Details on Canada Periodical Fund to be released

Scott Shortliffe, periodical publishing policy and programs director for the Department of Canadian Heritage, hopes to have application forms for the new Canada Periodical Fund (CPF) distributed by September or October.

The CPF will replace the current Canada Magazine Fund and Publications Assistance Program. As Canada Post will be ceasing its annual contribution of $15 million to the PAP on March 31, 2010, Shortliffe and the DCH have been looking at ways to make the application process much easier for publishers.

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