April 2009 Archive

April 15, 2009

Press Release: April 15, 2009

 

Say yes to the writers, researchers, and readers of Canada!

You can make a difference. Lend your voice to the Coalition to Keep Federal Support of Literary, Scholarly and Arts Magazines and collect signatures for the following petition.

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Petition to the House of Commons in Parliament Assembled

We, the undersigned residents of Canada, wish to bring to your attention the following:

From policies pre-dating Confederation, the Government of Canada has supported programs to help Canadians both receive and create periodical publications about arts, literary, and scholarly matters created by Canadians devoted to enriching and informing our cultural and intellectual life at home and around the world.

On February 17, 2009, the Department of Canadian Heritage announced that existing periodical policy will be merged into a new Canada Periodical Fund (CPF) in 2010/2011. We understand that eligibility for CPF program may be set in such a way as to cause the majority of our arts, literary, and scholarly journals to lose a significant portion of what is already very modest financial support essential to their viability.

Proposed eligibility criteria, while apparently designed to achieve efficiencies, will cause long-term damage to the capacity of these important and unique periodicals to remain a source for readers and a vehicle for Canada’s writers, artists, and researchers.

THEREFORE, we petitioners are calling upon the Government of Canada to ensure that the criteria of the new Canada Periodical Fund sustain current federal funding investments in Canada’s vital arts, literary, and scholarly magazines.

download petition in English
download petition in French

Please mail all completed sheets to:
The Malahat Review, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700, Stn CSC, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2.

The Malahat will forward the collated petition to Parliament.

Deadline: June 8, 2009

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