In case you missed our panel last night, the recording is available on YouTube:

Empowering day with Her Excellency Mary Simon ⁦Governor General of Canada ⁩leading a symposium on online safety ⁦ #WeDeserveBetter . Thanks to the speakers and contributors. Today inspired confidence that we can make a difference.

This mornings’ diverse and distinguished panellists bravely shared their experiences of online abuse and how it has impacted their personal lives, work and well-being.
 
Their courage sets the stage for all of us to raise our voices against online abuse.
 
#WeDeserveBetter

Online harassment is traumatizing, and public figures are particularly vulnerable, especially women with intersectionalities. This has significant impacts on democracy. Join us Saturday to dive deep into this topic - and read Samara Centre for Democracy's report: samaracentre.ca/sambot-toronto….

Huge congrats Hilary Young! Well-deserved award for the impact of your scholarship.

Thanks Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa for hosting, my co-moderator Florian Martin-Bariteau ᴀᴋᴀ FMB and our incredible panelists Jane Bailey, Michael Geist and Sunil Gurmukh. Video of the panel will be available soon.

Join us tomorrow!

I listened to this over the weekend. It's an excellent discussion of Bill C-63, thanks for including me!

Join us online or in person in Ottawa for a conversation about Bill C-63. Now that the dust has settled, we know the major points of debate, and the next step is to try to make sense of it all. I am sure our conversation will be lively - looking forward to it! Florian Martin-Bariteau ᴀᴋᴀ FMB Michael Geist

This seems like an important read in Canada at the moment. Please send me a copy!

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Join us next Wed at noon EST for an online discussion of the Crim Code and CHRA provisions of Bill C-63. We have assembled a great panel of legal experts to dig into this, to make sense of legal and practical implications of what is proposed. Moderated by me and Taylor Owen

'This is the endpoint of the bully-based economy where a few vaunted gatekeepers set the rules and only the select few with enough countervailing economic clout can get a fair deal.'

Privacy Commissioner launches new ArriveCan investigation, pushing number of probes to over a dozen theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

The DSA book visuals are in. One thing is clear. This will look extremely well on your bookshelf. The illustration was prepared by a young Italian artist, Marco Melgrati. We finally also have the release date: August 2024.

Got some breaking news this morning - the federal Liberals ordered a national security review of TikTok in September 2023 but did not disclose it publicly