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16 Apr 2020, 12:01 pm
Her heir presumptive, Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, resigned suddenly as leader of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in February. [read post]
17 Oct 2019, 6:10 am
The Writers Union goes even further, arguing that the Department of Canadian Heritage should complete the copyright review. [read post]
29 Aug 2019, 1:01 am
” During the Civil War, each played an important role in working for the Union. [read post]
16 Aug 2019, 3:00 am
Canada Canada – Trudeau Breached Conflict of Interest Act, Says Ethics Commissioner Canada.com; Canadian Press – | Published: 8/14/2019 Canada’s ethics commissioner, Mario Dion, found Prime Minister Justin Trudeau violated the Conflict of Interest Act by improperly pressuring former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould to halt the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin. [read post]
15 Aug 2019, 9:30 pm
We wrote an essay, not explicitly about law but on indigenous AI, for a collection "Making Kin With the Machines," forthcoming, MIT pressIndigenous people are having everywhere to deal with issues of climate change, especially in the Pacific, the central US and Canada. [read post]
22 Jul 2019, 12:22 pm
The integrity of the new federal “greenbacks” needed protection against counterfeiters (increasingly based in Canada), so the Treasury solicitor under President Andrew Johnson put a small, somewhat rickety, crew together. [read post]
19 May 2019, 3:15 am
Canadian art… 2019-05-16 RT @twuc: We applaud the Shifting Paradigms report and its recommendations, released yesterday by the Standing Committee on Canadian Herita… 2019-05-16 RT @jkdegen: A statement from The Writers' Union of Canada @twuc on yesterday's wonderful copyright review report from the Standing Committ… 2019-05-16 RT @AuthorsForum: Positive steps for Canadian creators from the Committee on Canadian Heritage @twuc #paycreators… [read post]
17 May 2019, 4:25 am
For example, representations were made by: artists such as Andrew Morrison, Bryan Adams, and Miranda Mulholland authors such as Sylvia McNicoll and Monia Mazigh Canadian film producers Stephen Stohn (President SkyStone Media) and Scott Garvie (Shaftesbury Films) book publishers such as Kevin Hanson (Vice-Chair President of Simon & Schuster Canada) and Matt Williams (Vice-President House of Anansi Press) users such as Jason Kee of Google Canada and YouTube, Darren Schmidt of… [read post]
17 May 2019, 3:15 am
Canadian art… 2019-05-16 RT @twuc: We applaud the Shifting Paradigms report and its recommendations, released yesterday by the Standing Committee on Canadian Herita… 2019-05-16 RT @jkdegen: A statement from The Writers' Union of Canada @twuc on yesterday's wonderful copyright review report from the Standing Committ… 2019-05-16 RT @AuthorsForum: Positive steps for Canadian creators from the Committee on Canadian Heritage @twuc #paycreators… [read post]
10 Apr 2019, 9:11 am
Ken Hatfield, Artist Union. 512 is an unfair loophole that benefits big tech companies. [read post]
18 Mar 2019, 11:48 am
It was the insurance company with the help of actuaries, lawyers, policy writers and an entire army of other people with decades of experience in the insurance industry. [read post]
17 Feb 2019, 4:06 pm
Journalist Olaf Tyaransen has filed libel proceedings against Twitter and Broadsheet.ie in relation to the publication of allegations by the writer Brooke Magnati against him. [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 9:17 am
In the absence of substance, the State of the Union and the response by the opposition party necessarily descends to theatre. [read post]
25 Jan 2019, 6:00 am
Writer Associations Condemn Unauthorized Digital Scanning and Lending — The Writers’ Union of Canada has joined its counterparts in the US and UK in a campaign against the Internet Archive’s efforts to lend digital copies of books it has scanned regardless of copyright status. [read post]
24 Dec 2018, 9:05 pm
As in past years, our year-end coverage is not merely a list of individual stories by individual writers. [read post]
21 Dec 2018, 9:03 pm
Under-lying threats to food safety in Britain because of Brexit The United Kingdom is leaving the European Union on March 29, 2019. [read post]
2 Dec 2018, 2:59 pm
It is apparently based on little if anything more than a Writers’ Union of Canada (“WUC”) undated press release (which he acknowledges) based in turn upon a so-called “survey” of so-called writers that yields the much quoted and highly misleading result that the average Canadian writer makes only $9,380 a year and the incomes are falling fast. [read post]
20 Nov 2018, 6:36 am
The 600 million page figure has attracted widespread coverage, regularly cited by Access Copyright supporters (Association of Canadian Publishers, Writers’ Union of Canada) and noted by Members of Parliament. [read post]
19 Nov 2018, 6:41 am
” Access Copyright supporters tell a similar story: the Association of Canadian Publishers told the committee “we’ve been damaged by the Copyright Modernization Act”, the Writers’ Union of Canada said to the committee “we now know that the 2012 imposition of education as a category of fair dealing has delivered none of its intended benefits and has caused exactly the kind of economic damage many of us predicted,” and Copibec noted… [read post]
13 Nov 2018, 10:04 am
Having said that, the neuvoo annual income numbers (like $61,798 for a writer compared to the Writers Union of Canada number of $9,380) seem greatly inflated and counterintuitive. [read post]
