On November 30 Vancouver Rape Relief is hosting a Montreal Massacre Memorial program. One of the speakers they’re hosting is Janice Raymond, and she is a controversial figure, due to her past statements about transgender people (including a 1979 book, The Transsexual Empire, which has been called a justification for anti-transsexual prejudice). This event is…
We know from the documents leaked by Edward Snowden that the NSA has been collecting huge amounts of data on people. We also know that they’ve been introducing backdoors and other security holes into cryptographic standards that underly all sorts of software. (Over on the BCLA Information Policy Committee blog I wrote a post about…
I just heard a story on CBC radio about Russell Odgen, a sociology instructor at Kwantlen University College who researches assisted suicide. An article in the Vancouver Sun states “Despite receiving earlier ethics board approval, Ogden has since been told by Kwantlen’s administration he cannot “engage in any illegal activity, including attending at an assisted…
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