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globalnews.caHere’s the latest on Canada Reads books and related news.
Canada Reads 2025 updates: CBC continues its annual Canada Reads lineup with five books championed by different Canadian personalities, culminating in a country-wide vote to decide the winning title. The 2025 cycle featured new champions and discussions aligned with contemporary Canadian themes. For ongoing coverage, CBC Books is the primary hub for episode guides, book lists, and winner announcements.[5][6]
How to follow Canada Reads: CBC Books hosts the main home page for Canada Reads, with episode recaps, champion profiles, and related media. You can also watch full episodes via CBC Gem and follow CBC Books on social platforms for updates.[5]
Related Canadian reading initiatives: There are several national and regional literacy programs and partnerships (e.g., Read On Canada!, Forest of Reading) that promote reading across genres and age groups; these programs often highlight Canadian authors and titles that occasionally intersect with Canada Reads selections. For background on broader Canadian reading culture, the Forest of Reading and Read On Canada! pages are good references.[3][4]
News sources and coverage: Canadian media outlets like CBC, Global News, and CBC’s own media centre provide ongoing articles and press releases about Canada Reads programming, book selections, and events. Checking their “Canada Reads” tags or search results will yield the latest articles and announcements.[7][8]
Quick way to stay up to date: If you want the newest picks and episode-by-episode coverage, bookmark CBC Books’ Canada Reads page and watch the official CBC Gem episodes or YouTube clips linked on the CBC Books site.[6][5]
If you’d like, I can pull the most current episode list, the five 2025 champions, and the winning title with links to official CBC pages. I can also summarize the themes of the latest edition and how it was received in Canadian media.
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globalnews.caThis is the home page for Canada Reads, CBC's annual battle of the books.
www.cbc.caAbout the Forest of Reading: The Forest of Reading® is Canada’s largest recreational reading program! This initiative of the Ontario Library Association (OLA) offers ten reading programs to encourage a love of reading in people of all ages. The Forest helps celebrate Canadian books, publishers, authors and illustrators. More than 270,000 readers participate annually from their school and/or public library. All Canadians are invited to participate via their local public library, school library,...
www.canadianschoollibraries.caKeep up to date with our latest news releases!
childrensliteracy.caThe CBC Media Centre is maintained by the Public Relations team at Canada’s national public broadcaster. The site offers information and assets to journalists and media for CBC’s news and entertainment programming across all platforms.
mediacentre.cbc.caFor the second year in a row, readers were acquiring books from free sources more than from paid sources. In 2023, 47% of print readers bought their books and 51% found a free source for their reading material. In 2024, there was an even split — 49% of readers got their print books for free and 49% purchased them. As for audiobook and ebook readers, 40% of ebook readers purchased their books in 2024 as did 44% of audiobook listeners in 2024. … Canadian readers continue to prefer print books...
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