Pays 50 cents a word. The magazine's calendar is wide open for next year. Denise Ryan is the editor for the Mix section of the Vancouver Sun and she is also the Books editor. Mix is 100 percent freelance and is locally focused. Forty cents for first 1000 words.
Book reviews - find something in the book that makes the story.
Does not necessarily need to be Canadian but better chance if it is. Ms. Ryan has fourteen pages to fill every week. About 5000 people a week read the Sun. E-mail direct to her or Mix editor Jim Sutherland. A vividly written three-paragraph pitch might work the best.