library and archives canada
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Date: 20070516
Docket: T-1517-05
Citation: 2007 FC 526
BETWEEN:
MAURICE PHILIPPS
Applicant and
LIBRARIAN AND ARCHIVIST OF CANADA
Respondent
ASSESSMEN...
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Enormous collections
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is an institution with large collecting and preservation responsibilities, critical to ensuring...
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There seems to be a belief that wireless links are insecure and unreliable; even though the service providers from whom the government contracts telecom services may actually be using the same wireless technology to deliver the "reliable" telecommunications services. This paradox is further exacerbated by the fact that wireless technology could actually offer the governments of Canada greater cost savings than those offered by VoIP. Furthermore, wireless technologies can actually be more secure because the interconnected voice and data links would now be part of the government's domain instead of a third-party operator... who could also be subcontracting another operator.
Other departments, such as the Library and Archives Canada, are also taking wireless very seriously. "We not only ha...
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[Pierre Elliott Trudeau]'s beloved mother, Grace former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger once labelled Trudeau a "momma's boy" saved virtually everything, including her son's boyhood report cards. Trudeau was also a packrat. He saved all his letters, including duplicate copies of love letters he sent to his various sweethearts. He even saved drafts of those love letters.
These omissions were meant to respect Trudeau's privacy as well as those of other individuals. One of young Trudeau's ex-girlfriends, prominent psychologist Therese Gouin, was startled to discover her love letters from the 1940s had become accessible to biographers. After being contacted by English, Gouin (now Gouin-Decarie) travelled to Ottawa from Montreal to reread her old correspondence stored at Library an...
... all his uncensored papers to Library and Archives Canada. The first Trudeau volume, published by Ran...
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One of the goals that we established right off the bat, and some of the goals that we established on the basis of some of the other products we've created and the feedback that we've got, was to change some of the stereotypes that revolve around treaties. Most people think of treaties as just a legal document, and in most cases in fact their knowledge of treaties is limited to the number of treaties that came from the west. And, of course, the relationships that have been established and the types of negotiations and products that were created that reflected these negotiations have changed immensely over time and place. So we've got all different types of treaties. We do have territorial treaties, but we also have friendship treaties. We have commercial treaties too. And we also recogn...
..., the British crown, the government of Canada, and Canada's Aboriginal peoples. In recognition o... and the country's Native people, Library and Archives Canada created Spirit and Intent: Und...
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...Project Naming, hosted by Library and Archives Canada (LAC) in Ottawa and the Traditional Microne...
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The Chicago-born [Carol Shields], who won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for he 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, is described by Library and Archives Canada as "among the most distinguished and honoured of all writers in the Canadian literary tradition.
S. fantasy author Neil Gaiman reports a strange moment in Winnipeg on his blog.
On Dec. 15 Gaiman was at McNally Robinson's Polo Park for a signing. When he was done he went back to his hotel and found that a framed photo of his three children had mysteriously appeared.