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Sponsors 2012

The Book and Periodical Council (BPC) would like to thank the following for their generous sponsorship of Freedom to Read Week 2012:

Canada Council for the Arts

Webcom

Canadian Library Association

Harper Collins Canada Ltd

Ontario Library Association

Pearson

Quill and Quire

Random House of Canada

Unisource


The BPC would also like to thank the following organizations and individuals for their support and in-kind donations:

British Columbia Library Association

Manitoba Library AssociationCanadian Booksellers

Northwest Territories Library Association

Yukon Library AssociationNunavut Public Library Services

Canadian Library AssociationWyman Design

Ontario Library Association

Reva Pomer Design


The BPC thanks the following for their sponsorship: Canadian Children's Book News, Canadian Literature, Feliciter, The Fiddlehead, Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press, The International Free Expression Review, Quill and Quire, Studies in Canadian Literature, UBC Press and The Writers' Union of Canada.


The following people contributed an incredible amount of time and energy producing the kit and poster and maintaining the website at www.freedomtoread.ca: Josh Bloch, Franklin Carter, Lesley Fletcher, Anne McClelland, Peggy Mckee, Scott Mitchell, Marg Anne Morrison, Reva Pomer, Sandra Richmond and David Wyman.

We also thank the members of the Freedom of Expression Committee: Paula Brill, Ron Brown, Franklin Carter, Sandy Crawley, Brendan De Caires, Leslie De Freitas, Teri Degler, Brianne Diangelo, Kate Edwards, David Kent, Bianca Lakoseljac, Mark Leiren-Young, Anne McClelland, Kate McQuaid, Marg Anne Morrison (Chair), Julie Payne, Reva Pomer, Jane Pyper, Toni Samek and Erin Stropes.

The BBC, along with the Freedom of Expression Committee, thanks all writers, photographers and illustrators for their contributions to the Freedom to Read Kit of 2012.

The BPC gratefully acknowledges the support of its member organizations and the Canada Council for the Arts.

 

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"The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – Uncertainty, Progress, Change – into crimes."

— Salman Rushdie (b. 1947), Indian-born British author, in a lecture entitled "Is Nothing Sacred?" published in Granta 31 (1990)