This Monday, ELAN goes retro to a time before twitter, facebook and linkedin, when networking happened face to face! You’ll feel a warm glow of nostalgia when you experience novelties such as direct eye contact, handshaking, and people actually LOLing at your jokes. Not to be missed! Non-member friends are welcome.
Door prizes include 2 tickets [...]
Entries from April 2009
April 23, 2009
ELAN’s Old School Schmoozer this Monday
April 23, 2009
Congrats to 2009 NMA nominees
The National Magazine Awards recently announced this year’s nominees, which include a few PWAC members and friends: Craig Silverman, Alex Roslin and Jean-Benoît Nadeau times two (let me know if I’ve forgotten anyone).
Congratulations!
April 16, 2009
ERDC Gets green light for class-action lawsuit
After more than a decade, the Electronic Rights Defence Committee (ERDC) has received authorization from Quebec Superior Court to proceed with a class-action suit against some of the biggest names in Canadian media.
At issue is electronic use without permission or compensation for work by freelance writers in The Montreal Gazette. The defendants are the Montreal [...]
April 3, 2009
Tax tip for freelancers
Have you filed your taxes yet? If not, you may want to know that Quebec writers who received any income in 2008 from copyrighted work — through Access Copyright, Copibec, the Public Lending Rights Commission, or any other source — can deduct up to $15,000 from their personal income, on line 297 of the Quebec [...]
April 1, 2009
NDG community group seeks performers for Fair Trade event
Dix Mille Villages NDG is having their second annual “Coffee House” event to celebrate Fair Trade Weeks. Last year’s was such a huge success, they have decided to host another one on Friday May 8th from 8:30 – 10 PM.
The theme of this year’s Fair Trade Weeks is BIG BANG! 110 million Fair Trading [...]
