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Dear Ministers,
As you already know, Bill C-32 was unveiled today, with an intent to update copyright law to current technological standards.
While the Bill does grant more common sense rights to us consumers, there is a major flaw about which you will no doubt hear a lot of discussion. The flaw in question is about the Digital Lock provisions.
Bill C-32 gives rights to consumers to transfer media between devices for personal consumption, and to create remixes for non-commercial...
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Source: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/03/17/ndp-bill017.html
The NDP has proposed a bill that would impose a tax on mp3 players to compensate for the music industry's losses due to file sharing, and that would eventually legalize music sharing.
I strongly disagree with the bill. I don't buy music; I listen to free music. As far as I know, my phone doesn't contain any commercialized music that I normally have to pay for. I listen to music produced by independent artists who love...
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My dad is a strong advocate of music-free work. He once claimed I wasn't doing my homework at peak performance one morning, because I was listening to music while working.
Here are my thoughts:
If the work to be done has been planned out and requires little thinking, then music will make the task less boring.
However, if the task at hand requires creative thinking and active problem solving, then it's best to keep the music for later.
Your thoughts?
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It's absolutely annoying, demotivating, and insulting when you become fixated on your child's occasional mistake.
Before you get angry, take a step back and look at the big picture. Is your child really consistently not performing adequately at his or her tasks? Is your child really always forgetting to do what planned? Or is it just the occasional misstep in a series of achievements?
You think your child likes to blame things on others all the time. Perhaps it's true. But you also like...
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There's a very big problem with religious accommodations in the law. It's both a matter of principle and of practice. As my example, I'll use the case of the kirpan in schools of Canada. For those who don't know yet, a kirpan is a fairly long dagger and sheath worn by baptized Sikhs at all times. It holds a strong symbolic value in Sikhism.
In 2001, a young boy dropped his kirpan at school, sparking a debate on the legality of such an item in such a place. The school board wanted to prohibit...
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