Over-scheduled Andrew
You don’t have to look very far to find ambitiously earnest parents who are eliminating play from the child’s agenda…. FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Kat’s catalogue
A self-described country girl at heart, Kat Rose prefers a non-urban lifestyle in Langley that includes her dog and her… FULL STORY
Kirkby X 3
To improve wildlife habitat on Vancouver Island, the Nile Creek – Qualicum Bay Watershed Renewal Program is a collaboration between… FULL STORY
Liverpudlian lit
To outsiders, it might appear that the remarkably productive Mother Tongue Press on Salt Spring Island must be a one-person… FULL STORY
Roll on, Wagamese
An Ojibway from the Wabasseemoong First Nation in Northwestern Ontario, Richard Wagamese first received the George Ryga Prize for Social… FULL STORY
Injun-newity
Jordan Abel is a Nisga’a writer currently completing his Ph.D at Simon Fraser University, where his studies focus on digital… FULL STORY
The price is not right
Bev Sellars won the 2014 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness for her book They Called Me Number One: Secrets… FULL STORY
Breaking the cycle in Tanzania
Born in Mbeya, Tanzania, Farida Somjee of Vancouver has written a debut novel, The Beggar’s Dance (Amazon 2015), that follows… FULL STORY
Where there’s a will, I want to be in it
You don’t necessarily need a lawyer to probate an estate; you might only require the fourth edition of the The… FULL STORY
How do I know God loves me?
Esther Hizsa’s self-published Stories of an Everyday Pilgrim ($16.95 Amazon 2015) contains vignettes, poems and essays about how the author… FULL STORY
A belligerent but cerebral dog
Norm Gibbons of Cortes Island was born in Vancouver in 1943 and attended UBC and UVic where he gained degrees… FULL STORY
#97 George Woodcock
LOCATION: 6429 McCleery Street, Vancouver Self-described as “a British Columbian by choice, a Canadian by birth,” the Winnipeg-born, England-educated anarchist… FULL STORY
Coyote to the rescue
Margery Fee’s Literary Land Claims: The “Indian Land Question” from Pontiac’s War to Attawapiskat (Wilfrid Laurier University Press $29.24) examines… FULL STORY
Ben the Dragonborn
Ben last saw his mother when he was three years old. Now he’s entering grade ten in his second year… FULL STORY
Ellen & Ginger
Laura Ellyn, a writer and editor based in Montreal, has published a graphic novel-styled account about the life and death… FULL STORY
RootWoman in Sandhill
Also known as RootWoman, Kahlee Keane of Vancouver Island is a herbalist who has written on environmental issues and produced… FULL STORY
Chicago in 1919
In Mary Burns’ forthcoming novel, The Reason for Time (Chicago: Allium Press 2016), due in April, we will meet protagonist… FULL STORY
Cash and bad coffee
Fraser Nixon was born on the West Coast and has lived in Montreal, Toronto, Paris and Vancouver. By turns an… FULL STORY
Carty and The Big Tent
Sunny Ways might have been a better title. Just prior to the election of Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister in… FULL STORY
#43 Chuck Davis
LOCATION: Captain George Vancouver statue, City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver. The ultimate expert on all historical matters pertaining… FULL STORY
