Thanks to Global News BC for covering #righttorepair in 🇨🇦. Let's get the federal bills over the finish line and see more action at provincial level in 2024! globalnews.ca/video/10243634…

What a great Kickoff of CanRepair's Working Group. Folks from all across the country! Thanks Right to Repair and iFixit for the support. Calling all #repair advocates📢Join our monthly WG meetings (third Tuesday of every month @ 3pm EST) Sign up here👇 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Awesome commentary by Alissa Centivany about Bill C-244. Good on Globalnews.ca as well to clarify that this is just one first step in the larger effort. globalnews.ca/video/10243634…

Do you care about repair? Or are you repair curious? Join this group of friendly cool smart interesting people next week!

Check out "Flipping the Narrative" a statement in response to Public Safety Canada's decision to ban @flipper_zero (put together by members of the #CanRepair Working Group): canrepair.ca/latest-news The bottom line: repair makes us safer. Let's not blame tools for insecure design.

If the US is serious about protecting people’s data from ending up in the hands of foreign adversaries, Congress should toss out the TikTok ban and instead pass comprehensive data privacy legislation to prevent the collection of data in the first place. eff.org/deeplinks/2024…

This is a big deal, and could have big downstream implications for the #RightToRepair, #interoperability and follow-on innovation.

Read "Flipping the Narrative" here: drive.google.com/file/d/1VFlGk_… (authored by Alissa Centivany, Alana Baker, and Jasvinder (JP) Mann) And if you're like us and think that this ban makes no sense sign on to the petition opposing it: change.org/p/stop-the-abs…

Fabulous to see this progress on Right-to-Repair in Canada. As Senate sponsor of #C244, I thank my colleagues for sending this important bill, along with #C294 (interoperability), to our Banking Committee for study. #CompetitionMatters

Pub out this fall. More importantly, and bittersweetly, my friend & collaborator left Gaza today, a month after she (& the WHO delegation she was leading) were slated to leave. Part II @ EASST/4S - "the ends of hope: post-optimistic futures worth working towards".

Wrote the first version of this about 7 yrs ago & revised it to reflect recent developments. There's a fair bit of tongue-biting beneath the surface. Might write an unfettered follow-up at some TBD point, assuming my general boredom with AI wanes. ;) Officially out this fall.

#Apple is bringing their self service repair to Canada, so you'll be able to repair your own phone. But is it worth it? FIMS professor and right to repair researcher Alissa Centivany calls their efforts "overwhelmingly underwhelming". Read more: cbc.ca/news/canada/ap…

Hey Anthropic: I get you're hungry for data. Claude is really smart! But do you really need to hit our servers a million times in 24 hours? You're not only taking our content without paying, you're tying up our devops resources. Not cool.

This Friday, Oct 25, join repair enthusiasts and experts from across Canada for the Canadian Repair Convention. This inaugural event is co-organized by FIMS professor and StarlingCentre co-director, Alissa Centivany. 👉Registration: canrepair.ca/convention #westernu

Pretty cool to get a parliamentary shout out for the Canadian Repair Convention. :) youtu.be/9G-9lTcd2LA Register to attend online at CanRepair.ca

Faculty of Information & Media Studies (FIMS) Alissa: "There's a shared human impulse to want to fix things". Thanks for a great canrepair.ca conference, Alissa and Anthony! @R2RProf Anthony Rosborough

"It's about creating a better world, a healthier planet, keeping more things out of the landfill & more money in our pockets, & being able to exercise a little bit more autonomy about our decisions" Alissa Centivany discusses changes in 🇨🇦's right to repair laws cbc.ca/news/canada/lo…

.Faculty of Information & Media Studies (FIMS) professor Alissa Centivany (Alissa Centivany) discusses what new copyright laws mean for Canadians with products in need of a fix. brnw.ch/21wOL2P

The Starling Centre is looking for contributions for our Open Panel: "Just Technologies for Just Societies" for the #4SSeattle24 Conference. See full call for proposals on our website, starlingcentre.ca, and apply at bit.ly/3BtgXPh by 31 January!

#WesternU prof Alissa Centivany (Alissa Centivany) discusses the right-to-repair movement in this Toronto Star article, highlighting why advocates are pushing for items to be easier to fix so they are less likely to end up in the landfill. Faculty of Information & Media Studies (FIMS) brnw.ch/21wQ8jn