federal laws – OPEN SHELF

Taking responsibility: A single source may be CRAP when talking about governance

In this third installment, we look at the CRAP test, a method for thinking critically about information and sources, and then use it to unpack Diane Francis’s within wider debates in Aboriginal law and Indigenous critical theory.

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Taking responsibility: Why state imposed governance for Indigenous Peoples?

This two-part article unpacks the supposed abrogation of responsibility of the federal government to Indigenous communities. In this first installment, we dive into the question of governance and the tensions between the Indian Act and rights created under both the Constitution of Canada and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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Taking responsibility: An information-seeking journey to understanding Indigenous-federal relations

Unpacking an "abrogation of responsibility" by looking at governance and into the tensions between the Indian Act and rights created under both the Constitution of Canada and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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Whither libraries in telecom policy?

Telecommunications policy may not be viewed as a core issue in the LIS field but the policy asserts a primary influence on the digital divides including issues of rural broadband connectivity and of digital literacy.

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Le droit d’auteur de la Couronne au Canada: une disposition désuète et inutile

Les bibliothécaires et le personnel des bibliothèques agissent souvent comme médiateurs entre les auteurs et les lecteurs. Cette relation s’inspire en partie de la loi canadienne sur le droit d’auteur.

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Photographs perform a unique function because they capture moments in time and that capture is contemporaneous with the subject of the photo: “[a] writer…

CLA Copyright Committee

Unraveling the Complexity of Music Copyright

In 2014, the Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Education decided that it would like to use the Katy Perry song "Roar" as background music…

CLA Copyright Committee