Hawley wins six grand for Witching
Alix Hawley of Kelowna has won the $6,000 CBC Short Story Prize for her story, Witching. Hawley was runner-up in… FULL STORY
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Ormsby #121 A 100-mile crime novel
From Alisa Smith, co-author of The 100-Mile Diet, comes a tale of WW II espionage that takes place roughly within… FULL STORY
Ormsby #120 Down Under therapy
After coming to B.C. in 2007 with his Canadian wife and their five-year-old twins, Darren Groth has followed his acclaimed… FULL STORY
#120 Looking up from Down Under
REVIEW: Munro vs. The Coyote By Darren Groth Victoria: Orca Books, 2017. $19.95 9781459814097 Reviewed by Carol Anne Shaw *… FULL STORY
Injun on Griffin shortlist
Injun, by Jordan Abel (Talonbooks $16.95), has been shortlisted for the Canadian shortlist of the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize. He… FULL STORY
#119 Bike ride & Art Deco exhibit
REVIEW: Lost Vancouver: an Unexpected Art Deco Tour An exhibit at Space Gallery at 552 Clark Drive, Vancouver Reviewed by… FULL STORY
Ormsby #118 Cassiar’s grubstake angel
Gold Rush Queen recalls a beautiful, Irish-born entrepreneur, philanthropist and champion dog musher who is buried in Victoria’s Ross Bay… FULL STORY
#118 Grubstake angel
REVIEW: Gold Rush Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Nellie Cashman by Thora Kerr Illing Victoria: Touchwood Editions, 2016. $18.95 / … FULL STORY
Ormsby #117 Neel gets R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Now a Victoria exhibit, Ellen Neel: The First Woman Totem Pole Carver, has finally accorded some of the attention she… FULL STORY
Litigation + Negotiation = Progress
Two months after Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History (McGill-Queen’s 2016) was chosen as this year’s… FULL STORY
Oghma’s In Your Face
After a severe accident caused agnosia—the inability to recognize and identify objects or persons—Emisch Oghma of Victoria began studying and… FULL STORY
Carole Itter receives Audain Prize
Sculptor and writer Carole Itter has been selected as the 13th recipient of the $30,000 Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement… FULL STORY
Ormsby #113 Why estuaries are vital
After 35 years of research, Colin Levings focusses on 18 species of salmonids and almost 200 B.C. estuaries to make… FULL STORY
#117 The belated legacy of Ka’kasolas
REVIEW: Ellen Neel: The First Woman Totem Pole Carver An exhibit at Legacy Gallery, Victoria, BC Reviewed by Megan A…. FULL STORY
Wyman receives first Wyman Award
Instituted by community leader and philanthropist Dr. Yosef Wosk, The Max Wyman Award for Cultural Commentary is a new $5,000… FULL STORY
Ormsby #114 Genocide in slow motion
Gary Geddes tells it like it was: sterilization, starvation, botched operations, sexual abuse, medical experiments, absence of family and neglect…. FULL STORY
#116 Wiebe not Spade
Review: Invisible Dead by Sam Wiebe Penguin Random House 2016 $22 / 978-0-345-81627-6 by Maansi Pandya * Soon to be… FULL STORY
Ormsby #116 It’s Wiebe, not Spade
The public is invited to hear Wiebe present his new mystery Invisible Dead on April 27 at VPL’s South Hill… FULL STORY
#115 “On cultural vandalism”
During a speech in 2017, Richard Mackie lamented the loss of historical buildings on Vancouver Island for a NIC Elder… FULL STORY
It’s a Try!
Rugby was first played in Victoria, B.C. in 1877. The Rugby Union of Canada existed from 1929 to 1939. Reformed… FULL STORY
