Freedom to Read Week’s popular panel and award event on Tuesday, February 23, 2010.
The Good Fight! The Legal Limits of Free Expression
Outspoken experts will discuss recent libel developments, the defence of public interest, the impact of law on stories that writers cover
and the push and pull between lawyers and journalists about what gets published.
The Good Fight! panelists include Toronto Star public editor Kathy English, Globe and Mail columnist Rick Salutin
and media lawyers Brian MacLeod Rogers and Paul Schabas. The discussion will be moderated by writer and radio broadcaster Erika Ritter.
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Time: 6:30 p.m. Doors open at 6:00 p.m.
Location: Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto
Don’t miss The Good Fight! The Legal Limits of Free Expression. This lively and challenging panel is a key event of the BPC’s Freedom to Read Week.
The event includes the presentation of The Writers’ Union of Canada’s Freedom to Read Award.
RSVP for this free event to publicity@theBPC.ca
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The Book and Periodical Council (BPC) is the umbrella organization for associations involved in the writing and editing, publishing and manufacturing, distribution, and selling and lending of books and periodicals in Canada.
The BPC’s Freedom of Expression Committee monitors book and magazine censorship issues in Canada and organizes the annual Freedom to Read Week (February 21 to 27, 2010), which in 2009 celebrated its 25th anniversary. With the assistance of volunteers across Canada, the BPC brings to light the issues of censorship, freedom of expression and access to Canadian books and writing.
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