Here is what a Google Search shows:
The first hit is from the Liberal Party of Canada website, and says,
The rest of the hits above the fold are all from the Dion era in September 2008. Other hits on the first, second, and third pages are from provincial Liberal parties or unrelated content.
We should do better.
In fact, we have no excuse for not doing better.
Freelance technology writer Luigi Benetton quoted Omar Ha-Redeye in Going paperless at the office is possible with some astute planning, determination in the April 2, 2010 edition of The Lawyers Weekly:
Reduce wait times, part two
Scanning speed also makes a difference. Since faster scanners generally cost more, law student Omar Ha-Redeye offers the following suggestions: small offices can make do with speeds of 25 pages per minute (ppm), midsize firms may opt for 50 ppm, and large firms can go for 100 ppm.‘If you want to move massive numbers of documents, you don’t want people sitting around,’ Ha-Redeye says…
Making documents ‘findable’
Scanners can create image files from paper documents, but lawyers want more. OCR makes the text in scanned files (Adobe PDFs are the undisputed standard here) machine-readable which, when combined with a powerful search tool, greatly lessens the time it takes lawyers to find documents that contain specific keywords.‘It’s all about searchability,’ contends Ha-Redeye. ‘If you’re not going to use OCR from the get-go, don’t bother scanning. I just don’t see the point’…
Fast finding
Even if everybody minimizes file sizes, PDFs will pile up on file servers.Ha-Redeye recommends getting fast document servers to speed up searches through PDF haystacks. ‘Servers can get bogged down when many people search for documents at the same time,’ Ha-Redeye says…
Software
Scanner makers bundle software like Adobe Acrobat with their wares, but Ha-Redeye’s Acrobat experience hasn’t been entirely satisfactory. ‘For older documents that contain different font sets, it’s more challenging for Adobe to recognize words, so I use ABBYY FineReader,’ he says. ‘It seems to get just about any text or font type that causes problems for Adobe.’
…’It’s becoming an expectation for new lawyers,’ adds Ha-Redeye. ‘If you’re not going paperless, if you don’t have the latest scanner technology, you’re not a place where people want to work.
‘If I can make 300 billable hours more at another firm doing the same amount of work, just because they have better systems there, I feel more fulfilled and I feel like I’m getting more out of my time in the office.’
The Centre for Global Studies at Huron College hosted an event about a lawsuit against Copper Mesa, a Canadian mining company operating in Ecuador. Marcia Ramírez, who along with Israel Pérez and Polivio Pérez, is one of the plaintiffs in the case, was on hand to discuss some of the issues her community is facing.
They also showed the film, Under Rich Earth.
Under Rich Earth Trailer from Marco Rafael on Vimeo.
Read more about the case on Slaw.
The slideshare presentation of a paper presented at the 3rd Annual Law Student Conference is one of the most viewed presentations today on Facebook.
The Minister of Justice, the Honourable Rob Nicholson, held a question and answer period for law students.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke at the University of Western Ontario on environmental initiatives and sustainable development.
One statement that drew significant applause from the crowd was entirely unrelated to the focus of his talk,
Ann Coulter really represents the darkest side of American character.
Coulter spoke at UWO earlier the same week.
The Chief Justice of Ontario, Warren Winkler, gave a lecture on “Judicial Mediation – Reality vs. Fantasy.”
Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission, spoke on the challenges facing the Commission
The event was hosted by Western’s Center for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction.
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