One man’s obsessive search for truth
RCMP threatened to charge Michalko with obstruction of justice unless he dropped his unofficial investigation. Ex-Mountie Bonnie Reilly Schmidt reviews his… FULL STORY
Author Archive
#378 Love affair with UBC
The Age of Walter Gage: How One Canadian Shaped the Lives of Thousands by Shelley Fralic [Vancouver]: The Friends of… FULL STORY
#377 Truth for the Highway of Tears
Obstruction of Justice: The Search for Truth on Canada’s Highway of Tears by Ray Michalko Markham, ON: Red Deer Press,… FULL STORY
#376 Gulf Islands parks and predators
Fat Cats by George Mercer North Saanich: George Mercer, 2018 $19.99 / 9780987975461 Reviewed by Ron Dart * Born in… FULL STORY
Patrick Lane: stark, bleak, brilliant
In Deep River Night, for 416 pages, we are immersed in an unnamed sawmill village along the North Thompson River… FULL STORY
#375 The industrial pastoral
Deep River Night by Patrick Lane Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2018 $34.00 / 9780771048173 Reviewed by Dustin Cole * Governor… FULL STORY
#374 Mallory Tater and the feel of fire
This Will Be Good By Mallory Tater Toronto: BookThug, 2018 $18.00 / 9781771663946 Reviewed by Elee Kraljii Gardiner * This… FULL STORY
The suitcase and the jar
Reviewer Carys Cragg calls Livingston’s journey, told in The Suitcase and the Jar, “masterfully overwhelming and at once heartbreaking and stunningly… FULL STORY
#373 Olav’s love of landscape
Landscapes and Landforms of Western Canada by Olav Slaymaker (editor) Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017 $149 (U.S.) / 9783319445953 Reviewed by Syd… FULL STORY
#372 Scattering Rachel’s ashes
The Suitcase and the Jar: Travels with a Daughter’s Ashes by Becky Livingston Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin Press, 2018 $22.95 /… FULL STORY
Burning down the house
In 1971, the local government burned down the squatters’ ramshackle huts and cabins that were perched on a tidal plain… FULL STORY
#371 Burning down the house
Tom Burrows Vancouver: Figure 1 Publishing, 2018. by Scott Watson and Ian Wallace $50 / 9781927958889 Reviewed by Robert Amos… FULL STORY
#370 We were songen and rejoicing
songen: new poems by Patrick Friesen Salt Spring Island: Mother Tongue Publishing, 2018. $19.95 9781896949642 Reviewed by Danny Peart *… FULL STORY
Empathetic profiles of Kootenay lives
Seventeen people profiled in Lee Reid’s Growing Home: The Legacy of Kootenay Elders include author Tom Wayman, plus Doukhobors Ellie… FULL STORY
#369 West Kootenay lives and land
Growing Home: the Legacy of Kootenay Elders by Lee Reid Nelson: Growing Home Elders Press, 2017. $26.95 / 9780995816404 Reviewed… FULL STORY
Living the dream at Rivers Inlet
George had a youthful dream to become a lighthouse keeper, and Pat was up for adventure. Grizzlies, Gales, and Giant… FULL STORY
#368 Walk like an Indian
Kuei, My Friend: A Conversation on Race and Reconciliation by Deni Ellis Béchard and Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, translated by Deni… FULL STORY
#367 Float camp at Rivers Inlet
Grizzlies, Gales, and Giant Salmon: Life at a Rivers Inlet Fishing Lodge by Pat Ardley Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2018…. FULL STORY
Wry and fiercely beautiful
“These women and situations ring familiar, and then hit you with subversive notes.” Don’t Tell Me What to Do by… FULL STORY
From Punjab to Williams Lake
His memoir describes how Sikhs must build bridges with Indigenous peoples, Christians, Jews, Muslims and LGBT groups. An Uncommon Road:… FULL STORY
