Remembering Robert Swanson: Rust in Peace
The O Canada airhorn atop Canada Place blew at 3:30 pm on Oct. 13th to coincide with a Shaughnessy memorial… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Ageism Strikes
Ralph Maud, a scholar on Indian myth and legend and a founding English Professor at Simon Fraser University, first met… FULL STORY
Be Strong, Be Steadfast, Be True: A Speech on the Nisga’a Final Agreement Act
Wearing a red-and-black button blanket over his business suit, Chief Joe Gosnell arrived at the Legislature on December 2, 1998… FULL STORY
Goethe: Genius as a toady
As a high official of the ducal court of Weimar – the Duke’s official poet and Minister of War –… FULL STORY
The Super State File: Canada now has thought police
The first major gun control legislation came out in 1972. There had been a senseless murder in Vancouver, followed by… FULL STORY
Half Known Lives
The stork doesn’t bring ‘em. Books, as W.P. Kinsella says, are born from 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. For our… FULL STORY
Sprayguns and glowing hearts
If you saw the APEC demonstrations at UBC first-hand, you’d know how students were thwarted by police from making any… FULL STORY
Pitching “The Corporation” in Banff
In 1999, Joel Bakan attended the Banff Television Festival with Mark Achbar, information pills one of the makers of Manufacturing… FULL STORY
Woodcock Award Speech
I am deeply honoured to follow in the footsteps of so many remarkable recipients of this award, writers, thinkers, and… FULL STORY
I was encouraged to sue Robin Blaser
A brief memoir of the SFU English Department by Stephen Bett. This document, written in January, 2012, from notes taken… FULL STORY
Literature As An Oppositional Disorder
By Ernest Hekkanen For those of you who know me, it will come as no surprise that I suffer from… FULL STORY
Ann Eriksson
2010 was proclaimed The Year of Biodiversity by the UN. It’s a particularly appropriate time for Ann Eriksson’s third novel,… FULL STORY
The Origins of Eyemouth
Where does a book of fiction begin? William Faulkner says a writer has three sources: autobiography, observation, and imagination. If… FULL STORY
Eric Wilson
ERIC WILSON was born in Ottawa in 1940. As a teacher in BC he began to write for reluctant readers… FULL STORY
Wild About Harry Robinson
“I tell stories for 21 hours or more when I get started. Kind of hard to believe, but I do,… FULL STORY
Authors / Joel Bakan: The Noam Chomsky of Kitsilano
During anti-APEC protests at UBC in 1997, a young law professor named Joel Bakan looked out his office window, grabbed… FULL STORY
Authors / Literary Forebearers and Influences
During the historic gathering of writers and publishers at Reckoning ’07, some pivotal characters in British Columbia’s writing community received… FULL STORY
Authors / Safarik Recalls Pat Lowther
On October 15, 975, Pat Lowther’s body was discovered five kilometres south of Britannia Beach at Furry Creek, badly decomposed…. FULL STORY
Authors / Remembering Allen Ginsberg
I could not wait to get a quick credit: only 4 weeks of Mon. Wed. & Fri. classes with am… FULL STORY
Publishing / Permanent Press = Pacific Press
Once upon a time, there was a city with three competing daily newspapers. That city was Vancouver. It was a… FULL STORY
