I flew in last Tuesday to Winnipeg for the Thin Air Literary Festival in Winnipeg. I was picked up from the airport by a Thin Air volunteer and had the most fascinating conversation about World War II on the way to the hotel.
Once I dumped my stuff in the room, I met up with Ian P, a very talented kidcrit member. I LOVE meeting kidcritters in person. It takes a special bond to share and constructively crit writing and that’s what we do amongst ourselves. We do have kidcrit litgets every year or so in Toronto, but Winnipeg has a LOT of kidcritters, former and current as well.
Here is the view from my Inn on the Forks hotel room:
Ironic, really, seeing as I had been misquoted all week in a Reuters news article about this very place. For the record, what I said is that a Canadian Human Rights museum has a mandate to concentrate on lesser-known Canadian human rights stories, rather than showcasing atrocities that are well known, and my examples of lesser-known injustices were Canada’s treatment of First Nations people and Canada’s internment of “enemy aliens” during the First World War.
