Shree Paradkar wins 2024 Ken Filkow Prize
Shree Paradkar, an award-winning journalist and equity advocate, has won the 2024 Ken Filkow Prize. The prize recognizes Paradkar for advancing freedom of expression in Canada. Paradkar is a race …
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Statement on IDF shutdown of Al Jazeera office in Ramallah
As a nonpartisan organization of writers committed to the defence of freedom of expression, PEN Canada is deeply concerned about Israel’s recent raid and closure of Al Jazeera’s offices in …
Robina Aryubwal and JHR win prize for assisting Afghan refugees
Robina Aryubwal, a women’s rights activist, and Journalists for Human Rights have jointly won PEN Canada’s 2024 Marie-Ange Garrigue Prize. The prize recognizes a Canadian individual or organization that has …
Jimmy Lai to receive PEN Canada One Humanity Award
Jimmy Lai, a journalist, writer, media publisher, and pro-democracy activist, has won PEN Canada’s One Humanity Award. Lai, who has been in solitary confinement since December 2020, is currently facing …
Tala Motazedi wins Humber College Writers-in-Exile Scholarship
Tala Motazedi, a screenwriter and playwright originally from Iran, is the recipient of the 2024 PEN Canada-Humber College Writers in Exile Scholarship. During her year at Humber, she will work …
The history behind the Graeme Gibson Talk
The Graeme Gibson Talk is an annual conversation between writers with expert knowledge of an urgent political, social, cultural or economic issue. The event was established in 2021 to honour …
Online Event | Freedom of Expression, Protests and Encampments
Date: Tuesday, September 17, 2024 Time: 7 pm EDT Zoom link to event: torontomu.zoom.us/j/91941276567 This is a free event and no registration is required. What can we learn from what happened …
Online Event: What To Do About Foreign Interference
Nick Robinson in conversation with Tim McSorley Date: Tuesday October 1, 2024 Time: 7 pm EDT Zoom link to event: torontomu.zoom.us/j/91941276567 This is a free event and no registration is required. …
Türkiye: Decision upholding prison sentence for journalist Bülent Mumay condemned
Joint statement originally published by PEN International. Turkish translation below. August 27, 2024 – PEN International joins the International Press Institute (IPI) and the undersigned freedom of the press and expression …
Online Event | The Life and Death of Freedom of Expression
Richard Moon in conversation with David Sneiderman Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2024 Time: 7 pm EDT Zoom link to event: torontomu.zoom.us/j/91941276567 This is a free event and no registration is required. In …