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April 2000
April 2000
| Langara College lab mag unveils redesign Vancouver, B.C., 28 April, 2000: A glossy annual produced by Langara College publishing students is set to hit the streets early next month with an entirely new look, including a revamped logo. The latest edition of 12-year-old Pacific Rim Magazine is slated to come off the presses on May 9. "Our goal was to present our content in a clean, modern and sophisticated way," says art director Kristine Davidson. "What better time for a redesign than the beginning of a new millennium?" The Vancouver-based title is produced by students enrolled in Langara's Publishing: Techniques and Technologies Program. According to program coordinator and Pacific Rim publisher Elizabeth Rains, the magazine examines "societal connections between Canada and Pacific Rim countries." For the second year, 17,000 copies of the annual publication will be distributed with The Globe & Mail throughout the Vancouver area. The title's total print run is 18,500. Contact: 604-323-5430 --Deanna Rosolen |
| Potential trouble brews over name change Toronto, Ont., 27 April, 2000: The Publishing House's Computer Reseller News Canada assumed a new identity in mid-April, relaunching with a new look and a new name: ChannelLine. The change debuted April 17. Editor Paolo Del Nibletto says the title's new name better reflects changes in the computer reseller industry. Aside from dealing in high-tech computer hardware, resellers these days are also selling added services and their expertise, he says. Along with the new name and look, readers will also find new editorial on product and market analyses, e-business and consumer electronics in the 26-times-per-year trade book. So what do the folks at Rogers Media's Channel Business think of their competitor's name change? "The only thing that I can say at this point is that due to their name change to ChannelLine or the publication that they are now going to be publishing called ChannelLine, it's being looked at by our lawyers," says publisher Kathryn Swan. In related news, the Toronto-based publisher has also changed names from The Publishing House to Integrated mar.com. The company also dissolved its four-year-old partnership with U.S.-based CMP Media this month. CMP used to provide editorial content, but from an American perspective, says Del Nibletto. Officials at CMP did not respond to Masthead Online's requests for an interview. Contact: 1-800-804-9643 --Deanna Rosolen |
| Shift loses online editor, gains new ME Toronto, Ont., 26 April, 2000: Shift's online producer and editor Barnaby Marshall has resigned after differing with parent company Shift Multimedia over proposed changes to the magazine's Internet presence. "I think the company feels that the Web site needs to go in a different direction," Shift editor Laas Turnbull says of Marshall's departure earlier this month. "They both decided it wasn't a good fit culturally." With Marshall's resignation, the magazine's Web operations will now be centralized out of New York. As for the magazine itself, a much sought-after U.S. editor has been brought aboard as managing editor. In part hired to replace former deputy editor Joanna Pachner (now executive editor at L.A.-based Raygun), Lisa Cindolo will also be expected to focus more on managing the editorial process, hiring staff and acting as a "bridge-builder" between Shift's Toronto and New York offices. "She has amazing contacts in New York," says Turnbull, noting that Cindolo had "seven job offers from big, big magazines" before choosing to join Shift. A graduate of Cornell University, Cindolo was most recently the managing editor at Details, where she oversaw 48 staffers and a $19-million budget. Before that she was ME at Time Out in New York. Meanwhile, the search continues for a replacement for outgoing publisher Andrew Heintzman. According to Turnbull, a recruitment firm has pinpointed five "strong" candidates. |
