O is for Osler
One of the earliest bedtime stories Sanford Osler can recall was Holling C. Holling’s Paddle-to-the-Sea about a First Nations boy… FULL STORY
Author Archive
De gustibus non est disputandem
The Alcuin Society has announced Jan and Crispin Elsted of Barbarian Press are the winners of its seventh Robert R. Reid… FULL STORY
The house that Lucia saved
Espresso by Lucia Fancione Pacific Theatre May 16-June 14 If Yankee Stadium was the house that Ruth built, Pacific Stage… FULL STORY
F for Fantetti
Another graduate of the increasingly effective SFU Writers Studio, playwright and stand-up comedienne Eufemia Fantetti has been named one of… FULL STORY
Samantha for president
In her twelfth inspirational title for children, Emily Madill, a mother of two boys, continues to propagate her “Believe In… FULL STORY
McCaslin sounds off on teacher bashing
“Some serious teacher bashing is going on in British Columbia right now,” says McCaslin. Specifically, she feels Shelly Fralic, a… FULL STORY
#10 The crow funeral
Spring comes to Tahsis in shades and tones of pink. Amazing in this sea of green, green, green, evergreen rainforest there… FULL STORY
Zachary hides again
Few British Columbians can tell you the first explorer to have reached B.C. waters, for certain, was Juan Pérez in… FULL STORY
Fascinating, far-reaching & fishy
A Taste of Empire Written and Performed by Jovanni Sy Boca del Lupo Granville Island Market May 22 – 25… FULL STORY
Future primitive: a’ hunting we will go
Recently someone paid $350,000 to kill a rare black rhino in Namibia. Reviewer Giles Slade views trophy-hunting as a perverted… FULL STORY
Stouck wins Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize
The second annual prize for best scholarly book about British Columbia will be presented to Arthur Erickson biographer David Stouck… FULL STORY
The fire that decimated Vancouver
Vancouver is still a frontier town at dawn on June 13, 1886. Its main street is dirt. Residents don’t have… FULL STORY
Literary Jamboree in Quesnel
Margaret-Anne Enders is one of thirty authors who will be gathering at the Quesnel library on Saturday, May 24, to… FULL STORY
1960’s memoir recalls Mac-Pap
Fired by a life–long passion for social justice, Ronald Liversedge wrote about two of his involvements in historic events: the… FULL STORY
Single blade runner
The stories in Doretta Lau’s debut collection, How Does A Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? (Nightwood $19.95), are… FULL STORY
Third Elephant Mountain fest in Nelson
2011 Canada Reads finalist Angie Abdou will be among the headliners at Nelson’s third annual Elephant Mountain Literary Festival, July… FULL STORY
They called her Number One
Given that Bev Sellars’ memoir, They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School (Talonbooks), had… FULL STORY
#9 Child welfare versus salmon welfare
Anyone who doesn’t dwell under a rock has heard, by now, that it has been established that the human brain… FULL STORY
Goto’s 20th anniversary edition
Twenty years after its first publication, the feminist novel by Hiromi Goto, Chorus of Mushrooms (NeWest) has been re-issued. The… FULL STORY
Uneasy rider on the Dease
There is a longstanding Canadian practice that when things get too messy, painful and intensely complicated, we head for the… FULL STORY
