Avoiding emergency rooms
More than 15 million people visit a hospital emergency department in Canada every year. But did they need to go… FULL STORY
Author Archive
China’s world disorder
Vancouver-based journalist, Joanna Chui has written China Unbound: A New World Disorder (House of Anansi $24.99) chronicling China’s moves to… FULL STORY
Keller gets on VPL’s “Walk of Fame”
When Keller became a writer in the late 1940s, she recalls little support for authors: “There were no writers’ groups,… FULL STORY
Whistler Writers Fest 2021
The 2021 Whistler Writers Festival has released a reading list for its 20th festival including B.C. authors such as Gail… FULL STORY
Temporality
In his debut collection of poems All the Broken Things (Anvil $18), Geoff Inverarity writes of the fragility of friendships,… FULL STORY
Defining Strathcona Park
Most visitors to Strathcona Provincial Park, situated in the middle of Vancouver Island, know it as a place of breathtaking… FULL STORY
Celebrating Haida culture
Jigging for Halibut with Tsinii (HighWater Press, 2021) and Learning to Carve Argillite (HighWater Press, 2021), due out September 28,… FULL STORY
Queering healthcare
Research shows what LGBTQ+ communities have long known: that they face health disparities linked to societal stigma, discrimination and denial… FULL STORY
Kogawa House poems & pix
Bowen Island’s Jude Neale is set to release a collection of poetry and photography produced from her stint as a… FULL STORY
Heritage classic gets update
Art Downs (1924 – 1996) may be known as one of the forefathers of the B.C. publishing industry for founding… FULL STORY
Families, friends & enemies
Hard questions are also asked of the parents in Half Brothers. “Parenting remains the universal preserve of blundering amateurs,” writes… FULL STORY
Between expectations & reality
Christopher Evans is set to publish his debut collection of short stories Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth (House… FULL STORY
A redhead and her dog
As Kateri O’Leary tries to get her rescue dog, Belle, ready for the Show Dog ring, life keeps getting in… FULL STORY
Caregiver
“What job could be more important than caring for your husband?” a doctor says to the poet Jane Munro when… FULL STORY
Lovers in dangerous times
In Carmen Rodriguez’s historical novel Atacama (Fernwood $22) set in the first half of the twentieth century, the son of… FULL STORY
A new epic fantasy
Renée Sarojini Saklikar has published an epic fantasy told in verse: Bramah and the Beggar Boy (Nightwood $26.95). Ten years… FULL STORY
Fatherhood joy
In his second poetry collection, Umbilical Cord (Book*hug $20) Hasan Namir reflects on parenting, fatherhood and hope. His new poems… FULL STORY
Cassette tape memoirs
A former prison nurse stumbles upon cassette tapes (remember those?) from 1990 that contain the personal stories of an inmate… FULL STORY
Desparately seeking democracy
In his first book Humanizing the Economy (New Society, 2010), former executive director of the BC Co-operative Association, John Restakis… FULL STORY
Desparately seeking democracy
Former executive director of the BC Co-operative Association, John Restakis has written Civilizing the State: Reclaiming Politics for the Common… FULL STORY
