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Louise Dennys to step down as executive publisher and vice-president of Penguin Random House Canada
Globe & Mail | December 20, 2022
The world must stand with Salman Rushdie and writers like him Globe & Mail | John Ralston Saul | September 28, 2022
After the attack on Salman Rushdie, we must continue to speak out Special to the Globe & Mail | Grace Westcott | September 26, 2022
Attack on Salman Rushdie prompts reaction from writers, free speech advocates Globe & Mail | August 12, 2022
Obituary: Eritrean-Canadian journalist Aaron Berhane tirelessly advocated for a free press Globe & Mail | June 11, 2021 (published), June 14, 2021 (updated)
Margaret Atwood introduces Graeme Gibson’s Perpetual Motion and Gentleman Death Special to the Globe & Mail | Margaret Atwood | August 26, 2020
International sanctions should be used to protect journalists, free speech, Amal Clooney says in report Globe & Mail | February 13, 2020
Canadian author Graeme Gibson dies at 85 Globe & Mail | September 18, 2019
Desmond Cole awarded $1,000 PEN Canada/Ken Filkow Prize
Quill & Quire | December 14, 2017
Desmond Cole awarded 2017 PEN Canada/Ken Filkow Prize for freedom of expression
CBC Books |December 14, 2017
Doc celebrates free speech at critical moment
Toronto Star | November 23, 2017
NOW editors pick the week’s best news-related events
NOW Magazine | November 22, 2017
Ottawa should finish the job on advocacy work by charities: Editorial
Toronto Star | November 17, 2017
Ashraf Fayadh Honored With PEN Canada One Humanity Poetry Foundation | October 18, 2017
Chris Selley: Libraries feel the heat on freedom of speech
National Post | September 26, 2017
De Grasse one of ‘unabashed, unapologetic’ Canadians profiled in new book
CBC Sports | September 18, 2017
In a land where drugs rule, Mexican journalism is a dangerous trade
Globe and Mail | September 15, 2017
Writer and humanitarian Paola Gomez uses the arts to inspire and heal Canadian Immigrant | August 3, 2017
A welcome end to charity audits: Editorial
Toronto Star | May 7, 2017
‘I’m writing articles, and I’m being tried as a terrorist,’ exiled writers in Canada pushing feds for quicker refugee processing of families
Hill Times | April 19, 2017
Muslim man alleges aggressive cellphone seizure at Niagara border crossing
Niagara This Week | March 14, 2017
Celebrating Canada’s faith communities through writing
Christian Week | February 14, 2017
‘I have seen this before. We will not go silently.’
Maclean’s | January 20, 2017
Kingston writers group sponsors Syrian authors
Quill & Quire | January 12, 2017
Time for China to release writers, journalists and activists
The Guardian | December 10, 2016
New $25K Canadian literary prize focuses on religious faith
CBC Books | November 22, 2016
New national prize awards $25,000 for faith in literature
Quill & Quire | November 21, 2016
Surveillance chill on writers and journalists in Canada Radio Canada International | November 16, 2016
UN offers The Rebel press accreditation for climate conference after environment minister’s intervention
Financial Post | October 30, 2016
Hey UN: leave the media censorship to North Korea
CBC News | November 7, 2016
Ottawa willing to intervene on behalf of The Rebel after journalists banned from UN climate conference
Financial Post | October 26, 2016
Lessons for Syria—from the Spanish Civil War
The Walrus | October 21, 2016
Adam Hochschild on writers who fight back against Maclean’s | October 19, 2016
United Nations bars Ezra Levant’s The Rebel from climate conference
Financial Post | October 17, 2016
Surrey becomes Canada’s first International City of Refuge for persecuted writers and artists
The Indo-Canadian Voice | October 17, 2016
India must overhaul legal system, culture of intolerance has taken root: Report
Hindustan Times | September 20, 2016
Bravery, Resilience and Loyalty: The story of a new Canadian
Open Canada | September 19, 2016
Six young writers longlisted for New Voices Award The Bookseller | August 16, 2016
Fatal Police Beating Of Somali Canadian Abdirahman Abdi Raises Alarming Questions
Vice | July 26, 2016
Legal Ethics: Telling it like it is
Canadian Lawyer | June 6, 2016
Barbara Kay: The scourge of anti-Semitic Jews
National Post | April 13, 2016
Toronto-based filmmaker freed from Iranian prison after year in detention
Global News | April 9, 2016
Michael Chan ups ante in suit against Globe and Mail
Toronto Star | March 31, 2016
Diaspora Kurds demonstrate to free Kaboudvand
