Editors Canada news releases
Date Posted: Monday June 12, 2017 News type: Awards , News release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, June 12, 2017—The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) has presented 5 national awards, including $4,400 in prize money, to 20 recipients. The ceremony took place at the association’s awards banquet on Saturday, June 10, at the Crowne Plaza Gatineau-Ottawa. The Editors Canada awards banquet is an annual celebration recognizing exceptional editors for […]
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Date Posted: Sunday June 11, 2017 News type: Awards , News release
Grammar Gal recognized for promoting the editing profession Toronto, June 12, 2017—Virginia Durksen of Calgary, Alberta, is the winner of the 2017 Karen Virag Award, which recognizes exceptional efforts by an individual or organization to raise the profile of editing in their community. The award comes with a $400 cash prize and is named for a […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, June 12, 2017—The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) has announced that Irina Malakhova of Hamilton, Ontario, is the recipient of the 2016 Claudette Upton Scholarship. The scholarship was presented at the association’s annual awards banquet in Ottawa-Gatineau on June 10, 2017. This scholarship is a $1,000 cash award intended to support continuing professional development […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, June 12, 2017—The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) has announced that Dania Sheldon of Gabriola Island, British Columbia, is the winner of the 2016 Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence. Sheldon was awarded the $2,000 prize for her work on Charles Gretton: Clock and Watchmaking Through the Golden Age by Dennis Radage, Warner Meinen and Laila […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, June 12, 2017—The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) has announced that Jeanne McKane of Toronto, Ontario, is the recipient of the 2017 Lee d’Anjou Volunteer of the Year Award. McKane is a fierce advocate for professional certification for editors. And she does more than simply talk about certification; she stands behind it, having earned […]
Date Posted: Wednesday May 17, 2017 News type: Association , News release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, May 18, 2017—The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) is proud to announce the launch of the John Eerkes-Medrano Mentorship Program. This new national program makes it possible for Editors Canada members and student affiliates across the country to participate in one-on-one mentor-mentee relationships. Most successful people have been mentored, whether they realize it […]
Date Posted: Sunday May 7, 2017 News type: Awards , News release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, May 8, 2017—The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) has announced the finalists for the 2016 Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence. The Tom Fairley Award recognizes an editor’s outstanding contribution to a work published in Canada in English or French in the award year. The $2,000 grand prize will be […]
Date Posted: Thursday February 2, 2017 News type: News release , Professional standards
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, February 2, 2017—Working with new technology in industries and media beyond traditional print publishing is the new normal for many of Canada’s editing professionals. This theme is at the heart of the latest edition of Professional Editorial Standards, the vital publication for editors by the Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada). This new […]
Date Posted: Thursday October 13, 2016 News type: Association , News release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, October 13, 2016—The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) is pleased to announce the appointment of John Yip-Chuck to the position of executive director, effective October 17. Yip-Chuck is a senior business administrator with over 20 years’ experience in the publishing industry in Canada as a writer, editor, program manager, managing […]
Date Posted: Wednesday October 12, 2016 News type: Association , News release , Statements
The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) is launching a Twitter campaign to ask the Government of Canada to write laws in plain language. The five-day campaign will begin on International Plain Language Day on October 13, 2016. A message that is written in plain language is delivered to its intended readers clearly and effectively. Governments around […]
Date Posted: Monday October 3, 2016 News type: Awards , News release
Greystone Books associate publisher receives Karen Virag Award Toronto, October 3, 2016—Nancy Flight of Vancouver, BC, is the winner of the inaugural Karen Virag Award, which recognizes exceptional efforts by an individual or organization to raise the profile of editing in their community. The award is named for a highly accomplished member of the Editors’ Association […]
Date Posted: Thursday July 28, 2016 News type: Association , News release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, July 28, 2016—The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) is pleased to announce the appointment of communications manager Michelle Ou as interim executive director of the association through November 1. The appointment follows the resignation of executive director Patrick Banville effective August 12. “We are sad to see Patrick go, but are grateful […]
