Department of weird mags from all over

If you want to stretch your mind beyond the parochial bounds of the Canadian industry, you might like a website run by Jean Snow (he's a guy). He is, among other things, an editor for MoCo Tokyo, a site covering contemporary design in the city and he publishes a regular spot called The Week in Magazines and the titles he talks about will take you right out of the Canadian orbit; every magazine he names comes with a handy link. (Beware: it is a supreme blend of work avoidance and a consummate time waster.) Here's what the site says about him, or what he says about himself:

[He] lives and breathes design and pop culture in Tokyo -- sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes. He has reported on these obsessions for the following online/offline publications: Time, Inside (Australian Design Review), Gizmodo, Tokyo Q, Superfuture, OK Fred, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, I.D. (International Design), Metropolis, and The Japan Times. He is also the editor of MoCo Tokyo, covering contemporary design in the city, and collaborates with the Swedish design outfit Next Century Modern.

An unhealthy addiction to magazines? Hmmmm.