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Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Maxie Bai Martin

Tuesday January 18, 2022

The Editors Canada student relations committee 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, Becky Heaman shared the committee’s interview with […]

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Lucy Payette

Searching for the Positive Side of Change

Tuesday December 21, 2021

Many of my conversations of late have started with “I would have thought by now we would be … ” or “I’m not sure what the next few months will bring ….” This past year has been called many things: the Great Resignation, the Great Reshuffle, the second year of COVID. Whatever you call this […]

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Becky Heaman

Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Iva Cheung

Tuesday December 14, 2021

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Photo of the book The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago; or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself, 2nd edition, by Carol Fisher Saller. (© The University of Chicago Press)

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Amanda Goldrick-Jones

The Student Affiliate Book Club Gets Subversive

Tuesday December 7, 2021

The brand-new student affiliate book club chose Carol Fisher Saller’s The Subversive Copy Editor (2nd edition, 2016) as its first book for discussion. We were intensely curious — especially those in the club who are early-career editors — about what “subversive” editing meant. In October, we met online to review “Part 1: Working with the […]

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Aaron Dalton

What is Plain Language? Part 4: Craftsmanship

Tuesday November 16, 2021

This is the fourth in a series of articles discussing the basic principles of plain language by Aaron Dalton. Most of the writing that happens in an office is stream-of-consciousness. We fire off dozens of quick emails and texts a day with little thought. But the writing we do for external readers requires more care. Effective writing […]

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S. Robin Larin

Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Cathy McPhalen

Tuesday November 9, 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 […]

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Lucy Payette

What’s New in the Canadian Press Stylebook

Tuesday November 2, 2021

Since its inception in 1940, The Canadian Press Stylebook has changed “cautiously,” as stated on its website, with a motto of “evolution, not revolution.” Nonetheless, if you’ve followed Canadian Press style, you know it isn’t enough to commit to memory the style standards and leave it at that. Language and usage changes — and style […]

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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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Becky Heaman

Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Mary Rykov

Tuesday September 28, 2021

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Aaron Dalton

Review: The Chicago Manual of Style for PerfectIt

Tuesday September 14, 2021

Disclaimer: I received a free year of access to The Chicago Manual of Style Online (CMOS Online) and PerfectIt 5 as part of testing the beta version and writing this review. Efficiency is key to maximizing your income. There are only so many hours in a day, so you simply must do more in those […]

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