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About.

PLAIN provides networking opportunities for Canadian plain language supporters on LinkedIn, Facebook, and resources at the website PLAINCanada.org. 

Established in 2019

Canadians attending the 2019 Oslo Conference of Plain Language Association InterNational decided to organize a national Canadian organization for plain language supporters.
Leadership team.
Leadership Committee:  Cheryl Stephens-Coordinator, 
Caroline Mandell, Jocelyn Pletz, Roberta Boyle, Nicole Watkins Campbell, Michelle Boulton, Katherine McManus
French membership development and services,  ​Leadership Team: Chantale Audet, Amélie Bourret

Our Goal

Priorities for immediate future
Promote and inform:
  • Advocate for plain language in public documents.
  • Help business, governments, and not-for-profit groups understand what is meant by plain language writing. ·
  • Show the financial savings of putting documents in plain language.
  • Link plain language to transparency and democracy.
"If people can't understand government and businesses, they can't  be informed voters or consumers." 
Develop provincial strategies.
  • Create a plain language strategy 
  • Advocate to government and business
Deliver training information:
  • Provide information sessions and basic courses
  • Set up a directory of available plain language training
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Coordinator

Cheryl Stephens
Coordinator, PLAIN Canada

https://www.linkedin.com/in/plainlanguage/


Email to PlainLanguageCanada@gmail.com

Join at 
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12301364/
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