enRoute magazine launches new look and features with October issue

Seat pockets on all Air Canada flights starting tomorrow will have a new-look enRoute magazine after a complete makeover by art director Nathalie Cusson and associate art director Tania Chiarotto. The magazine was relaunched at an event in Toronto this week and in a release the editor-in-chief Ilana Weitzman says that it includes new departments and new front-of-the-book features as enRoute beefs

Globe's magazine Report on Small Business revamped, resized and rewired

The Globe and Mail's magazine Report on Small Business, a quarterly, standard-sized magazine,has been resized and relaunched as tabloid, augmented by a beefed up online presence. According to a release, the improved printing capacity of the Globe, beginning last fall, allows it to print the publication itself as a separate newspaper section while "offering advertisers a bigger, bolder canvas on

Canadian Family redesigns and relaunches its parenting website

CanadianFamily.ca
Canadian Family magazine (St Joseph Media) has rebuilt its website CanadianFamily.ca to reflect changes they have seen in online parenting information sites since the site was launched in 2006. One of the most obvious improvements was sections tabbed by age and stage so visitors can quickly find information most relevant to their situation.The centerpiece is the new

The Grid (re)launched as a weekly city magazine for Toronto

The Grid, the revamped and repositioned successor to Torstar's Eye Weekly in Toronto, had a hip and splashy launch last night and the first issue is available free today from boxes dotted around Toronto. It is now a weekly city magazine, shorn of many of its listings (now mostly migrating to Toronto.com) and the sex ads that had been a feature for years. It is complemented by an attractive

Eye weekly to be repositioned as weekly city magazine The Grid

Bye, bye Eye
Eye weekly, Torstar's urban weekly, is being rebranded and (as anticipated) relaunched as a city magazine. The renewed publication -- now called The Grid -- will be out on May 12, according to a Twitter announcement by publisher and editor-in-chief Laas Turnbull. The repositioning more or less sees the publication vacate the alt entertainment newsweekly and listings field in

Momentum, the Vancouver-based cycling magazine, unveils new look and new tagline

Momentum, the Vancouver-based cycling magazine with North American ambitions, has unveiled its new look at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show in Austin Texas. With the new logotype, downplaying the name in favour of an iconic 'MO', comes a new tagline. Formerly it was "The magazine for self-propelled people". Now it is "Smart living by bike". Showing off the new logo and tagline are

Torstar's Eye Weekly to be given a whole new look (and a whole new name?)

Big changes are afoot at Toronto's Eye Weekly (published by Torstar), including a complete redesign of the print magazine and the website, perhaps topped by a new name. According to a story in Marketing magazine [no longer available online], the dramatic overhaul will be trumpeted by a multi-media advertising campaign devised by the hip agency Rethink Toronto. The publisher and editor-in-chief of

"Unpublished" Grafik last issue heralds the magazine's revival in 2011

Some months ago we reported on the lamentable closure of Grafik magazine. Since then there has been planned a revival of the high end graphic design title by its original editorial team, but under new ownership. Well now the "unpublished" last issue of Grafik (ready to go in June 2010 when the abrupt closure was announced) has been posted online as a pdf and it is the precursor to a relaunched

Transcontinental Media's affaires plus magazine redesigned to become a+

Transcontinental Media's affaires plus magazine has undergone a transformation, with a new design and a rebranding as a+, effective with the issue just now on the newsstands in Quebec. The monthly magazine was a line extension to the the publication Les Affaires.  While it continued to be aimed at a business audience, affaires plus two years ago shifted its editorial positioning to distinguish

Edmontonians magazine brought back from the dead by controversial publisher

In a curious turn of events, Edmontonians magazine is being brought back after its closure was announced in June. The resurrection is being done by Moe Najmeddine of Cedar Publishing Corporation, who says in a press release that after a three-month hiatus the magazine will resume publishing as of October 2010, with editor Barb Deters resuming her role and regular contributors continuing. The once

U of T law school alumni magazine relaunches with a new look, new content

The University of Toronto Faculty of Law has redesigned and relaunched its alumni magazine Nexus that is sent to more than 7000 alumni, friends and supporters of the law school. The magazine is more than 30 years old and had gone through some difficulties, cutting its frequency from twice a year to once. It will be returning to a twice-a-year publishing schedule.A new executive editor, Lucianna

Overhauled, rebranded Canada's History magazine offers readers digital "try before you buy"

As a promotion of its redesign, rebranding (from The Beaver) and overhaul of its website, Canada's History magazine is making a "try before you buy" offer, making available a free digital sample issue to potential subscribers, for a limited time.  The offer is made possible  since the magazine has become part of Digital Newsstand, a joint venture between Magazines Canada and the digital services

Rogers Publishing combines three financial sites into a one-stop portal

Rogers Publishing has announced that it has relaunched Conseiller.ca, as a one-stop French language web portal for financial professionals. 

It will combine information from three publications: Conseiller (for financial counsellors), Avantages (for the group pension and benefits sector) and and Assurance (for property and casualty insurance professionals).

World's oldest Sunday newspaper, The Observer redesigns

The Observer, the world's oldest Sunday newspaper, is relaunching this weekend and, with it is a wholly new design and a new arts section called The New Review, designed by the paper's creative director Carolyn Roberts. A preliminary look shows that the Berliner format hybrid (newspaper/magazine) has considerable charm. 

You can look at a funny promo video for the relaunch, read the editor John

MoneySense relaunches personal finance website with sponsor support

MoneySense magazine has re-launched its website with the help of the sponsorship of TD Canada Trust, according to a press release. The revamped site will include new blogs by senior editors Bryan Borzykowski and Rob Gerlsbeck as well as a variety of information on personal finance.

Homemakers magazine pronounces relaunch/redesign a success

Homemakers magazine says in a release that its relaunch and repositioning in April has been a great success, even in the face of very difficult recessionary times.As part of a crowded women's service portfolio at Transcontinental Media (Canadian Living, Elle Canada, Homemaker's, More, Elle Canada), Homemakers was striving to distinguish itself by focussing on eating and living healthfully and

Vibe magazine revived under new ownership

Vibe magazine, which recently folded, has been bought by Uptown Media Group in partnership with private equity firm InterMedia Partners and Blackrock Digital, the company which formerly handled digital sales for Vibe.com, according to a story in Folio:. The plan is to relaunch Vibe.com immediately as the "centrepiece of the new venture". The print edition of Vibe will relaunch with a November/

Unlimited magazine, sans print, relaunches as an online publication

When it was announced that Unlimited magazine of Edmonton was being suspended as a print publication, observers could have been forgiven for looking sceptically at claims the magazine was going to be carried on as an online publication. There have been many such claims made in recent years when, in fact, the digital versions simply sank from sight.But when Ruth Kelly, the publisher, said there

Eastern Woods & Waters relaunching itself online

Eastern Woods & Waters, an Atlantic Canada magazine that closed its print version last fall, is relaunching online. As part of the relaunch it is reformatting and uploading some 24 years of print content with the aim of providing a knowledge base for today's younger readers. Jim Gourlay, the publisher and editor (who is also co-publisher for Saltscapes), told Mastheadonline:“We have young people

Royal Ontario Museum magazine relaunched with new look and content

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) has relaunched its quarterly magazine (at one time called Rotunda) with a whole new look provided by the Toronto design firm Hambly & Woolley Inc. and new sections and features that explore latest acquisitions, stories about international curators, and interdisciplinary opinions on the latest buzz in arts and culture.“ROM magazine has always been full of fascinating