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Happy Canada Day everyone! The Echidna office will be shut down tomorrow and hopefully most of you will be out enjoying the festivities (or just…

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Digital Echidna has been working with a number of partners on a project called the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC), a project that…

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