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.