Kurdistan 24 | March 31, 2016
Ellen Seligman, celebrated Canadian editor and publisher, dies
CBC Radio As It Happens | March 25, 2016
One of Canada’s top literary editors dies
Guelph Mercury Tribune | March 25, 2016
Ellen Seligman helped shape generations of Canadian writers
Toronto Star | March 25, 2016
Turkey’s climate of fear and censorship
Guardian | March 24, 2016
Libérez les écrivains turcs emprisonnés
Bibliobs | March 24, 2016
Anne Carson, Joseph Boyden, Thomas King to star in 2016 Blue Metropolis
Montreal Gazette | March 22, 2016
Anti-Zionist Max Blumenthal jeered at Toronto event
Times of Israel | February 26, 2016
Councillor calls for cancellation of author Max Blumenthal’s scheduled appearance because of his ‘anti-Israel’ writings
InsideToronto.com | February 24, 2016
Barbara Kay: Anti-Israel crusader Max Blumenthal does not deserve the honour of a PEN Canada audience
National Post | February 23, 2016
‘Writers’ Freedom’ NGO Mistakes Max Blumenthal For Credible War Correspondent
Jewish Press | February 23, 2016
Big 3
NOW Magazine | February 17, 2016
Max Blumenthal Invitation Stirs Controversy at Canada Writers Group
Forward | February 16, 2016
Canadian writers’ group rapped for inviting Israel critic Max Blumenthal to speak
Jewish Telegraphic Agency | February 16, 2016
Kingston literary group hopes to sponsor refugee writer and family
KingstonREGION.com | February 14, 2016
PEN Canada Questioned Over Anti-Israel Speaker Canadian
Jewish News | February 12, 2016
Kingston writers hope to sponsor refugee family
Kingston Whig-Standard | February 10, 2016
Ghost of Harper CRA audits linger for some charities
National Observer | January 21, 2016
When Salman Rushdie kissed Bob Rae
Toronto Star | December 12, 2015
Freedom of expression in Canada needs resuscitation
Toronto Star | November 5, 2015
The Diary: Randy Boyagoda
Financial Times | October 30, 2015
Better is possible: A preview of tonight’s PEN Canada benefit at IFOA
National Post | October 22, 2015
Dimming the beacon of free speech
Toronto Star | October 16, 2015
PEN International Congress 2015 highlights threats to freedom of speech in Canada
Quill & Quire | October 15, 2015
Barbara Kay: PEN International’s criticism of Harper hypocritical considering its own omission
National Post | October 14, 2015
PEN slams Canada for freedoms erosion
Radio Canada International | October 14, 2015
Harper’s security blanket
Telegram | August 31, 2015
Margaret Atwood: Preston Manning, Man of the Future
National Post | August 28, 2015
The Beaverton: How much further can comedic satire go in Canada?
Globe and Mail | August 21, 2015
Firing of Toronto Editor Shows Inner Workings of Chinese Media in Canada
Epoch Times | August 13, 2015
Ontario cabinet minister sues the Globe and Mail over stories about CSIS concerns
National Post | August 7, 2015
Free Expression Is Slipping Away Huffington Post | July 3, 2015
How to sway Riyadh to free Badawi
Globe and Mail | July 2, 2015
Bill C-51 is a threat to reconciliation Globe and Mail | June 22, 2015
Britain should treat Saudi Arabia as a pariah state Telegraph | June 17, 2015
B.C. author wins first PEN award Winnipeg Free Press | June 13, 2015
NGO wars: China has ‘serious challenges,’ too Financial Post | June 1, 2015
Twelve laws that make freedom of expression in literature, cinema and art difficult in India Scroll.In | May 22, 2015
C-51: Crowdsourced report aims to stop Canada’s slide into ‘surveillance society’
CBC | May 21, 2015
Lawrence Solomon: Pussyfooting with China Financial Post | May 21, 2015
Groups call on India to repeal laws threatening free expression, democracy
India Gazette | May 21, 2015
PEN raises concerns about India using outdated laws to curb free speech
Scroll.in | May 20, 2015
On World Press Freedom week, no one poses a greater threat to free expression than Stephen Harper Rabble.ca | May 4, 2015
National Post View: PEN boycotters have made themselves look like rank imbeciles National Post | May 4, 2015
Charlie Hebdo, free speech and the problem with writer celebrity Rabble.ca | May 1, 2015
Le bon goût et la mort Le Devoir | April 30, 2015
Sometimes writers should shut up and write: Salutin Toronto Star | April 30, 2015
We celebrated Charlie Hebdo’s right to offend — and some took offence
Globe and Mail | April 29, 2015
Barbara Kay: Michael Ondaatje and the PEN Six get it horribly wrong Toronto Star | April 27, 2015
From death threats to limbo: A Colombian refugee’s 12 years of waiting in Canada Metro | April 17, 2015