| Saturday Night earns most NMA nominations Toronto, Ont., 18 April, 2000: The usual suspects top the list of nominations for this year's running of the National Magazine Awards, with Saturday Night leading the way with 24 mentions in the visual and written categories. Also securing significant numbers of nominations were Toronto Life (22), Shift (19), L'actualité (13), enRoute (11), Canadian Geographic (10), Elm Street (9), Report on Business Magazine (8) and Gardening Life (7). The 23rd annual awards ceremony will be held May 26 at the Toronto Sheraton Centre, with Canadian film maker Don McKellar serving as emcee. In all, $64,500 in prize money will be awarded. For a more thorough overview of this year's nominations, see the upcoming June issue of Masthead magazine. (Also see "NMAF press release" in this conference.) The 2000 nominees are as follows: Written categories (in alphabetical order) One-of-a-Kind sponsored by Wolfson Bell Associates Shawn Blore, Jim Sutherland, Building Smileyville, Vancouver Magazine L. Robert Morris, Rise and Fall of the airship empire, Citizen's Weekly Chris Turner, Flip flops, a desktop & one billion reasons never to leave, Shift Magazine Michel Vastel, Le secret de Paul Desmarais, L'actualité Jennifer Wells, Whodunit?, Report on Business Magazine Paul Willcocks, 2010: An Undersea Odyssey, BC Business Humour Nancy Fitzgerald Chorley, The China Syndrome, Today's Parent Peter Foster, The Wealthy Hooker, Toronto Life Ken Hegan, Marathon of Hop, Vancouver Magazine Mike Randolph, Ride 'Em Bass Boy, Outdoor Canada Leslie Smith, L.A. Woman, enRoute Miriam Toews, Gunthered, Saturday Night Politics Guy Crittenden, Closed for Business, Report on Business Magazine Curtis Gillespie, In Rod They Trust, Saturday Night Naomi Klein, The Real APEC Scandal, Saturday Night Linda McQuaig, The Limp Whip, Report on Business Magazine Business sponsored by Ernst & Young Diane Bérard, Les coulisses du mariage , Revue Commerce, Provigo-Loblaw Luc Chartrand, Péladeau II, L'actualité Trevor Cole, Who Loves Ya?, Report on Business Magazine Madelaine Drohan, Into Africa, Report on Business Magazine Peter Foster, The money pit, Toronto Life Paul Kaihla, Mayhem Man, Canadian Business Anne Mullens, The Sixty-Storey Crisis, BC Business Albert Nerenberg, Crossed Wires, Saturday Night Jennifer Wells, Over--and out, Report on Business Magazine Science & Technology sponsored by Royal Bank Yan Barcelo, Médicaments: la course à obstacles, Revue Commerce Nancy Baron, Riders on the Storm, Canadian Geographic Louise Gendron, Chasseurs de plantètes, L'actualité Curtis Gillespie, Ground Zero, Saturday Night Fiona McCaw, Decoding DNA, The Georgia Straight Anne Mullens, The Sixty-Storey Crisis, BC Business Ed Struzik, Requiem for a Fossil Forest, Canadian Geographic Yanick Villedieu, Ceci est mon double, L'actualité Health & Medicine Louise Gendron, Vivre jusqu' à 130 ans, L'actualité Michel Legault, Le médecin et la mort, L'actualité médicale Alicia Priest, First Call, The Georgia Straight Mary Rogan, Acts of Faith, Saturday Night Sarah Scott, Gods & Monsters, Elm Street Walter Stewart, Fuel Deficiency, Canadian Geographic Danielle Stanton, Les aliments mutants, L'actualité Social Affairs sponsored by United Steelworkers of America Mark Bourrie, The System That Killed Santa, Ottawa City Magazine Don Gillmor, South Riverdale, Toronto Life Pascale Millot, Sommes-nous obsédés par la sécurité, Châtelaine Yan Muckle, Demain le catastrophe, L'actualité Hal Niedzviecki, Wake Up and Retire, THIS Magazine Alison Rose, The Science of Heaven, Elm Street Jay Teitel, The Kidnapping of Play, Saturday Night Clive Thompson, Why Your Fabulous Job Sucks, Shift Magazine Clive Thompson, Good Clean Fun?, Shift Magazine Investigative Reporting Madelaine Drohan, Into Africa, Report on Business Magazine Robert Hough, Prisoner of Love, Saturday Night Paul Kaihla, Mayhem Man, Canadian Business Jake MacDonald, Joint Ventures, Saturday Night Jane O'Hara, Trade Secrets, Maclean's Daniel Wood, Missing, Elm Street Fiction Lee Henderson, Sheep Dub, Grain Rick Maddocks, Plane People, Prairie Fire Tim Mitchell, The Cold Outside, Prairie Fire Andrew Pyper, A Summer of Ping Pong, The Malahat Review Bill Richardson, It's in the cards, The Georgia Straight Timothy Taylor, Doves of Townsend, The Malahat Review Poetry Shane Book, Dust, The Malahat Review Julie Bruck, Six Poems, The Malahat Review Jacqueline Larson, Salt Physic, Prairie Fire Rosemary Sullivan, Granada Notebook, Border Crossings Brian Wickers, Geese in Flight, Border Crossings Arts & Entertainment Jack