Section 4 – Ineligible periodicals

4.0 Ineligible periodicals

Ineligible periodicals include:

daily newspapers;
free periodicals;
newsletters;
periodicals that contain an average of more than 50% listings;
periodicals produced by or for an organization that primarily reports on the activities or promotes the interests of the organization;
periodicals produced by or for an organization providing goods or services in which the main goal of the periodical is to promote the sales of the goods or services;
periodicals produced under contract by a non-Canadian organization on behalf of a Canadian client, or produced under contract by a Canadian organization for a non‑Canadian client;
periodicals produced by or for an organization that promote the organization’s main business, when it is not periodical publishing;
professional association periodicals;
periodicals produced by or for a government or a government agency;
periodicals produced only electronically (Business Innovation supports electronic periodicals);
periodicals whose editorial content is primarily reproduced or repeated from current or previous issues of the same periodical or other publications;
loose-leaf periodicals;
periodicals that are primarily or a combination of catalogues, magalogues, directories, guides, financial reports, schedules, calendars, timetables, comic books, cartoons, puzzles, games and horoscopes, or any of the ineligible periodicals listed above; and
periodicals that contain offensive content in the opinion of Canadian Heritage.