#114 From apartheid to resurgence
Medicine Unbundled: A Journey Through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care by Gary Geddes Victoria: Heritage House, 2017 $22.95 9781772031645… FULL STORY
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#113 Why we need estuaries
REVIEW: Ecology of Salmonids in Estuaries Around the World: Adaptations, Habitats, and Conservation by Colin D. Levings Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016…. FULL STORY
Douglas Coupland gets his due
Douglas Coupland has been selected as the 14th recipient of the annual Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence in B.C…. FULL STORY
Searing images in “Collecting Silence”
North Saanich’s Ulrike Narwani has published her first book of poems, Collecting Silence (Ronsdale $15.95) covering a life arc through… FULL STORY
#112 Good isn’t good enough
REVIEW: Exhibiting Nation: Multicultural Nationalism (and Its Limits) in Canada’s Museums by Caitlin Gordon-Walker Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016. $95 / 9780774831635… FULL STORY
Ormsby #111 Christ not Almighty
“Residents of B.C. and Washington State were far more likely to reject, dismiss, and ignore religion,” she says, “particularly in… FULL STORY
#111 Where Christ is not Almighty
REVIEW: The Secular Northwest: Religion and Irreligion in Everyday Postwar Life by Tina Block Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017. $32.95 / 9780774831291… FULL STORY
#68 Annie, get your conspiracy theory
Hi Darlin’: It’s a beautiful day here. We’ve had blue sky and sunshine. The only bug in the butter is… FULL STORY
Malaysia meets Chandler
Born in Malaysia, William Tham Wai Liang published his first novel, Kings of Petalling Street (Fixi London 2017), about fate,… FULL STORY
Ormsby #110 Bill Reid is next to Emily
Martine Reid’s study of her late husband “reveals relationships that more conventional categorizations obscure” according to reviewer Victoria Wyatt REVIEW: Bill… FULL STORY
#110 Bill Reid’s legacy enhanced
REVIEW: Bill Reid Collected by Martine J. Reid Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2016, in collaboration with the Bill Reid Centre $19.95 /… FULL STORY
Richard Wagamese (1955-2017)
An Ojibway from the Wabasseemoong First Nation in northwestern Ontario, Richard Wagamese was born in Minaki, Ontario, on October 14,… FULL STORY
Disgraceful deaths
Tom Sandborn’s Hell’s History: The United Steelworkers’ Fight to Prevent Workplace Deaths and Injuries from the 1992 Westray Mine Disaster… FULL STORY
Good herbs
Medical Herbalist Katolen Yardley MNIMH has published her first book, The Good Living Guide to Natural and Herbal Remedies: Simple… FULL STORY
The ‘Florence Nightingale’ of equines
Grant Hayter-Menzies, author of books about the unsung and extraordinary – mostly women – is set to release his latest in November:… FULL STORY
Ormsby #109 From exclusion to equals
Policies for Chinese settlers in Canada have ranged from free entry, to a head tax, outright exclusion, selective entry and… FULL STORY
#109 From exclusion to equality
REVIEW: Great Fortune Dream: The Struggles and Triumphs of Chinese Settlers in Canada, 1858-1966 By David Chuenyan Lai and Ding Guo… FULL STORY
From exclusion to equality
A journalist since 1990, Ding Guo has contributed to World Economic Review magazine, China Times Weekly, World Journal, Asian Weekly… FULL STORY
Nearly a century at Chilliwack Lake
Shelley O’Callaghan’s How Deep is the Lake: A Century at Chilliwack Lake (Caitlin $24.95) is a history of nearly one… FULL STORY
Ormsby #108 Iceland in their veins
White Settler Reserve traces the little-known mass migration of thousands of Icelandic immigrants in the late 19th century. REVIEW: White Settler… FULL STORY
