Pamela McColl
Pamela McColl | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of Manitoba |
| Occupation(s) | Entrepreneur, advocate |
| Website | www |
Pamela McColl is a Canadian publishing entrepreneur[1] and advocate of children's issues and smoking cessation best known for releasing a smoke-free version of the classic Twas The Night Before Christmas.[2]
Background
Her career includes previous experience in publishing, as a health care worker with Canadian Mental Health and as labor support doula. Her early career was spent the field of costume design for film and theatre and she attended the National Theatre School in Montreal, Quebec and worked at the Stratford Festival in Ontario and the CBC. The Vancouver resident earned a BA in History/Sociology as she attended Queen’s University, the University of Manitoba, and did postgraduate work in Theatre History at the University of Victoria. She returned to study as a mature student in the faculty of Women’s Studies at the University of British Columbia and holds certification in Peer Counseling.
Career
Her company Grafton and Scratch Publishing[3] has published Baby and Me Tobacco Free, which she co-authored with Laurie Adams, and is the publisher of Twas The Night Before Christmas. She has a special interest in maternity and smoking cessation and previously was a labor support doula and prenatal yoga instructor and produced a video production of yoga in water entitled "Yoquatics." She has been published in the Birth Institute journal on the smoking cessation as well as the use of marijuana in pregnancy.[4][5] She is a director on the advisory council of the national not for profit corporation Smart Approaches to Marijuana Canada.[6][7] In 2015, she compiled the book On Marijuana – a powerful examination of what marijuana use means for our children, our communities and our future, a collection of essays and articles from those that oppose increasing the availability of and access to cannabis.[8]
She is the publisher of seven books, including Pacific Spirit: The Forest Reborn, which United States Senator Frank Murkowski, the chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, labeled as “one of the most important works on forest management” in recent years.[9]
McColl has been featured in major media including The New York Post,[10] Huffington Post,[11] The View with Barbara Walters, Vanity Fair, USA Today,[12] Boston Globe, Maclean’s magazine, CBC Radio,[13] National Post,[14] The Scotsman,[15] The Telegraph,[16] The Guardian,[17] and National Canada AM-TV.
The Stephen Colbert Show created a segment based on her editing of the famous holiday poem Twas The Night Before Christmas. The book has won six book awards including four Benjamin Franklin Book Awards through the Independent Book Publisher’s Association, a Moonbeam Children’s Book Award, and a Mom’s Choice Award along with a Global International Ebook Award.
References
- ^ "Santa Claus Forced to Quit Smoking During His Most Stressful Season" Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2014-6-22.
- ^ "Santa Quits Smoking In New Edition Of Best-Selling Christmas Classic" Boston Globe. Retrieved 2014-6-22.
- ^ "Santa Claus can quit smoking you can" Epoch Times. Retrieved 2014-6-22.
- ^ "Quit Smoking During Pregnancy! For A Healthy Mom And Baby" Birth Institute. Retrieved 2014-6-22.
- ^ "Marijuana And Pregnancy: What Are The Risks?" Birth Institute. Retrieved 2014-6-22.
- ^ "New Canadian Marijuana Policy Group, Smart Approaches to Marijuana Canada (SAMC), Officially Launches in Ottawa on March 4th, 2014." Reuters. Retrieved 2014-6-22.
- ^ "'The Bud Busters': Surrey teens protest marijuana legalization at Vancouver's annual 4/20 event" The Province. Retrieved 2015-4-26.
- ^ "Andra Smith" University of Ottawa, School of Psychology. Retrieved 2015-4-26.
- ^ "Re: Endorsement of Pacific Spirit - The Forest Reborn" Retrieved 2014-6-22.
- ^ "Santa doesn’t smoke a pipe in PC rewrite of Twas the Night" The New York Post. Retrieved 2014-6-22.
- ^ "Santa Quits Smoking: 'Twas The Night Before Christmas' Loses References To Santa Smoking" Huffington Post. Retrieved 2014-6-22.
- ^ "Column: OK, so Santa has flaws, too" USA Today. Retrieved 2014-6-22.
- ^ "Santa quits smoking in edited version of Twas the Night Before Christmas The Current. Retrieved 2014-6-22.
- ^ "After 200 years, Santa kicks a bad habit: Publisher, activist edit Twas The Night Before Christmas, take away St. Nick’s pipe" National Post. Retrieved 2014-6-22.
- ^ "Santa’s pipe dream up in smoke as tobacco ban on children’s classic derided" The Scotsman. Retrieved 2014-6-22.
- ^ "’Twas the night before Christmas... and Santa’s pipe had gone missing" The Telegraph. Retrieved 2014-6-22.
- ^ "Santa's pipe put out in new edition of children's classic" The Guardian. Retrieved 2014-6-22.
External links
- Twas the Night Before Christmas Official site