Just when I think I’m going to dream about Canada, I dream about India. After all, it has been over 21 years since my husband and I immigrated here, two years after leaving India for ... Read More »
March 7, 2005
The Montreal children’s publisher Lobster Press has filed suit against the Department of Canadian Heritage after being denied funding last fall. In an application filed last November, Lobster is seeking to overturn a decision by ... Read More »
March 7, 2005
In the ever-embattled arena of book publishing, no market is considered a tougher sell than the young-adult genre. Teen readers are a notoriously hard-to-please demographic, and recent social and cultural developments have made reaching them ... Read More »
March 7, 2005
Last fall Wingate Press, a small Ontario press, launched a projected trilogy of fantasy novels for young adults with The Book of Broken Hours, the debut of Caeli Hampton Doherty-Wayne. The second volume in the ... Read More »
March 7, 2005
The importance of libraries in fostering reading habits among young people has been an increasingly urgent subject in educational and publishing circles in recent years. One recently wrapped initiative – a campaign to donate thousands ... Read More »
March 7, 2005
After years of legal troubles, publisher Pierre Turgeon may finally see his Montreal-based Trait d’union press close up shop for good.In January, Turgeon’s estranged business partner and financier Julien Beliveau went to court to file ... Read More »
March 3, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
No news is good news at Penguin Canada and Tourmaline Editions as both firms have managed to avoid the layoffs that plagued their counterparts in the U.S. and the U.K.“We’re not planning any changes,” says ... Read More »
March 3, 2005
After six and a half years as executive director of The Writers’ Trust of Canada, Lascelle Wingate has left the organization, explaining that she “needed a new challenge.”She also says that she felt the time ... Read More »
March 3, 2005
Steve Coll, associate editor of The Washington Post, has won the 15th annual Lionel Gelber Prize for the world’s best book on foreign policy for Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan andwashington-post-editor-claims-gelber-prize/> ... Read More »
March 2, 2005
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