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Sponsors 2007

The Book and Periodical Council (BPC) would like to thank the following for their generous sponsorship of Freedom to Read Week 2007:

Canada Council for the Arts

Canadian Library Association

Harper Collins Canada Ltd

Ontario Library Association

Pearson

Random House of Canada

SpicersWebcom


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

ASTEDQuill and Quire

British Columbia Library Association Atlantic Provinces Library Association Library Association of Alberta

Geist Broken Pencil

Canadian BooksellersTundra Books 40th AnniversaryManitoba Library Association

Disticor Literary Review of Canada Saskatchewan Library Association

Northwest Territories Library Association

Penguin Group CanadaYukon Library AssociationNunavut Library Association

Ontario Library Association  School Advocate

Reva Pomer Design Wyman Design


The following people contribute an incredible amount of time and energy producing the kit and poster and maintaining the website at www.freedomtoread.ca: Benita Aalto, Helena Aalto, Franklin Carter, Scott Mitchell, Reva Pomer, David Wyman, and the Freedom of Expression Committee.

The BPC, along with the Freedom of Expression Committee, thanks all writers, photographers, and illustrators for their contributions to the Freedom to Read kit of 2007.

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

 

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"It is too late in the day to stop men thinking. If allowed to think they will speak. If they speak they will write, and what they write will be printed and published. A newspaper is only a thought-throwing machine, a reflex of the popular mind. If it is not, it cannot live. We are not disposed to send our proof-sheets to anyone to correct."

— Amor de Cosmos (1825-97), British Columbian newspaper editor, in The British Colonist (1859), after the governor of British Columbia, Sir James Douglas, attempted to suppress the newspaper