On November 30 Vancouver Rape Relief is hosting a Montreal Massacre Memorial program. One of the speakers they’re hosting is Janice Raymond, and she is a controversial figure, due to her past statements about transgender people (including a 1979 book, The Transsexual Empire, which has been called a justification for anti-transsexual prejudice). This event is…
On November 8 and 9 Media Democracy Days were happening at Vancouver Public Library (& The Cinematheque), and I headed into the city to see what was happening. One of the events was a keynote by Elizabeth Denham and showing of the movie Terms & Conditions May Apply, which I blogged about for the Info…
A couple of days ago The Tyee reported that VPL’s Marketing and Communications Manager Jean Kavanagh’s sent a memo in November 2009 to staff outlining rules about branding and logos of non-Olympic sponsors. The quote that stuck in my head was Kavanagh’s advice to stick a little piece of tape to cover a non-sponsor logo:…
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