PEN Canada envisions a world where
writers are free to write,
readers are free to read,
and freedom of expression prevails
PEN Canada envisions a world where
writers are free to write,
readers are free to read,
and freedom of expression prevails
PEN’s attempt to file a Freedom of Information request Over the last 18 months, PEN has been trying to clarify how the Canada Revenue Agency defines political activity through a series of Access to Information requests. Click here for a timeline of our interactions with the CRA, and to see what we have learned.
Listen to the full audio recording of Wade Davis and John Vaillant in conversation on a writer’s role in a fast-changing world for our Spring Ideas in Dialogue event.
Five journalists with the Unity weekly journal were each sentenced to 10 years in prison with hard labour on July 10, 2014 over a report about an alleged secret chemical weapons factory carried by the publication in January.
On March 20, 2006, PEN and a coalition of organizations appealed the Toronto District School Board’s restriction of Three Wishes. Lawrence Hill offers one parent’s view and Evie Freedman provides a young reader’s view.
Finding the Words: Writers on Inspiration, Desire, War, Celebrity, Exile, and Breaking the Rules