TC AGM - Thurs. Dec. 11, 3:30EST
by Marita Moll
Hello advisors. We will hold the TC AGM on Thursday, Dec. 11 at 3:30.
Our treasurer, Chris Cope has asked me to suggest that this is a good
time to send a small donation to keep the bank from hitting us with
inactivity charges. See donation button on tc.ca.
Marita
3 months, 1 week
Fwd: [Advisors] Re: Individual digital sovereignty as a TC project
by Marita Moll
Just forwarding this discussion so people on the NCF list won't miss out.
Marita
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: [Advisors] Re: Individual digital sovereignty as a TC project
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:23:52 -0500
From: Marita Moll <mmoll(a)ca.inter.net>
To: Garth Graham <garth.graham(a)telus.net>, TC Advisors <advisors(a)tc.ca>
Well Garth, reading this Tapscott essay just makes me want to head for
the woods. But there is no escaping it. Tapscott has been right before
and congratulations to you for already getting your head around these
mindboggling changes coming up. We might benefit from having a
discussion, after Christmas, of who is in this space in Canada and how
we might participate.
Marita
On 2025-11-30 1:35 p.m., Garth Graham wrote:
> DON TAPSCOTT. Introducing the next era of the digital age: Identic
> artificial intelligence. THE GLOBE AND MAIL NOVEMBER 27, 2025.
> https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-identic-artif...
> ;…but it’s subscribers only
>
> The growing autonomy of personal AI agents makes it essential that
> digital sovereignty begins with the individual. This is not on any
> Federal Government agenda, and wasn’t really addressed in the last
> CIRA hosted Canadian Internet Governance Forum (CIGF). I think that
> forming a coalition of individuals and organizations recognizing and
> advancing this as a significant Canadian public policy issue is a task
> that fits with TC’s mandate. Here’s Tapscott’s full article making the
> case.
>
>
> While it bugs me that Tapscott writes better than I do, I’m happy to
> note I essentially said this before he did.
>
>> Janna Anderson, Lee Rainie. “Expert Views on the Impact of AI on the
>> Essence of Being Human.” Elon University’s Imagining the Digital
>> Future Center. April 2, 2025.
>> https://imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Being-Hu...
>>
>> ……. I am pleased to find my essay response published in full:
>>
>> Garth Graham. Relational Systems of Individuals + Synthetic Agents
>> Can Extend the Cognitive Boundaries of Collective Consciousness,
>> Enhancing Its Resilience – But Only If Humans Have Agency. Pp 96 – 101.
> GG
>
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3 months, 1 week
TC AGM doodle poll link
by Marita Moll
Hello advisors. We have to file our annual return with Corporations
Canada on Dec. 13, so I am doing my usual last minute rush to get an AGM
organized before that. Below is a link to a doodle poll with dates
between Mon. Dec. 8 - Thurs. Dec. 11.
https://doodle.com/group-poll/participate/dPJx2zAa
<https://doodle.com/group-poll/participate/dPJx2zAa>
Hope to get as many of you as possible on the call. I will also need to
confirm the directors list -- so please e-mail me directly if you are
willing to continue on as director or would like to nominate someone.
Self nominations are also welcome.
Marita
3 months, 1 week
Fwd: seniors and faud demo -- Nov. 27, 3pmEST + link
by Marita Moll
Hello TC advisors.The meeting for the on-line Seniors and Fraud demo
will be held *Thursday, Nov. 27 at 3pm. EST. *
Glenn McKnight has set up a zoom room for us. See the invite below.
He has also created the poster attached. As I said before, this meeting
is open to any interested parties. So please feel free to expand the
circle. The doodle poll has 7 participants including Glenn and myself at
the moment. We can certainly handle more.
Marita
___________________________________________
Glenn McKnight - ISOC Ontario is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: ISOC Ontario Seniors and Fraud
Time: Nov 27, 2025 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 842 4830 1604
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3 months, 2 weeks
Seniors and fraud
by Marita Moll
Hello advisors. Our friends at the newly minted ISOC Ontario chapter
have chosen, as one of their focus points, the issue of seniors and
fraud. Activities planned are an online course, some live workshops and
a monthly consumer information newsletter collating the news around the
world and tips on protecting yourself from scams. I thought there
should be interest in this community around this initiative so I offered
to set up a TC session on this with Glenn McKnight, who would be
interested in demoing the online course.
Please let me know if you would attend such a session. If there is
enough interest, I would do a doodle poll to find a date and time that
works.
Marita
3 months, 3 weeks
Urgent: Public opposition to 30 AI Sprint / People's Consultation on AI
by Marita Moll
Hello advisors. I just received this request to sign on to a letter
asking for more/longer/better consultation on AI. The consultation
proposed by ISED will only run 30 days. Looks like the deadline to sign
on to this letter is Oct. 30 so I will need a quick response. You can
read the letter in the link below. Individuals can sign on using the
form but I am seeking your permission to sign TC on as an organization.
I think it would also be great if we chose, as a group, to participate
in the consultation that is proposed as an alternative. This initiative
is spearheaded by Fenwick Mckelvey -- well know communications and info.
technology prof. at Concordia.
*rom:* acc-cca-L <acc-cca-l-bounces(a)mailman.ucalgary.ca> on behalf of
Fenwick Mckelvey <fenwick.mckelvey(a)concordia.ca>
*Sent:* Friday, October 24, 2025 2:12 PM
*To:* CCA Listserv <acc-cca-l(a)mailman.ucalgary.ca>
*Subject:* [acc-cca-l] Public opposition to 30 AI Sprint / People's
Consultation on AI
[△EXTERNAL]
Hi all
I'm writing to let you know about a Canada-wide civil society
initiative, spearheaded by several civil liberties and digital rights
organizations and individuals who were active on Bill 27's Artificial
Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA), to protest the federal government's
thirty-day "National Sprint" on AI, and ask if you or your organization
would be willing to sign a joint letter to that effect.
We explain in the letter, among other critiques, that thirty days is an
unreasonably short window of consultation given the far-reaching scope
and depth of AI's impacts on society; canvas the wide range of known
AI-related harms that are already evident today; and ask for a deadline
extension to February 2026. For me, the short timeline does not address
concerns raised in my own research around the lack of meaningful public
engagement on: https://www.amo-oma.ca/en/ai-policy-report/ and
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s00146-024-01952-w
We are also setting up a parallel civil society process, the People's
Consultation on AI, so that those whose input should be considered but
do not have capacity to meet the government's rushed timeline, will
still have an opportunity to have their say.
The sign-on form and letter itself are available here:
https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/jYtfY12tSWH-oYCUGBv06BDpLm97LNcVEa...
Please note that signing the letter does not mean committing to
participating in the People's Consultation on AI, and that a French
translation will be available in the upcoming days.
If you could circulate this letter to other individuals and NGOs you
believe would be interested, in particular those who may not have been
previously involved in tech or AI issues but whose communities are or
would be impacted, that would be greatly appreciated.
Let me know if you have any questions, and thank you so much for
considering!
Be good,
Fenwick
Marita
4 months
Re: [Advisors] Current Federal budget flavours
by Marita Moll
Hi Garth. Thanks for this info. Not directly related, but still of
interest to us, is the digital sovereignty issue which I guess is in
there somewhere.
Marita
On 2025-11-07 1:40 a.m., Garth Graham wrote:
> As has become my custom, I used several search terms to dip into the federal budget to see if there was anything of interest to TC. Simple answer - not much…
>
> GG
>
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4 months