Campaigns & Elections: Politics magazine Arrives in Canada

Campaigns & Elections’ Politics Magazine today announced that it will be launching a Canadian edition beginning next month. The magazine will be a state-of-the-art digital edition and will be distributed electronically.
This launch, along with the recently unveiled Latin American edition, joins the U.S. flagship publication in broadening the reach of Campaigns & Elections by tens of thousands of political and public affairs professionals throughout the hemisphere.
“Readership of the original Campaigns & Elections’ Politics Magazine in Canada has always been strong,” said Jordan Lieberman, the publisher of Politics. This will build on decades of success and ensure that information about important developments in the world of politics, campaigns and elections are accessible to all.”
The Canadian edition of Politics will borrow from parts of the U.S. publication, as well as develop unique Canadian content that will be written by Canadian experts. “I am delighted that Campaigns & Elections have decided add a Canadian edition of Politics to their growing list of magazines,” said Bernie Morton, the magazine’s Canadian Associate Editor. “Now Canadians—and the world—can have a specific place to read about the latest in Canadian politics, campaigns, and elections. There is great excitement among political junkies about this news and I am honoured to be a part of it.”
The Canadian Editorial Advisory Board, in development, currently includes Canadian political notables Anie Perrault, John Capobianco, Robin Sears, and Don Guy. Included in the growing list of regular contributors will be Warren Kinsella, President of Daisy Consulting Group, who will provide readers with insight on the challenges and decision making during campaigns in his column titled “In the War Room,” as well as Brett Bell, Principal of Grassroots Online, who will enlighten readers about online campaigning and social media in modern politics with his column “Open Source.”
Founded in 1980 by Stanley Foster Reed, Campaigns & Elections’ Politics magazine (www.politicsmagazine.com) covers the strategies, techniques, and personalities of modern politics. It is read by thousands of federal, state and local elected officials, candidates for public office, party activists, issue campaigners, political consultants, campaign staffs, lobbyists, PAC directors, university professors, news reporters and numerous behind-the-scenes opinion makers.Politics magazine is the pre-eminent magazine dedicated to educating, informing, entertaining and connecting all those who touch politics, from high-profile players to political junkies and casual observers. The magazine is published by Political World Communications, LLC, under the parent company MJH & Associates.
MJH & Associates is a leading provider of publishing, research, information, and education for the medical, financial, and political industries. MJH & Associates serves the needs of hundreds of thousands of political professionals, physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and managed care professionals through an extensive suite of magazines, journals, e-mail databases, websites, events, and personal meetings. With names like The American Journal of Managed Care, Pharmacy Times, MDNG, Oncology & Biotech News, and HCPlive.com as part of our publishing group, we reach more than a half million readers each month.
Canadian readers may receive the magazine at no charge here: politicsmagazine.com/trial/
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For more information:
Bernie Morton, Associate Editor – Canada
bmorton@politicsmagazine.com
416.723.5533
About the Canadian Editorial Advisory Board
Anie Perrault
A lawyer by training, Anie Perrault is President of Communications Anie Perrault (CAP). She specialized in communications for science and technology organizations and has recently concentrated her work in her region (Easter Townships region in Québec), working particularly for wine producers. Ms. Perrault was Vice-President, Communications, of Genome Canada from April 2001 to December 2004 and was responsible for all communications and public relations of the corporation, particularly those with the public, governments and the academic and scientific communities. This included developing and implementing complex communications strategies and working in a national multifaceted environment. Ms. Perrault was also responsible for the development of Genome Canada’s public education programs as well as its media relations, website, publications and special projects.
Before joining Genome Canada in April 2001, Ms. Perrault served for almost two years as national Director of Communications and Public Affairs for Canada’s Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies, Rx&D, a national association representing the pharmaceutical research industry.
Ms. Perrault was also involved in federal politics and served, from June 1998 to October 1999, as Attachée de presse and Senior Advisor to the Right Honourable Joe Clark, P.C., M.P. She also worked as Special Advisor to Peter MacKay, M.P. (1997) and the Hon. Jean J. Charest (1989-1991; 1995 referendum; 1996-1997). From 1992 to 1995, Ms. Perrault practiced law in Montreal at the law firm Davis, Ward, Phillips & Vineberg.
