superior middlebrow novel is, in fact, a Canadian specialty.

Polite. Liberal. Progressive. Welcoming.

Canada's own national identity crumbling.

“CanLit fails to transform because it refuses to take seriously that Black literary expression and thus Black life is foundational to it

Canada Reads, in their latest contest, has acknowledged that they’relooking for “books that can change perspectives, challenge stereotypes andilluminate issues.” They are not looking for good books but virtuous books

Canadian in-betweenness, inevitably, almost organically, produces a willful marginality.

She served the nascent academic field of Canadian literature perfectly; herworks are utterly representative of the dominant literary modes of America—butCanadian.

seriousness and Canada just didn’t seem to go together ..

The earlier predecessors, Archibald Lampman and Susanna Moodie and E.Pauline Johnson and the rest, were even more intensely marginal, both to thecountry of their birth and to literature in general. They were also, if we’re beinghonest, not particularly good. These are the writers you are forced to read in thefirst half of your “Introduction to Canadian literature” class

Before 1965, virtually noCanadian writers were professionals; as Woodcock and others noted, almosteverybody in the Canadian literary scene was a professor.

Aperson should not be allowed to reapthe benefits of the violation of anoth-er’s rights by gaining a head start (aslong as the person knows of the viola-tion of the rights).

TheCanadian publishers and author pre-vented the publication of the plannedearly review through a similar Ontarioinjunction order, and Raincoast wasreferring to this scenario when it citedthe publishers’ responsibility for con-taining the effects of the early sale ofsome copies of Half-Blood Prince inseeking the British Columbia injunction.

the injunction didnot impose a significant burden on thepremature purchasers because it onlyprevented reading of the book forapproximately one week

the author and her publisherswere attempting not to express any-thing before the release date.

Charter would evenapply to a court order like the injunc-tion in this case, which arose from aprivate dispute having no connectionto the government

Raincoast also made the fol-lowing points:

the prohibition penalized the inno-cent purchasers of the book and wascontrary to the constitutional guaran-tee of freedom of expression

The book’s content is the privateproperty of the author. This relation-ship between an author and her workis recognized by the Copyright Act ofCanada, which grants the author cer-tain exclusive rights to the work, or“copyright” in the work.

those actions constituted a directattack on the freedom to read, the free-dom of expression, and the freedomassociated with personal property

The Globe and Mail had intended topost a review of Half-Blood Prince onits Web site at the stroke of midnighton July 16 and to run the review in itsSaturday edition. On Friday, the news-paper’s editors were served with legalpapers from Raincoast advising themthat the posting of the review wouldconstitute a violation of the courtorder.

Canadian copyright lawhas very little to say about what peoplecan do with a book once they have pur-chased it. As far as the law is con-cerned, they are permitted to read it,resell it, or use it as a doorstop if theywish. Attempts to use copyright law tocreate a new form of end-user licencethat establishes restrictions on the per-mitted uses of a book is at odds withlong-standing legal principles.

Raincoast issued apublic explanation that cited copyrightand trade secret law as the legal basisfor its actions.

disclose the names,addresses, and other contact informa-tion of any other person with whomthey discussed the book’s contents

aincoastalso directly targeted the 14 shopperswho had lawfully purchased copies ofthe book. The court order compelledanyone with a copy of the book toreturn it to the publisher, along withany notes and other descriptions of itscontents. Moreover, it prohibitedCanadians from reading or discussingany aspect of the book.

All the Potter publish-ers across the globe undoubtedly feltsimilar pressure, stemming from J.K.Rowling’s own wishes that secrecy be

a grocery store inCoquitlam, British Columbia, erro-neously sold 14 copies of the newHarry Potter book prior to its officialsale date of July 16, 2005.

Divisions of Obstet-rics and Gynecology (43% female department heads) andOphthalmology (42%) were closest to parity, whereasdivisions of Cardiac Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Plas-tic Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, and Urology had no femaledepartment heads

Today, five of Canada’s sev-enteen medical schools (29.4%) currently have femaleDeans, and there have been a historical total of eightfemale Deans of Medicine.

“pink pointing”women toward some specialties andaway from others because of their genderand family situation