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While you were sleeping: Being deaf in the wrong language, being bald with the right motivation, honour for Bob Marley and Marcus Garvey, and the buzz about vibrator privacy

Here’s our roundup of the best and brightest stories this morning.

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Here’s our roundup of the best and brightest stories this morning.

Deaf in the wrong language: Jeffrey Liebman, a Montrealer who is profoundly deaf, was thrilled back in 2011 when the Cineplex Odeon Cinemas at Cavendish Mall installed “CaptiView,” which allows him to watch the film on the big screen, then glance at the device for subtitles. It worked great, till he couldn’t get the device for Star Trek Into Darkness because, although it was CCed in English, there wasn’t a French version available. Liebman didn’t want to watch in French, mind, but that didn’t change a thing. The theatre says it feels pretty bad, too: “While we would have loved to provide Mr. Liebman with English closed captioning, the fact remains that doing so would have meant violating French-language laws as only English captioning was available.” He’s fighting to have the policy changed, so we’ll see where that goes.

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Hat’s off: Joey Saputo, the Montreal Impact’s 51-year-old owner, took part in the Leucan Shaved Head Challenge, going under the razor during the charity event at Saputo Stadium. Young players from the Impact Academy also took part in the event, which raised $33,031 to help in the fight against children’s cancer. This marked the fifth year the Impact has held the event. “I didn’t have very much hair to start with, but what I had I really enjoyed,” Saputo said. “It’s nothing compared to what kids with cancer live with and what their parents live with. So it’s absolutely no problem whatsoever.”

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Emancipate ourselves: Nearly 80 years after his father delivered a speech in Nova Scotia that would help inspire Bob Marley lyrics, Julius Garvey says the message rings true. “It’s still very appropriate,” he said of Marcus Garvey’s words, “We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery … none but ourselves can free the mind,” which Marley paraphrased in 1980’s Redemption Song. “We have a long way to go in terms of understanding ourselves as human beings and our relationship with the universe.” The younger Garvey toured a museum inside the Glace Bay hall of the Universal Negro Improvement Association — which his father founded in 1914. The hall was built in 1918 and is the only remaining branch of the association in Canada. “My father said people without a knowledge of their origins, history and culture is like a tree without roots.”

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Getting buzzed: In the ever-growing world of digital connectivity and the “Internet of Things,” how much sharing is too much? A Chicago woman says the Canadian manufacturer of a smartphone-enabled vibrator has crossed the line by selling products that allegedly secretly collect and transmit “highly sensitive” usage information. She has launched a proposed class-action lawsuit against a company owned by Ottawa-based Standard Innovation, which makes the We-Vibe. The We-Vibe Rave is Bluetooth- and Wi-Fi- compatible and can be controlled remotely via an app that can also send private messages and video. She says the vibrator is collecting sensitive info like date and time of use and vibration settings, all linked to the user’s email address. Standard Innovation says it’s working to improve its data security and communication practices.

Sources: Montreal Gazette, The Canadian Press

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