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TheStar.com | Ideas | Redefining truth in a 'post-fact society'
In True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society, Manjoo, a Salon.com writer who also manages the site's technology-news blog, shows how we have more information more readily at ou...
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TheStar.com - Court decision foreshadows policy debate
Upon reflection, however, it becomes clear that the fair dealing provisions will cease to be a concern for major publishers if they are effectively able to eliminate users' ability to mak...
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TheStar.com - Why Canada should follow U.K., not U.S., on copyright
Canada must stop adopting copyright policies that, to no one's surprise, result in the transfer of millions of dollars out of the country. Over the past 50 years, Canada has regularly fac...
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TheStar.com - National Web library do-able, affordable, visionary
One opportunity is to greatly expand the National Library of Canada's digital efforts by becoming the first country in the world to create a comprehensive national digital library. The...
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TheStar.com - National Web library do-able, affordable, visionary
While the last decade centred on access to the Internet, the dominant issue this decade is focused on access to the content on the Internet. To address that issue, the federal government ...
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TheStar.com | News | What's the matter? Too few words to say
Recently, private interests have been using trademark and copyright laws to fence off large chunks of our common language
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TheStar.com | sciencetech | Of thought and metaphor
We have to do two things with language. We've got to convey a message and we've got to negotiate what kind of social relationship we have with someone.
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TheStar.com | columnists | Electricity: will it be a gas killer?
Air-source heat pumps work in much the same way as geothermal systems, but instead of the ground, they use outside air to extract and release heat. Home refrigerators work in a similar way.
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TheStar.com - Sports/Index
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TheStar.com - The 'war on terror' will turn a generation of angry young men against the West, says Linda McQuaig
To me, an eminently sensible perspective: the U.S. is making committed, new enemies faster than we can kill them off.
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Maher Arar: "We knew he was going to be tortured"
A partial transcript of Sen. Patrick Leahy's questioning of AG Gonzales regarding the DOJ's handling of the Maher Arar case. For those of you who don't know, Arar was a Canadian citizen w...
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