Joy Newall, Canadian Broadcast Writer

5.31. "I married and had three children, and then I realized how imperative it was that my childhood convincement that war or any violence was wrong had to be visible in everything I did. It wasn’t a sudden turning on of a lamp in my head; rather it was a deeply centred awareness of a responsibility I must carry and reflect in all I did. So our home became weapons-toy-free from the start. That wasn’t easy in a neighbourhood that was heavily led by consumerism, where Johnny 7 guns were the hot item on the street. My children remark today on the feelings they have of wonder that they were never spanked, as their friends so frequently were."

"My verbal arsenal of words that can hurt had to be kept in check. I became a freelance writer, and for 25 years wrote scripts for…children’s TV… The thing I remember most about that time was that every time I started to write, I closed my eyes and imagined children in all places of Canada, in all conditions of living. From slum ghetto to affluent suburb; from far northern habitation to life on a boathouse; in Chinatown or in a Ukrainian prairie town or on a reservation. All of them had to be reached in my one script, and my message must be one of loving life in all its wonders and challenges."

—Joy Newall, 1997

LEGACY
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https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/timescolonist/name/joy-newall-obituary?pid=146637786

MR DRESSUP
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/tv-academy-to-honour-harron-mr-dressup-writers-little-mosque-1.658302