The unpitying crowd jostled, each spectator trying to get a look at the nervous victim in his chair. A blade flashed. A collective gasp turned to a roar. But the throng at the annual Canadian ... Read More »

Always eager to span the fracturing audience demographic, Hollywood, over the past few years, has mounted lavish film adaptations of numerous British and American children’s books. Alias Mrs Doubtfire, by British writer Anne Fine, became ... Read More »

During her childhood summers in Lake of the Woods, Ontario, Jennifer Rae would put on a variety show with her sister. The Gaylord Show became a family tradition, named after its host, a beanbag frog ... Read More »

When Heather Reisman finally does convert all of her big-box bookstores to aromatherapy and exercise-accessory emporiums, book-biz comedians will have to find a whole new target. As it was, Indigo was at the centre of ... Read More »

The publishing industry in British Columbia was born in the early 1970s, a period of intense western alienation from central Canada and of indigenous pride that saw people – and companies – identifying themselves as ... Read More »

There must be something in the water – or maybe in living by the water. From online sales to bibliographic databases and beyond, British Columbia is quickly developing a reputation as a technological leader in ... Read More »

A 10-year-old Victoria company has produced more books in its brief history than most publishers in Canada, but hasn’t received a cent in government funding.Impossible? Not when the company stands the traditional publishing model on ... Read More »