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Sponsors 2009

The Book and Periodical Council (BPC) would like to thank the following for their generous sponsorship of Freedom to Read Week 2009:

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


In-Kind Advertising

Arc Magazine

Broken PencilCanadian Library Association

Canadian Children's Book CentreCanadian Journalists for Free Expression

Canadian DimensionFiddlehead

Literary Review of CanadaPrairie Books Now

Antigonish ReviewMalahat Review

Quill and Quire

Studies in Canadian Literature

The WalrusWriters' Union of Canada


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

British Columbia Library AssociationLibrary Association of Alberta

Manitoba Library AssociationCanadian BooksellersSaskatchewan Library Association

Northwest Territories Library Association

Yukon Library AssociationNunavut Public Library Services

Canadian Library Association

Ontario Library Association

Reva Pomer Design


The following people contributed an incredible amount of time and energy producing the kit and poster and maintaining the website at www.freedomtoread.ca: Franklin Carter, Peggy McKee, Scott Mitchell, Marg Anne Morrison, Reva Pomer, Sandra Richmond, Emily Sinkins, Peter Steven.

We also thank members of the Freedom of Expression Committee: Helena Aalto, Ray Argyle, Ron Brown, Franklin Carter, Marilyn Fraser, Ronda Kellington, David Kent, Mark Leiren-Young, Anne Mcclelland, Marg Anne Morrison, Julie Payne, Toni Samek, Emily Sinkins (Chair).

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 2009.

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

 

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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)