SF Canada, the national association for Canadian sf professionals, has created the SF Canada Award, a $500 prize that will be awarded to winners of the Best Novel categories of the Aurora Award [English) and Prix Aurora-Boréal (French), voted on annually by Canadian fans.

This news appeared in the first issue of Auroran Lights [PDF file], the new monthly newsletter of the Canadian SFF Association, which runs the Aurora awards. R. Graeme Cameron edits the zine.