#260 Travis’ travail gets Ryga honour
This year’s Ryga Award winner for Social Awareness goes to Georgia Straight journalist Travis Lupick for Fighting for Space: How… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Home is where the art is
Claudette Lauzon’s book The Unmaking of Home in Contemporary Art (University of Toronto Press, 2017) was featured at the Audain Gallery in… FULL STORY
Secwépemc history prevails
Marianne Ignace and Ronald E. Ignace have represented ten thousand years of settlement with Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws: Yerí7… FULL STORY
#259 10,000 years of Secwépemc
Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws: Yerí7 Stsq̓ey̓s-kucw by Marianne Ignace and Ronald Ignace Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 2017… FULL STORY
#258 Reconciliation Manifesto
The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy by Arthur Manuel (1951-2017) and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson, with a… FULL STORY
Prime Ministerial power, a triad
Prime Ministerial Power in Canada: Its Origins under Macdonald, Laurier, and Borden by Patrice Dutil Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017. $34.95 … FULL STORY
#257 Macdonald, Laurier, Borden
Prime Ministerial Power in Canada: Its Origins under Macdonald, Laurier, and Borden by Patrice Dutil Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017. $34.95 … FULL STORY
Norman Bethune and women
In the forthcoming Rediscovering Norman Bethune, Larry Hannant maintains Bethune was not a crass womanizer, as alleged by unreliable biographer… FULL STORY
Salish Sea and thee
Howard Macdonald Stewart presents his book, Views of the Salish Sea: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Change around the… FULL STORY
#256 Norman Bethune and women
I’m not your man: Norman Bethune & women An essay by Larry Hannant * Doctor, medical innovator, propagandist, artist, political… FULL STORY
#255 Spitfire luck
The Spitfire Luck of Skeets Ogilvie: From the Battle of Britain to the Great Escape by Keith Ogilvie Victoria: Heritage… FULL STORY
Three Sisters Writing Group
Editor/writer Antonia Banyard has returned to live in Nelson, having worked in book publishing or graphic design for 20-plus years…. FULL STORY
Bethune launch
The most famous Canadian in China remains the Communist medical pioneer Norman Bethune who served in the Spanish Civil War… FULL STORY
#254 The trees we can’t see
Euclid’s Orchard and Other Essays by Theresa Kishkan Salt Spring Island: Mother Tongue Publishing, 2017. $22.95 / 9781896949635 Reviewed by… FULL STORY
Alberta/BC & the Great Divide
Jay Sherwood’s superb Surveying the Great Divide recalls how Canada’s longest provincial boundary was formalized by a few brave men… FULL STORY
Geddes receives Freedom Award
Poet, anthologist, translator and non-fiction author of Medicine Unbundled: A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care (Heritage House, 2017),… FULL STORY
#253 The divide of mountains and wine
Surveying the Great Divide: The Alberta/BC Boundary Survey, 1913-1917 by Jay Sherwood Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin Press, 2017. $29.95 / 9781987915525… FULL STORY
LGBTQQIAAP anthology
Nowadays when you enroll in a college you are likely going to be asked to give your name, age and… FULL STORY
We came, we saw, we skated
His history begins with early Indigenous bone and wooden skates in Canada and Finland; metal skates were developed in Europe… FULL STORY
#252 We came, we saw, we skated
Lace Up: A History of Skates in Canada by Jean-Marie Leduc, with Sean Graham & Julie Leger Victoria: Heritage House… FULL STORY
