Grieving a stillbirth
Thirty-nine weeks and six days pregnant, Emma Hansen’s baby stops moving inside of her. Doctors confirm her baby is dead… FULL STORY
Author Archive
The iconic polar bear
Although natural historians began writing about the polar bear as early as the mid-eighteenth century, it wasn’t until 1971 that… FULL STORY
An over-anxious wiener dog
Winner of the 2019 Victoria Children’s Book Prize for her debut picture book, Sterling, Best Dog Ever (Farrar, Straus and… FULL STORY
Saving wild birds
Eight-year-old Gabi accidentally drops food one day that a crow swoops down and eats. A few days later, Gabi drops… FULL STORY
Wheeler dealers
Jesse Donaldson’s new book, Land of Destiny: A History of Vancouver Real Estate (Anvil $20) will be launched December 19…. FULL STORY
Portrait of a harrowing past
Helen Knott has made the longlist for the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize for Non-Fiction for her first book In My… FULL STORY
Fighting for the right to read books
In response, African Americans began creating “Freedom Libraries” and over 80 appeared in the deep south as documented by B.C…. FULL STORY
Wagging the dog
Founder of the blog, Companion Animal Psychology, where she writes about training methods and the human-dog relationship, Zazie Todd has… FULL STORY
Black sheep of the tribe
Mad Hatter by Amanda Hale (Guernica Editions, 2019 $29.95) Reviewed by Sally Campbell * Some books are simply better than… FULL STORY
Natelle Fitzgerald
When journalism graduate Natelle Fitzgerald of tiny Beaton, B.C. (formerly Thomson’s Landing, at the head of Upper Arrow Lake) isn’t… FULL STORY
Shotguns in libraries
Librarians not only help readers find books, some also write them. Cranbrook Public Library’s community development librarian is the latter…. FULL STORY
Vancouver’s brave new architecture
What particularly impressed a mandarin from the east, Robert H. Hubbard, were the West Coast architects who were designing a… FULL STORY
Williams wins Giller
UBC assistant professor of poetry in the Creative Writing program, Ian Williams is $100,000 richer having won the lucrative Scotiabank… FULL STORY
Defender of the Wet’suwet’en
Alfred Joseph’s memoirs highlight how white settlers changed Wet’suwet’en lives: from being independent hunters and fishers to wage-earners of white-owned… FULL STORY
Kogawa’s new story app
Vancouver’s Joy Kogawa has embraced the latest story-telling technology with her new narrative, East of the Rockies, which was produced… FULL STORY
WW II fictional memoir launch
Amanda Hale will be reading from her latest historical fiction novel, Mad Hatter (Guernica 2019) on Tuesday, November 12 at… FULL STORY
Karen Schauber
Montreal-raised Karen Schauber edited The Group of Seven Reimagined: Contemporary Stories Inspired by Historic Canadian Paintings (Heritage 2019), an anthology… FULL STORY
Peter Ward and why we bathe so much
In the Western world, we bathe and change clothes often. At least, far more often than our ancestors did according… FULL STORY
When Gary Karlsen ran away to sea
Fresh out of high school in 1965, Vancouver’s Gary Karlsen was expected to go to university. He had other ideas…. FULL STORY
Sara Panton
Sara Panton, co-founder of essential oil company vitruvi has written Essential Well Being: A Modern Guide to Using Essential Oils… FULL STORY
