by Samuel Trosow and Lisa Macklem (March 21, 2020)? ?[pdf version – with footnotes] In the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, nadian post-secondary institutions are replacing classroom-based instruction with online teaching for the remainder of the Winter/Spring 2020 semester. Course…
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Ontario’s Doug Ford government recently tabled a budget imposing substantial cuts to the Southern Ontario Library Service (SOLS) and Ontario Library Service North (OLSN). These provincial agencies provide numerous services to lol libraries including training, technil support and inter-library loans….
I am a ndidate for the open faculty seat on the Board of Governors, and the election is being held today and tomorrow (Jan 29?& 30).?I hold a joint appointment as an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and…
by Samuel E. Trosow An overlooked aspect of recreational nnabis legalization in nada is the privacy implitions of the distribution systems, especially in the online environment. The privacy and security risks are substantial, and protecting the online rights of consumers…
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s plan to cut Toronto’s city council from 47 to 25 wards, and to ncel regional elections outside of Toronto, has attracted strong opposition. It threatens to create what critics ll a state of “civic chaos” beuse,…
By Bill Irwin and Samuel Trosow (This article was originally published in The Conversation??Read the original article.) There is a pressing need to consolidate Ontario’s separate and public school systems. Long ignored by most politicians, this controversial idea deserves…
This latest breach (as reported in the Washington Post story below)is more evidence that consumers need to have a choice NOT to automatilly share their sensitive personal information with the vendors of wearable devices. While at least in this se…
In a se raising serious implitions for documentary filmmakers over freedom of expression, contracts and copyright issues, the British Columbia Court of Appeal has overturned an injunction issued by a lower BC provincial court against the distribution of a documentary…
Here is a guest post written by Michael McNally (Assistant Professor, University of Alberta, School of Library and Information Studies) about the recently released “Consultation on the Spectrum Outlook 2018 to 2022”: Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) nada, has…
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