#190 Evelyn Lau
LOCATION: Quayside Marina, at the foot of Davie St. & Marinaside Crescent, Vancouver Evelyn Lau walks this stretch of seawall… FULL STORY
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#189 Pauline Johnson
LOCATION: Pauline Johnson monument. Above Third Beach, near Stanley Park tearoom. When Canada’s most famous First Nations poet, Pauline Johnson,… FULL STORY
Ex-bar owner examines alcohol
Book lovers will get the chance to see what the current writer-in-residence at the Joy Kogawa House, Toronto journalist and… FULL STORY
Sorrow and gentle humour prevails
CBC Books, CBC’s online home for literary content, together with its partners the Canada Council for the Arts, Air Canada… FULL STORY
Ride to heal
Paralympic hero Karen Brain’s recovery in Creston was an inspiration. Book launches in small towns often draw more people than… FULL STORY
Inge examines her global life
Born of a Russian mother and Polish father in Frankfurt in 1927, Inge Israel escaped Hitler’s rise with her parents… FULL STORY
From Pitt Meadows to acceptance
Phinder Dulai has received news that his book written in response to the Komagata Maru incident and his life in… FULL STORY
YA and you
Born in New Westminster on October 16, 1941, Marion McKinnon Crook grew up in Cloverdale and graduated from Seattle University… FULL STORY
#60 Truffle off to Buffalo
Hi darlin’: Hey, I just saw an article claiming Stephen Hawking says we are ripe for invasion from outer space,… FULL STORY
#18 The pianist and the knitter
Ann Eriksson’s fifth novel The Performance (D&M $22.95) contrasts the worlds of elite classical piano with urban homelessness. Hana Knight,… FULL STORY
In the name of medicine
Gary Geddes has spent four years interviewing elders for his next non-fiction book, due in January, Medicine Unbundled: Dispatches from… FULL STORY
#188 W.P. Kinsella
LOCATION: Former residence, #1607, 1188 Howe Street, Vancouver W.P. (Bill) Kinsella lived here in a condominium in the late-1990s. His… FULL STORY
Segregated hospitals
Gary Geddes has spent four years interviewing elders for his next non-fiction book, page due in January, more about Medicine… FULL STORY
A carrot can change the world
Inspired by a journey she made to Aix-en-Provence in 2013, Susan McCaslin’s suite of poems about the life and work… FULL STORY
#17 W.P. Kinsella (1935-2016)
Born in Edmonton, Alberta, on May 25, 1935, William Patrick (Bill) Kinsella invoked the assisted dying provisions of Bill C-14… FULL STORY
#16 Significant B.C. literature to 1997
There is no critical study of B.C. writing to date, no critical overview; no statistics. Here then, to mark the… FULL STORY
#1 Welcome to The Ormsby Review
The Ormsby Review will be named after Margaret Orsmby, the venerable historian who often met with Mackie for tea and… FULL STORY
Wolf as healing guide
When Austrian-born Gudrun Pfluger retired from athletics (Mountain Running World trophy winner 1993, 1995, 1996 and 1997) the certified field… FULL STORY
#59 Waste not, waste not
Hi darlin’: There’s an election coming soon … I’m not really deeply convinced elections can change very much. Seems as… FULL STORY
Growing vegetables & optimism
How the greening of 4.5 acres in downtown Vancouver has recovered land and people. The Sole Food Street Farms initiative… FULL STORY
