An Eden in our midst

The mighty Fraser River is B.C.’s largest, most ecologically diverse and productive waterway. Between the towns of Hope and Mission… FULL STORY

B.C.’s great hunting guide

With retired journalist Andrew Bruce Richards, Hiram Cody Tegart wrote his memoirs about being a hunting guide in B.C.’s Columbia… FULL STORY

From Harvey River to Halfmoon Bay

Lorna Goodison, of Halfmoon Bay has won the the annual Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, originally established in 1933 for… FULL STORY

Yamagishi novel shortlisted for international award

Canadian author, Kunio Yamagishi’s The Return of a Shadow (London, Austin Macauley, 2018) was one of eight books shortlisted in… FULL STORY

Man of destiny

Jesse Donaldson’s new book, Land of Destiny: A History of Vancouver Real Estate (Anvil $20) will be launched December 19…. FULL STORY

Grieving a stillbirth

Thirty-nine weeks and six days pregnant, Emma Hansen’s baby stops moving inside of her. Doctors confirm her baby is dead… FULL STORY

The iconic polar bear

Although natural historians began writing about the polar bear as early as the mid-eighteenth century, it wasn’t until 1971 that… FULL STORY

An over-anxious wiener dog

Winner of the 2019 Victoria Children’s Book Prize for her debut picture book, Sterling, Best Dog Ever (Farrar, Straus and… FULL STORY

Saving wild birds

Eight-year-old Gabi accidentally drops food one day that a crow swoops down and eats. A few days later, Gabi drops… FULL STORY

Tolstoy’s Words To Live By

Leo Tolstoy’s role as the world’s first global thinker will be brought to light in May of 2020… FULL STORY

Wagging the dog

Founder of the blog, Companion Animal Psychology, where she writes about training methods and the human-dog relationship, Zazie Todd has… FULL STORY

Black sheep of the tribe

Mad Hatter by Amanda Hale (Guernica Editions, 2019 $29.95) Reviewed by Sally Campbell * Some books are simply better than… FULL STORY

Natelle Fitzgerald

When journalism graduate Natelle Fitzgerald of tiny Beaton, B.C. (formerly Thomson’s Landing, at the head of Upper Arrow Lake) isn’t… FULL STORY

Shotguns in libraries

Librarians not only help readers find books, some also write them. Cranbrook Public Library’s community development librarian is the latter…. FULL STORY

Vancouver’s brave new architecture

What particularly impressed a mandarin from the east, Robert H. Hubbard, were the West Coast architects who were designing a… FULL STORY

Karen Schauber

Montreal-raised Karen Schauber edited The Group of Seven Reimagined: Contemporary Stories Inspired by Historic Canadian Paintings (Heritage 2019), an anthology… FULL STORY