Disgraceful deaths
Tom Sandborn’s Hell’s History: The United Steelworkers’ Fight to Prevent Workplace Deaths and Injuries from the 1992 Westray Mine Disaster… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Good herbs
Medical Herbalist Katolen Yardley MNIMH has published her first book, The Good Living Guide to Natural and Herbal Remedies: Simple… FULL STORY
The ‘Florence Nightingale’ of equines
Grant Hayter-Menzies, author of books about the unsung and extraordinary – mostly women – is set to release his latest in November:… FULL STORY
From exclusion to equality
A journalist since 1990, Ding Guo has contributed to World Economic Review magazine, China Times Weekly, World Journal, Asian Weekly… FULL STORY
Nilsen of Nelson
In her debut book of poems, Otolith (Goose Lane $19,95), Emily Nilsen examines the ache of nostalgia in the world’s… FULL STORY
Granny and her grow ‘op
In Jennifer Craig’s third book Gone to Pot (Second Storey $19.95) Jess, a feisty Nelson-based Grandmother, faces near calamity. On… FULL STORY
A labour of love & labour
“When one reads other accounts of the history of British Columbia since the Second World War,” says Mark Warrior, “the… FULL STORY
From Peachland to Portugal
Born in North Vancouver, Michelle Oucharek-Deo of Port Coquitlam is a Registered Art Therapist who has written a debut novel,… FULL STORY
Greening the getaway
The Bartley family has long maintained a summer home on one of the Gulf Islands. Now mother and daughter, Joan… FULL STORY
Serpentine Loop reprinted
Elee Kraljii Gardiner grew up as the daughter of U.S. Olympic figure skating gold medalist Tenley Albright. Gardiner’s first collection… FULL STORY
A duty to humanity
With illustrations by Marc Luc Poelvoorde, Helen May’s self-published novel Mother Tongue (Friesen Press 2016) is about a Scottish girl,… FULL STORY
The agony of defeat
A former Olympic rower, Jason Dorland has penned his second book, Pulling Together:A Coach’s Journey to Uncover the Mindset of… FULL STORY
Injustice in Canada’s Chemical Valley
Having completed her doctoral dissertation at the University of Ottawa, Sarah Wiebe penned Everyday Exposure:Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in… FULL STORY
Tar Wars without George Lucas
Coincidental with the resurgence of the Keystone XL pipeline project, Geo Takach, Ph.D, a writer, filmmaker, workshop leader, and, as… FULL STORY
Doolittle did a lot
Raised on Gabriola Island, playwright Sasha Colby is Director of SFU’s Graduate Liberal Studies Program. In her second book, Staging… FULL STORY
Bone, Moon & Rules
Also a massage therapist and teacher, Ottawa Valley-raised Julie Paul, from Lanark, moved to Victoria and published her first collection… FULL STORY
Shenanigans on an unnamed isle
Pat Carney will be promoting her first fiction collection–available in April–at the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts in… FULL STORY
Paint it black
Nicola Peffers has emerged as the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit filed against the Canadian Armed Forces by a… FULL STORY
Alan’s alleys & graffiti
In his Freedom in East Vancouver, The Photography and Writing of Alan Fossen (Vancouver: Electromagnetic Print, $65), photographer Al Fossen… FULL STORY
Salmon rivers, forests of fir
We get our balance from our ears. An otolith is a series of bones in the ear that enable us… FULL STORY
