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Satellites, Space Privatization, and Canadian Data Privacy

Latest article with Canadian Dimension is out, presenting an overview of how Elon Musk’s Starlink and Amazon’s Blue Origin satellite projects fit into a larger picture of Canada’s digital colonialism, lax privacy regulation, and the race to privatize outer space … Continue reading Satellites, Space Privatization, and Canadian Data Privacy

March 2, 2021March 2, 2021

Agricultural reforms, Emirate Partnerships, Privatization in Ukraine

While the release focuses on a blockchain project based on Fantom and notes several companies partnering with Mubadala, it also makes a passing mention at a Ukrainian memorandum in the agricultural sector “which provides for the establishment of an agro-hub and a trading company to ensure food security.” Continue reading Agricultural reforms, Emirate Partnerships, Privatization in Ukraine

February 24, 2021February 25, 2021

Demanding Transparency on OPCAT Amid Canada’s Silence on Torture Prevention

Part 2 of my series on Canada’s failure to ratify OPCAT (Unconscionable treatment continues in Canadian detention centres) was recently published by Canadian Dimension. … Such international human rights agreements don’t get much coverage, but they provide guidance, protocols and standards intended to be preventive, as opposed to reactive … Continue reading Demanding Transparency on OPCAT Amid Canada’s Silence on Torture Prevention

January 25, 2021January 26, 2021

Solitary Confinement by Any Other Name

The second article in my mini-series on Canada’s repeated failure to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture is now live on Canadian Dimension, examining the circumstances in Canadian detention centres—and other care and medical environments—that urgently call for this greater accountability … Continue reading Solitary Confinement by Any Other Name

January 21, 2021January 21, 2021

Remembering Aaron Swartz and the Battle for Open Access

In July 2008, Aaron Swartz wrote: “Those with access to these resources — students, librarians, scientists — you have been given a privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of knowledge while the rest of the world is locked out. But you need not — indeed, morally, you cannot — keep this privilege for yourselves.” Continue reading Remembering Aaron Swartz and the Battle for Open Access

January 11, 2021February 25, 2021

The Sparkplug publishes fifth issue

This issue looks at both the implication of the trial against Assange on media freedom, and the wider imprint of the War Diaries considering the continued engagement of NATO forces across the Middle East … Continue reading The Sparkplug publishes fifth issue

January 3, 2021January 3, 2021

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