From the Editor
Robin Carson | Editor, news&views
Some Important Matters
There are a few essential matters that I would like to share with you that
relate to news&views.
The fi rst of these is the most important. After
September 1, the email addresses you are used to
using to communicate with news&views will no
longer work. For the past seven years, I have been
maintaining news&views email using accounts
that are my own; now, fi nally, news&views email
accounts will become part of ARTA’s overall
communications. Please understand that this
is not some sort of corporate decision, nor is it
Robin Carson fi nally rebelling against paying
for and maintaining these addresses; rather,
because I am moving, we have arranged for ARTA
addresses. It’s about time, I think.
So, newsandviews@shaw.ca, nveditor@shaw.ca,
and nvsubmit@shaw.ca no longer work.
Instead, I would invite you to submit your
articles, branch news, letters, and opinions to
nvsubmit@arta.net
And, if you would like to communicate with
the editor (still me) directly, please do so at
nveditor@arta.net
I have easy access to both of these accounts, and
I always try to reply promptly (although my good
intentions put a pretty good layer of asphalt on
the Hadean road!)
Second, as I write this, I am not sure about the
status of news&views as an online magazine. I
know that launching it has not been easy. We’ve
always had a pdf version available, and we’ve
always known how clunky pdfs are to read on
either a reader or a tablet. But we’ve found that
it isn’t all that easy to create a page-fl ipping,
live-link zine, either.
After September 1, the email addresses
for news&views will change:
Contributions may be sent to
nvsubmit@arta.net
To contact the editor, write to
nveditor@arta.net
Our target was to launch with this issue, and we
will if we are ready. And don’t worry — the paper
version of news&views is not going away.
Third, you will notice that we are beginning to
publish articles that deal with the end of life. In
my seven years as editor, we have only published
a single article and a single opinion piece on the
subject. It’s not that the topic has been taboo for
us, it’s just a topic that is diffi cult to deal with
on many levels, and it is only very rarely that
an article is made available to us to publish. We
have had several articles about wills and the like,
but there has been only the one about the end of
life itself — an excellent article by Peter Mueller
about memorial societies in the Winter 2015
issue. I have no intention of seeing news&views
become dark and morbid, but end-of-life issues
are matters that seniors must deal with. I have
asked the Wellness Committee to assist us with
appropriate articles.
So, as the French say, plus ça change, plus c’est
la même chose. In other words, news&views
continues to evolve, but it remains the same
magazine. And therein lies the challenge of editing
a magazine like this one: to encourage healthy
change in content and form while maintaining a
familiar and comfortable identity. ●
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