Tag: COVID-19

Illustration of three people at a meeting wearing medical masks. Two people are sitting in office chairs at a table: one has a laptop and one has a pen and paper. One person is standing on the opposite side of the table facing them.
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Rosemary Shipton

Editing in the Time of Covid

January 11, 2022 by Rosemary Shipton | 8 Comments on Editing in the Time of Covid

As we enter 2022, it’s time to ask how editors have fared during the pandemic and what lies ahead. When the world as we knew it suddenly shut down in March 2020, we feared for our health and our livelihoods, uncertain what might transpire. How have we done? For most editors, it seems, work continued […]

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Lucy Payette

Searching for the Positive Side of Change

December 21, 2021 by Lucy Payette | 2 Comments on Searching for the Positive Side of Change

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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Heidi Waechtler

On Resolving to Publish: Book Publishing in 2021 and Beyond

January 12, 2021 by Heidi Waechtler | 4 Comments on On Resolving to Publish: Book Publishing in 2021 and Beyond

I’ve worked in publishing for about 15 years, but every year I’m caught off guard by the January phenomenon of aspiring authors who’ve resolved that this is the year they’re publishing a book. Manuscript submissions and calls about the publishing process become more frequent, as do inquiries about how to get into the industry itself. […]

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Illustration of books, one labelled “French” and one “English.” A Canadian flag and an oversized A, B, C, and Z surround the books.
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Dwain Richardson

English Editing in Quebec: Linguistic Interference During COVID-19

November 3, 2020 by Dwain Richardson | 6 Comments on English Editing in Quebec: Linguistic Interference During COVID-19

This post is part of a series on some of the challenges English editors and translators encounter when working with French texts. When the COVID-19 pandemic oozed into Canadian territory in March, government officials and media outlets across the country were working hard to keep society apprised of the latest developments. These included physical-distancing rules, […]

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Marianne Grier

The Times They Are A-Changin’

October 13, 2020 by Marianne Grier | 2 Comments on The Times They Are A-Changin’

My parents recently sold our family home. Perched on a hill in a small Nova Scotia town, the house was the backdrop to my childhood and school years. While I hadn’t lived there for ages, it was the place I always went back to. I could navigate my way in the dark, identify family members’ […]

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Jasmine Peteran

The New Networking Reality for Students

September 29, 2020 by Jasmine Peteran | Leave a Comment

For students trying to establish themselves as freelance editors, networking is key to success. Now that the fall semester has started, students are dreading the anticipated lack of opportunities with this new post-secondary experience. Networking is central to nearly every professional field, but especially true for those of us who work primarily as freelancers. As […]

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Anita Jenkins

Do Freelance Editors Know How to Work at Home?

September 1, 2020 by Anita Jenkins | 11 Comments on Do Freelance Editors Know How to Work at Home?

Many thousands of office employees who were forced to work from home because of COVID-19 will continue to do so. Only 36 per cent of Canadians anticipate returning to their “place of work” when the pandemic subsides, according to an Angus Reid study. Freelance editors have been working from home for years and, by and […]

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Jasmine Peteran

Transitioning Between the Home and the Home Office

June 2, 2020 by Jasmine Peteran | 4 Comments on Transitioning Between the Home and the Home Office

Amid all the Zoom calls and email threads, I sit in my makeshift home office staring at the dust collecting on the windowsill. We’ve entered into uncharted territory, yet every day looks the same. I started my career with a love of language, of words and of writing, but over the last few weeks these […]

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General EAC Marianne Grier

My COVID-19 Life Edit

May 19, 2020 by Marianne Grier | 11 Comments on My COVID-19 Life Edit

Since COVID-19 came to B.C., I’ve gone through an involuntary life edit. Things have proceeded like any full edit (though let’s skip the proofread for now, shall we?). The first changes were sweeping, dramatic and structural as we paused daycare, moved to working mostly from home and navigating meetings around a toddler, and stopped frequenting […]

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