The GG’s like BC
Dominating in the GG poetry category were three poets from Victoria and Vancouver including: Christopher Levenson (Vancouver) – Night Vision… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Innocence withheld
Labour lawyer Joan McEwen describes Henry’s nightmarish journey towards freedom in her remarkable new book, Innocence on Trial: The Framing… FULL STORY
Szanto clauses
George Szanto will launch his new novel Whatever Lola Wants (Brindle & Glass $19.95) at the library on Gabriola Island… FULL STORY
Dan, Dan, he’s our man
The Mayor’s Arts Awards for the City of Vancouver has accorded Daniel Francis its 2014 Mayor’s Arts Award for Literary… FULL STORY
Lessons from the hive
Many have expressed grave concern over the collapse of honeybee colonies worldwide; few want to take responsibility for this calamity…. FULL STORY
Matriarch Elsie Paul tells it like it was
Elsie Paul links the free-roaming hunting & gathering lifestyle that her ancestors knew to her cell-phone toting grandchildren – the… FULL STORY
100 Years of Submarines
To commemorate the centenary of Canada’s First World War, former submariner and author Robert W. Mackay will talk about our… FULL STORY
Little Sisters founder dies suddenly
Jim Deva, the bookseller who instigated a decades-long legal battle with Canada Customs over discrimination issues, died after falling from… FULL STORY
Elizabeth the First
Federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May believes Canada under the leadership of Stephen Harper has been suffering from an identity… FULL STORY
Day of the Dead celebrates St. Pierre
Paul St. Pierre’s family is extending an invitation to everyone to attend his memorial celebration on Sunday, November 2nd but… FULL STORY
Knit picking
Here Sylvia Olsen recalls the origins of her latest book, Knitting Stories (Sono Nis). A few years ago, while I… FULL STORY
Unearthing B.C. History
By Arthur Joyce For an historian, it’s a rare day you get to unearth and publish an original manuscript. Cole… FULL STORY
Giller longlist has B.C. links
The longlist announced on Tuesday, September 16th, includes Shani Mootoo (Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab, Doubleday Canada), Kathy Page… FULL STORY
Good wood
Poet, non-fiction writer and former carpenter Kate Braid will be touring the Gulf Islands and Metro Vancouver with fellow carpenter/poet/non-fiction… FULL STORY
Sylvia, Margaret & Bernice
That summer she made a life-long contact with Margaret Avison and soon got to meet Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Robert… FULL STORY
Return to Clayoquot Sound
In Tofino and Clayoquot Sound: A History (Harbour $36.95), Margaret Horsfield, with Ian Kennedy, explores the rich heritage and captivating… FULL STORY
Adrift on shore
Moby Dick, the white whale, and the character of Ahab in Herman Melville’s classic novel serve as the leitmotif in… FULL STORY
From Original Potato to 2113
Under her pen name Agnes Toews-Andrews, Elizabeth Blakely has moved to the Kootenays and published a “paranormal novel,” 2113 AD:… FULL STORY
Mining in Tibet imperils one billion
Canadian mining companies are complicit in the mining, pollution and environmental damage.
Gray Eyes vs. Red Eyes
Frank Christopher Busch is a member of the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and grew up in northern Manitoba. He has spent… FULL STORY
