About the Blog

The Editors’ Weekly / L’Hebdomadaire des réviseurs is the official blog of Editors Canada.

Editors Canada promotes professional editing for print and online communications. Our 1,300 members include salaried and freelance editors who work in the corporate, technical, government, not-for-profit, education and publishing sectors.

Authors contributing to this blog include many recognized professional Canadian editors as well as some new voices. We also invite guest writers who are not Editors Canada members (or even Canadian) to contribute thought-provoking ideas to stimulate or continue discussions about editing, language, meaning and context in today’s world. Look for new posts every week.

Views and opinions expressed in The Editors’ Weekly are solely those of the author writing the article and are not the views of Editors Canada or its managing editor. Contributions to this blog will be mostly in English and occasionally in French.

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Blog Staff

Managing Editor

Laura Bontje is a freelance editor in London, Ontario. She specializes in fiction editing, with a particular focus on children’s literature. Laura also provides editing and content writing services for businesses and nonprofits. She is the author of the forthcoming picture books Was It a Cat I Saw? (Amicus Ink, 2024) and When the Air Sang (Annick Press, 2025).

Proofreader, Social Media Coordinator

Emily Lam is a freelance medical editor with a passion for improving health literacy using plain language and digital accessibility principles. She also works part-time as a research project manager at a children’s hospital in Toronto, Ontario. Emily edits journal manuscripts, grant proposals, patient education materials and other research-related content.