Biodiversity & the boardroom
Biodiversity markets remain small. Destructive development continues apace. So we must image new partnerships. REVIEW: Enterprising Nature: Economics, Markets, and… FULL STORY
Archive for October 2017
#191 Biodiversity in the boardroom
REVIEW: Enterprising Nature: Economics, Markets, and Finance in Global Biodiversity Politics by Jessica Dempsey Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. £19.99 (U.K.). / … FULL STORY
Brazilian whacks
In Grant Patterson’s first two books about a semi-reluctant, private eye in Brazil, we follow Will Bryant, formerly a Canadian… FULL STORY
Rory gets around
Although he can no longer pipe, hike or travel to exotic lands, and although he’s been reduced to shuffling about… FULL STORY
#190 Multiculturalism beyond rhetoric
REVIEW: The Minor Intimacies of Race: Asian Publics in North America by Christine Kim Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press,… FULL STORY
From Sucre to Sucre Lumber
Dan Propp was born in Sucre, Bolivia in 1944 after his parents Arthur and Elsa Propp had fled the Nazis…. FULL STORY
#189 Skimming is for milk, not reading
REVIEW: Garage Criticism: Cultural Missives in an Age of Distraction by Peter Babiak Vancouver: Anvil Press 2016. $20.00 / 978-1-77214-050-7… FULL STORY
#188 Spooked horses in a storm
Auguries by Clea Roberts London, Ontario: Brick Books, 2017. $20 / 9781771314510 Reviewed by David Stouck * … FULL STORY
Professor Prawns & Count Snackula
Adrian Sinclair aka “Professor Prawns” (on the left) co-wrote with Karlis Kalnins aka “Count Snackula” (right), Freestyle Focus Group: Learn… FULL STORY
#187 Brother, where art thou?
Brother McClelland $ Stewart 2017 by David Chariandy $25 hc ISBN 978-0-7710-2290-6 reviewed by Cherie Thiessen * The only author… FULL STORY
An academic dissects the energy sector
Jonathan Peyton’s Unbuilt Environments examines five, major industrial initiatives, proposed or enacted in Northwest B.C. REVIEW BY WADE DAVIS. REVIEW… FULL STORY
#186 Industrial follies
REVIEW Unbuilt Environments: Tracing Postwar Development in Northwest British Columbia Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017 $32.95 / 9780774833059 by Jonathan Peyton… FULL STORY
An intimate circus of vulnerability
Happy Place By Pamela Mala Sinha Touchstone Theatre, Ruby Slippers Theatre, Diwali in BC Firehall Theatre October 19-29, 2017 … FULL STORY
#185 We stand on guard for diversity
REVIEW: Wherever I Find Myself: Stories by Canadian Immigrant Women By Miriam Matejova (editor) Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin Press, 2017. $24.95… FULL STORY
Margaret Ormsby–catalyst & mentor
Everyone agrees she was a memorable character, forging the way for female scholars after her first office in 1940 was… FULL STORY
Pitts stops
Some applause is in order. Publisher Mona Fertig on Salt Spring, despite her ongoing differences with funding agencies, has managed… FULL STORY
#184 Margaret Ormsby remembered
Just over a year ago, in “Welcome to the Ormsby Review” (September 16, 2016), Richard Mackie provided his memories of… FULL STORY
Lock ’em up, lock ’em up, lock ’em up
The internment camps at Fernie and nearby Morrissey were dress rehearsals for the removal of Japanese Canadians from the B.C…. FULL STORY
#73 A journey to the Big Smoke
I was in the Lower Mainland for a week, visiting my youngest son. He has sarcoma stage four, inoperable, and it… FULL STORY
Uphill all the way
Previously a mayor of Fernie, Thomas Uphill (at right) was B.C.’s longest serving MLA from 1920-1960. His political career began… FULL STORY