Batten, For Doris, Toronto Life Gary Michael Dault, Because I'm not Particularly a Traveller, Canadian Art Peter Foster, If Glenn Gould Were Alive Today, Toronto Life Taras Grescoe, Tivi Nation, Saturday Night Gerald Hannon, Excerpts from a Description of Tom Dean, Canadian Art Robert Hough, Saddling the Mad Boar, Toronto Life Monique Roy, La littérature en question, Madame au foyer Martine Turenne, Le bonhomme 7 heures, L'actualité Service sponsored by Periodical Marketers of Canada Yan Barcelo, Objectif: battre les pros!, Affaires Plus Diane Bérard, Travail: arrêtez d'endurer!, Châtelaine James Chatto, 1999 Food Guide, Toronto Life Buffy Childerhose, Pssst…..It's Ok to Play with Sex Toys, Chatelaine Camilla Cornell, The Sex Complex, Today's Parent Leanne Delap, Jacob Richler, Sin City, Toronto Life Ann Douglas, Making Babies, Chatelaine Ann Dowsett Johnston, Maclean's staff, Measuring Excellence, Maclean's Sports & Recreation James Deacon, The Great One, Maclean's Don Gillmor, On the Rebound, Saturday Night Bruce Grierson, Court Jester, Saturday Night Guy Lawson, Mervs Curls Lead, Saturday Night Yanick Villedieu, La route des fromages, L'actualité Columns Gregory Boyd Bell, Millenium Bugged/The Rag Trade-off/The PR Rx , eye weekly Robert Fulford, See no Evil/Cottage Industry/Slouching Toward Manhattan, Toronto Life Elizabeth Kelly, The Parent Trap/Lord Thy Rod/Dust to Dust, Hamilton Magazine Mordecai Richler, Memories of Moore/The Joy of No Sex/Canada's Century?, Saturday Night Jordan Robinson, The Adam's Family/Bye Bye Beater/Grifted!, Vancouver Magazine Mireille Silcott, The New Satanism/Not-so-cool Britannia/Rhyme Pays, Shift Magazine Travel Ted Bishop, Homing Instinct, Cycle Canada Steve Burgess, That 70's Town, Vancouver Magazine Jackie Garrow, Drawn Onward, Outpost Jonathan Link, In the Path of the Shadow: Chasing the Last Eclipse of the Millenium, Outpost Jake MacDonald, Fishing Papa's Paradise, Outdoor Canada Alison Wearing, Arrival, Queen's Quarterly Essays Diana Atkinson, From the Gut, Western Living Lucretia Grindle, Pride and Prejudice, Canadian Geographic Michel Legault, Le médecin et la mort, L'actualité médicale David Macfarlane, The Spy Who Snagged Me, Elm Street Rebecca Raglon, In Defense of Reading, Prairie Fire Jay Teitel, The Kidnapping of Play, Saturday Night Personal Journalism sponsored by Canada Post Wayde Compton, Under My Skin, Saturday Night Karen Connelly, The skull is made of such thin bone, THIS Magazine Don Gillmor, South Riverdale, Toronto Life Jasmine Miller, Love Him, But Leave Him, Chatelaine Susan Musgrave, Visiting Rites, Saturday Night Miriam Toews, A Father's Faith, Saturday Night Timothy Wilson, Boo, Saturday Night How-to Ken Bailey, The Book on Whitetails, Outdoor Canada Gord Delamont, The Land Down Under, Canadian Home Workshop Glenn Flanagan, Tim Whitehead, Your Best Investment Strategy Now, Money $ense Wayne Lennox, The Perfect Privy, Cottage Life Mike Randolph, Kick Your Camping Up a Notch, Outdoor Canada Profiles sponsored by St. Joseph Printing Jack Batten, For Doris, Toronto Life Luc Chartrand, Péladeau II, L'actualité André Ducharme, Une fièvre nommée Perreault, L'actualité Gerald Hannon, A Monumental Man, Toronto Life Gerald Hannon, Remembering Zena, Toronto Life J. Timothy Hunt, An Incredible Hodgepodge of Weirdness, Ryerson Review of Journalism Editorial Package sponsored by Indas Limited Diane Bérard, Laurent Fontaine, Daniel Germain, Top 50 jeunes, Revue Commerce Diane Bérard, Jacinthe Tremblay, René Vézina, Laurent Fontaine Daniel Germain, Sandrine L'Herminier, Power!, Revue Commerce Ann Brocklehurst (handling editor), Avi Friedman, Judy Ross, Katherine Vansittart, Katherine Macklem, Russell Smith, Welcome Home, enRoute Luc Chartrand, Razzia sur la forêt, L'actualité Ann Dowsett Johnston (handling editor) and Maclean's staff, Measuring Excellence, Maclean's Dane Lanken, Eric Harris, Margaret Williamson, Stephen Hanks Mary Vincent, Andrew Murray, Steven Fick, Robert Semeniuk, Nunavut, Canadian Geographic James Little (handling editor), Dré Dee, Gary Ball Kevin Van Tighem, Gerry Wolfram, Ken Bailey, René Huard, Andy Clements, Bud Simpson, 100 Years of Canada's Outdoors, Outdoor Canada Judy Ross, Antanas Sileika, Jane Rodmell, Entertaining a Crowd, Cottage Life Geoff Stevens (handling editor) + Maclean's staff, Canada's Century, Maclean's Laas Turnbull (handling editor), Richard Bingham, David Brake, Ian Connacher, Paul Fruitman, Richard Kadrey, Mark Hagee, Matthew McKinnon, Laura Penny, David Pescovitz, Douglas Rushkoff, Maryam Sanati, Jenn Shreve, Clive Thompson, John Turner, Felix Vikhman, The Net Issue, Shift Magazine Words and Pictures David Berman (handling editor), Jeannie Marshall David Menzies, Ian Cruickshank (writers), Nadine Arseneault (art director), Eden Robbins, George Whiteside, Lorella Zanetti (photographers), Messages in a Bottle, Stick Work, Forever Young, Cute but Expensive, National Post Business Cheryl Embrett (handling editor), Kris Purdy (writer), Donna Spence (art director), Homeless, Homemaker's Angie Gardos, Gary Ross (handling editors), Sky Gilbert (writer), Sandra Latini (art director), Bryce Duffy (photographer), Positive, Toronto Life Nadine Kocho (handling editor), Matthew McKinnon (writer), Carmen Dunjko, Malcolm Brown (art directors), Floria Sigismondi (photographer), Work Wear, Shift John Macfarlane, Angie Gardos, Gary Ross (handling editors), Nigel Dickson (photographer), Sandra Latini, Vicki Hornsby (art directors), City of Writers, Toronto Life Richard Rhodes (handling editor), Dot Tuer (writer), Vid Ingelevics (photo editor), Barbara Solowan (art director), Camera Obscured, Canadian Art Carolann Rule (handling editor), Trevor Boddy (writer), Rick Staehling (art director), Edifice Rex, Western Living Hilary Smyth (handling editor), Carolynn Kenndy (writer), Hasnain Dattu (photographer), Maarten Sluyter (art director), Out of the Closet, Canadian House & Home David Zimmer (handling editor), Charles Long (writer), Joseph Salina (illustrator), Faith Cochran (art director), Atlas Shrugged, Newton Tugged, Cottage Life Visual Categories (in alphabetical order) Fashion Carmen Dunjko, Malcolm Brown (art directors), Chris Nicholls (photographer),Architectural Model, Shift Carmen Dunjko, Malcolm Brown (art directors), Miroslaw Baszak (photographer), Go Reconfigure, Shift Carmen Dunjko, Malcolm Brown (art directors), Floria Sigismondi (photographer),Work Wear, Shift Brad MacIver (art director), Gabor Jurina (photographer), Jimmy Moorhouse (stylist), High Contrast, Toronto Life Fashion Brad MacIver (art director), Colin Faulkner (photographer), Dee Connolly (stylist), Technical Expertise, Toronto Life Fashion Jean-Marc Martin (art director), Monic Richard (photographer), Marie-Christine Allard (stylist), Dessous Définis, Mariage Québec Karen Simpson, Nadine Arseneault (art directors), George Whiteside (photographer), Claude Morin (stylist), Grand Illusion, National Post Business Marc Stewart (art director), Chris Nicholls (photographer), Jimmy Moorhouse (stylist), Brave New Romance, Wedding Bells, Chicago Marc Stewart (art director), Chris Nicholls (photographer), Jimmy Moorhouse (stylist), Zen and Now, Wedding Bells, New York Martha Weaver (art director), Robert Nelson (photographer), Dominique Vien (stylist), Persona, Elm Street Illustration sponsored by THE INTERPROVINCIAL GROUP Graham Gillmore, Falling Slowly, Vancouver Jerzy Kolacz, Burned by the Sun, Elm Street Louise Muretich, Dear Mr. Brezhnev, I don't want to die, THIS Magazine Alain Pilon, Would you blow the whistle on sex abuse, Chatelaine Alain Pilon, Gods and Monsters, Elm Street Alain Pilon, Follies of the Century, National Post Business Joseph Salina, Turkish Momma, Canadian Christine Stephens, Video Game Guide, Shift Maurice Vellekoop, Operation Champagne, enRoute Tim Zeltner, A Time for Tradition, Today's Grandparent Magazine Covers sponsored by TRANSCONTINENTAL PRINTING Chris Dixon, Joy, Adbusters Chris Dixon, Manufacturing Desire, Adbusters Carmen Dunjko, Malcolm Brown, The Work Issue , Shift Stephen Hanks, Through the Lens, Canadian Geographic Sandra Latini, Pre, Toronto Life Danielle Le Bel, Portraits in Jazz, enRoute Alice Unger, Urban Chic, Gardening Life Spot Illustration Bob Daly, Make it Count, Canadian Business Magazine Katy Dockrill, A Bird in the Hand, Chatelaine Gerard Dubois, Canadian Letters –November, Saturday Night Michel Larose, The Limp Whip, Report on Business Magazine Luc Melanson, Rigged, Saturday Night Erik Mohr, A Surly Genius, Saturday Night Stephanie Power, Whither the Canadian