#127 Postcards from unknown soldier
Faced with a handful of family postcards signed only by “Dick,” Sandi Ratch gave herself a detective quest: to identify… FULL STORY
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Ubiquitous music
When we drive in a car listening to any piece of music we want to hear, from anywhere in the… FULL STORY
Plant-Based Cheesemaking
For all those cheese-loving vegans who thought they had to give it up or resort to unappetizing non-dairy ‘cheeses’ found… FULL STORY
Ormsby #125 Marine birds
In it, Caroline Fox charts the distribution and long-distance migrations of North Pacific marine birds including albatrosses, puffins, and shearwaters…. FULL STORY
More Normal
The Whistler Writers Festival keeps expanding. Good for them. They feature B.C. authors. Their Spring Reading Series is augmented by… FULL STORY
#126 Marine birds
REVIEW: At Sea with the Marine Birds of the Raincoast by Caroline Fox Victoria: Rocky Mountain books, 2016. $25.00 / 9781771601627… FULL STORY
#125 To the end of Ron Brown’s line
REVIEW: Rails Over the Mountains Exploring the Railway Heritage of Canada’s Western Mountains by Ron Brown Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2016. $29.99… FULL STORY
Leacock opportunity Knox
After his twenty years as columnist for the Times Colonist, the first book by Jack Knox, Hard Knox: Musings From… FULL STORY
Ormsby #124 Grappling with apples
Michael Sasges revisits Tetlenitsa’s challenges to officialdom after Merritt City Council prevented him from selling 40 boxes of apples from… FULL STORY
#124 Grappling with Indian apples
Chief Tetlenitsa’s Apples: Commercializing Indigenous Horticulture in British Columbia, 1907-1916 By Michael Sasges * John Tetlenitsa, chief of the Nlaka’pamux… FULL STORY
Love & other natural disasters
How do you follow up winning the Alice Munro Short Story Contest? In the case of Leanne Dunic, you write… FULL STORY
Thieving goddesses and roving octopi
A cow-eyed goddess steals a nymph’s tongue. Steering wheels are taken over by octopi. These are some of the images… FULL STORY
Stories of desparation and anger
Creative writing instructor John Mavin has published his first collection of short fiction stories. Rage (Thistledown $18.95) loosely follows a… FULL STORY
Breaking the ice rules
Vertical Influences Le Patin Libre (Montreal) | Dance Umbrella Festival (London, UK) in partnership with National Arts Centre (Ottawa, Canada)… FULL STORY
#123 “I’ll bid you Klahowya”
A Great Old Tramp: Letters from a Canadian Sojourner in British Columbia, 1873-1875, edited by Greg Stott, previously unpublished. *… FULL STORY
Ormsby #122 Cry me a river
Eileen Delehanty Pearkes reveals why we must choose between river-as-an-eco-system or else river-as-a-machine. Review by John Gellard. REVIEW: A River… FULL STORY
Utopians R Us
Andrew Scott’s well-researched The Promise of Paradise: Utopian Communities in British Columbia (Harbour $24.95) is a revised and updated second… FULL STORY
#122 River-as-machine vs ecosytem
REVIEW: A River Captured: The Columbia River Treaty and Catastrophic Change by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Victoria: Rocky Mountain Books, 2016…. FULL STORY
Mercy Journals wins big in USA
Claudia Casper’s third novel, The Mercy Journals (Arsenal 2016), first reviewed by Joan Givner in BC BookWorld, has won the… FULL STORY
“It’s in my DNA.”
Hockey ain’t like it used to be back in the good ‘ol days when there were only six teams in… FULL STORY
