It's become a small-but-good con again - hosting the Canadian SF awards this year of course caused the extra leap of guests and activity, but it follows on a general upswing. The end of the 90's and at least the first 5 years of the oughts showed a steady slide into LARPing and media fandom, so it's been a relief to find them having panels that are *interesting*.

(That came out wrong. When the focus was LARPing, that's great for the LARPers, and more power to them, but it doesn't involve many panels at all, or engage the author GoH, and media panels are often interesting, but a convention with nothing else is suffering.)