Income inequality in B.C.
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer in British Columbia, as they do in much of the world…. FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Forest sleuthing & Ground-Truthing
Derrick Denholm received an award for emerging artist in 1994 and vanished into the rain forests of northern and coastal… FULL STORY
Timewatch for reincarnated adventure
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Linda Grant moved to Canada in 1950. She has taught school and worked in film production… FULL STORY
Writing her away beyond tragedy
Born in Vancouver in 1970, Colleen Ruttan of Chilliwack received a physics degree from UBC in 2003 and worked as… FULL STORY
At the end of the Trans-Canada rainbow
Lisa Ahier’s The SoBo Cookbook: Recipes from the Tofino Restaurant at the End of the Canadian Road (Random House 2014)… FULL STORY
Z is for Zeballos
Born in Viking, Alberta in 1942, Eleanor Witton Hancock grew up in Zeballos from age three onwards. With her parents… FULL STORY
DePew #2
In 2013, University of Georgia Press reissued Alfred DePew’s collection of short stories, The Melancholy of Desire (UGP $18.95 U.S.)… FULL STORY
Frail Days
As a follow-up to her much-discussed teen ‘verse novels,’ Audacious and Capricious, Gabrielle Prendergast has fashioned an Orca Limelights novel… FULL STORY
Fatal Glamour & classic symmetry
Paul Delany has produced a fascinating study of sexually ambivalent Rupert Brooke, described by W.B. Yeats as “the most handsome man… FULL STORY
Aikido from A to Zen
Developed by O Sensei Ueshiba Morihei through the 1920s and 1950s, Aikido is a non-aggressive martial way of self-defence that… FULL STORY
For worse, for better
For better or for worse. That’s the bargain we make with fate when we decide to marry. As someone who… FULL STORY
Making the great, green comeback
Charles Wilkinson of Vancouver has worked primarily as a film and television director in B.C. His feature documentary Oil Sands… FULL STORY
Getting back in the game
Kristie Hammond, born in 1957, is a transplanted American who has lived in B.C. since 1981. Her first children’s book,… FULL STORY
Teuwen & fro
It must be something in the air here… Thomas Teuwen spent 25 in the manufacturing, mining, energy and technology sectors… FULL STORY
Nuptials need not break the bank
The big day need not cost big bucks. Yes, Virginia, a sensible, affordable, quickly-planned wedding is possible. In his Wedding… FULL STORY
Ballantyne battle revisited
David Lester, author of the graphic novel, The Listener (Arbeiter Ring 2011), now into its second printing, will have his… FULL STORY
Sea Among Us gets Fisheries Award
Dick Beamish and Sandy McFarlane invited ten other experts to help them complete an unprecedented, click 384-page book about the… FULL STORY
O, Struthers, where are thou?
Iconoclast Andrew Struthers of Tofino has written an undeniably brilliant and original memoir that surprises on every page. Around the… FULL STORY
The prosecution can’t rest
In the sixth crime novel in William Deverell’s series featuring defence lawyer Arthur Beauchamp, Sing a Worried Song (ECW Press… FULL STORY
Back to Budge-Budge
Born in India in 1940, Ajmer Rode emigrated in 1966 and came to Vancouver in the early 1970s. He was… FULL STORY
