There will be no new books, songs or plays added to the public domain in Canada until 2043 after the government squeezed in a change to copyright laws just before the end of 2022. Until Dec. 30, copyright protection applied to literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works for the life of their author plus another…

University of Ottawa President Jacques Frémont apologized Nov. 30 for the university’s decision to limit press freedoms during a talk by Chinese Ambassador Cong Peiwu. Cong requested that university staff stop journalists from recording his talk on Nov. 28. A Radio-Canada cameraman was asked to leave. “We made the wrong decision at the last moment….

Most Canadians will be turning the clocks back by an hour this weekend as various political moves to end seasonal time changes have yet to take broad effect–but experts say we’d be better off without the twice-a-year shift. Daylight time, which sees people enjoy an extra hour of daylight at the end of the day…

Communist China is a “common component” of many of the challenges facing the international community, Taiwan’s minister of foreign affairs said during a panel discussion in Ottawa coinciding with the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Minister Wu Jaushieh made the opening remarks at the webinar, titled The Challenge of China and hosted by…

Commentary Professors are trained as impartial researchers. In a nutshell, they defend truth claims based on the best available evidence and avoid playing the role of a political advocate. Whenever academics gravitate toward the latter, they begin mirroring the discourses of an emerging cultural narrative instead of dispassionately interrogating its core arguments. A perfect case…