of A confiscating gold.

So what assurance of safety do we have with our accounts now?

This canary tells us that a run to precious metals is soon to happen and those metals will need to be held privately our of reach of corrupt officials.