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The article reports on the announcement by the Government of Canada in February 2011 that permissions is not needed to reproduce any of its publications by any means for personal or public non-commercial purposes, unless specified in the material. After a month, the governing minority Conservative Party was defeated on Copyright Reform Bill and other pending legislation on a lack of confidence vote by the opposition parties. Several organizations asked the government to change its decision. INSET: 0.

This section offers news briefs concerning the field of mapping in Canada as of November 2008. The Geological Survey of Canada has issued a number of large scale maps showing sea floor geology and topography for country's Pacific and Atlantic coasts. Many scanned Canadian geology maps are available via the MIRAGE database: gdr.nrcan. Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the ramping up of geological mapping throughout Canada's Arctic region.

The article reports on the success of Tom Brittnacher in winning in the tenure-track Geographic Information System (GIS) Librarian competition at the University of British Columbia (UBC) Vancouver in Canada.

This section offers political, legislative and administrative news briefs in Canada of interest to libraries. It notes that the government will reduce programs and staff in government libraries in Ottawa, Ontario and regional centres. It adds that the interlibrary loan programs at the National Library will be discontinued while reference hours will be reduced and restricted to formal appointments. The government plans to stop the distribution of tangible publications by the end of 2014.

The article offers Canadian library news briefs. The British Columbia government introduced its open data portal http://www.data.gov.bc.ca. The University of British Columbia offers its Indigenous Foundation site http://indigenousfoundations.ars.ubc.ca as a historical resource for research on indigenous people. The Association of Canadian Map Libraries & Archives will hold its annual conference at Ryerson University in Toronto on June 12-15, 2012.

This section offers news briefs related to the social and economic issues in Canada as of November 2010. The Canadian Federal Department of Natural Resources has released 300 topographic maps covering the different regions of the country such as those in the northern areas that were unmapped at the 1:50,000 scale. A bill which aims to modify the Copyright Modernization Act was proposed in the Canadian federal House of Commons. The website XUMP.COM announced the sales of its Canada map placemat.

The section offers news briefs related to maps in Canada. Several interactive and other maps were released by the Canadian government to be used in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games and Paralympic Winter Games. An announcement was made by Natural Resources Canada about its production of 1600 topographic maps of the northern regions of Canada. The Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives' (ACMLA) 2010 annual conference will be held from June 15 to 18, 2010 at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario.