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Coach House Press is dead. But Coach House the printer which got out of the book publishing business when it […]

If nothing else, reports that the World Trade Organization  has concluded that Canada is unfairly protecting its  magazines at the […]

Rumour, and this is only rumour, pits Alanis Morissette’s  record company against three kids who were running their  very own […]

Seen your favourite magazine at  Canada’s chain of super-size  bookstores? The answer is probably  not. Chapters, obviously enjoying  their monopoly […]

According to Tom Synders, editor of  Vancouver I it-listings mag Verb and member of the obscure but virulent Small Press […]

An incredible compendium of  artists, writer s and the kind of  people who you wouldn’ t  condescend to label. First […]

White boxes of text buried in black coffin shaped pages.  Scratched photographs of nothing. Floating stick girls.  Ostensibly, this is […]

Hey it’s a new year, so you need a new hobby right? That’s  why I’m starting off with a little […]

Mike Harris, Progressive Conservative Premier of Ontario, might  well be the most loathed political figure in Canada. He’s made a […]

When I was in university I took this course dedicated to the  writing of the early explorers of Canada. It […]

Call it Collateral Damage, call it Scourge,  call it Interference, it doesn’t matter  what you call it, Hamish is making […]

A hefty and impressive repudiation of  Ralph Klein’s conservative war against  the people of Alberta, this is a  convincing and […]