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You’re Invited to the Editors Canada AGM

Thursday June 12, 2025

The Editors Canada annual general meeting (AGM) is hosted every June. It’s an important part of the not-for-profit year and an opportunity “to conduct the annual business of the association.” But you don’t need to be actively involved with Editors Canada’s business to attend! The 2025 AGM will be held via Zoom on Thursday, June […]

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AGM Heather Buzila

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Stephanie Watterson

From Editing to Writing: An Interview with Stephanie Watterson

Thursday October 16, 2025

This week, we interview Stephanie Watterson about writing and publishing her children’s book, Septopus. Want to be interviewed about your editing work? Contact us. What is your editing background? Back in 2020, during the pandemic, I took a digital and print publications program and from there I did some freelancing. My hopes were to get […]

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Review: QuickStyle from Hazel Bird

Thursday October 23, 2025

As a professional editor, I am always on the lookout for ways to increase my efficiency and improve communication with clients. So when I learned about QuickStyle — a style sheet template that can be tailored to fit any project and client — I was intrigued. Hazel Bird and I are colleagues at the Chartered […]

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Trans Day of Remembrance: Language and Representation Matters

Thursday November 20, 2025

November 20 is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Today, I will gather with my community to remember who and what we have lost this year. People. Rights. Safety. Soon we will dance and we will celebrate our joy as resistance. But today we grieve. I am proud to be a trans editor. I have a unique […]

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Maintaining Your Joy as a Copy Editor

Thursday January 15, 2026

In February, the academic editing book club will host author Jamaal D. Pittman for a 60-minute Q&A about The Copy Editor’s (Life)Style Guide: Maintaining Your Joy (and Sanity) in a Rapidly Changing Profession. This book club is run by the Academic Editing Special Interest Group(SIG), a collaboration of Editors Canada and the Editorial Freelancers Association […]

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Emily Distefano: What’s on My Desk?

Thursday January 29, 2026

Welcome to our new series where we snoop through the workspaces of our fellow editors. This week, Emily Distefano, the newest member of our proofreading team at The Editors’ Weekly, tells us all about her desk essentials. Tools of the trade First, the basics: computer, glasses, office supplies. My current laptop is a sturdy Lenovo […]

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Letitia Henville

A Case Study in Content Marketing

Thursday April 9, 2026

I’m a big believer in content marketing. Done well, content marketing can support both your own business and our shared profession, because it shows potential clients what editors do and the wealth of knowledge we hold. When I’ve spoken with other editors about content marketing, I regularly encounter misconceptions: some folks assume it means they […]

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Brooke Ramos Dickson

Editing EAL Writing: The Advantages of Multilingualism in Editing

Thursday September 10, 2026

Editing the written work of an EAL (English as an Additional Language) speaker is one of the most challenging yet rewarding endeavours an editor can undertake. Where the stylistic and grammatical issues encountered in writing by native English speakers tend to follow predictable patterns, the errors and weaknesses in EAL writing vary widely depending on […]

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Lights, Camera, Action: A Book Editor in the Land of Cinema

Tuesday December 4, 2012

The first in a series on working as an editor in the film industry. In 1966, my older sister snuck me into the Windsor Theatre to see an R-rated movie, A Man and a Woman, starring Anouk Aimée as a script girl and Jean-Louis Trintignant as a car racer. After that, whenever someone asked me […]

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