Ms. Perrault was elected as a municipal councillor for the city of Bromont, Québec in November, 2009. Her responsibilities as city councillor include economic development, the Bromont TechnoParc and the recent addition of the MicroElectronic Research Centre, tourisms and international events, and all communication issues.
John Capobianco
John Capobianco has been involved in the political process for over 20 years and has built a solid reputation and an extensive network in all three levels of Canadian government. As well, John has spent close to 10 years in the financial sector. In 1995, John moved to the provincial government serving an Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament, a Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing and the Minister of Education. For the past nine years, John has worked in the government relations and public affairs industry serving clients in all the major industry sectors.
He is Senior Vice President, Public Affairs for Edelman Canada. John’s penchant for federal politics and his recognition across the country as a leader in the conservative movement led him to be recruited from the National Blue Committee to serve both on the Steering Committee of the United Alternative, and as a National Councillor for the Canadian Alliance Party.
His activism has made him a well-known figure in Canadian politics and as a regular commentator and political analyst in the media.
John ran unsuccessfully as the federal Conservative candidate for the Toronto-area riding of Etobicoke-Lakeshore in both the 2004 and 2006 elections. John earned his BA in Political Science and Economics at York University. He continues to speak at various political and public affairs conferences, and has presented at Campaign & Elections seminars in Washington, D.C.
He currently sits on the Board of the Albany Club of Toronto, is the President of The Canadian Club of Toronto, President of the Public Affairs Association of Canada, and Chair of the Board for the National Broadcast Reading Services Inc.
Robin Sears
Robin Sears is a Senior Partner with Navigator Ltd., a strategy and public affairs firm. As a senior communications and public affairs advisor with experience on three continents, Robin has led client teams in healthcare, financial services, media and in international democratic development.
As national director of the New Democratic Party, Sears built their policy making infrastructure, first issues publication, and first national direct mail fundraising . As national campaign director he managed their three most successful national elections.
Deputy Secretary General of the world’s largest organization of political parties, under German Chancellor Willy Brandt, he was responsible for communications, finance, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. Robin worked with leaders in the Middle East, Central America, and Southern Africa
As Chief of Staff to Bob Rae, during the “Accord” government he managed the relationship between the Peterson cabinet and the NDP. As Ontario’s senior diplomatic representative in Asia, he managed seven offices from Tokyo to India, promoting trade, investment and tourism.
For a global executive search firm, Robin managed regional and global practices in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Toronto. He was the first Asia president of the pioneering digital search firm, Futurestep, for two of those years. He is a senior writer for Policy Options magazine, Canada’s leading policy journal, and a regular guest on CBC Newsworld’s Politics.
Don Guy
Don Guy has been described in Canadian national media as a “policy wizard” and as “the brightest guy in Canada right now” for his deep insight into the nexus of public opinion, policy and communications. He has also been called “arguably the most successful Liberal strategist of the post-Chretien era”.
As President & CEO of Pollara Strategic Insights until December 2009, Don provided research-based strategic advice to a select group of clients. Today, Mr. Guy serves as strategic consultant to Fortune 500 and leading Canadian companies and CEOs on a wide range of image, branding and corporate reputation campaigns and issues. Politically, Don’s research-tailored strategic counsel has helped candidates win hundreds of local, provincial and federal races across North America since 1993. Most recently, Don served as campaign director for Michael Ignatieff’s successful 2008 Liberal Party of Canada leadership campaign.
The Toronto Star calls him “the brilliant strategist” and “central architect” of consecutive majority election victories for Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Ontario Liberal Party in 2003 and 2007. After the 2003 election victory, Don entered the Ontario government as Chief of Staff to the Premier, a position he left to run the successful re-election campaign four years later. He will reprise that role for the 2011 Ontario general election.
Don has a B.A. (Hon) from Carleton University and an M.A. from the University of Toronto, where he also pursued doctoral studies in political behavior.