Does Canada’s immigration policy make the country a haven for terrorists? Macfarlane Walter & Ross has signed journalist Daniel Stoffman to answer that question in his forthcoming book, Who Gets In. Editor Gary Ross says ... Read More »

The Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild’s new board of directors will meet for the first time this weekend to form a hiring committee that will replace ousted executive director Paul Wilson.Wilson, who had been executive director for ... Read More »

The trial of Toronto’s Glad Day Bookshop has ended, but the store will have to wait until the new year for a verdict.The Toronto gay and lesbian bookstore was in Ontario court for charges of ... Read More »

A new Toronto-area bookseller is venturing where few would dare, facing Amazon and Indigo in the e-commerce world. But Malcolm Thistle, proprietor of Cottage Country Books, is hoping that a specialized niche will help him ... Read More »

Alberta’s book publishers are asking for a dramatic boost in provincial support and for the abolishment of sales-volume limits that determine provincial assistance.The 40-member Book Publishers Association of Alberta made its presentation to the province’s ... Read More »

The dehumanizing grind of a book tour can make some writers feel like a talking mannequin. But CBC radio host and author Bill Richardson actually volunteered to spend five days on display in a Vancouver ... Read More »

Publishers and others looking to use the new typeface named for Mordecai Richler will have to seek the permission of the late writer’s family, Random House of Canada, and the Giller Prize organization. But the ... Read More »

Six Canadian authors will soon be featured on two million Cheerios cereal boxes in grocery stores across the country. In exchange for contributing brief profiles of Canadian athletes to be printed on the backs of ... Read More »

First Anne Carson, now Carol Shields. This year’s Governor General’s Awards have highlighted two cases of apparent confusion over a Canadian author’s eligibility when published by a foreign house. Now the Canada Council says it ... Read More »

It didn’t take long for Richard B. Wright’s Giller Prize win on Tuesday night to attract the attention of American publishers.“I actually had an offer [for rights to Clara Callan] on the night of the ... Read More »