The Ontario Ministry of Culture's plan to cut $1.2-million from the province’s public library budget will mean downsizing of staff and services, including interlibrary loan programs, say the CEOs of the Southern Ontario Library Service ... Read More »

Book reviewer extraordinaire Robert Adams celebrated his 68th birthday Tuesday, and retired for the second time. The previous weekend he gave the last of his extremely popular book talks at Hart House in Toronto on ... Read More »

Owlkids Publishing, creator of children’s magazines Chirp, chickadee, and OWL, is extending its publishing oeuvre with the launch of a book-publishing arm. Last fall, Owlkids issued a cookbook for children, and the firm is nowowl-gets-back-into-books/> ... Read More »

Last week a copyright reform bill known as Bill C-60 got its first reading in the House of Commons. The purpose of the bill is to bring Canada in line with the rest of the ... Read More »

For exhibitors, the final day of this year’s BookExpo Canada was an unusually nerve-wracking affair, thanks to a process that forced many of them to select new space for next year’s show.Show manager Jennifer Sickinger ... Read More »

The Department of Canadian Heritage released the results of a new survey of the country’s reading habits Thursday, and the news appears quite good. The study, carried out between January 5 and January 31, 2005 ... Read More »