A Vancouver gay and lesbian bookstore’s once-stalled court battle with Canada Customs was given new life on Thursday with a Supreme Court of Canada ruling.Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium is suing Canada Customs over ... Read More »

William Roberts, the dean of Ottawa booksellers and a major influence on Canada’s book trade in the 1970s and ’80s, has died at 74. The owner of Shirley Leishman Books and other bookselling enterprises, Bill ... Read More »

Two years ago, Toronto businesswoman Jackie Brown hit on an idea for a publishing company that would specialize in non-fiction titles for children. At the time, Brown didn’t know much about the Canadian publishing industry, ... Read More »

The title of the latest in the Massey Lectures series, Race Against Time, took on an unintended irony this year because of the CBC lockout. Just days before the publication of Stephen Lewis’s book, House ... Read More »

News of the freshly minted Scotiabank Giller Prize highlights the different goals of Canadian literary prize administrators and their corporate benefactors. While many awards foundations take on donors simply to stay viable, their backers receive ... Read More »

University of Western Ontario information and media studies professor Tim Blackmore had pretty much hit the end of the line in his search for a book deal a few years ago. All of his efforts ... Read More »

"It was really clever of me to think it was time to get rid of my books, because now I’ve got about four times as many,” says Montreal poet, editor, and, of late, online used ... Read More »

Shortly after the CBC lockout began, McClelland & Stewart marketing and publicity director Bruce Walsh was quoted in a Globe and Mail article bemoaning the publicity opportunities lost to the work stoppage. Almost as soon ... Read More »