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Merel Elsinga

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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Aerin Caley

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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Tanis McLeod

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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Letitia Henville

Why Academic Editors Should Attend Congress 2024

Thursday March 21, 2024

Imagine if you could meet with hundreds — even thousands — of potential editing clients in just one week. Now imagine those potential clients approaching you, asking you questions and being curious about the value that you and your colleagues might bring.  Are you excited by the idea of being able to demystify our profession […]

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Paul Cipywnyk

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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Adrienne Montgomerie

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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Frances Peck

Editing and Empathy

Tuesday June 6, 2017

I’m thinking more about empathy these days. So are other editors — witness last week’s post on the editor-author relationship. So are Canadians in general, judging by Google searches over the past decade.                     Source: Google Trends. Y-axis shows interest over time, defined as follows: “Numbers […]

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