Hottie?, Flare Jason Schneider, Canadian Letters - September, Saturday Night Martena Zuber, Ghost in the Machine, Elm Street Still-life Photography Douglas Bradshaw, Tender Mercies, Elm Street Colin Faulkner, Technical Expertise, Toronto Life Fashion Tom Feiler, The Couch-potato's Xmas gift guide, Shift George Whiteside, Talking Parrots, Gardening Life George Whiteside, Poppies, Gardening Life Environments Evan Dion, Holy Roman Church, Toronto Life Evan Dion, A Side of Egg F, oo Young, Toronto Life Colin Faulkner, Green Velvet, Gardening Life Deborah Samuel, Breaking the waves, enRoute Paddy Wales, Autumn Blade Runners, Gardening Life George Whiteside, In My White Room, Toronto Life Fashion George Whiteside, Garden Club, Gardening Life Portrait Photography Brodylo and Morrow, Holy Terror, Saturday Night Chris Buck, Class of 99, Shift Nigel Dickson, CEO of the Year, National Post Business Nigel Dickson, City of Writers, Toronto Life Nigel Dickson, A Monumental Man, Toronto Life Bryce Duffy, The Cutting Edge, Shift Suzanne Langevin, Politically comiques, L'actualité Floria Sigismondi, Melissa's Chrysalis, enRoute Photojournalism sponsored by KODAK CANADA INC. Nancy Ackerman, Landfill Landscape, Canadian Geographic Robert Bourdeau, The Station Point, Border Crossings Bryce Duffy, Port of Many Callings , enRoute Geoffrey James, Suburbia, Shift Gary Salewicz, Clean Sweep, Toronto Life Derek Shapton, Adventures in Clubland, Toronto Life Larry Towell, The Road to Bountiful , Canadian Geographic Art Direction for a Single Magazine Article Carmen Dunjko, Malcolm Brown, Rawshift - Pills, Shift Carmen Dunjko, Malcolm Brown, The Cutting Edge, Shift Carmen Dunjko, Malcolm Brown, Video Game Guide, Shift Stephen Hanks, The Road to Bountiful, Canadian Geographic Danielle Le Bel, Operation Champagne, enRoute Danielle Le Bel, Hot Northern Jazz, enRoute Danielle LeBel, The Chocolate Front, enRoute Danielle LeBel, The Cost of Comfort, enRoute Brad MacIver, Technical Expertise, Toronto Life Fashion Alice Unger, Herb Breads, Gardening Life Art Direction for an Entire Issue sponsored by QUEBECOR INC. Bill Douglas, Coupe 02, Coupe Carmen Dunjko, Malcolm Brown, The Net Issue, Shift Diti Katona, September/October, Azure Stephen Hanks, Through the Lens Annual, Canadian Geographic Karen Simpson, Nadine Arseneault, The Kid in the Corner Office, National Post Business Contact: 416-422-1358 --The Editor |
| Two new Where books prepare to launch Toronto, Ont., 17 April, 2000: The Where Canada chain of magazines has expanded to include two popular Canadian tourist regions. In partnership with Muskoka Tourism, Where Toronto will launch Where Muskoka this spring. Also this spring, Where Vancouver will launch Where Thompson/Okanagan. Both digest-sized, full-colour magazines will begin life as annuals, with circulations of 100,000 and 50,000 respectively. Where Toronto associate publisher Hannah James says the frequencies may increase next year to include spring and winter issues. A full-page ad costs $2,593 in Where Muskoka and $3,500 in Where Thompson/Okanagan. As with other titles in the Where Canada franchise, both new giveaways will be distributed through hotels, visitor information sites and tourist attractions in their respective areas. Where Muskoka will also be distributed in Toronto hotels. Contact: 416-364-3333 (Where Muskoka); 604-736-5586 (Where Thompson/Okanagan). --Deanna Rosolen |
| Maclean's editorial staff play musical chairs Toronto, Ont., 14 April, 2000: The editorial masthead at Maclean's has seen several changes of late. Among them: • national affairs columnist Anthony Wilson-Smith now has additional duties as editor-at-large; • Vancouver bureau chief Chris Wood, who is now national correspondent (technology), has been replaced by western business correspondent Jennifer Hunter; • assistant editor Tanya Davies has been promoted to associate editor; • researcher/reporter Shanda Deziel is now an assistant editor; and • editorial administrator Sean McClusky has been promoted to production director Contact: 416-596-5132 --The Editor |
