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AI Generated Government?

It’s interesting that both of these articles came through on my feed in the same day:

Ahmed Otmani Amaouim, “Canada’s new Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation: What it means for Canadian innovators” (MNP, last accessed September 12, 2025), online: https://www.mnp.ca/en/insights/directory/what-it-means-for-canadian-innovators.

and then

Patrick Butler, “N.L.’s 10-year education action plan cites sources that don’t exist” (CBC, September 12, 2025), online: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/education-accord-nl-sources-dont-exist-1.7631364.

Falsified Education Policy?

Let’s just call it – it was Newfoundland and Labrador’s **Education Accord** (10 year policy document) (that cost $755,000 dollars, no less) which contained falsified sources:

Yumna Iftikhar, “PCs ‘not . . . [more]

Posted in: Education & Training, Legal Information, Legal Information: Libraries & Research, Technology

Book Review: The Right to Oblivion: Privacy and the Good Life

Several times each month, we are pleased to republish a recent book review from the Canadian Law Library Review (CLLR). CLLR is the official journal of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL/ACBD), and its reviews cover both practice-oriented and academic publications related to the law.

The Right to Oblivion: Privacy and the Good Life. By Lowry Pressly. Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press, 2024. ix, 228 p. Includes illustrations, notes, and index. ISBN 9780674260528 (hardcover) $47.00; ISBN 9780674298262 (eBook) $44.65.

Reviewed by Laura Reid
Student Learning & Engagement Librarian
University of Calgary

Many of us are . . . [more]

Posted in: Book Reviews, Thursday Thinkpiece

Book Review: How to Use Digital Learning With Confidence and Creativity: A Practical Introduction

Several times each month, we are pleased to republish a recent book review from the Canadian Law Library Review (CLLR). CLLR is the official journal of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL/ACBD), and its reviews cover both practice-oriented and academic publications related to the law.

How to Use Digital Learning with Confidence and Creativity: A Practical Introduction. Edited by Gearóid Ó Súilleabháin, Donna Lanclos & Tom Farrelly. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2024. 362 p. Includes bibliographic references and index. ISBN 9781035311286 (hardcover) US$180.00; ISBN 9781035360543 (softcover) US$53.95; ISBN 9781035311293 (eBook) US$43.16.

Reviewed by Brianna Calomino . . . [more]

Posted in: Book Reviews, Thursday Thinkpiece

Book Review: Emond’s Basics of Tort Law

Several times each month, we are pleased to republish a recent book review from the Canadian Law Library Review (CLLR). CLLR is the official journal of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL/ACBD), and its reviews cover both practice-oriented and academic publications related to the law.

Emond’s Basics of Tort Law. By Alex Colangelo. Toronto: Emond, 2024. viii, 157 p. Includes table of cases, glossary, and index. ISBN 9781774626702 (softcover) $79.00; ISBN 9781774626719 (digital) $59.00.

Reviewed by Melanie Bueckert
Legal Research Counsel
Manitoba Court of Appeal

Emond’s Basics of Tort Law is a very short book—each . . . [more]

Posted in: Book Reviews, Thursday Thinkpiece

Book Review: Criminal Psychology

Several times each month, we are pleased to republish a recent book review from the Canadian Law Library Review (CLLR). CLLR is the official journal of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL/ACBD), and its reviews cover both practice-oriented and academic publications related to the law.

Criminal Psychology. By David Rowlands & David Canter. 3rd ed. London, U.K.: Routledge, 2025. x, 365 p. Includes illustrations, bibliographic references, and index. ISBN 9780367773755 (hardcover) $170.00; ISBN 9780367773731 (softcover) $56.99; ISBN 9781003171065 (eBook) $51.29.

Reviewed by Leslie Taylor
Research and Instruction Librarian
Lederman Law Library
Queen’s University

Criminal Psychology . . . [more]

Posted in: Book Reviews, Thursday Thinkpiece

“Physicians as Patent Infringers? Putting Pharmascience Into Perspective”

Abstract

Authored By: Professor Wissam Aoun, Associate Professor & Member of Windsor Law LTEC Lab and Caitlyn Massad, JD Candidate at Windsor Law

1. INTRODUCTION Pharmascience Inc. v. Janssen Inc.[1] is scheduled to be heard by the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) this coming October. In Pharmascience, the SCC will revisit the decades old prohibition against patenting of methods of medical treatment. The case revolves around a fact pattern common to several recent ‘skinny label’ cases.

