PEN Canada is sponsoring the 2023 Digital Media at the Crossroads (DM@X) online conference being held on Friday, January 20 and Saturday, January 21,  from noon to 5 pm [...]

CFE Event: Canada’s War on Whistleblowers Thursday, January 19, 2023; Time: 3pm EST In more than 15 years of operation, at a cost of over $100 million, Canada’s federal whistleblower law has not protected a single whistleblower, out of more than 500 reporting reprisals against them. It has made their lives worse. Join the discussion with a distinguished panel of expert about why this is, what it has meant for the public, what can be done to protect those who speak up in the public interest, not join in punishing them.

Pandemic University and the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association bring Richard Warnica, Toronto Star's business feature writer, to Alberta for two, in-person feature writing workshops on January 12 & 13 (Calgary) and January 14 & 15 (Edmonton).

Pandemic University and the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association bring Richard Warnica, Toronto Star's business feature writer, to Alberta for two, in-person feature writing workshops on January 12 & 13 (Calgary) and January 14 & 15 (Edmonton).

Ankara Library will hold its final event of the year (Sunday December 11, 2022, 12:30-4:00 pm) with the screening of Leyla Gencer: La Diva Turca, a documentary produced by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV) in memory of one of the most prominent opera singers of the 20th century.

Increasingly, scholars of a nation’s history, politics, and culture are challenged as anti-national or hostile to the dominant religion, ethnicity, and culture. This panel will look at the growing challenges faced by scholars of South Asia since the 2014 election of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). When does critical disagreement become an attack on academic freedom? What can universities do to protect the integrity of scholarly work in such a deeply fraught environment?

Sunday November 20 at 3:00 p.m. Hirut Cafe, 2050 Danforth St., Toronto. Near Woodbine subway station Free Event Join PEN Canada’s Writers in Exile group for an [...]

Increasingly, scholars of a nation’s history, politics, and culture are challenged as anti-national or hostile to the dominant religion, ethnicity, and culture. This panel will look at the growing challenges faced by scholars of South Asia since the 2014 election of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). When does critical disagreement become an attack on academic freedom? What can universities do to protect the integrity of scholarly work in such a deeply fraught environment?

The Toronto International Festival of Authors, in partnership with PEN Canada and CBC Radio’s IDEAS, presents Nobel Peace prize laureate Maria Ressa (author of How to Stand Up to a Dictator, being released November 2022) in conversation with Citizen Lab founder and PEN Canada Advisory Council member Ronald Deibert on the topic of defending freedom of expression and human rights.

PEN Canada’s Writers in Exile group invite you to join them for an afternoon of prose, poetry, camaraderie and discovery. The inaugural event of the Voices of Freedom reading [...]