Stephen Maher: Can you remind us how you care about your opponents’ rights too, Mr. Harper? National Post | April 17, 2015
The TSO’s turfed pianist was exhibit A in a bad week for free speech: Knelman Toronto Star | April 12, 2015
PEN Canada blasts TSO for cancelling concert Toronto Star | April 9, 2015
Is that photo you just took illegal? Yahoo! News Canada | April 9, 2015
Haroon Siddiqui’s parting reflections on career and country Toronto Star | April 1, 2015
Serious access to information reform is needed in Canada Georgia Straight | March 31, 2015
La Loi sur l’accès à l’information devrait être étendue à d’autres organismes Radio-Canada | March 31, 2015
Opinion: Saudi Arabia’s continued imprisonment of Raif Badawi is shameful Montreal Gazette | March 18, 2015
We all should worry about cellphone searches Globe and Mail | March 16, 2015
Would you trust a secret police force to this man? NOW Magazine | March 4, 2015
Alison Gordon was a trailblazer in ‘man’s world’ of baseball Globe and Mail | February 26, 2015
Who is Saudi activist Raif Badawi? Al-Monitor | February 6, 2015
La mobilisation continue autour de Raif Badawi, blogueur saoudien condamné à 1.000 coups de fouet Le Vif | February 19, 2015
Blogger Raif Badawi’s long struggle for freedom of expression
Deutsche Welles | January 30, 2015
No more Saudi business as usual Globe and Mail | January 22, 2015
Stephen Harper keener about free expression away from home: Delacourt
Toronto Star | January 17, 2015
Saudi blogger’s second flogging session postponed for medical reasons: 50 lashes down, 950 to go National Post | January 16, 2015
Beyond Freedom of Speech for white men Rabble.ca | January 12, 2015
The most irritating book I read this year: Salutin Toronto Star | January 1, 2015
Publication of Baraheni’s works facilitated: son Iran’s Book News Agency | December 14, 2014
Le temps presse pour Raif Badawi La Tribune | November 21, 2014
Jailed Saudi Blogger Raif Badawi Honored by PEN Canada Huffington Post | November 8, 2014
David Cronenberg in conversation with Mark Kingwell
Quill & Quire | October 24, 2014
PEN Canada décerne un prix à Raif Badawi
La Presse | October 23, 2014
City Nights: PEN Canada Benefit
Toronto Star | October 23, 2014
The Canada-Honduras trade agreement: A stain on Canada
Rabble.ca | October 23, 2014
Imprisoned Saudi Blogger Given Canadian Award
Epoch Times | October 22, 2014
Five Years After the Coup
Briarpatch Magazine | September 1, 2014
Charitable tax credits should be abolished
Postmedia News | August 28, 2014
Nothing to see here, folks Telegram | August 20, 2014
Reminder: You have a right to photograph and film the police
Canada.com | August 14, 2014
The War On Charities
Planet S Magazine | August 7, 2014
CRA audits are fine
Calgary Herald| August 6, 2014
**PEN Canada sous la loupe de l’Agence du revenu **Radio-Canada Les samedis du monde | August 2, 2014
Canada Revenue Agency refuses to divulge audit tactics targeting charities Globe and Mail | August 1, 2014
PEN Canada, the little charity that could – speak out
Hill Times | July 30, 2014
Revenue Canada charity audits continue to stir the political pot
Radio Canada | July 29, 2014
Terence Corcoran: Charities that don’t flout rules have nothing to fear from CRA audit
Financial Post | July 28, 2014
Is there a resurgence of censorship in Canada? Toronto Star | July 26, 2014
Does Canada Revenue have a political agenda?
CBC The National | July 25, 2014
**CTV National News **[12:00 minute mark]
CTV National | July 25, 2014
Charities under the microscope [53:00 minute mark]
CBC Power & Politics | July 25, 2014
Charities not looking for fight with Revenue Canada
CBC Power & Politics | July 25, 2014
Canadian Charities: Criticize the Government and Pay
Huffington Post | July 25, 2014
CRA says charities audit was designed to probe all political groups
Globe and Mail | July 25, 2014
‘Preventing poverty’ not a valid goal for tax purposes, CRA tells Oxfam Canada
CBC | July 25, 2014
PEN audit will come back to haunt Tories Toronto Star | July 24, 2014
Pen and the politics of charity
Globe and Mail | July 24, 2014
Conflict grows over charity audits
Radio Canada International | July 24, 2014
Canada Revenue Agency says ‘preventing poverty’ not allowed as goal for charity
Canadian Press | July 24, 2014
VIEW: Is PEN the latest target of Harper’s selective tax audits? Tyee | July 24, 2014
Don Cayo: Tax audits aimed at Harper government critics should worry all Canadians Vancouver Sun | July 24, 2014
Why is Harper punishing charities while letting tax cheats off the hook?
