No free lunch: The real cost of using Google, Twitter, Facebook
It is perhaps ironic that Twitter’s censorship announcement and Google’s privacy updating came in the week that Canada, along with many other countries, was celebrating Data Privacy Day. The moves by...
View ArticleChina: Media censorship worsens
The former China correspondent for Al Jazeera TV, Melissa Chan, is featured in the University’s of B.C.’s latest Asia Pacific Memo. After speaking recently at the UBC School of Journalism, Chan is...
View ArticleCyberwarfare expert cancels Vancouver talk over fear of revealing critical...
An eminent French cyberwarfare specialist scheduled to present a talk entitled Hacking 9/11 at a Vancouver conference has withdrawn his presentation over fears the information could be used by...
View ArticleMany Chinese-Canadians fear criticizing China about Tiananmen Square
Fiona Zhao is frustrated that many Chinese-Canadians are unwilling to “speak the truth” about the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on unarmed protesters. The Metro Vancouver mother of three, who left...
View ArticleSecular society: Defending the right to offend
As a journalist who covers religion and ethnic diversity, I strive to respect spiritual people and everyone else. Like others, I have been offended by things people say about religious figures, as well...
View ArticleUBC prof wins $12 million from Sweden to explore global moral problems
Paul Russell is starting to feel extremely responsible after receiving a huge grant to research moral responsibility. The University of B.C. philosophy professor will devote much of the next decade to...
View ArticleToronto set to house Canada’s first collection point for Lego for Ai Weiwei’s...
Canadians are being asked to throw a few bricks — for the sake of art. The Art Gallery of Ontario announced Friday it will join a global movement to collect Lego for dissident Chinese artist Ai...
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