Our typesetting arrangements have diversified. We have a base relationship with Coach House, who have helped to expedite printing of the journal, and have cut costs. In addition, the special issue on Pedagogy (Vol 19:2) edited by Deborah Cottreau was typeset, printed and distributed by the University of Saskatchewan. Far from any display of territoriality, Coach House assisted in this endeavour, which helps to open up the editorship to greater co-operation from other institutions.
A change in editorship is imminent. I am retiring from full editorial responsibility as of the mailing of the next issue. Deborah Cottreau will continue as co-editor, and a search is now being conducted by the Management Board for my replacement. I will not, however, be leaving the journal entirely. The Management Board has revised the journal's constitution in a variety of ways, one of which is to create the position of Executive Editor, who will be responsible for supervising the production, subscriptions, fundraising, and general co-ordination. We hope that this change will more effectively and manageably distribute the workload, and allow the full editors to spend their time--editing.
Other changes in personnel are imminent. Danielle Couture and Deborah Tihanyi are in their final days as Managing Editors of the journal. We all owe them a tremendous debt for the time and effort they have put into its operations, during some interesting years. Rosa Fracassa of the Drama Centre will be taking over some of their duties. Jessica Gardiner will continue as Subscriptions Co-ordinator for one more year.
Financially we have had a good year. We successfully applied for a three-year renewal of our SSHRC operating grant, and received an additional Special Initiatives grant to begin the work of placing the full run of the journal on-line. Our thanks to Ed Mullaly at UNB for his efforts on our behalf.
I reserve a final word for some more negative commentary; I wouldn't want you to think all is well. Subscriptions are steady but need to increase, or we will operate at a loss. We have ideas as to how to increase these, but have no time to do the work necessary. Similarly, submissions are down, I suspect because, the academic life being what it is, no one has the time to write. And finally, the journal only breaks even through the good graces of volunteerism.