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Meta silences Canadian journalism
A whole world of disinformation is at your fingertips on Google and Meta. Quack remedies, conspiracy theories, fake news manufactured by bot farms in Russia and China, are a click away. But if you are looking for reliable, fact-based Canadian news, or long-form essays by our country’s leading thinkers and writers, well, that’s harder to find, and about to get a whole lot harder, courtesy of Facebook.
Literary Events
Join this free CFE event: Canada Proposes Foreign Influence Registry: A lot could go wrong!
The Honourable Yuen Pau Woo in conversation with Meghan McDermott Memories of the Chinese Exclusion Act and its requirement for all Chinese to register were awakened by Canada’s recent proposal …
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Take Action for Jimmy Lai on WPFD
May 3, 2023 — On World Press Freedom Day, PEN International mobilizes in support of Hong Kong media tycoon, Jimmy Lai. (London, UK) –To mark the 30th anniversary of World …
From the Archives
TIFA 2022 — The Freedom to Write and to Read: Standing with Salman Rushdie
“Free Speech is the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.” — Salman Rushdie PEN Canada, Penguin Random House Canada, Toronto International Festival of Authors and Writers’ Trust of Canada …
