Making it Work
Bear with me for a moment while I shake my fist at this cloud. There are, no doubt, many things… FULL STORY
Author Archive
Shadow Warrior
When he died in 2023, BC environmentalist David Garrick, known to friends and colleagues as “Walrus,” left more than 100… FULL STORY
Never take more than what is Needed
In Plant Teachings from My Auntie: Gathering Coast Salish Plants for Medicine, Textiles, Nourishment, and Ceremony (New Society $24.99), Geraldine… FULL STORY
To Bee or not to Bee
Edgy is a word that’s been blunted by overuse to describe art, music or writing that’s gratuitously bizarre; superficial stunts… FULL STORY
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
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
