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.

It’s now up to our fresh Parliament to make sure the courts and the pandemic have not collaborated to fatally weaken a literary culture that has given so much and gained so little, writes Rhea Tregebov.Image courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY RHEA TREGEBOV

November 8, 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 the isolation, increased stress...

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