News tagged: Government information

The discussion paper from the First Nations Information Governance Centre explores the conflicts between the current Canadian information management regime and First Nations data sovereignty and offers suggestions for further exploration that may offer short‑term and long‑term improvements of the system.

The next “Government Information Day(s): Coast to Coast” will held sometime during Tuesday, December 13th – Thursday, December 15th, 2022 – for any part of those dates, or on all three.

The new version of the guide is a comprehensive inventory that links to sources of historical statistics.

The research focused on official languages measures in libraries in Canada. It consisted of a literature review and a survey of the legislative, regulatory and policy measures adopted by the provinces and territories to govern public libraries and language practices. It also looked at the contribution of university libraries, on the one hand, and that of community libraries and book fairs, on the other, to the vitality of official language minority communities (OLMCs).

Deadline: October 27, 2021

Engage with colleagues across the country and further afield. Learn what your government information counterparts are working on, concerned by, and celebrate some achievements.

The event is tentatively scheduled for 14, 15 and 16 December.

Catherine Luelo will join Treasury Board of Canada, Secretariat and start her new role on July 26.

Over the last two weeks, Canada’s national voices for the library community issued statements on access to government information and censorship by the tech industry.

Proposal deadline: Thursday, October 22, 2020