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Cynthia’s Thoughts II: Copyright Reform in Canada

Jun 13th, 2008 | By Admin | Category: Cynthia's Thoughts

Cynthia Cheng
Note: I don’t normally post more than one “Cynthia’s Thoughts” article per week.
Canada’s Industry Minister, Jim Prentice and Heritage Minister, Josee Verner introduced Bill C-61, an updated version of the Copyright Act. The Bill does sound attractive if you look at it: private downloading fines have been reduced from $20,000 to $500. This means [...]

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Luminato Book Event: Elyse Friedman and Pasha Malla

Jun 10th, 2008 | By Admin | Category: Books, Events

Cynthia Cheng
Caroline Adderson, a Canadian writer, believes that short stories are harder to write than novels. Each word in a short story, she believes, has more meaning as you have fewer words to complete the story. Caroline was the moderator at the Luminato’s Festival of the Short Story event held at the Toronto Reference Library [...]

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