The year that was: A ramble through some of 2013's posts about Canadian magazines
- Globe weekend editor joins Canadian Business to handle special projects
- Free daily tonight is acquired by Annex Business Media and converts to weekly
- New fashion quarterly called GRAY launching in Vancouver
- Reader's Digest publishes major takeout on BC pipeline and tanker perils
- BPA changes, consolidates rules for digital editions
- Zoomer magazine launches "super site"
February
- Amazon discontinues its recently launched Canadian online newsstand
- ELLE (Canada and Quebec) share model Jessica Paré for March covers
- New Transcon freelance contract even more demanding
- Canada Council's Flying Squad program to no longer be offered, at least in present form
- Toronto Life launching paid event series called "Love Your City"
- Dogs in Canada to publish again,in partnership with Globe and Mail
March
- Briarpatch magazine article looks closely at farmland speculators
- Time Warner to spin off print titles to separate company, rather than do Meredith deal
- Annual Charles Oberdorf Memorial Award endowed with help from his friends and family
- Fab, the "gay scene" magazine is closing just shy of 20 years of publication
- Toronto Life offering restaurants and bars ability to write own paid advertising listings
- Reader's Digest still #1 in PMB for readers; Canada's History tops in RPC
- Quebec magazine association cancels this year's awards to focus on fighting Blue Box fees
April
- Breaking cover rules pays off for East Coast Living
- Cute kids, but should a magazine's cover be the prize in a sponsored contest?
- Blue Ant to launch TV specialty channel Cottage Life
- Walmart Live Better launched as Canada's largest circulation title
- Canopy forest campaign withdraws from Boreal Forest agreement, citing no meaningful progress
- Dear City: Spacing and Pattison to post billboard love letters
- Stephen Trumper to receive this year's NMAF Outstanding Achievement Award
May
- Western awards honour Paul and Audrey Grescoe for a lifetime of magazine achievement
- Summer Brick gives away the endings of writers' favourite books
- Darlene Storey named Magazines Canada's volunteer of the year
- Holmes Group says it can't afford to compensate subscribers
- Online magazine Covet Garden asking readers to contribute to print SIP
- Ontario Arts Council literature officer lasted less than two months in the job
- Maclean's cover story reports on "slow motion implosion" of Toronto mayor Rob Ford
June
- Calgary's Avenue magazine asking its readers to come up with a new gelato flavour
- Cottage Life editor Penny Caldwell named CSME Editor of the Year
- Oxygen publisher RKP abruptly filed for bankruptcy, suspends business
- A rogue shows his gallery-- Mac Parry
- Readers win when magazines make combined subscription offers
- Magazines Canada white paper reports on the future direction of B2B publishing
- A newsstand pops up in Brooklyn
- E-book beer history being given away by The Walrus magazine
- Halifax magazine editor builds a fitter self
- Rogers tops 1 million replica app downloads for its 22 magazine titles
- The title "publisher" is so yesterday, says British publishing firm
- Linda Lewis, former editor-in-chief of MORE, dies
- Assoc publisher of Broken Pencil hired as executive director of IRMA
August
- Racy "lads' mag" publishers defy demand for coverups; pull titles from 4,000 British stores
- Flare unveils new look in September issue
- Downhome magazine has readers scouring the Newfoundland shore for message in a bottle
- Ad scam for non-existent magazine bedevils Calgary
- Magazines Canada consolidates DM, digital and retail promotion efforts
- Embryonic Walrus magazine, now 10, got its start at Dooney's cafe
September
- Western Living unveils redesigned, bumper Designer of the Year issue
- We'll pay our fair share of Ontario Blue Box, say publishers, but we must control costs
- Vancouver book and mag street fair splits away from WOTS and grows
- Groundbreaking magazine editor Tina Brown leaving the business after 35 years
- Rogers partners with big 5 U.S. publishers on digital newsstand service Next Issue Canada
- Magazines Canada to host FIPP World Congress in Toronto in 2015
- York University has served notice of defamation against Toronto Life magazine
October
- No renewal until 2023; Geist offers 9 years for $90
- The TORO story comes to an end as online version is being discontinued
- Spacing magazine to go retail in the spring, selling its city-style merchandise
- TC Media to handle all circulation marketing for Reader's Digest Canada
- PMB data shows 5-year average Canadian magazine readership steady at a million
November
- Steve Maich named vp and general manager of publishing at Rogers Media
- Canada Wide Media launches "multi-platform" lifestyle magazine BCLiving -- in print, too
- Canadian Home Workshop closed by Cottage Life Media after 37 years of publication
- NUVO magazine celebrates 15 years of publishing
- Rogers's Pelley intent on using magazines as feedstock for its other media
- Frank magazine is back to mock, provoke and expose
- Online magazine Hazlitt releasing a one-off print version
- Coast to Coast outsources regional sales and back office functions to Jim Pattison-owned Comag Marketing Group
December
- Cottage Life rebrands Cottage as Cottage Life West, launches Edmonton consumer show
- Anti-spam legislation going ahead in July, without addressing some industry concerns
- Miranda Purves leaving as Flare editor-in-chief
- Canadian Business absorbs Profit and goes monthly
- U of T and Western back out of paying royalties to writers and publishers for copying
- FUSE magazine announces it is ceasing after 37 years of publication
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