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Canadian Intellectual Property Office gets its own quiz wrong
The Canadian Intellectual Property Office has posted an online quiz on “IP basics,” inviting the average citizen to test one’s knowledge of copyright. Weirdly, the second question in the Copyright...
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Facebook page protests the #ACdeal, Canada’s university copyright disaster
A new Facebook page provides critical information, discussion, and networking on the ongoing situation between Access Copyright and Canada’s postsecondary institutions: STOP the Canadian university...
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Open letter to my MP about #FIPA, the un-debated Canada-China trade deal
This is the e-mail I sent to my MP this week about the imminent #FIPA (or #FIPPA) trade pact the government plans to pass by November 1. I have adapted some of the text from a form letter provided by …...
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Open letter to #HOC International Trade Committee: The #FIPA Canada-China...
To: House of Commons International Trade Committee – Rob Merrifield (rob.merrifield@parl.gc.ca), Ron Cannan (ron.cannan@parl.gc.ca), Russ Hiebert (russ.hiebert@parl.gc.ca), Ed Holder...
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Flash fiction, science fiction, and the shape of things to come
I’m pleased to see that one of my flash fiction tweets for the CBC “Tweets from 2112” contest made the adjudicators’ all-stars list in the Environment category. Hunters have moved on. Kids sleeping,...
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Open letter to Canada Trade Agreement Secretariat, about the FIPA...
Dear Canada Trade Agreement Secretariat, I am writing to state my strenuous opposition to the FIPA Canada-China trade deal, and my just as strenuous opposition to the undemocratic manner in which it...
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In support of Chief Theresa Spence and #IdleNoMore
Day 14th,She is reminding fellow Chiefs to stand in solidarity and not to be #idlenomore."it is our time and we will not be silence no more"— ChiefTheresaSpence (@ChiefTheresa) December 24, 2012 From...
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Looking for pop culture representations of the oil sands
I’m working on a research paper about pop culture representations of the oil industry; I’m especially interested in Canadian works, and in representations of the Alberta oil sands. I have found a few...
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Open letter: objection to Bill C-56, and to Canada considering ACTA ratification
To: The Hon. Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry minister.industry@ic.gc.ca Subject: objection to Bill C-56, and to Canada considering ACTA ratification Honourable Minister Paradis, I am writing,...
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Access Copyright sues York U over fair dealing policy
Access Copyright – the photocopy royalty-collecting society that has gradually morphed into a lobbying-and-lawsuit engine – continues its misadventures in litigation this week with a lawsuit against...
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Parkland Institute holds annual gala dinner on Feb. 19
The Parkland Institute does non-partisan, political economic research on Alberta policy and society. Each year it holds a gala dinner to raise funds for its vital work; this year, the Parkland gala...
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Make the Trans-Pacific Partnership (#TPP) a bigger issue in the 2015 federal...
The #TPP has been agreed on. Now we must stop it: http://t.co/O8520TXSEl #elxn42 #elexn2015 #cdnpoli #canlab #ISDS #censorship via @sumofus — Mark A. McCutcheon (@sonicfiction) October 6, 2015 After I...
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Fascist language from 1946 sounds all too familiar in 2015
Over the summer, I read The President, a 1946 novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Miguel Angel Asturias. The novel is set in an unnamed nation usually read as Asturias’ native Guatemala, and it...
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a political lipogram about #elxn42
“An ‘Anti-Niqab’ Campaign is Anti-Canadian” is a lipogram about Conservatives in Canada’s current federal election, which I’ve written and published at Medium. A lipogram is a poem with specific...
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Open letter to PM Trudeau about the #TPP and the need for public input on it
What follows is a letter I’ve just sent to Prime Minister Trudeau, International Trade Minister Freeland, and several MPs, about my concerns with the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the need for...
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“The TPP will invalidate millions of dollars of tax-payer funded research in...
Following the annual conference of the Association of Canadian College & University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) at Congress in Calgary, ACCUTE has posted to its English Matters blog a condensed...
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in sorrow with Canada, where #WeAllBelong
in solidarity with #SteFoyMosque; in outrage at terrorism & the dogwhistle politics stoking hate; in sorrow with Canada, where #WeAllBelong. Tagged: Canada, diversity, solidarity
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Stephen Harper as Killer Robot
“Stephen Harper as Killer Robot” is my new article in English Studies in Canada‘s just-published special issue on the automated body. While an article about Harper might seem like a political...
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Meera Nair on Canada’s copyright review & fair dealing at Congress
English Matters, The blog of the Association of Canadian College & University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), features a talk by Meera Nair (NAIT) from the panel I organized & chaired at Congress...
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Two new poems
Thanks to EVENT Magazine for publishing two of my poems, “What a name’s in” and “No family one pictures” — alongside superb work by other writers — in the current issue (vol 46 no 2, 2017)....
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