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