#89 Rebels with legal causes
REVIEW: Lawyers’ Empire: Legal Professions and Cultural Authority, 1780-1950 By W. Wesley Pue Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016 $75 / 9780774833097 Reviewed… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Revelstoke trilogy ends with Sanctuary
Born and raised in Revelstoke, B.C., Robert Pepper-Smith has incorporated his background in that region with his experiences as a… FULL STORY
#88 The ’54 Games began modern B.C.
REVIEW: The Miracle Mile. Stories of the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games by Jason Beck Halfmoon Bay: Caitlin Press, 2016…. FULL STORY
Ormsby #89 Leishmaniasis in Peru
Vancouver Islander Inge Bolin is now helping a Peruvian “Culture of Respect” eradicate a deadly, disfiguring disease. Inge Bolin’s first… FULL STORY
#87 Leishmaniasis must be beaten
Inge Bolin’s first novel, When Condors Call (Nanaimo: Chaska Publications, 2010) follows a young physician from the Peruvian Andes in… FULL STORY
Ryga Award longlist announced
Since 2003, the annual George Ryga [at right] Award has been presented to a B.C. writer who has achieved an… FULL STORY
Alisa Smith’s Speakeasy
Alisa Smith’s forthcoming novel, Speakeasy (D&M $22.95) takes place during World War II and follows Lena Stillman, a former (undetected)… FULL STORY
#86 Capturing Hill 70, reconsidered
REVIEW: Capturing Hill 70: Canada’s Forgotten Battle of the First World War by Douglas E. Delaney and Serge Marc Durflinger, editors… FULL STORY
Ormsby #85: Site C will flood Eden
Mark Eliesen, former CEO of BC Hydro, considers the Site C dam a “white elephant” that will mire Hydro so… FULL STORY
Rare is Everywhere
Alligators and tigers can be white. Lobsters can be blue. One in twelve people have a rare disease. So what… FULL STORY
#85 Flooding a Garden of Eden
REVIEW: The Peace in Peril: The Real Cost of the Site C Dam by Christopher Pollon (text) and Ben Nelms (photos) Madeira Park:… FULL STORY
Ormsby #84: The coast was not clear
Captain Colin Henthorne was one of five crewmembers whose employment was eventually terminated by BC Ferries. REVIEW: The Queen of… FULL STORY
#66 Kill or Tweet
The Tweeter & The Twerp – Chapter One Okay, so where do we begin…. Trump or Trudeau? I hope you… FULL STORY
#84 The coast was not clear
REVIEW: The Queen of the North Disaster: The Captain’s Story by Colin Henthorne Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2016. $24.95 /… FULL STORY
Laundry & love
In her debut collection, Frequent, Small Loads of Laundry (Mother Tongue 2017), Rhonda Ganz describes how people behave in moments… FULL STORY
#83 Vancouver & his mapmaker
Mary Tasi of Sky Spirit Studio and her studio partner Wade Baker, a descendant of three royal First Nations lineages,… FULL STORY
Ormsby #81: A Fen fan on Lansdowne
The ROM was showing J. Fenwick Lansdowne’s work in 1956, the Vancouver Art Gallery mounted a one-man show in 1981,… FULL STORY
#82 What Jinx thinks
REVIEW: A Queer Love Story: The Letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bebout (UBC Press 2017) Edited by Marilyn R…. FULL STORY
What Jinx thinks
“The letters in A Queer Love Story are not simply a look into private lives, which are satisfying and rich in themselves…. FULL STORY
Captain Vancouver & his Mapmaker
Mary Tasi of Sky Spirit Studio and her studio partner Wade Baker, a descendant of three royal First Nations lineages,… FULL STORY
