The dedication of Matt Cohen Park and the launch of Uncommon Ground: A Celebration of ... Read More »

Jack Stoddart’s embattled General Publishing was thrown a lifeline late last night by an Ontario court judge, who ruled that General Distribution Services owns its receivables. In the wake of the decision, the Bank of ... Read More »

General Publishing got another two months today to continue restructuring under protection from its creditors, and told an Ontario court it expects to announce the sale of one of its assets within a week. D.J. ... Read More »

General Publishing needed an additional $2.5-million financing on April 30, and passed its “drop-dead date” two weeks ago, a lawyer for the publisher said in court yesterday, adding that the company has “no assurances” from ... Read More »

Alice Munro is set to make a rare public appearance next week. On her 71st birthday, Munro will speak in her hometown of Wingham, Ontario, at the opening of a public garden named in her ... Read More »

Yesterday an Ontario judge allowed Greystone Books to cancel its co-publishing contract with Stoddart Publishing for David Suzuki’s The Illustrated Sacred Balance: A Visual Celebration of Our Place in Nature. Senior justice Robert Blair said ... Read More »

Two well-known independent Montreal bookstores closed their doors this month. Librairie Hermès shut down due to the ill health of owner Élisabeth Marchaudon, who also cited competition from chain stores as a factor. And L’Androgyne, ... Read More »

A Douglas & McIntyre historical atlas focusing on a B.C. first nations people won the City of Vancouver Book Award this week. A Stó:lo-Coast Salish Historical Atlas was announced as the winner of the $2,000 ... Read More »

This week’s Giller Prize win for Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe is a big boost for Thomas Allen Publishers – and could lead to short-term shortages for booksellers. Clarke’s win gives the three-year-old publishing imprint ... Read More »