(cross-posted from the CWILL BC blog)

B.C.’s new lieutenant-governor, who credits a single book with changing his life, has designated literacy as one of the major themes of his term at Government House.

Steven Point plans to concentrate on early childhood literacy and to do what he can to ensure that more reading material for preschoolers makes its way into B.C.’s most remote communities.

-Jeff Rud, Times Colonist
Published: Sunday, January 13, 2008 (full article)