Rights deal: Laurie Petrou
Aaron Williams wins 2025 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
Williams won the $10,000 prize for his second book of nonfiction, The Last Logging Show: A Forestry Family at the End of an Era, published by Harbour Publishing.
Bestsellers: Top 10 New Releases, November 23–29, 2025
Rights deals: Three foreign deals for Kallie George
Independent bookstore sales: the 25 top-selling Canadian titles of 2025
Bookmanager provided Q&Q with sales data for all Canadian-authored titles and for the top-selling titles published by Canadian-owned companies.
New AI writing tool to help users avoid anti-Indigenous bias
The tool, wâsikan kisewâtisiwin, which means kind electricity in Cree, uses an Indigenous-world-view-informed language model to highlight unintentional anti-Indigenous bias in written works and offer suggestions for how to avoid them.
Canada’s book community shares their favourite young readers titles of 2025
Personnel change: Drawn & Quarterly
Kids Can Press condemns unauthorized use of Franklin the Turtle
The character “stands for kindness, empathy, and inclusivity,” says Kids Can Press.
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