An academic dissects the energy sector
Jonathan Peyton’s Unbuilt Environments examines five, major industrial initiatives, proposed or enacted in Northwest B.C. REVIEW BY WADE DAVIS. REVIEW… FULL STORY
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#186 Industrial follies
REVIEW Unbuilt Environments: Tracing Postwar Development in Northwest British Columbia Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017 $32.95 / 9780774833059 by Jonathan Peyton… FULL STORY
An intimate circus of vulnerability
Happy Place By Pamela Mala Sinha Touchstone Theatre, Ruby Slippers Theatre, Diwali in BC Firehall Theatre October 19-29, 2017 … FULL STORY
#185 We stand on guard for diversity
REVIEW: Wherever I Find Myself: Stories by Canadian Immigrant Women By Miriam Matejova (editor) Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin Press, 2017. $24.95… FULL STORY
Margaret Ormsby–catalyst & mentor
Everyone agrees she was a memorable character, forging the way for female scholars after her first office in 1940 was… FULL STORY
Pitts stops
Some applause is in order. Publisher Mona Fertig on Salt Spring, despite her ongoing differences with funding agencies, has managed… FULL STORY
#184 Margaret Ormsby remembered
Just over a year ago, in “Welcome to the Ormsby Review” (September 16, 2016), Richard Mackie provided his memories of… FULL STORY
Lock ’em up, lock ’em up, lock ’em up
The internment camps at Fernie and nearby Morrissey were dress rehearsals for the removal of Japanese Canadians from the B.C…. FULL STORY
#73 A journey to the Big Smoke
I was in the Lower Mainland for a week, visiting my youngest son. He has sarcoma stage four, inoperable, and it… FULL STORY
Uphill all the way
Previously a mayor of Fernie, Thomas Uphill (at right) was B.C.’s longest serving MLA from 1920-1960. His political career began… FULL STORY
Women & the wild essentials
Taylor notes, “Cascadia…has always been considered counterculture, liberated, transgressive, rebellious, transformative.” REVIEW: Beckoned by the Sea: Women at Work on… FULL STORY
#183 Blaise Cendrars–from Ekstasis
REVIEW: Blaise Cendrars Speaks… Translated by David J. MacKinnon, edited with an introduction by Jim Christy Victoria: Ekstasis Editions, 2016…. FULL STORY
#182 Reckoning the beckoned
REVIEW: Beckoned by the Sea: Women at Work on the Cascadian Coast by Sylvia Taylor Victoria: Heritage House, 2017 $19.95 … FULL STORY
#181 Mousewoman meets Spandex
REVIEW: The Seriousness Of Play: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas by Nicola Levell London: Black Dog Publishing, 2016 £19.95 (U.K.) / 9781910433119 Reviewed… FULL STORY
#180 The first major B.C. internments
[The new book by one of B.C.’s most integral historians, Wayne Norton, is Fernie at War 1914-1919 (Caitlin $24.95) in… FULL STORY
Johnny Cash — the Nanaimo story
Julie Chadwick has revealed how the singer’s rise to fame was owed much to the guidance of his unheralded Canadian… FULL STORY
Thanh & Ruurs triumph
Yasuko Thanh has won the 14th annual, $5,000, City of Victoria Butler Book Prize for Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow… FULL STORY
#179 Nanaimo & Johnny Cash
Nanaimo journalist Julie Chadwick has helped The Man In Black’s manager in the 1960s and ‘70s, Saul Holiff, to posthumously… FULL STORY
Beat goes on
Grammas sit in chairs and reminisce. A few of the old Beat poets are still left standing. Take, for example,… FULL STORY
#178 Kipling on Vancouver Island
by John F. Bosher * Rudyard Kipling’s first visit to the Pacific coast of British Columbia was in 1889 in… FULL STORY
