Richard Stallman, president of the "Free Software Foundation", author of the GNU General Public License, founder of the "GNU Project" which gave rise to the "GNU/Linux" operating system and global crusader for the freedoms of computer users will be doing a cross-Canada speaking tour towards the end of this month (January) and early February.
Dates (so far) are as follows:
January 24th - Montreal - Omni-Mont Royal Hotel
January 26th - Montreal - 1450 Boulevard de Maisonneuve (room number and time to be confirmed)
January 27th - Halifax - Dalhousie University
January 29th - Waterloo - University of Waterloo
February 2nd - Toronto - To be announced
February 3rd - Calgary - University of Calgary
February 6th - Vancouver - George F. Curtis Law Building
February 7th - Vancouver - UBC
Watch this page for further details:
http://www.fsf.org/events/rms-speeches.html