Upcoming information session for the Douglas College Post-Degree Diploma in Professional Communication
When: Tuesday, July 22, 5:00 p.m., online via Zoom
If you want a career as a professional communicator, the Post-Degree Diploma in Professional Communication is for you. You’ll gain experience writing in a variety of genres, editing both print and online documents, designing and producing documents using industry-standard software, and working on projects in teams and individually. You’ll also participate in a professional experience opportunity– either a job or a project–that requires a significant amount of writing.
This program is designed to meet the needs of both recent university graduates and working professionals. Classes take place online, in the evenings and on Fridays, so you can continue to work while you study.
The Editors Canada AGM will be held via Zoom on Thursday, June 26, at 4 p.m. PDT/7 p.m. EDT. To review the strategic plan and call to AGM, please log in via the members portal on the Editors Canada website.
All members are encouraged to review the strategic plan, attend the AGM, and have their voices heard. If you can’t make the meeting, please consider assigning a proxy to vote on the motions that have been submitted.
To designate a proxy, please download the form from the website (under Proxy information), fill it in, and send it to your proxy holder before June 20. You may also appoint the national secretary as your proxy holder by emailing your signed proxy to secretary@editors.ca by June 20.
The deadline for members to register for the AGM or submit a proxy is this Friday, June 20, 2025.
At our April 16 Editors BC meeting, co-hosted by program co-chairs Mahima Bhagwat and Judith Doyle, members joined a brainstorming session about new programming options Editors BC might offer. We’ve highlighted some intriguing possibilities here!
Cost: Free for Editors Canada members, $10 for non-members, $5 for student non-members
This month, Editors BC is proud to host presenter Nara Monteiro, who will discuss the role of freelance editors in the publishing industry as it continues to “gigify.” In addition to this presentation, members are warmly invited to our annual general meeting, where we will hold elections to fill some co-chair vacancies on the 2025–2026 Editors BC branch executive. More details below!
Here are the highlights from an Editors BC presentation and discussion on March 19, 2025, with guests Lana Okerlund and Rowena Rae, partners of West Coast Editorial Associates (WCEA). Lana and Rowena are active members of Plain Language Association International (PLAIN), Plain Canada, the Center for Plain Language, Clarity, and Editors Canada.
Learn more below about adding plain language services to your editing business. You’ll also find some helpful resources.
Group work sessions on Zoom? In-person social time? Guest speakers from editing niches you didn’t know existed? Just like the flowers blooming around us, Editors BC is looking to spring into a new season of connected community and fresh learning. This April, let us know what YOU would like Editors BC programs to look like in the future.
We’re hosting an informal brainstorming session where all members are invited to bring their seeds of creativity to the community garden. What is it you want to see more of at monthly meetings? What is it you want to see less of? This is your chance to voice a little bit of what you’d like to receive as an Editors BC member.
So bring your budding ideas (and even more spring metaphors) to the cross-pollination conversation with editing friends and colleagues and help our community flourish.
Cost: Free for Editors Canada members, $10 for non-members, $5 for student non-members
For the past few years, plain language has been gaining momentum. Standards bodies like Editors Canada are publishing guidelines based on a growing mass of evidence about how people read and process information. Readers are increasingly demanding the right to understand the material they need for various purposes. Communicators are seeing the benefits of using plain language to reach their target audiences. And organizations of all kinds are looking for more plain language support.
Inquiring minds want to know . . . what’s on your bookshelf? Or in that pile of books on your desk or floor, or your stash of online links or files?
In the spirit of sharing resources and supporting each other’s professional lives, Editors BC and Editors Canada members are invited to submit a short piece about their “bookshelf” for posting in West Coast Editor, Editors BC’s official blog.
