We have seen the role that hate online plays in affecting our communities - from the Quebec City Mosque massacre, to the targeting of female journalists,
to the harassment of Black and Indigenous activists, and everywhere in between.
How should our leaders deal with this problem, what are the implications of potential regulation, and how might diverse communities work together on
solutions that balance between the need to address online harms while upholding civil liberties?
NCCM, along with OpenMedia, is convening a full day conference in Ottawa for a critical discussion about online harms as the Online Harms Act (Bill C-63)
winds its way through the House of Commons.
9:00 am - 7:00 pm EST
challenges for civil liberties, AI, law enforcement, along with issues of online regulation.
Association (CCLA)
on Combatting Islamophobia
Metropolitan University
Council for Social Justice (CCNC-SJ)
Muslims (NCCM)
Group (ICLMG)
Stephen Brown, National Council of Canadian Muslims
for Law Enforcement: Do We Need Online
Harms Regulation?
Speakers:
Kiran Bisla (Toronto Police Service)
Ricky Veerappan (Ontario Provincial Police)
Emily Laidlaw (University of Calgary)
Intelligence and Online Harms
Speakers:
Christelle Tessono (The Dias, Toronto Metropolitan University)
Andrew Clement (University of Toronto)
Ali Asaria (Tulip)
Rachel Curran (Meta)
the Online Harms Act & the Proposed
Digital Safety Commission
Speakers:
Toby Mendel (Centre for Law and Democracy)
James Turk (Center for Free Expression, Toronto Metropolitan University)
Brenda McPhail (McMaster University)
Gender-Diverse People, and Online Harms
Speakers:
Mitzie Hunter (Canadian Women’s Foundation)
Nuzhat Jafri (Canadian Council of Muslim Women)
Jacques Marcoux (Canadian Centre for Child Protection)
Kathryn Hill (MediaSmarts)
Should the Bill be Split?
Speakers:
Sunil Gurmukh (Western University)
Anaïs Bussières McNicoll (Canadian Civil Liberties Association)
Chris Thompson (Federation of Black Canadians)
Maytal Kowalski (JSpaceCanada)
and Online Harms
Speakers:
Richard Moon (University of Windsor)
Amira Elghawaby (Canada’s Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia)
Christine Van Geyn (Canadian Constitution Foundation)
and National Security
Speakers:
Barbara Perry (Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism, Ontario Tech)
Tim McSorley (International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group)
Ryan Chan (Chinese Canadian National Council for Social Justice)
Mohammed Hashim (Canadian Race Relations Foundation)
Arif Virani (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada)
Stephen Brown, National Council of Canadian Muslims