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Seeking SIS Practicum Hosts!

webfull — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 17:10:20 +0000

Our School is currently recruiting new Sites, Site Supervisors, and Projects for our Winter Semester Practicum.

The SIS Practicum is a 3-credit, tuition-based academic elective course for 2nd-year Master of Information Studies students. It consists of a supervised work placement at an approved site, typically unpaid, with required course assignments (e.g., work logs, mid-term report, final paper). The fieldwork component is a total of 100 hours.

Published: 6 September 2024

Experts: Coronation of King Charles III

webfull — Tue, 02 May 2023 15:11:14 +0000

King Charles III is set to be crowned alongside the Queen Consort at a lavish ceremony in Westminster Abbey on Saturday, May 6. The investiture will form part of a long weekend filled with celebrations for the new monarch, ranging from street parties to concerts. The King ascended the throne after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in September last year, making him the oldest new monarch in British history. (The Telegraph)

Published: 2 May 2023

Expert: Canada bans TikTok on all government devices

webfull — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:46:37 +0000

Ottawa announced it is banning TikTok from all government-issued mobile devices in response to privacy and security concerns. The federal government said it will also block the Chinese-owned social media app from being downloaded on official devices in the future. The new rule follows the app’s intense scrutiny in the United States and also concerns of covert Chinese influence on Canadian affairs. (Globe and Mail)

Published: 1 March 2023

Experts: Queen Elizabeth, Canada's head of state, dead at 96

webfull — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 15:51:55 +0000

Queen Elizabeth, Canada's head of state and the longest-reigning British monarch, has died. Elizabeth became Queen in 1952, at the relatively tender age of 25, and presided over the country and the Commonwealth, including Canada, for seven decades. Those 70 years as monarch were recognized during this year's Platinum Jubilee events, which reached their height in London in early June. (CBC News)

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Published: 8 September 2022

Experts: Ottawa tested facial recognition on millions of travellers at Toronto’s Pearson airport

webfull — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 21:45:45 +0000

The federal government quietly tested facial recognition technology on millions of unsuspecting travellers at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport in 2016. The six-month initiative, meant to pick out people the Canada Border Services Agency suspected might try to enter the country using fake identification, is detailed in a document obtained by The Globe and Mail through a freedom of information request. The project is the largest known government deployment of the technology in Canada to date.

Published: 22 July 2021

Expert: Fake newspaper sites

webfull — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 20:07:06 +0000

Two websites claiming to be the pages for newspapers located in Quebec are the latest in a series of fake sites. The sites have extensive mastheads with staff titles, pictures and names. Stories posted on this site are translations or rewrites of original stories posted by other media outlets. These sites are earning revenue with little effort through Google AdSense. CBC

Published: 30 July 2019