The wayback machine

It's been awhile since we did this. But some readers have said they like to look back and see where we've been and how far we've come in Canadian Magazines. So here's a rundown on what was being reported on this blog a year and two and three ago:

A year ago

•  Manitoba to impose 80% blue box levy on magazines
• Alberta Views hustles subs in wake of magazine-of-the-year win
• Quebecor World rejects sweetened Donnelly offer
• New internship program may suit Ontario not-for-profit magazines
• Rogers shakeup: Whyte and Mitchell now each multi-title uber publishers
• Transcon posts Q2 loss of 144.3 million
• Pierre Marcoux steps up to head Transcon's consumer magazine publishing
• Freelancers dismayed by Transcon's new "take it or leave it" contract

  Two years ago

•  Ken Alexander resigns as editor of The Walrus
• Venture Publishing purchases Alberta Oil
• June launch for swank new international architecture magazine
• Lake Simcoe Living to be launched
• Dance Current celebrates 10 years
• Sherrill Cheda, former Mags admin and founder of Emergency Librarian, dies
• Executive editor becomes editor-in-chief for LouLou magazines, French and English
• St. Joe's Tony Gagliano: "He's shot up like a rocket"

Three years ago

• Quebecor closes Vancouver mag printing plant
• We're strictly about money, says freelance union
• NAFTA decision may be good news for the PAP and for magazines
• Cover price differences irritating as the loony gains ground
• Maisonneuve wins best in show at newsstand awards
• Circulator Terri DeRose dies
• ARC aims to rehabilitate reputations of forgotten and neglected Canadian poets
• Maureen Murphy leaving Canadian Geographic