Pencils, eh
A virtual museum of the golden age of the Canadian pencil industry.
News has been the news recently in Canada. The Canadian government passed the Online News Act (Bill C-18) in June 2023. The act required online companies to pay Canadian news organizations when someone reads their content on one of their sites. Unsurprisingly, online platforms are not happy about this. Tech companies that this is an unfair tax and the government thinks the bill will help support struggling Canadian news industry. Quite a debate with valid points on both sides. A good opportunity to talk about a pencil perhaps? The Canadian Press pencil shown below is very similar to a Dixon Flamingo... soft, dark lead perfect for a reporter writing notes. The Canadian Press (CP) has a long history in Canada, first being created in 1917 to report on news from the front during World War I. It is now a privately held independent national news agency. I turns 106 years old on Friday, September 1st, 2023.
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