Bone, Moon & Rules
Also a massage therapist and teacher, Ottawa Valley-raised Julie Paul, from Lanark, moved to Victoria and published her first collection… FULL STORY
Author Archive
#96 Métis longing and belonging
REVIEW: Belonging Métis by Catherine Richardson (Kinewesquao) Vernon: J. Charlton Publishing, 2016 $30.00 / 9781926476070 Reviewed by Émilie Pigeon * Despite… FULL STORY
Shenanigans on an unnamed isle
Pat Carney will be promoting her first fiction collection–available in April–at the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts in… FULL STORY
Paint it black
Nicola Peffers has emerged as the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit filed against the Canadian Armed Forces by a… FULL STORY
#95 Wolfgang meets Emily
REVIEW: I Had an Interesting French Artist to See Me This Summer: Emily Carr and Wolfgang Paalen in British Columbia By… FULL STORY
Alan’s alleys & graffiti
In his Freedom in East Vancouver, The Photography and Writing of Alan Fossen (Vancouver: Electromagnetic Print, $65), photographer Al Fossen… FULL STORY
Campbell wins Freedom to Read
For her second book, A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War (Knopf… FULL STORY
Ormsby #94 Saving the Chilcotin Ark
Now photographer Chris Harris says the Chilcotin Ark, a 2.5 million hectare tract of B.C. wilderness, should be saved from… FULL STORY
Ormsby #88 The Empire Games of ’54
Reviewer Roger Robinson insists the Games helped transform Vancouver from a colonial outpost to a multicultural metropolis. REVIEW: The Miracle Mile…. FULL STORY
#94 Nature photographer extraordinaire
REVIEW: British Columbia’s Cariboo Chilcotin Coast: A Photographer’s Journey by Chris Harris 108 Mile Ranch: Country Light Publishing, 2016. $39.95 /… FULL STORY
#93 HMS Pinafore on the Pacific
REVIEW: Britannia’s Navy on the West Coast of North America, 1812-1914 by Barry Gough Victoria: Heritage House, 2016. $29.99 / 9781772031102… FULL STORY
Appleton longlisted
Craft beer pioneer Frank Appleton, author of Brewing Revolution: Pioneering the Craft Beer Movement (Harbour Publishing, 2016), has been longlisted… FULL STORY
Ormsby #92 Of salmon and abalone
In People of the Saltwater, UBC anthropologist Charles Menzies provides an ethnography of his own people, known variously as the… FULL STORY
#92 Of salmon, herring and abalone
REVIEW: People of the Saltwater: An Ethnography of Git lax m’oon by Charles R. Menzies Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,… FULL STORY
Ormsby #90 Yellowcake & destruction
Patricia Sandberg recalls happily growing up in a boom town that was a key supplier of uranium in response to… FULL STORY
Salmon rivers, forests of fir
We get our balance from our ears. An otolith is a series of bones in the ear that enable us… FULL STORY
As Simone says…
South Asian Canadian writer Fauzia Rafique–originally from Pakistan–writes fiction and poetry in English, Punjabi and Urdu. Endorsed by literary friends… FULL STORY
#91 Nurturing postwar feminism
REVIEW: From Left to Right: Maternalism and Women’s Political Activism in Postwar Canada by Brian Thorn Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016. $32.95… FULL STORY
Big Blue Forever
Anita Miettunen was born in Vancouver to Finnish immigrant parents. She has lived, studied, and travelled in many places including… FULL STORY
#90 Yellowcake & mass destruction
REVIEW: Sun Dogs and Yellowcake: Gunnar Mines — A Canadian Story by Patricia Sandberg Surrey: Crackingstone Press, 2016. $24.99 /… FULL STORY
