Game-changing Ontario discoveries – including the Group of Seven, the anti-censorship Citizen Lab and Canada’s progressive copyright laws – will be in the spotlight at the Ontario and Canada Research Chairs Symposium on April 1 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

The free public lecture – to be hosted by CTV personality Marci Ien and webcast live – is part of the Council of Ontario Universities’ Research Matters campaign to celebrate 50 game-changing discoveries spanning the last 100 years.

The public will be asked to vote on their top-five game-changing discoveries through an online contest that will also launch April 1.

WHEN: 6:30 – 9 p.m. Wednesday, April 1, 2015
WHERE: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Hall C.
WHO:  Panelists at the free public lecture – part of the Ontario and Canada Research Chairs Symposium – are:

• Michael Geist, University of Ottawa, on how he changed Canadian government policy on copyright into one of the most progressive reforms in the world;
• Ron Diebert, University of Toronto, who will talk about how the Citizen Lab exposes the ways some countries censor the use of the Internet; and
• Gerald McMaster, OCAD University, who will talk about how the Group of Seven revolutionized Canadian art.

To see a full program of events, visit: http://yourontarioresearch.ca/research-chairs/

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Wendy McCann
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416-979-2165 x233
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