iPolitics| July 23, 2014
CRA smacks PEN Canada with audit in latest of Harper government’s attack on charities Vancouver Observer | July 22, 2014
PEN Canada cooperates with controversial political-activities audit
Quill & Quire | July 22, 2014
Political Audit CBC Metro Morning | July 22, 2014
The Canada Revenue Agency becomes an arm of the PMO
Rabble | July 22, 2014
Les activités de l’organisation caritative Pen Canada sous la loupe de l’ARC
Presse Canadienne | July 21, 2014
Pen Canada hit with political-activities audit by Canada Revenue Agency Canadian Press | July 21, 2014
List of charities undergoing tax audits
Canadian Press | July 21, 2014
Feds hang Mohamed Fahmy out to dry
NOW Magazine | June 26, 2014
Canada-Honduras trade agreement adopted by senate, awaits royal assent iPolitics | June 18, 2014
Liberal Blogger Sentenced To 10 Years And 1,000 Lashes In Saudi Arabia
George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight | May 8, 2014
Not too late to change Canada-Honduras trade deal Embassy – Canada’s Foreign Policy Newspaper | Apri 10, 2014
Canada should press Honduras on free speech : John Ralston Saul
Ottawa Citizen | April 9, 2014
** PEN Canada Brings Report On Murdered Journalists In Honduras To Washington **George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight _| March 26, 2014
Dina Meza: a journalist living dangerously in Honduras
Toronto Star | March 26, 2014
Dark days for the creative class in India: Siddiqui Toronto Star | February 15, 2014
Honduras: People resist despite fraud and violence
Workers World| February 15, 2014
Sochi 2014: world authors join protest against Putin
Guardian | February 6, 2014
Global community needs to hear diversity of Russian opinion
Toronto Star | February 6, 2014
Honduras: Journalism in the Shadow of Impunity (Interview with Dina Meza in Spanish)
Radio Canada International | February 3, 2014
Honduras: Journalists’ lives in grave danger Infosurhoy | February 3, 2014
Honduras: A Battleground for Journalism
Latino Post | February 1, 2014
PEN Canada partners with Hot Docs on a new series
Quill & Quire | January 31, 2014
Report assails violence against journalists in Honduras LA Times | January 30, 2014
Honduras trade agreement gets support from liberals, opposition from NDP
iPolitics | January 29, 2014
Honduras: Rising Violence Against Journalists Unpunished _International Business Time_s | January 27, 2014
New report highlights growing violence, impunity in Honduras
Knight Center, Journalism in the Americas | January 27, 2014
Telecom firms being asked what data they are giving to police, intelligence agencies
Globe and Mail| January 23, 2014
Luis Horacio Nájera: In Honduras, it’s open season on journalists
National Post | January 23, 2014
Crimes of the Past, Crimes of the Future — an excerpt from Honduras: Journalism in the Shadow of Impunity Huffington Post | January 23, 2014
Report details deaths of 32 journalists in Honduras
Newsroom Panama | January 23, 2014
Harper must address online surveillance in Canada, says advocacy group
Global News | January 17, 2014
What Toronto Can Teach The Rest Of The World About Living Well
Huffington Post | January 9, 2014
Sheila Heti and Jian Ghomeshi:Memoir in the Selfie Age Hazlitt | December 7, 2013
CBC Radio Q [53:30 mark]
CBC Radio Q_| December 3_, 2013
NSA leaks: UK government reaction eroding freedom, rights groups warn
Guardian | November 14, 2013
IFOA 2013: An evening with Stephen King
The Arts Scene | October 26, 2013
Review: Stephen and Owen King open the International Festival of Authors Toronto Star | October 25, 2013
CBC evening newscast: Arts and Entertainment
Late Night CBC TV News from Toronto | October 24, 2013
Stephen King and son Owen King on family and fiction
CBC’s Q with Jian Ghomeshi | October 24, 2013
PEN Canada award honours blogger Dieu Cay (Vietnamese, newscast)
Voice of America | October 24, 2013
PEN Canada award honours blogger Dieu Cay (Vietnamese, article)
Voice of America | October 24, 2013
Blogger Dieu Cay wins the “One Humanity Award” (Vietnamese)
Vietnam Human Rights Defenders | October 23, 2013
