The wayback machine: Out of doors; contractual rights; MagNet; TV Guide goes out of print

From time to time we look back to see what was happening in Canadian magazines a year, two or three ago.

A year ago...

•  TV Guide US sold to private equity firm
• Access Copyright urging content creators to register
• Rogers sells Ontario Out of Doors to Ontario Federation of Anglers & Hunters 
• PWAC executive editor Degen named literature officer of Ontario Arts Council
• Ontario says magazine support so far this year tops $1.3 million
• Readers feel squeezed, but so far sticking with high-end glossies
• subTerrain turns 20 
  

Two years ago...

• CanGeo makes clean sweep of its circ department
• Toronto Star dumps P.M. mini-paper
• The Tyee offering fellowship to promote BC investigative reporting
• The rich are not like you and me; they use more media
• PWAC fighting back against contractual rights grab
• Transcontinental Inc. pledges to promote "environmentally preferable" paper
• Cottage Life cleans up at IRMA awards

Three years ago...

• Independent ReadyMade  swallowed by Meredith
• Robertson wins groundbreaking freelance suit after more than a decade of struggle
• Walrus tops up its board
• Mag industry tries to head off Canada Post's abandonment of the postal subsidy
• MagNet officially launched and hopes to attract the whole industry
• Transcon kills print version of TV Guide magazine
• The Beaver blows its own horn in offbeat TV ad