Updates on Books and Business

Canada’s Best Diversity Employers were announced yesterday, including lots of Toronto-area businesses.

Margaret Atwood retracts her condemnation of a Dubai book expo after it turns out that a gay-themed book wasn’t banned from the expo after all. It`s good to know that persecution of imaginary gay sex inspired such strong feelings, even if persecution of real gay sex in Dubai doesn’t seem to.

Sad news, iconic queer Canadian novelist Scott Symons has passed away.

Rob Salerno is a playwright and journalist whose writing has appeared in such publications as Vice, Advocate, NOW and OutTraveler.

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