by Kristen De Jager | Jun 26, 2024 | News, UVicSpace
June 26, 2024 | Times Colonist via UVic News On June 1st, fisheries biologist Stan Proboszcz went on an 18 km kayak trip to check out a salmon farm off the coast of Vancouver Island after an anonymous tip had indicated that there were massive die-offs and no one was...
by Madison Fernway | Jun 25, 2024 | News, UVicSpace
June 25, 2024 | Vancouver Sun via UVic News British Columbia’s school districts are gearing up to curb digital distractions. By September, they aim to limit cellphone use during school hours. In Mission, for example, the ban will extend to lunchtime for Grade 9...
by Kristen De Jager | Jun 25, 2024 | News, UVicSpace
June 24, 2024 | The Conversation via UVic News While most people are no stranger to the on going battle with the toxic-drug crisis, there is another related issue that is impacting peoples lives – its just less talked about. In a recent article in The...
by Emily Nickerson | Jun 24, 2024 | News, News & events, Open access, Open scholarship
The Canadian Open Access Legal (COAL) Citation Guide/Guide canadien de la référence juridique en accès libre (RJAL), which began with the desire for an open-access legal citation guide in Canada (external link), is now available. Over the course of two years,...
by Madison Fernway | Jun 18, 2024 | News, UVicSpace
June 10, 2024 | CTV News via UVic News Amidst the aftermath of the recent European Parliament elections, Oliver Schmidtke, Director of the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria, analyzes the rising wave of right-wing parties across Europe. From Italy...
by Emily Nickerson | Jun 18, 2024 | Copyright & copyright policy, Litigation, News & events
On May 31, 2024, the Federal Court of Canada ruled in the case of 1395804 Ontario Ltd. (Blacklock’s Reporter) v. Canada (Attorney General), 2024 FC 829. The central issue was whether Canadian government employees infringed Blacklock’s Reporter’s...