Human rights

The morning light filters through the blinds of a parliamentary office in Ottawa, where a junior diplomat reviews a draft resolution on the right to privacy in the digital age. For this policymaker, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is not merely a forum for debate but a critical arena for soft power, where Canada seeks to align its domestic commitments with international norms. Across the Atlantic, in a community center in Halifax, a local advocate for Indigenous data sovereignty prepares a submission for a UN expert mechanism.

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A policy resolution passed at the Liberal National Convention was intended to target disinformation, but critics warn it could give the government control over Canadian media outlets. The Liberal government says it would never limit freedom of the press and would not implement the policy. 

While most of us would like to believe that Canadians have always stood for the freedom of expression that we enjoy today, the facts tell a different story, particularly with regards to the control of print media. Beginning in the seventeenth century, with the banning of Molière’s Tartuffe in Quebec City, the struggle for literary expression has been ongoing. The works of Balzac, James Joyce, Margaret Laurence, and Margaret Atwood have each seen legal and community challenges in Canada, as have titles by some rather more surprising authors such as Morley Callaghan and W.O. Mitchell.

Throughout history, art has been censored for challenging standards of decency, propriety and good taste. That history of censorship continues in Canada today. What are the reasons and what are the costs? Join three artists who explore these questions and discuss current examples.

Are you really against censorship, or do you preach "free speech for me, but not for thee" (https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780... In this talk, William Harris explores the shifting reasons for the censorship of Francis

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) opens “The Uncensored Library” – Within a computer game. In many countries, free information is hard to access. Blogs, newspapers and websites are censored but Minecraft is still accessible. RSF used this backdoor to build “The Uncensored Library". A library filled with books, containing articles that were censored in their country of origin. These articles are now available again for young people around the world – hidden from government surveillance technology inside a computer game.

A hospital deploys an AI system that triages emergency patients, determining who receives immediate attention and who waits. When a patient dies after being algorithmically deprioritized, the hospital claims the AI made the decision, the AI vendor claims the hospital misapplied the system, and the developers who trained the model claim they could not have anticipated this specific failure. No one is responsible, yet someone is dead.