Search Results by tag: budget

Saskatchewan to reverse $4.8 million in cuts to libraries

The Saskatchewan government has confirmed plans to restore the $4.8 million in funding it cut from the province's libraries in the 2017-2018 budget. Premier Brad Wall said in a statement on April 20 that the ... Read More »

April 26, 2017 | Filed under: Libraries

Federal budget to double Canada Council investment and increase arts funding

By Becky Robertson

The Liberal government has stayed true to its promise to increase support for the arts and culture sector with the release of its first budget. Overall funding will increase to $1.9 billion over five years ... Read More »

March 22, 2016 | Filed under: Industry news

Q&A: Linda Besner on organizing the Fish Quill Poetry Boat Tour

By Natalie Samson

For the third year in a row, Linda Besner and Leigh Kotsilidis will lead a group of poets and one musician on a canoe tour down the Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. The lineup for ... Read More »

August 7, 2012 | Filed under: Authors, Events

Book links roundup: Federal libraries and archives to shut down, Tehran International Book Fair starts crackdown, and more

By Katie Gowrie

Budget cuts mean federal libraries, archives to shut down Tehran International Book Fair cracks down on "harmful titles" Can NFC chips in books enhance ebook discoverability? Why Sherlock Holmes has lasted through time Mediabistro launches ... Read More »

May 3, 2012 | Filed under: Book links, Libraries

Canada Council for the Arts unaffected by federal budget cuts

By Sue Carter

Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore delivered on last week's promise that there would be some good news for the Canada Council for the Arts in the federal budget, which dropped this afternoon. Arts organizations breathed ... Read More »

March 29, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Toronto Public Library Board balks at 10 per cent budget cut

By Natalie Samson

Last night, in its final meeting of the year, the Toronto Public Library Board approved a cut of 5.9 per cent to its 2012 operating budget. The 2012 budget now stands at just over $164 ... Read More »

December 13, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Publishing at the polls: Arts and culture platforms

By Sue Carter

Tonight is the first televised leadership debate of the federal election. It's unlikely arts and culture will be mentioned, so here's a primer on how all parties (including the Green Party) stand on issues that ... Read More »

April 12, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news

It’s official: litmags to be cut out of CPF funding

By Stuart Woods

There will be no exceptions for small literary and cultural magazines under the new Canada Periodical Fund, the department of Canadian Heritage has confirmed. In a letter to The New Quarterly managing editor Rosalynn Tyo, ... Read More »

August 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Critics stony towards Angel

By Scott MacDonald

The recent parade of big-budget CanLit film adaptations that began with Emotional Arithmetic and Fugitive Pieces continues this week with the release of The Stone Angel, starring American actress Ellen Burstyn. Not surprisingly, critics are ... Read More »

May 9, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Death of God good for books, bad for Hollywood

By Stuart Woods

New York magazine's culture blog points out how Phillip Pullman is distancing himself from his image as a God-despising, atheism-peddling iconoclast in the run-up to the release of Hollywood's mega-budget adaptation of The Golden Compass, ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Book news