Tomboy Survival
Ivan E. Coyote has increasingly incorporated music into their public appearances and encouraged the use of the pronoun ‘their’ in… FULL STORY
Author Archive
#33 Courtenay gets its due
REVIEW: Watershed Moments: A Pictorial History of Courtenay and District By Christine Dickinson, Deborah Griffiths, Judy Hagen, and Catherine Siba Madeira… FULL STORY
Clark Park revisited
BOOK LAUNCH The Last Gang in Town: The Epic Story of the Vancouver Police vs. the Clark Park Gang (Arsenal… FULL STORY
Ruth for Chuck
Vancouver can boast about bike lanes; it can make repeated vows to eliminate homelessness in order to advertise its good… FULL STORY
Putin’s Potemkin village
Russian-born Marina Sonkina, a Vancouver writer, reveals contemporary Russia beneath its facade. Every two years, Russian-born fiction writer Marina Sonkina… FULL STORY
Cloud Physics
In her third collection of poetry, Cloud Physics (U of Regina $19.95), Karen Enns focuses on endings – cultural, ecological, and… FULL STORY
Canine nine
A cat might have nine lives; but John Armstrong has had nine dogs–and counting. John Armstrong’s third memoir, A Series… FULL STORY
#32 Putin’s Potemkin Village
Every two years, Russian-born fiction writer Marina Sonkina of Vancouver takes her SFU and UBC students from Continuing Studies for… FULL STORY
#31 People are strange
REVIEW: The Woods: A Year on Protection Island. By Amber McMillan. Gibsons: Nightwood Editions, 2016. $19.95 978-0-88971-329-1 Reviewed by Howard… FULL STORY
Water. Ship. Down.
And, for ten years, questions have swirled around this tragedy. by Beverly Cramp Two passengers went missing, were never found… FULL STORY
Madeleine Thien – a triple threat
Madeleine Thien’s third novel, Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Knopf), has won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. Also… FULL STORY
Merna Forster wins Berton Award
A steadfast campaign to feature prominent Canadian women on banknotes has earned Victoria historian and writer Merna Forster the $5000… FULL STORY
#30 Bob Bouchette, Everyman scribe
Long before Allan Fotheringham or Eric Nicol, Vancouver’s most popular columnist was Bob Bouchette. The prolific non-conformist Bob Bouchette wrote… FULL STORY
#29 Althea Moody, first female author
Susanna Moodie (1803-1895) of Eastern Canada is famous for her book, Roughing it in the Bush, inspiring a collection of… FULL STORY
A Mazie grace
Known to her family as ch’esken (Golden Eagle), Mazie made great bannock and raised hell in response to injustice, as… FULL STORY
Dan Paxton Dunaway
Having been a rancher, a sailor and the publisher of a community newspaper, Dan Paxton Dunaway turned to writing novels… FULL STORY
Annacis Island’s namesake
The oldest French place name in British Columbia that’s still in use is likely Annacis Island, located southwest of New… FULL STORY
Métis meeting of the minds
Prairie-born Métis/Icelandic Jónína Kirton coordinated the first National Indigenous Writers Conference in Vancouver in 2013. She is another graduate of… FULL STORY
#63 Bounty hunter
Hi darlin’: Today my son drove me to Gold River to get insurance on my old Jeep “Snowdrop.” Probably paid… FULL STORY
YesterCanada
In 2017, Elma Schemenauer’s YesterCanada: Historical Tales of Mystery and Adventure (Borealis $19.95) will present thirty historical tales from the… FULL STORY
