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#NICIS #CHPC

🚀 We’re excited to welcome the National Integrated Cyber Infrastructure System (NICIS) and the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) as sponsors of #PyConAfrica2025!

NICIS drives scientific and industrial development in South Africa by providing high-performance computing, high-speed networks, and world-class data infrastructure. 💡

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#PyConAfrica #Python #NICIS #CHPC #Research

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🆕 Report from #CHPC: Tech giants’ intimidation and subversion tactics to evade regulation in Canada and globally https://www.ourcommons.ca/documentviewer/en/44-1/CHPC/report-13
Committee Report No. 13 - CHPC (44-1) - House of Commons of Canada

Committee Report No. 13 - CHPC (44-1) - House of Commons of Canada

House of Commons Heritage Committee #CHPC to CBC's board: No bonuses for executives #cdnpoli #media https://www.ourcommons.ca/documentviewer/en/44-1/CHPC/report-8

One year ago today, I raised warning flags about @HonAhmedHussen @CdnHeritage funding a purveyor of hate.

No one has been held accountable. No one.

Not one penny has been recovered from the hate monger

Purveying Hate On The Public Dime • Telecom Trends http://mhgoldberg.com/blog/?p=16148
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RT @Mark_Goldberg
At #CHPC last week, @AHousefather said he sent 3 emails on July 18. @MKhannam1 didn't hear from @HonAhmedHussen CoS Hursh J…
https://twitter.com/Mark_Goldberg/status/1628757107804610563

Purveying hate on the public dime

It isn't easy to get suspended from Twitter or Facebook. More than a decade ago, I referred to it as "anti-social media". I commented at the time that "Adherence to truth and reasoned thinking is

Telecom Trends

Happy anniversary @HonAhmedHussen and Chief of Staff Hursh Jaswal. Remember this post?

Purveying Hate On The Public Dime • Telecom Trends http://mhgoldberg.com/blog/?p=16148

The lethargy, inaction, and lack of accountability on #LaithMarouf was/is inexcusable

#CHPC @liberal_party
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@adgelessness @jaycola @hollyanndoan @CdnHeritage Let's accept the awarding of the contract as stupidity. And allowing Minister to …
https://twitter.com/Mark_Goldberg/status/1628790064275677187

Purveying hate on the public dime

It isn't easy to get suspended from Twitter or Facebook. More than a decade ago, I referred to it as "anti-social media". I commented at the time that "Adherence to truth and reasoned thinking is

Telecom Trends

B’nai Brith Makes Recommendations to Prevent Another Laith Marouf Fiasco | @bnaibrithcanada @MichaelMostyn https://www.bnaibrith.ca/bnai-brith-makes-recommendations-to-prevent-another-laith-marouf-fiasco/

"Thorough due diligence would have shown that his hate warranted condemnation, not dollars."

Brief to #CHPC https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ftCRoL01Gt2OmG1ldIRvxmNjHJ-a8w6w/view

#LaithMarouf

That answers the question of whether the amendments to the undemocratic Bill C-18 motion were good enough. Canadian Chamber of Commerce says no.

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Now updated, following an amended motion passed by #CHPC. @CdnChamberofCom says: "From what we’ve seen out of today’s committee meeting, our original concerns remain unchanged.”

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/democratic-rights-at-stake-chamber-of-commerce v…
https://twitter.com/AnjaKaradeglija/status/1637903625602121728

'Democratic rights at stake' in Liberal motion to compel emails, texts: Chamber of Commerce

The Chamber of Commerce president said the concern isn’t about the bill itself but about 'preconditions for free discourse in our democracy.'

National Post

ChatGPT, journalism and Bill C-18 | @howardalaw https://mediapolicy.ca/2023/03/15/chatgpt-journalism-and-bill-c-18/

"There is a well-known aphorism about innovation: we tend to overestimate its impact in the short-run and underestimate it in the long-run."

#CRTC #CHPC #C11 #C18

ChatGPT, journalism and Bill C-18

MediaPolicy.ca

Parliament's Procedure and Practice (2017 Edition) has the offending text: https://www.ourcommons.ca/procedure/procedure-and-practice-3/ch_20_7-e.html#:~:text=swearing

It seems to be an artifact from another era, perhaps not noticed since it is so rarely used?

It should be struck.

My religious beliefs are not the business of Parliament

#CHPC
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Just reviewed the #CHPC video and I am sitting here a little stunn…
https://twitter.com/Mark_Goldberg/status/1635315492251631616

Committee Proceedings - Committees - House of Commons Procedure and Practice, Third edition, 2017 - ProceduralInfo - House of Commons of Canada