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The CBC operates on a mandate that defines it as a company of content whose vision is to connect Canadians through attractive Canadian content and whose values include serving the Canadian public. This article responds to the questions of how the CBC uses social media to disseminate national literatures, taking a Facebook wall, Canada Reads, as a case study, based on the small stories method (Georgakoupoulou) to analyze narrative activities that are important for recognizing the identity-forging work of their narrator as well as the social fabric of practices that people become involved in, with the objective of discovering if it has created a virtual community of practice (as conceived by Robert V. Kozinets) and if it has achieved, at the same time, the ultimate goal of discussing contemporary Canadian identities and if it has fulfilled its aim to disseminated contemporary regional and national quality content. Methodology: Small Stories, Virtual Communities, and Communities of Practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores how critics, centralists and critics read Maritime literatures as well as provides information on the practices involved in reading them. According to the author, it is important to know what critics have to say about these type of literature since they can tell a great deal of cultural conditioning that is significant in understanding the true context of a literary piece. In addition, it affirms that maritime reading practice revolves within the theory which enjoins art and social practice.

This article examines the influence of the trend of reading Harry Potter books on Canadian fiction. The ways in which Harry Potter books have contributed to Canadian children's literature and to Canadian adult literature are explored. Children's fascination with fantasy and the role of fantasy in their lives and their implications for education are discussed. Details of the group of writers responding in ways to the Harry Potter phenomenon are presented. Books which have also crossed the lines between adult and child readers are discussed.

This editorial discusses the author's belief that good writing will reflect good listening. There was an absence of Canadian literature in the author's childhood and public school education. Her only exposure to a Canadian author was when her sixth-grade teacher would read to them a bit of Ernest Thompson Seton. Writing is meant to be a listening experience. A reader "listens" to what an author is saying, and, then learns from that information. She continues by discussion the goals of the journal.