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Canada’s writers emerge from pandemic poorer and with fewer rights

Free copying remains illegal, even according to the flawed Copyright Act. But neither Parliament nor the courts have taken the necessary hard line required to remake the education sector as a paying customer.

Not only did the pandemic shut our bookshops and libraries, disrupt our publishing and promotion cycles, and wreak havoc on our supply chain, it brought into crisp focus a glaring irony of this trade, writes Rhea Tregebov. We make something of great value, but painfully little of that value returns to us as income.Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY RHEA TREGEBOV

November 4, 2021

Unless you’re the billionaire owner of an online retail site, chances are you suffered during the last two years. Even those who were lucky enough to have and keep a full-time job during the pandemic could not escape the dramatic toll on mental health that came with ...

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