Blogger Dieu Cay wins PEN Canada award (Vietnamese)
Four Methods blog | October 23, 2013
Blogger Dieu Cay wins PEN Canada award (Vietnamese)
Nguoi Viet | October 22, 2013
Jailed Democracy Dissident Wins Award
Democracy Chronicles | October 21, 2013
The Stamp Collector: The Play
CBC Here and Now Toronto | October 18, 2013
The Stamp Collector CBC Here and Now Toronto | October 15, 2013
Photos: Bare it for Books calendar unveiled Quill & Quire Blog | October 3, 2013
Freedom to photograph under threat Toronto Star | July 28, 2013
RCMP arrested journalist in New Brunswick
Canada.com | July 4, 2013
Censorship in the digital age: ‘Words are more powerful than ever’ Globe and Mail | April 24, 2013
Stephen King and son Owen to open IFOA’s PEN benefit Toronto Star | April 16, 2013
Stephen King to kick off Toronto’s International Festival of Authors CBC News | April 16, 2013
Authors bear more than their souls in Bare It for Books Montreal Gazette | April 16, 2013
The semi-nude fundraising calendar: sweetly tasteful or totally twee? Globe and Mail | March 6, 2013
The Stamp Collector by Jennifer Lanthier, illustrated by François Thisdale Book Dragon | March 3, 2013
Authors uncover the goods for PEN Winnipeg Free Press | March 2, 2013
Hope Through Stamps Metro Morning | March 1, 2013
Big Brother Is Watching Your Bookshelf Huffington Post | February 26, 2013
Prose in the nude: Canadian authors get naked for Bare It For Books calender National Post | February 19, 2013
Twenty Years Ago, Salman Rushdie Surprised Toronto Torontoist | December 7, 2012
Salman Rushie, Under Fatwa, Onstage Hazlitt | December 6, 2012
Sci-lenced: A PEN Canada Evening on Scientists’ Freedom of Expression Toronto Review of Books | October 24, 2012
PEN Canada Benefit with Wole Soyinka, Miriam Toews, Azar Nafisi (Video)
Book Shorts | September 30, 2012
Vancouver theatre community takes on the Prime Minister Vancouver Sun | July 19, 2012
Moose Jaw is the write place for word-lovers Star Phoenix | July 12, 2012
Book about fallen Chinese official a testament to journalistic courage Globe and Mail | June 20, 2012
“Funny Strange”: TRB Tweets Calvin Trillin, Seán Cullen, and Charles Foran on Mordecai Richler
Toronto Review of Books | May 18, 2012
Funny Strange: Calvin Trillin and Charles Foran on satire and Mordecai Richler
National Post | May 16, 2012
Calvin Trillin, Sean Cullen and why Mordecai Richler is funny
Globe and Mail | May 15, 2012
PEN Canada: On Guard for Freedom of Expression LawNow (36.4, pp. 38-46) | March/April 2012
Harper in China: Prime Minister urged to speak forcefully and against human rights abuses in China Toronto Star | February 2, 2012
Journalist in B.C. fears deportation to Mexico CBC News | January 19, 2012
Free speech boost will rally neo-Nazi cyberhate, say human rights activists Global BC | December 14, 2011
The hyperlink case: freedom vs. the floodgates Globe and Mail | October 22, 2011
Left to Die in Africa’s North Korea National Post | September 21, 2011
The Prisoner of Asmara Toronto Star | September 21, 2011
The lethal war on Mexico’s journalists Globe and Mail | June 3, 2011
Anti-G20 protester launches constitutional challenge Toronto Star | November 15, 2010
PEN, Writers Union back Mistry’s book battle CBC News | October 21, 2010
Richard Ford urges us to pay attention Globe and Mail | October 21, 2010
Richard Ford: National Interest
National Post | October 15, 2010
PEN focuses on ‘Blogfather’ in Iranian prison CBC News | October 20, 2010
To silence the hate, speak out against it Winnipeg Free Press | July 12, 2010
Beyond Green Gables Toronto Star | April 29, 2010
Canada’s clampdown on free speech Boston Globe | March 27, 2010
Supreme Court creates new public interest libel defence for press and bloggers Canadian Press | December 23, 2009
John Ralston Saul to lead International PEN CBC News | October 21, 2009
International Festival of Authors brings literary stars to Toronto CBC News | October 21, 2009
Chinese dissident saved by Canada details horror Toronto Star | July 26, 2009
Row over 9/11 novel at Canadian university Guardian | September 8, 2006