- Canadian Forum
The "Canadian Forum" was a left-wing literary, cultural and political publication and Canada's longest running continually published political magazine. [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001289 "Canadian Forum"] , "Canadian Encyclopedia", accessed February 14, 2008]
It was founded in 1920 at the
University of Toronto as a forum for political and cultural ideas. Throughout its publishing run it was Canadian nationalist and progressive in outlook.As a cultural and literary publication it published the artistic works of the
Group of Seven andFrank Carmichael as well as poetry and short stories byIrving Layton ,Earle Birney ,A.J.M. Smith ,Harold Standish ,Margaret Atwood andAl Purdy .Fulford, Robert [http://www.robertfulford.com/CanadianForum.html "The Canadian Forum": alive or dead?"] , "National Post", April 17, 2001]Politically, it was a forum for thinkers such as
Frank Underhill ,F.R. Scott ,Ramsay Cook ,Mel Watkins ,Eugene Forsey andRobert Fulford .In the 1930s it was acquired by
Graham Spry and used as a vehicle for the ideas of theLeague for Social Reconstruction . It has also been operated at times as aco-operative and was owned for a number of years by James Lorimer and Co.Editors have included
Northrop Frye ,Abe Rotstein ,Milton Wilson andDuncan Cameron .The magazine suspended publication following its summer 2000 issue.
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