Tippett octet gets Stuart-Stubbs’ nod
Made in British Columbia: Eight Ways of Making Culture (Harbour $32.95) by Pender Islander Maria Tippett is one of three… FULL STORY
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Twice lucky in February
The Sea Among Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia (Harbour Publishing, $39.95) has just won the Vancouver Aquarium Coastal Ocean… FULL STORY
Giardini encourages women’s progress
As part of SFU’s 50th Anniversary Speaker Series, novelist, SFU Chancellor and lawyer Anne Giardini will address women’s issues in… FULL STORY
#129 Robert Service
LOCATION: Robert Service Memorial Park, Cowichan Bay, Duncan. DIRECTIONS: When you’re driving on Cowichan Bay Road on Vancouver Island, towards… FULL STORY
The Native Voice is heard again
Eric Jamieson has written an important history of The Native Voice newspaper, a hugely influential periodical about the fight for… FULL STORY
Hurting himself getting macho
J. David Cox humourously states he is a member of only one organization: President of Anarchy International (no members, no… FULL STORY
#128 Roderick Haig-Brown
LOCATION: Above Tide, 2250 Campbell River Road, Campbell River. DIRECTIONS: Turn left onto Highway 19A from Highway 19 if proceeding… FULL STORY
#51 What’s golden doesn’t glitter
Hi, darlin’, It’s not exactly fog, not even mist, just this interesting and endearing creeping-upon-us of wreaths and ribbons of… FULL STORY
#127 Eric Nicol
LOCATION: Walk of Fame, North Plaza, Library Square, 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver In 1995, humourist Eric Nicol fittingly became… FULL STORY
Better late than ever
In preparing an ebook version of John Armstrong’s Wages, New Star Books discovered an entire section of the manuscript, about… FULL STORY
Fahmy recognized by TWUC
During Freedom to Read Week in Canada, the Eygytian-born Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy was accorded the 2016 Freedom to Read… FULL STORY
Pickton pens book, claims innocence
After his handwritten manuscript riddled with spelling mistakes was mailed out of prison by a convicted sex offender, the serial… FULL STORY
Six finalists in the running for Ryga
This year’s shortlisted nominees have been announced. In alphabetical order: David Boyd for The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Toward a Greener… FULL STORY
Beautiful Yankees & Mets
Baseball aficionado Randall Wayne McLean recalls his visit to Cooperstown and his 9/11 experiences in New York in his multi-faceted… FULL STORY
Hurray for Harvoni
For forty years Kim Goldberg never told anyone she had Hepatitis C. She railed against doctors and Big Pharma. Then… FULL STORY
How to dump Trump
As president of his own Public Relations company and also chair of the David Suzuki Foundation board, James Hoggan argues… FULL STORY
Raven ever more
With her business partner Glenna Collett, book designer Fiona Raven of Vancouver-based Fiona Raven Book Design has self-published Book Design… FULL STORY
#126 Marina Sonkina
LOCATION: 17 Arbat Street, Moscow Marina Sonkina grew up in Moscow, about two kilometres from the Kremlin on a famous… FULL STORY
Cycling the Islands
Due in May, John Crouch’s Cycling the Islands: A Guide to Scenic Routes on the San Juan and Gulf Islands… FULL STORY
Kim Fu
Her debut collection of poems How Festive the Ambulance (Nightwood $18.95) is filled with incantations, mythical creatures and extreme violence…. FULL STORY
