The best of the season. See you next year.

As is the custom at this time of year, Canadian Magazines is taking a bit of time off, returning to usual programming on January 4. We hope you have a good holiday and that we have a lot of good things to report about the magazine business in 2017.

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This has been the year of major upheavals, not least of which is the move to digital by several of Rogers Media's better known titles and the decision by a group of publishers to start their in own magazine awards in competition with the 40-year-old National Magazine Awards. Here is a somewhat arbitrary selection of those and other stories we've carried in the past 12 months. 

January

• Ryerson Review of Journalism will continue in both print and digital form 
• [Updated]Penthouse [NOT] discontinuing print edition
• Canada's History and Kayak mark centenary of the achievement of women's suffrage 
• David Balzer named editor-in-chief of Canadian Art
• 50 years of Toronto illustration being celebrated by exhibit at John B. Aird gallery 

February

• "By the time you read this, I will be dead" -- John Hofsess
• Jes Watson named editor-in-chief of Canadian Living
• Canadian Gardening to be closed this spring by TVA Publications
• HuffPo reports that Rogers is considering closing Canadian Business magazine
• Magazines Canada and Canadian Business Media are merging under Magazines Canada name

March

• Kitchener pulls out of national book and magazine fair Word on the Street
• EIC of cycling magazine Momentum relinquishes day-to-day role to become GM of new Vancouver Bike Share program
• Corporate Knights celebrates Canada's greenest buildings
• Applied Arts magazine marks 30 years with new designers, logo and tagline
• Canadian Medical Association Journal editor fired, again

April

• Kim Pittaway to receive 2016 Outstanding Achievement Award at the national mag awards
• "Not dead, just transformed"; Ricepaper mag discontinues print edition
• Derek DeCloet leaves Rogers Media after two years and rejoins Globe and Mail
• Founder of St. Joseph Communications dies at the age of 98
• First full year of Vividata research shows magazine readership steady; more digital reading

May

• Cottage Life contest lets readers colour-their-own-cover
• Only about 1 in 6 Canadians have ad blockers installed
• Munro's Books named Magazines Canada's retailer of the year
• Longtime Maclean's editor and Estonian musician Peeter Kopvillem has died at 61
• Trudeaus picked among "most beautiful Canadians" of 2016 by Hello! Canada

June

• "Magazine Mashup" national promotion campaign announced by Magazines Canada 
• Heritage minister drafts advisory panel to help her consider sweeping changes to cultural policy
• Jewish magazine Outlook closed after 52 years
• Subramanian named EIC of LRC
• Another day, another Ontario culture minister with no experience
• Maisonneuve wins magazine of the year for third time since 2004 at National Magazine Awards
• NOW Body Issue picked as the People's Choice for best magazine cover

July

• Duncan Hood now editor of Report on Business magazine
• Beth Hitchcock steps in as editor-in-chief of House & Home
• PETS Magazine changes owners after 30 years and moves to New Brunswick
• Hamilton is home to thriving and competitive scene for online literary magazines
• Magawards release a guide to taking advantage of being an award winner
• Jacqueline Loch to lead St. Joseph women's group; Lilia Lozinski leaving company
• Briarpatch magazine supporters step up; it is going to double contributor rates

August

• Warren Hinckle III, the godfather of Ramparts magazine, has died at 77
• The Kit Compact magazine going national in September
• Adbusters presents Donald Trump as precursor of fascism
• U.S. print magazine readership said to be holding steady, says study
• The Walrus Foundation announces cross-country conversations about Canada's next 50 years

September

• Rogers Media goes digital-first with a bang in its magazine division
• Long-form online magazine called The Deep planned for eastern Canada
• John Fraser, former Saturday Night mag editor, to be in Canadian News Hall of Fame
• 140-year-old Presbyterian Record is to fold
• This magazine marks 50 years and looks forward to 50 more
• Can the Canadian magazine industry resolve the developing struggle over awards?

October

• TVA Group magazine division revenue is up but the company takes $40 million write down
• Roster of international judges named to augment Magawards judging
• November is the 50th issue of Toronto Life magazine
• Precedent magazine calls "bullshit" on Law Society over call to cancel alternative to articling
• Sticking up for magazines
• Custom content company Totem bought from TC Media by Yellow Pages

November

• Layoffs and reassignments underway in Rogers Media's English language mag division
• 60 will be laid off at Rogers Media's French magazines by year's end
• Most of Rogers b2b titles now sold; a few titles remain in playIs transitioning from print to digital a myth? Ken Whyte thinks so
• Circ eligibility under Canada Periodical Fund reduces from 5,000 paid a year to 3,500
• Controversy takes flight over Canadian Geographic choice of grey jay as national bird

December

• Plumping circulation with SIPs is bringing U.S. publishers to moment of reckoning
• 2017 will be a year of celebration of Reader's Digest's 70th anniversary
• Rogers Magazine Service is shutting down today
• The Deep meets its funding target and will start publishing in 2017
• Precedent magazine cover story explores whatever happened to Michael Bryant
• Mastheadonline to become "volunteer-based community website"