Fighting for dignity
“Canadian union activists live by the principle that an injury to one is an injury to all. It’s more than… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Beautiful “Brutish” Columbia
As industrial logging of old growth forests continues amidst protests, Christine Lowther bears witness to the blockade over thirty years… FULL STORY
Surviving Mystery Mountain
The Mundays wrote stories about their discoveries that were published across the country, setting off a national craze to conquer… FULL STORY
Sqʷəmey̓ blues
Now extinct, the Coast Salish Woolly Dog was a beloved companion, sacred kin and valuable textile source as its silky,… FULL STORY
Travels in a garden
To avoid long distance trips and harming the environment, Bradbury chose instead to explore the wonders in her garden, season… FULL STORY
Strathcona to the Spanish Civil War
For a good introduction to 1930s Vancouver, pick up a copy of David Spaner’s novel, Keefer Street by David Spaner… FULL STORY
The reckoning
Hailed in their time as celebrated politicians, the legacy of white supremacists in BC’s past is under scrutiny in When… FULL STORY
Where Voyageurs Dared To Go
Some First Nations had long working relationships with the HBC men. Others were wary, if not hostile. But time and… FULL STORY
Cabinet of historical curiosities
Untold Tales of Old British Columbia tells long-hidden stories that reveal how BC emerged from a period of chaos and… FULL STORY
Forgotten resistance stories
This small but courageous group fought for political and workers’ rights. Michael Kluckner discusses his contributions to a new graphic… FULL STORY
Capturing Canada’s highest mountain
Joined by naturalist Hamilton Mack Laing, who went to collect specimens, a climbing expedition faced a maze of towering ice… FULL STORY
BC’s newest publisher
BC BookWorld interviews Wendy Atkinson who has taken over Ronsdale Press after the passing of publisher Ron Hatch. An arts… FULL STORY
Dreams of glory, lives of hardship
If the miners were lucky, they could find enough gold to buy a home or build a business. But gold… FULL STORY
Science NOT silence
When the elements of survival we all depend on are threatened, people’s health, well-being and even their lives are also… FULL STORY
YA FICTION: Bollywood Boy
Project Bollywood by Mahtab Narsimhan (Orca $10.95) Fiction for ages 9-12 Salman Khan lives with his parents in a fourteen-room… FULL STORY
B.C.’s forgotten uprising
One of the largest, most broad-based political protests in Canadian history gets its due in a new book by David… FULL STORY
Teen secret – adult trauma
Review by Heidi Greco Sometimes a novel offers more than a multi-plotted story. Shashi Bhat’s second title, The Most Precious… FULL STORY
The rise of graphic novels in B.C.
Early artists who combined drawings with words include Emily Carr who drew cartoons for Western Women’s Weekly in 1918 and… FULL STORY
