Canadian Publishing Industry News
8 May 2025,     TORONTO

Access Copyright 2024 Results

 

Canada’s creator and publisher communities
On April 25, members gathered online for Access Copyright’s 2024 Annual General Meeting.Financial results for 2024 included: realized $14.148 million in revenue in 2024 with total expenses coming in at $3.430 million. For 2024, the organization ended in a favourable financial position of $1.884 million, reflecting careful management of expenses following the completion of an organizational restructuring at the end of 2023, the winding down of Imprimo and the shift to a remote-first workplace.Distributions for 2024 totalled $7.691 million.

6 May 2025,     BERLIN, GERMANY

Adobe PDF Print Engine 7 Brings in-RIP Intelligence

 

Intelligence to Prepress Workflows
Intelligence to Prepress Workflows
Adobe announced version 7 of Adobe PDF Print Engine. Version 7 includes several rendering innovations that have already been welcomed by leading Print OEMs and RIP solution providers who integrate Adobe technology into their prepress products. The new features can leverage the scalability of the Mercury RIP Architecture. Fewer steps, smarter workflows – PDF Print Engine 7 integrates new functions into the rendering pipeline (inside the RIP), reducing the need for specialized skill sets, and eliminating separate prepress operations.

1 May 2025,     TORONTO

17th Annual (2025) COPAs Call for Judges 

 

Who wants  to be part of the Who’s Who in Canadian publishing the call for Judges for the 2025 COPAs is now open. The COPAs were established in 2009 and is recognized as the premier Digital Publishing Awards Program in Canada because of its neutrality with 50% of the judges from outside of the industry and a 30% turnover every year on the judging panel that includes a public call for judges. Learn more here

17 February 2025,     TORONTO, ON

Congratulations to the COPA 2024 Medalists.

 

The winners of the 2024 Canadian Online Publishing awards were announced on February 12 in Toronto with a live zoom-cast to other finalists from across the country. The big winner was University Affairs that got 5 medals (2G, 3S) in the B2B division. Urbania was the big winner in the Consumer category with 3 medals (2G, S) and the Investigative Journalism Foundation of Canada the lead the pack with 2 golds in the Media division. Entries from the schools saw Red River College get 4 medals (2G, 2S). For full list of entries you can see them on the COPA website at this link.

 

Below is a list of all the 51 medalists from across Canada.
 

14 February 2025,     OTTAWA

Canada Post Changing Systems On July 2nd

Canada Post lost a lot of parcel business in the last two postal strikes and is trying to get it back.
Canada Post lost a lot of parcel business in the last two postal strikes and is trying to get it back.
 Canada Post will migrate from their current SAP platform to the next generation cloud-based SAP solution. This upgrade will immediately improve how customers ship, mail and access parcel pricing. It will also provide improved billing and invoicing. Canada Post intended stated a target go-live date of September 3, 2024. Canada Post had re-aligned the target date to July 2, 2025. These changes may impact some customers accounting processes. Parcel rates, price changes for Parcel Services will come into effect with the 2025 implementation timing of the new SAP platform. rate codes for Parcel Services will expand from 45 to 128, while maintaining the current number of weight steps.

14 February 2025,     INUVIK, NWT

Inuvik Drum Newspaper Closes

 

 
Invik Drum newspaper's last issue
Invik Drum newspaper's last issue
The Inuvik Drum’s last print edition was January 9, 2025, 59 years to the day after it was first published. The Drum, was published weekly, served the town of 3,000 people and the wider Beaufort Delta region, home to just under 7,000 residents. It was first published in 1966 and was acquired by NNSL in 1988. The Company gave no reason for the closure was given. Newspapers have faced significant loss of advertising revenue to digital and social media. News/North will include dedicated stories about [the] Beaufort Delta,

14 February 2025,     TORONTO, ON

The Michael Atkins Tribute, Canadian Publishing Icon

            Michael Atkins
Michale Atkins was an industry mover and shaker in the Canadian publishing scene since the 1980’s and was instrumental in the development of northern Ontario media markets that started with Northern Life, Sudbury.com and Northern Ontario Business

He was able to create this into a media empire: Laurentian Media Group that was a diversified media company that included IT World Canada Inc., a print and digital trade group; CCMC Sports Group, an integrated sports marketing and publishing company; ConceptShare Inc., a web-based design collaboration business; Xpeerient Inc., an ICT outsourcing platform; and Adventus International Limited, a digital music business.

9 February 2025,     CALGARY, ALBERTA

Alberta Magazine Awards Looking For Judging Panel.

 

celebrate and recognize excellence in journalism and visual storytelling
celebrate and recognize excellence in journalism and visual storytelling
Alberta Magazine Publishers Association (AMPA) is looking for editors, photographers, art directors, and category specialists to volunteer as judges for the Alberta Magazine Awards. By lending your expertise to this highly regarded awards program, you help us recognize and celebrate the best Alberta's magazine content. Alberta Magazine Publishers Association couldn't run this program without support from our wider community. Key Dates: Entries will be sent by Monday, April 11, 2025.Score submission deadline: May 9, 2025 Judging is 100% online—convenient and flexible!
 If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact Suzanne Trudel, AMPA executive director, at director@albertamagazines.com  . 

9 February 2025,     TORONTO

Magazines Canada Survey On US Tariffs

 

Survey of the severity that tariffs imposed by the United States will have on Canadian magazines,
Survey of the severity that tariffs imposed by the United States will have on Canadian magazines,
Magazines Canada understands the potential severity that tariffs imposed by the United States will have on our economy, including the impacts it could have on your magazine. Working with the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Canada Council for the Arts, Magazines Canada would like to better understand the estimated or potential impacts these tariffs may have if they come into place in March. Magazines Canada would also like to know if there are any intra-provincial or national efforts that could reduce operating difficulties/red tape in Canada. Please fill out the survey below by Friday, February 14 at 5pm ET. Your responses are extremely important in helping to inform the government, funders and Magazines Canada's actions should the tariffs come into place.

30 January 2025,    

COPA 2024 Awards will have Rush Kazi's comedy act as part of the show

 Rush Kazi, Comedian

The 2024 COPA Awards will feature a guest entertainer Rush Kazi, a stand-up comedian based in Toronto. Rush’s comedy style can be described as confessional, raw, and acerbic story-telling. Drawing on life experiences as unique as jail time and as mundane as getting a wax, Rush’s refreshing and hilarious delivery and unique point of view has not found its equal in her contemporaries. Rush’s debut comedy album, About Time, was declared one of the Top 10 Canadian Comedy Albums of 2022 by Glenn Sumi (Now Magazine, So Sumi).  Video Clip 

 

The COPA will be held on February 12, 2025 at Dim Sum King  in Toronto. Tickets are $100 each. Buy Tickets Here.
 

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