| D.B. Scott to help gauge industry concerns Cambridge, Ont., 13 April, 2000: The Canadian Magazine Publishers Association (CMPA) wants to know where the rest of the industry's head is at--and it's hired consultant David Scott of Impresa Communications to find out. Contracted in February, Scott aims to talk to all industry-affiliated associations to pinpoint common concerns and to determine the potential for partnerships. According to CMPA executive director Mark Jamison, the survey is all about "trying to build consensus" among industry associations to help them find "where they need to be in support of the industry." Contending that he would like to keep the discussions as open as possible, Scott says he won't be asking pointed questions about specific issues such as retailing, distribution or circulation. Instead, he wants to "follow the process where it leads." By June, Scott says he hopes to circulate his findings among the participants as the first step toward forming long-term joint initiatives. Contact: 416-504-0274 --Lana Castleman |
| New golf title to serve duffers and pros alike Toronto, Ont., 12 April, 2000: It's not just for "golf nuts," stresses editor Mark Keast. Canadian PGA Golf Magazine also aims to serve duffers merely interested in the game, or "high handicappers" who want suggestions on how to improve. Developed through a partnership between Toronto-based Tribute Publishing (En primeur, Tribute Magazine, WILD, etc.) and the Canadian Professional Golfers' Association (CPGA), the new, full-colour glossy is set to tee off next month. According to Keast, the new title aims to position itself as a lifestyle golfing magazine with an emphasis on celebrities--either in golf or outside the golfing circle. Regular departments will examine equipment, fashion, travel, fitness/wellness and "a lot on instruction." There will also be humour. "I want it to be self-deprecating," says Keast. "I don't want the golf magazine to take itself too seriously. That's a goal." Canadian PGA Golf Magazine will be distributed across Canada through pro shops. Targeted advertising categories include golf equipment, golf courses, travel, alcohol/spirits, electronics and automobiles. Under the partnership between Tribute and the CPGA, both parties will sell advertising and attend editorial meetings, says the CPGA's manager of communications, Terry Dyni. Contact: 416-445-0544 Frequency: quarterly Circulation: 150,000 Cover price: $1.95 Subscription: $11.95 Colour ad: $10,000 --Deanna Rosolen |
| New health title linked to Uniprix drugstores Kirkland, Que., 11 April, 2000: The national health and nutrition book Vitalité Québec has spun off a sister French-language publication in conjunction with the Uniprix chain of drugstores. Launched in February, Le Complément Naturel is distributed to 53 Uniprix outlets throughout Quebec, each of which receives 1,000 copies. Stores that carry the new title must also offer a related selection of natural health products, says publisher Pierre Martineau. To be published 11 times a year, the tab-format giveaway covers natural health products, vitamins, research, plants and recipes. Advertisers include only those companies that produce natural health products (a one-time, full-page colour ad goes for $3,400). In related news, Vitalité Québec has increased its frequency from nine to 10 issues a year. As well, both titles have shifted from Baie D'Urfé, Que. to Kirkland, Que. Contact: 514-697-5888 --Deanna Rosolen |
| Redesigned Avid title posts jump in paid subs Markham, Ont., 10 April, 2000: Outdoor Canada has greeted the spring with a graphic redesign, the title's first major change since it was purchased last year by Avid Media Inc. (formerly Camar Publications). Except for the logo, the book has been revamped from cover to cover--complete with new fonts and section headers--by art director June Anderson and editor James Little. The new look debuted with the recent March issue. In related news, subscriptions to Outdoor Canada have jumped 37.5% under Avid's stewardship thanks to aggressive direct mail, package insert, co-op and newsstand promotions. Ad revenue is also up by 6% since Markham, Ont.'s Avid bought the book. Contact: 905-475-8440 --The Editor |