Date Posted: Monday June 13, 2016 News type: Awards , News release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, June 13, 2016—The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) has presented 4 national awards, including $4,500 in prize money, to 10 recipients. The ceremony took place at the association’s awards banquet on Saturday, June 11, at the Coast Plaza Hotel & Suites in Vancouver. The Editors Canada awards banquet is an annual celebration […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, June 13, 2016—The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) has announced that Lesley Peterson of Florence, Alabama, is the winner of the 2015 Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence. Peterson was awarded the $2,000 prize for her work on The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior: A History of Canadian Internment Camp R by Ernest Robert Zimmermann, […]
Storyteller’s next chapter is a career in editing FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, June 13, 2016—The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) has announced that Lindsay Vermeulen of Vancouver, British Columbia, has been awarded the 2015 Claudette Upton Scholarship. The scholarship was presented at the association’s annual awards banquet in Vancouver on June 11, 2016. This scholarship is a $1,000 […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, June 13, 2016—The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) has announced that Sandra Gravel of Québec City, Quebec, is the recipient of the 2016 Lee d’Anjou Volunteer of the Year Award. Gravel is the driving force behind the Programme d’agrément en révision linguistique – Réviseurs Canada (PARL), the country’s first French-language editing proficiency program. Gravel has […]
Date Posted: Thursday June 2, 2016 News type: Certification , News release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, June 2, 2016—The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) is pleased to announce that nine editors have earned new professional certifications. This year, Editors Canada recognizes six new certified copy editors and three new certified stylistic editors. Since the launch of its landmark professional certification program in 2006, Editors Canada has awarded 245 […]
Date Posted: Tuesday May 31, 2016 News type: Awards , News release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, May 31, 2016—The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) has announced the finalists for the 2015 Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence. The Tom Fairley Award recognizes an editor’s outstanding contribution to a work published in Canada in English or French in the award year. The $2,000 grand prize will be presented at […]
Date Posted: Wednesday April 6, 2016 News type: Association , News release , Partners
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, April 6, 2016—The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) and the American Copy Editors Society (ACES) are pleased to announce a new national partnership between the two organizations. This collaboration will elevate the status of both organizations by expanding training and development opportunities. Members of Editors Canada can participate in ACES webinars and online training […]
Date Posted: Tuesday March 22, 2016 News type: Agrément , News release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, March 22, 2016 — The Editors’ Association of Canada (Editors Canada) is proud to announce the first réviseurs agréés in its history! Fifty-nine people passed the inaugural general editing test and will receive the title of réviseur agréé or réviseure agréée du Programme d’agrément en révision linguistique – Réviseurs Canada. French-language editors now have a […]
Date Posted: Monday October 19, 2015 News type: News release , Publications
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, October 19, 2015—Editors Canada has launched a revised edition of its popular career guide, So You Want to Be an Editor. First published in 1991, So You Want to Be an Editor offers aspiring editors an inside look at the editing profession in Canada and an overview of the path to launching an editing career. […]
Date Posted: Friday July 17, 2015 News type: Association , News release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, July 17, 2015—Editors Canada has announced that Calgary-based editor Christine Beevis Trickett is the recipient of the 2015 Lee d’Anjou Volunteer of the Year Award. Beevis Trickett has been a member and active volunteer of Editors Canada for almost 15 years. She was a founding member of the association’s Nova Scotia twig, where she […]
Date Posted: Tuesday June 16, 2015 News type: Awards , News release
Toronto, June 16, 2015—The Editors’ Association of Canada (EAC) has announced that Grace Yaginuma of Vancouver, BC, is the winner of the 2014 Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence. Yaginuma was awarded the $2,000 prize for her work on A Discerning Eye: The Walter C. Koerner Collection of European Ceramics by Carol E. Mayer (Figure 1 Publishing). The award was presented […]
Date Posted: Wednesday June 10, 2015 News type: Association , News release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, June 10, 2015—The Editors’ Association of Canada (EAC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Patrick Banville to the position of executive director, effective June 15. Banville, a fluently bilingual not-for-profit executive originally from Montreal, will work with volunteers from across the country and with association staff to achieve EAC’s mission to develop […]