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For its years-long efforts to obstruct public access to information about plans to build a $400-million glass factory in the community, Stratford City Council “wins” the 2021 #CodeofSilenceAward in the municipal category: caj.ca/blog/Much_ado_… 🏆 
For more than two years, city council circumvented basic transparency measures as it held secret in-camera meetings and failed to properly report discussions and planning undertaken with Xinyi Canada Glass: nationalobserver.com/2021/06/11/new…
According to the award submission, the city demanded $8,850 for one FOI request. In another, the city declared no records were found. A third request was told that a study commissioned by the city was confidential because it was given to the city solicitor:stratfordbeaconherald.com/news/local-new…
(1) Possible buyout of #ARM by #NVIDIA does have an effect on the #Bioinformatics field: many applications now are deployable on CPU/GPUs with #ARM and/or #NVIDIA chips on them. Some recent examples are:
(a) the Oxford @nanopore MinION Mk1c device, which originally was specced at Jetson TX2 ARM+Pascal GPU accelerators (ARM processor 6 cores, 256 Core GPU), 8 GB RAM (may have changed since then.
@mindingottawa @scottbrison @apratte @denisebatters @SenElaineMcCoy @senatcarignan ⬆️ 1/ Lawmakers attempt to erase Scott Brison’s fingerprints from regressive Access to Information bill C-58. #cdnfoi #ATI
@mindingottawa @scottbrison @apratte @denisebatters @SenElaineMcCoy @senatcarignan 2/ @SenElaineMcCoy: “People are asking for innocent information...and they get information back within 2 or 3 years if they’re lucky.”
@mindingottawa @scottbrison @apratte @denisebatters @SenElaineMcCoy @senatcarignan 3/ @senatcarignan: “We want to make sure there is...more transparency, greater accountability.”