| Magazines earn attention from The Review Toronto, Ont., 7 April, 2000: The spring and summer editions of the Ryerson Review of Journalism have hit the streets, and once again the magazine medium received its fair share of fresh-eyed scrutiny. Among its student-penned examinations of Canadian journalism, the spring issue included features on Alberta Report founder Ted Byfield, the rivalry between MoneySense and IE:Money, the shake-up in the women's magazine category, and the viability of magazine Web sites. The summer issue, meanwhile, investigated the current controversy over the rise of magalogues, and the plight of freelance magazine contributors. Shepherded this year by instructor and longtime magazine journalist Don Obe, The Review is published twice annually by Ryerson Polytechnic University's School of Journalism. Sources, contributors, advisers, media types and even some of the subjects of the articles themselves descended on Ryerson last night for the official launch party Contact: 416-979-5000, ext. 7434 --The Editor |
| Dot-com biz swallows another mag publisher Vancouver, B.C., 6 April, 2000: The Internet portal Investment.com has added yet another finance-related publishing concern to its portfolio with the purchase of Mutual Fund Review and its related products. The deal was announced in February, the same month Investment.com relaunched another recent acquisition, Planning for Profits, as Investment.com Magazine (see "Planning for Profits relaunch" in February's Daily News archive). Along with Mutual Fund Review, this most recent purchase includes French-language sister title La revue des fonds mutuels, the monthly newsletter Fund Counsel and the related Web site fundcounsel.com. Creators Levi Folk and Richard Webb will continue to edit both titles. As of its spring issue, however, the English magazine will become Investment.com Mutual Fund Review, with its focus broadening to include online investment. The newsletter will similarly change to Investment.com Fund Counsel, and its Web site will be integrated into the Investment.com site. The French title will not change. Contact: 604-681-7210 (Investment.com) --Deanna Rosolen |
| Business annual moves to twice a year Toronto, Ont., 5 April, 2000: Business Careers Canada has made somewhat of a career move of its own, graduating from annual to biannual status this month. The frequency change coincides with the three-year-old glossy's Spring/Summer issue, notes publisher Paul Macygyn. Covering the small business market--including home-based enterprises--the Toronto-based magazine also features a directory of resources geared to entrepreneurs. With a circulation of 30,000, Business Careers Canada is distributed to more than 175 federal and provincial government business resource centres across the country. The Macygyn Communications title also a Web site: www.businesscareerscanada.com. Contact: 416-955-1550 --Deanna Rosolen |
| Equinox poised to unveil new graphic design Montreal, Que., April 4, 2000: Although full details are not yet available, Equinox is preparing to unveil a graphic redesign with its upcoming June/July issue. The new look will not be "a big departure from what's gone on here before," acknowledges editor Martin Silverstone, although there will be new typefaces and an overall new layout, including a new cover treatment. As for revamping the Equinox logo, Silverstone says any change "depends if they can come up with something stronger." Editorially, meanwhile, there will be minor changes to some of the existing departments. along with the addition of a new section on technology, says Silverstone. Contact: 514-327-4464 --Deanna Rosolen |
| Manitoba-based teen book revamps look Winnipeg, Man., 3 April, 2000: As of its February issue, What! a magazine is now known simply as What. And along with the truncated new name, the Winnipeg-based title for teens aged 13 to 18 now sports a new logo and a new graphic design. Designer Geoff Yuen says his inspiration for the new logo came from teenage clothing and sports equipment logos. According to art director Brian Kauste, the redesign was not "a huge overhaul," although the book now carries more photos and its section headers have been harmonized. The changes follow last September's revamping of the editorial, which featured the introduction of several new departments and the renaming of existing sections. The 250,000 circ magazine is published five times throughout the academic year. Contact: 204-985-8160 --Deanna Rosolen |
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