URL
https://www.lteclab.com/post/physicians-as-infringers-putting-pharmascience-into-persepective . . . [more]

Posted in: Legal Information: Publishing, Substantive Law

Book Review: Wrongfully Convicted: Guilty Pleas, Imagined Crimes, and What Canada Must Do to Safeguard Justice

Several times each month, we are pleased to republish a recent book review from the Canadian Law Library Review (CLLR). CLLR is the official journal of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL/ACBD), and its reviews cover both practice-oriented and academic publications related to the law.

Wrongfully Convicted: Guilty Pleas, Imagined Crimes, and What Canada Must Do to Safeguard Justice. By Kent Roach. Toronto: Simon & Schuster, 2023. xxxvii, 359 p. Includes bibliographic references and index. ISBN 9781668023662 (hardcover) $34.99; ISBN 9781668023679 (softcover) $24.99; ISBN 9781668023686 (eBook) $24.99.

Reviewed by Leslie Taylor
Research and Instruction Librarian . . . [more]

Posted in: Book Reviews, Thursday Thinkpiece

Book Review: Legal Guide to Emerging Technologies

Several times each month, we are pleased to republish a recent book review from the Canadian Law Library Review (CLLR). CLLR is the official journal of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL/ACBD), and its reviews cover both practice-oriented and academic publications related to the law.

Legal Guide to Emerging Technologies. By Imran Ahmad & Shreya Gupta. Toronto: LexisNexis, 2023. xiv, 113 p. Includes index. ISBN 9780433524748 (softcover) $130.00.

Reviewed by Katarina Daniels
Research Lawyer, Library Services Lead
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

Legal Guide to Emerging Technologies provides a clear and structured introduction to . . . [more]

Posted in: Book Reviews, Thursday Thinkpiece

Book Review: COVID-19, Law & Regulation: Rights, Freedoms, and Obligations in a Pandemic

Several times each month, we are pleased to republish a recent book review from the Canadian Law Library Review (CLLR). CLLR is the official journal of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL/ACBD), and its reviews cover both practice-oriented and academic publications related to the law.

COVID-19, Law & Regulation: Rights, Freedoms, and Obligations in a Pandemic. By Belinda Bennett, Ian Freckelton & Gabrielle Wolf. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. vii, 674 p. Includes bibliographic references and index. ISBN 9780192896742 (hardcover) $165.00.

Reviewed by Marnie Bailey
Manager, Knowledge Services
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP

COVID-19, Law & . . . [more]

Posted in: Book Reviews, Thursday Thinkpiece

Book Review: Constitutionalising Social Media

Several times each month, we are pleased to republish a recent book review from the Canadian Law Library Review (CLLR). CLLR is the official journal of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL/ACBD), and its reviews cover both practice-oriented and academic publications related to the law.

Constitutionalising Social Media. Edited by Edoardo Celeste, Amélie Heldt & Clara Iglesias Keller. New York: Bloomsbury, 2022. 352 p. Includes bibliographic references and index. ISBN 9781509953707 (hardcover) $175.50; ISBN 9781509953745 (softcover) $86.50; ISBN 9781509953714 (ePUB) $77.85; ISBN 9781509953721 (PDF) $77.85.

Reviewed by Kyla McCallum
Student Librarian
University of British Columbia . . . [more]

Posted in: Book Reviews, Thursday Thinkpiece

Book Review: What Roe v Wade Should Have Said: The Nation’s Top Legal Experts Rewrite America’s Most Controversial Decision

Several times each month, we are pleased to republish a recent book review from the Canadian Law Library Review (CLLR). CLLR is the official journal of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL/ACBD), and its reviews cover both practice-oriented and academic publications related to the law.

What Roe v Wade Should Have Said: The Nation’s Top Legal Experts Rewrite America’s Most Controversial Decision. Edited by Jack M Balkin. Revised edition. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2023. xiv, 344 p. Includes bibliographical references, table of cases, and index. ISBN 9781479824489 (hardcover) US$89.00; ISBN 9781479823109 (softcover) . . . [more]

Posted in: Book Reviews, Thursday Thinkpiece

Book Review: Out of Darkness: Rumana Monzur’s Journey Through Betrayal, Tyranny and Abuse

Several times each month, we are pleased to republish a recent book review from the Canadian Law Library Review (CLLR). CLLR is the official journal of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL/ACBD), and its reviews cover both practice-oriented and academic publications related to the law.

Out of Darkness: Rumana Monzur’s Journey through Betrayal, Tyranny and Abuse. By Denise Chong. Toronto: Penguin Random House Canada, 2024. 298 p. Includes photographs and author’s note. ISBN 9780735274150 (softcover) $24.95; ISBN 9780735274174 (eBook) $13.99.

Reviewed by Kyla McCallum
Student Librarian
University of British Columbia

In 2011, Rumana Monzur, a . . . [more]

Posted in: Book Reviews, Thursday Thinkpiece

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