This Magazine is pleased to announce that it has found its new editor. Patricia D'Souza will be taking over the national magazine of politics and culture in early March.

Patricia brings a wealth of experience to the role. She is currently Managing Editor and Senior Reporter at Iqaluit's Nunatsiaq News. She was previously a Copyeditor at the National Post, as well as Features Editor and Managing Editor of Canadian Business. Patricia has also written for This Magazine in the past. Her feature, "Food Fight," (1999) exposed the fate of IGA's unionized workers when the grocer was bought by a union-busting chain. She has also volunteered as a copyeditor for This Magazine on a regular basis since 1999.

Patricia's strong background in business journalism will be put to good use producing the kind of public interest reporting readers look for in This Magazine. In the past, the magazine has exposed bad behaviour by Canadian corporations operating overseas, challenged the ethics of "ethical" mutual funds and exposed the influence the biotech industry wields over the agricultural ministry.

"I'm delighted we've found a new editor as talented and experienced as Patricia," says current editor Julie Crysler. "I have been very impressed with her abilities and I know I'm leaving the magazine in good hands."

This Magazine will be holding a party to celebrate the changing of the editorial guard at the earliest opportunity. Date and location to be announced soon. For further information, please contact Joyce Byrne at 416-979-9429 or publisher@thismagazine.ca.

About This Magazine
Founded in 1966, This Magazine is Canada's leading national progressive magazine of politics and culture. Over the years, the magazine has introduced the early work of many of Canada's best writers, critics and artists, including Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Tomson Highway, Naomi Klein, Mark Kingwell, Lillian Allen, Drew Hayden Taylor, Evelyn Lau, Dionne Brand, Lynn Crosbie, Lynn Coady and Jason Sherman. This Magazine publishes literary non-fiction, investigative journalism, hard-hitting social commentary and cultural criticism, as well as new fiction and poetry by emerging writers. This Magazine is published by the Red Maple Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization #11911 3140 RR0001.