#229 Youbou yokel to S&R king
It Can Be Done: An Ordinary Man’s Extraordinary Success by Chick Stewart and Michele Carter Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2017…. FULL STORY
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Reconciliation dances and divides
Reviewer Andrew Woolford considers the political history of genocide and argues for the inclusion of more indigenous viewpoints. > Residential… FULL STORY
Franklin findings at last
The Erebus was found in 2014 just off O’Reilly Island, a hundred kilometres due west of Starvation Cove; two years… FULL STORY
One damned river before another
The pro-industrial bias of B.C. governments is traceable back to the damning of the Campbell River’s origins, outlined in People,… FULL STORY
#228 Reconciliation dances & divides
Residential Schools and Reconciliation: Canada Confronts its History by J.R. (Jim) Miller Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. $39.95 / … FULL STORY
Better, but not benign
Former Tsimshian students recall attending Anglican and Methodist schools at Spaksuut (Port Essington) and Terrace in Helen Raptis’ collaboratively written… FULL STORY
#76 Annus horribilis & Site C
Eight ayem and I’m up. MerryMary is still sprawled on my bed, sleeping soundly. She’s been doing a lot of that… FULL STORY
#227 Specific to the Pacific
REVIEW Refugium: Poems for the Pacific by Yvonne Blomer (editor), with a foreword by Adam Olsen. Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin Press… FULL STORY
#226 Rescuing Riel, revising history
Louis Riel: Let Justice Be Done by David Doyle Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 2017. $24.95 / 9781553804963 Reviewed by Max Hamon… FULL STORY
#225 Food & community in Vancouver
REVIEW: Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food Edited and with a Foreword by Rachel Rose… FULL STORY
#224 Opportunity Knox twice
Opportunity Knox: Twenty Years of Award Losing Humour Writing by Jack Knox Victoria: Heritage House, 2017. $19.95 / 9781772032086 Reviewed… FULL STORY
#223 Starvation Cove & Terror Bay
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie and John Geiger, with a foreword by Wade… FULL STORY
Haig-Brown nature book revived
Each bird encountered offers subtle teachings, not just on nature, but on the relationships between humans and the natural world,… FULL STORY
#222 Tsimshian Day Schools revisited
REVIEW: What We Learned: Two Generations Reflect on Tsimshian Education and the Day Schools by Helen Raptis with members of… FULL STORY
Countries ending in stan
Not very many first-time authors get blurbage from the likes of Pico Iyer (“It’s a modern classic.”) and Barry Lopez,… FULL STORY
Ryga Award going strong
The George Ryga Award is annually presented to a B.C. writer who has achieved an outstanding degree of social awareness… FULL STORY
#221 The sacred sandbar of Squamish
Should the B.C. publishing industry ever require validation—which it shouldn’t, given the bang for the buck it renders in return… FULL STORY
#220 From s7istkn to dude ranches
The Land on Which We Live: Life on the Cariboo Plateau, 70 Mile House to Bridge Lake by Barbara MacPherson… FULL STORY
Here’s mud in your eye
A group of women including Molly Murphy and Sheera Cipilinski have decided to make their own homes using mud—one of… FULL STORY
Here’s mud in your eye
Wanting to break free from a rigged economic and social system, a group of women led by Molly Murphy and… FULL STORY
