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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Dewar, Elaine.     Subjects     McClelland and Stewart Limited.     Canada. Canada Investment Act.     Publishers and publishing -- Canada.     Consolidation and merger of corporations -- Canada.     Consolidation and merger of corporations -- Law and legislation -- Canada.     Investments, Foreign -- Law and legislation -- Canada.     Book industries and trade -- Canada.     Press law -- Canada.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Dewar, Elaine.       by title:      The handover : how b...       by call number:      070.50971 D515h     Search the Web     Dewar, Elaine.     McClelland and Stewart Limited.     Canada. Canada Investment Act.     Publishers and publishing -- Canada.     Consolidation and merger of corporations -- Canada.     Consolidation and merger of corporations -- Law and legislation -- Canada.     Investments, Foreign -- Law and legislation -- Canada.     Book industries and trade -- Canada.     Press law -- Canada.       MARC Display

The handover : how bigwigs and bureaucrats transferred Canada's best publisher and the best part of our literary heritage to a foreign multinational / Elaine Dewar. by Dewar, Elaine. Biblioasis, 2017. Call #: 070.50971 D515h Subjects McClelland and Stewart Limited.   Canada. Canada Investment Act.   Publishers and publishing -- Canada.   Consolidation and merger of corporations -- Canada.   Consolidation and merger of corporations -- Law and legislation -- Canada.   Investments, Foreign -- Law and legislation -- Canada.   Book industries and trade -- Canada.   Press law -- Canada. ISBN:  9781771961110 (hc.) Edition:  First edition. Description:  381 pages ; 23 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-374) and index. Summary:  "Until recently, McClelland and Stewart was known as "The Canadian Publisher," the country's longest-lived and best independent press. Its dynamic leader Jack McClelland worked with successive provincial and federal governments to help draft policies in the 1960s and 70s which ensured that Canadian stories would be told and published by Canadians. M&S introduced Canadians to themselves while championing the nation's literature, bringing to the world Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Mavis Gallant, Farley Mowat, Rohinton Mistry, Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, and many others. When 75% of M&S was gifted amidst great fanfare to the University of Toronto on Canada Day 2000 - "To achieve the survival of one great Canadian institution,” M&S owner Avie Bennett declared at the time, "I have given it into the care of another great Canadian institution" - one could've assumed that it would remain in Canadian hands and under Canadian control in perpetuity. But one would have been wrong. Elaine Dewar reveals how M&S was sold salami-style to Random House, a division of German media giant Bertelsmann; how smart businessmen and even smarter lawyers danced through the raindrops of the laws put into place to protect Canadian cultural institutions from foreign ownership while cultural bureaucrats looked the other way; and why we should care. The story not just of the demise of the country's best independent publisher, it is about the threats, internal and otherwise, facing Canadian culture. Elaine Dewar is an author, journalist, television story editor and blogger"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 070.50971 D515h Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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