A cure for loneliness by cooking
“I [Harry] live with with my grandmother, Elinor. She thinks I cook so much because I’m lonely. Elinor says the… FULL STORY
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Very Canadian humour
“They’ll get that we [Canadians] have a great sense of humour, can laugh at ourselves and are polite and reserved… FULL STORY
Exposing the Holocaust
“In 1944, Rudi Vrba escaped from Auschwitz-Birkenau and saved hundreds of thousands of lives by telling the truth about what… FULL STORY
From working-class kid to premier
“[After getting elected in 2017, Horgan’s NDP] got busy: no more Medical Services Plan premiums, improved disability assistance rates, tuition… FULL STORY
Fighting for dignity
“Canadian union activists live by the principle that an injury to one is an injury to all. It’s more than… FULL STORY
Hundreds of unheard species
“Once British Columbians see the bigger picture about the fish community in the Strait of Georgia they will want to… FULL STORY
Cranbrook Public Library’s centennial
“In 1906, 100 books were deposited into a second-floor room in the Watts Block, right above Mighton’s Tobacco Store (currently… FULL STORY
Why we really eat
“Science is an art, and we are complex human beings and emotional beings. I wrote The Hunger Code to bridge… FULL STORY
Ain’t goin’ to Vietnam
“Manny Meyer, an aspiring musician whose father had a career in the military, could not see the point of the… FULL STORY
The beat of Julian Brave NoiseCat
“Marketed as genre-defying, Julian NoiseCat weaves memoir, traditional stories and reportage into an unconventional whole. I found myself reading it… FULL STORY
The cool kids
“By 1957, a Maclean’s magazine article on ‘The Scramble for the Teen-Age Dollar’ explained that retailers and advertisers were ‘out-hustling… FULL STORY
No map, just instinct
“When I am in an unusual or uncertain situation, I am supremely present. All other thoughts drop away—only the present… FULL STORY
Pipeline, goldrush and hummingbird
“But I was not prepared for what I saw. There were chain-link fences and signs that read: Any person who… FULL STORY
Hear me roar
“I believed with every fibre of my being that Medicare was a sacred trust, that we couldn’t go back to… FULL STORY
Teenage blues
“Each new generation brings fresh challenges the last one didn’t see, demanding new looks at new concerns. Cell phones, new… FULL STORY
A Faustian bargain
“One workday [Colin] meets a solitary being, ‘tall and cadaverous and dressed in a three-piece suit the colour of dried… FULL STORY
Go west young man
“[The story] is a historical artefact centred on a pivotal year in Canadian history and in a broader transformative decade,… FULL STORY
Race for the news
“[Daniel] Craig’s greatest legacy may be that he introduced journalistic standards: he wanted fact-based, objective reporting.”—reviewer, Mark Forsythe on a… FULL STORY
The light that remains
“After arriving at the airport or Greyhound terminal I would find my way to a hotel or motel room downtown… FULL STORY
The street’s music
“DeCroo’s photos have spotlit a Vancouver that’s about something more than unlimited growth and runaway commerce.”—Mike Usinger, Georgia Straight senior… FULL STORY
