Wednesday, March 23, 2005

The cultural literary heavyweights

Sometimes a weird factoid emerges while you were looking for something else. But if evidence were needed that Toronto is, indeed, the centre of the universe when it comes to literary and cultural publishing in this country, consider the following table. It lists the top 10 Ontario recipients of combined money from the Canada and Ontario Arts Council in 2003 (the last complete year available).

Magazine

City

Amount

Canadian Art

Toronto

$138,500

C international contemporary art

Toronto

$80,500

Musicworks

Toronto

$77,700

MIX

Toronto

$74,200

Quill & Quire

Toronto

$71,300

Fuse

Toronto

$69,700

Brick

Toronto

$61,200

Descant

Toronto

$53,800

This Magazine

Toronto

$49,600

Opera Canada

Toronto

$48,600


The geography is even more clearly defined by the admittedly quirky facts that all of the recipients come from Toronto and, in fact, from two, federal ridings (Trinity-Spadina and Toronto Centre) and several of them are published in the same building (401 Richmond Street West). The 10 publications account for 78.5% of the combined Ontario grants from these two agencies.

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