#469 From Passchendaele to Paris
A Piece of the Continent by Paul Nicholson Available from Amazon.ca and https://www.apieceofthecontinent.com/ $24.50 / 9781775192305 Reviewed by Valerie Green… FULL STORY
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Big oil, big stall, big bamboozle
Trudeau’s cabinet so liked the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project that they “bought the company” from Texas-based oil giant Kinder… FULL STORY
#468 Twists, turns and Kinder surprises
Costly Fix: Power, Politics and Nature in the Tar Sands by Ian Urquhart Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018 $39.95… FULL STORY
#467 Mountains and motherhood
With the subtitle, Mountains, Marriage, and Motherhood Jan Redford’s End of the Rope (Penguin Random House $32.00), alerts us to… FULL STORY
#466 Chinese ghosts, Chinese identity
The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family by Lindsay Wong Vancouver: Arsenal… FULL STORY
#465 Flight to the Congo
White by Deni Ellis Béchard Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2018 $19.95 / 9781772012088 Reviewed by Paul Headrick * The narrator of White… FULL STORY
Two world wars in Italy
Vittorino Dal Cengio has mainly published in Italian with the exception of On the Devil’s Tail in Combat with the… FULL STORY
#464 A turbulent, alluring place
The Splendour & The Suffering: Poems and Travels in Mexico by Doug Beardsley, translated by Celso Cambiazo Arcos Spanish Translations,… FULL STORY
Starlight is “breathtakingly beautiful”
Shelagh Rogers shines a light on her friend Richard Wagamese’s final novel, published before it was completed, in an interview… FULL STORY
#463 A tribute to Wagamese
INTERVIEW: Shelagh Rogers by Starlight: CBC’s host of The Next Chapter shines a light on Indigenous authors by Margot Fedoruk… FULL STORY
#462 Escape from the Nechako Valley
Starlight: An Unfinished Novel by Richard Wagamese Toronto: Penguin Random House (McClelland & Stewart), 2018 $19.95 / 9780771070877 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
Shoelaces: hard. Bestsellers: not easy
Reviewer Sheldon Goldfarb pays tribute by respectfully mimicking McCardell’s amusing but always thoughtful style. Shoelaces are Hard & Other Thoughtful… FULL STORY
Jim Taylor (1937-2019)
Born on March 16, 1937 in Nipawin, Saskatchewan, Jim Taylor died on January 7, 2019, at the age of 82…. FULL STORY
#461 Baskets across the border
Re-awakening Ancient Salish Sea Basketry: Fifty Years of Basketry Studies in Culture and Science by Ed Carriere and Dale R…. FULL STORY
#460 An island without Velcro
Shoelaces are Hard & Other Thoughtful Scribbles by Mike McCardell Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2018. $29.95 / 9781550178487 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
#459 Skylark: old friend in a new land
ESSAY: Old Friend in a New Land: English Songbirds in British Columbia by Richard Mackie * Because the road is… FULL STORY
Hope in the forest
After Kerrry Gilbert won the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Award for Best Suite by an Emerging Writer 2016/2017, her poems now… FULL STORY
#458 From Powell Street to Tashme
Powell Street Diary: A Remembrance of Life before Internment by Jesse Nishihata, foreword by Junji Nishihata Montreal: Tombo Communications, 2017 $20.00… FULL STORY
The big conundrum: Water and China
Robert Sandford leaves no stone unturned in his assessment of crises emerging in freshwater and marine systems in China, Canada,… FULL STORY
#457 West Coast Modern home to roost
Copp House by Adele Weder, with photography by Michael Perlmutter Novato, California: ORO Editions, 2017 $24.95 (U.S.) / 9781939621887 *… FULL STORY
