After 16 largely happy years, Kathryn Wardropper, the trade book manager at the Laurier Bookstore at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, left the store last April for a job as an Ontario sales rep ... Read More »

When University of Alberta Press director Linda Cameron decided to publish an ambitious two-volume history of Alberta for the province’s 2005 centenary, she knew she’d have to look for unconventional funding sources. The province may ... Read More »

As planned, this June’s BookExpo Canada in Toronto will include a parallel festival of author events tailored for the public. The event now has an official name – the Readers’ Festival – and a high-profile ... Read More »

His term is just beginning, but Canada’s third parliamentary poet laureate, John Steffler, has some plans to use the position to raise the profile of poetry in Canada.“I don’t like to make promises, because so ... Read More »

A look back at Q&Q Omni coverage of the passing of authors and industry figures in 2006.Irving Layton, poetJoe Sherman, PEI authorGordon Sheppard, authorMargaret Gibson, authorJohn Lamont George, booksellerJane Jacobs, author and activistEdna Staebler, author ... Read More »

Three prominent veterans of Toronto’s book community are undertaking a new venture. Publisher Malcolm Lester and booksellers David Mason and Wesley Begg are the faces behind Lester, Mason & Begg, a new publishing company that ... Read More »

This fall, Q&Q polled our reviewers and contributors, surveyed industry trends, award showings, and bestseller listings, and put a few favourites of our own up for consideration. From all of that, we arrived at ourqqs-2006-books-of-the-year/> ... Read More »