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The article focuses on the KDocsFF 2023 film festival, which featured a program of social justice-oriented documentary films, including "The YouTube Effect" and "Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age," that explore the impact of the internet and social media on society, particularly in terms of power structures and misogyny.

This article examines the evaluation and legitimization of city-street video surveillance in Ontario, Canada. We demonstrate how monitoring programs are promoted, designed, and justified based on rhetorical claims about their efficacy. Although program evaluation data do not commonly corroborate or support program objectives, we show how the rhetorical politics of video surveillance evaluation research finds legitimacy by adhering to the Ontario privacy commissioner's best practices guidelines--guidelines that are formulated to minimize rhetoric in system design. The findings raise questions about how city-street video surveillance remains a viable policy option given the lack of evidence pertaining to its usefulness. Cet article examine l'evaluation et la legitimation de la videosurveillance en milieu urbain en Ontario, Canada. Nous demontrons comment sont promus, concus et justifies les programmes de surveillance sur la base des revendications de leur efficacite emises de maniere rhetorique. Bien que les donnees de l'evaluation du programme ne corroborent generalement pas ses objectifs, pas plus qu'elles ne les supportent, nous montrerons de quelle maniere les politiques langagieres de la recherche en evaluation de la videosurveillance trouvent leur legitimite en adherant aux pratiques exemplaires telles qu'elles sont stipulees par le Bureau du commissaire a la protection de la vie privee de l'Ontario--pratiques qui sont formulees pour minimiser la rhetorique au sein-meme de la conception du systeme. Ce que nous avons trouve souleve des interrogations sur la viabilite de la videosurveillance en milieu urbain en tant qu'option d'une politique viable, etant donne le manque de preuves relatives a son utilite., INTRODUCTION IN AN IMPORTANT discussion of evaluation research pertaining to contemporary surveillance technologies, Haggerty (2009) argues that managerialism as a governing mentality has contributed to the rise of an evidence-rather [...]

Presents news briefs related to health and medicine as of August 2004. Warning for Canadian physicians regarding the medical advice they provide to parents adopting children abroad; Conclusion of a report prepared for the Saskatoon Health Region about emergency care; Percentage of World Health Organization-member states, including Canada, that had signed the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control by the June 29, 2004 deadline.