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Brendan O’Brien

The Aging Editor

Tuesday August 20, 2019

A few months ago, some editors shared articles on Facebook about editing and aging. I didn’t read them properly, but I saw some of the comments. I recently turned 59 and have been a professional editor for more than three decades. I’m getting quite close to an age at which many people retire. What has […]

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Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with James Harbeck

Tuesday August 17, 2021

The Editors Canada student relations committee recently completed a series of interviews with Editors Canada award winners. Each month, we’ll bring you the highlights of our interviews in the hopes that those featured may inspire student editors beginning their careers, as well as editors who are already established. This month, S. Robin Larin shares the committee’s interview with […]

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Update on the International Plain Language Standard: An Interview with Gael Spivak

Tuesday October 26, 2021

Gael Spivak, a previous president of Editors Canada, works in-house for the federal government as a writer and editor. Part of her job is her involvement in creating an international plain language standard for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). At the Editors Canada conference on June 13, 2021, Gael gave us an update on […]

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An Interview with Lorina Stephens, Editors Canada Conference Keynote Speaker

Tuesday May 3, 2022

Lorina Stephens didn’t start her career in writing and publishing. She has been a manager and bookkeeper for companies as diverse as a civil engineering firm, Faberge of Canada, and her own custom glass installation company. She has also created and sold historically accurate clothing patterns and has explored other arts such as sculpture, printmaking […]

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In-house to Freelance and Back Again

Thursday October 20, 2022

I started my professional editing career among a team of writers and editors for the Alberta provincial government. At the time, government was the largest employer of editing professionals. The role was fairly limited: we did everything in Canadian Press style, we never credited a source, and I spent most of my time reviewing slight […]

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Review: How to Clean Up a Messy Word Document

Thursday April 30, 2026

Techniques and Tips for Copyeditors Preparing a Text for Publication (2025) from Margaret Hunter Raise your hand if you’ve ever been at your wits’ end trying to figure out how to clean up a messy Word document. Help is at hand in this slim publication chock-full of practical clean-up tips and procedures. Aptly titled How […]

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What Does It Take to Start Freelancing?

Tuesday April 8, 2014

If you’re just starting out as a freelancer, whether you’re a writer or an editor, keep in mind that the only way to survive is to be brutally efficient — which means you will have no social life. You should, however, get a gym membership and use it, because you’ll need to keep your energy […]

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How Skype Helped Support a Family Editing Tradition

Tuesday December 9, 2014

Upon retirement from their teaching careers at the University of Saskatchewan, my late mother, Sonia Morris, and her sister, Roma Franko, embarked on a labour of love: translating Ukrainian literature into English. For many years they shared desk space in one another’s homes in Saskatoon. Roma focused on translating, and Sonia on editing. I provided […]

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PerfectIt 3: Quality Software for the Experienced Editor

Tuesday May 5, 2015

Editors use add-ins to Word to make their work faster and more consistent. PerfectIt is one of the more well-respected add-ins for Windows users, and Intelligent Editing was kind enough to provide the Editors’ Weekly with a copy of the newly released PerfectIt 3 for review. Contributor Adrienne Montgomerie has written a detailed review of the […]

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