🚨🚨🚨Breaking news! After a nearly 3-year investor battle, Thomson Reuters has agreed conduct human rights risk assessments on its products -- including n contracts with ICE -- and disclose key findings starting in the second half of 2022. BCGEU

⁦Ottawa REDBLACKS⁩ vs ⁦Calgary Stampeders⁩ with great friends! #Holly&Norbert

Hey @923country is there anyone around this morning to fix the ad loop that’s happening right now?

Merci ⁦@BlanchetteMax⁩ de nous avoir accueillis sur la Colline pour des discussions très importantes sur le #droitauteur , la #scienceouverte et la recherche et l’édition francophonie. ⁦CARL / ABRC⁩ ⁦Guylaine Beaudry⁩ ⁦Stéphanie Gagnon⁩ #FrédéricGiulliano

The Canadian version of @kylekcourtney and @diglibcopyright’s excellent controlled digital lending (#CDL) paper was published today in Partnership Journal!  doi.org/10.21083/partn… A🧵 /1

Check out my op/ed in the Toronto Star on the impact that the copyright term extension will have on Canadian culture over the next 20 years #copyright #libraries #publicdomainday #publicdomain

The #RSC in partnership with CIHR is holding a meeting to develop recommendations to strengthen Canada’s #HealthResearch system post #COVID19 #pandemic! Members of the public & researchers are eligible to participate in this research project bit.ly/3F36Le5

ChatGPT is everywhere and everyone is using it. But most academics don't know how to use it *smartly.* Here's how to use ChatGPT intelligently (and ethically) for academic purposes:

We've created a handy checklist for creating social media posts to help ensure they're accessible: accessiblelibraries.ca/resources/chec… #AccessibleSocialMedia #GetAccessible

Ready, Fire, Aim: Eleven Thoughts on the CRTC’s Bill C-11 Consultations michaelgeist.ca/2023/05/ready-…

Great opening panel on How do Contracts Purport to Override user Rights. ⁦PIJIP⁩ ⁦CARL / ABRC⁩ #RowenaJohnson

Where can you go for info to learn more about accessibility? Joan: AccessibleLibraries.ca is a good place to start. It has info for libraries, especially small libraries which can access the resources for free.

So much incredible information being shared today, I forgot to take pictures! Last panel discussion today discussing possible protections oin other juridlsdictions ⁦PIJIP⁩ ⁦CARL / ABRC⁩

After 92 years, the 1931 Census is here! 🎉 All 234,687 pages of the 1931 Census of Canada have been digitized and are available to the public: ow.ly/u9A050OBKM7

Both WJCL News and the The New York Times recently interviewed PIJIP Faculty Director Michael Carroll about recent SCOTUS Updates cases. He discussed how Twitter v Taamneh will impact internet freedom & how Warhol v Goldsmith will impact the art world ow.ly/Kmqq50OBXsj

When one of our data analysts began to research her great-grandfather, she realized consolidating each Canadian census into one database would produce both faster and easier results. And so, Census Search Beta was born. Read more about her journey: ow.ly/R5jf50OPgfP

Well then ⁦Ville de Gatineau⁩ I’m not responsible for any work done improperly because of the quality of the translation or technical specifications were incorrect in explaining my obligations.

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🧵 What are the “third rail” policy issues of Canadian politics? These are the issues so politically charged that touching them could have severe political consequences, much like the dangerous third rail on a subway track. Let’s explore. 1/10

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