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The annual Prix littéraire des collégiens has been cancelled following protests by the Quebec authors who were in the running for a $5000 prize. Authors were concerned that the prize was now being sponsored by Amazon. In a statement they said:
“Our great unease comes from the dangerous competition this giant has with Quebec bookstores. Need we remind you of the precariousness of the book trade and literary publishing? Need we mention the inhumane methods of this online giant, which constitute a danger for small traders and culture at large?” they wrote.
“Could the [award] do without the money from Amazon? Find sponsors more in line with the values it stands for?” they asked. “Unfortunately, we believe that by uniting with Amazon, the prize is failing in its principal mission, which is to ‘promote Québécois literature today’ … We believe that the defence of Québécois literature and the promotion of a multinational that harms bookstores … cannot go together.”
Award organizers are now working to find alternate means of supporting the award.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 21 2018, @12:26AM (1 child)
we get a lot of shit for this from the press from the rest of Canada for thing like this. You see, most Quebecers are nationalist, not really separatist but proud to be from Québec first Canada second. Also most Quebecers are against religious clothing like burqua, tchador and the like and most boomers are really anticlerical for them any religious symbol visibly worn in public. The Canadian medias are pro multiculturalism beyond belief and were pro assimilation integration. We welcome the good thing from emigration but we demand that they adopt our language and shared values, like equality between sexes and the laicity of the state.
But be warned, politically our rigth that you can vote for is as socialist Bernie Sander and our left lead by https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manon_Massé, [wikipedia.org] but we're not communist we're quite centrist by European standard. Traditionally the cleavage use to be between separatist and federalist now it is between separatist left, separatist center, the weakly nationalist center and federalist center. the weakly nationalist center won.
(Score: 2) by dry on Wednesday November 21 2018, @04:16AM
Learned a new word, [url:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%C3%AFcit%C3%A9] which seems a good thing to strive for.
While I don't like religious clothing or most religions, I don't think it is the States job to police it, which seems more Laïcité to me.