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Orange Shirt Day
September 30th is Orange Shirt Day, also known as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This was originally a grass-roots initiative by Indigenous Peoples, and was declared a national day in 2021.
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Orange Shirt Day
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British Home Child Day
September 28th is British Home Child Day. These were children who were sent to Canada from Britain between 1869 and 1948, and often ill-treated.
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British Home Child Day
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Supporting independent cafes
Recently a certain well-known coffee chain has launched a promotion supporting a certain well-known transphobic author, so a lot of people are boycotting the well-known coffee chain and supporting independent cafes instead. Accordingly, I have created a list of independent cafes on Google Maps.
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Supporting independent cafes
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Choosing a CMS
Choosing a content management system (CMS) is tricky. There are many systems available, and several factors you should consider in the selection process.
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Choosing a CMS
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Landing Pages
A landing page is aimed at a specific audience. Its goal is either generating leads, getting people to sign up for your newsletter, or making sales. It is used for landing on your site after someone has clicked a link from a social media ad or a campaign email.
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Landing Pages
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Disability Pride Month
People celebrate disability pride in July because it was the month when the United States passed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to protect the civil rights of disabled people. Northern Ireland released similar legislation in 1995. England, Wales and Scotland passed disability legislation in 2002. In Canada, each province has disability legislation, introduced from…
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Disability Pride Month
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Indigenous Tech
In honour of Indigenous History Month, here are some inspiring Indigenous technology and computing heroes.
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Indigenous Tech
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Filtering out AI
For people who want human-made art and writing in their search results, it’s getting harder to distinguish between AI and human-made, as large language models “learn” to generate productions that look more like human language and art.
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Filtering out AI
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Indigenous History and the Land
Carnelian Web Services is located on the Haldimand Tract, part of the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. So let’s unpack what that means.
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Indigenous History and the Land
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Happy Pride Month
June is Pride Month in Canada. And it is not just an excuse for a party, but an opportunity for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community to be visible, and to celebrate our wins over the years, from greater social acceptance to same-sex-marriage.
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Happy Pride Month
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Reasonable adjustments
…and unreasonable responses to them. There’s a general pushback on diversity, equity, and inclusion right now, but even so, I find it startling to see some of the unreasonable arguments put forward for rolling back perfectly reasonable adjustments to help disabled people and neurodiverse people to be comfortable.
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Reasonable adjustments
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Online collaboration tools
Are you concerned about the security and privacy of your data in Google Drive and OneDrive? Following on from my previous post about cloud file storage tools, what about online collaborative editing tools?
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Online collaboration tools
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Cloud file storage tools
Are you looking for an alternative to storing your files on Dropbox, OneDrive, or Google Drive? You may be looking for Canadian or EU-based storage solutions – here are a few that you could use.
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Cloud file storage tools
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Multi-faith Hospice Chaplaincy Resources
An introduction to the Interfaith Grand River Multi-faith Hospice Chaplaincy Resource, showing what’s included and how to navigate the resource.
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Multi-faith Hospice Chaplaincy Resources
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Website colours
The colours you choose for your website set the mood and present your brand and values consistently.
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Website colours
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