Salish Sea and thee
Howard Macdonald Stewart presents his book, Views of the Salish Sea: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Change around the… FULL STORY
NEWS & EVENTS
Bethune launch
The most famous Canadian in China remains the Communist medical pioneer Norman Bethune who served in the Spanish Civil War… FULL STORY
Geddes receives Freedom Award
Poet, anthologist, translator and non-fiction author of Medicine Unbundled: A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care (Heritage House, 2017),… FULL STORY
LGBTQQIAAP anthology
Nowadays when you enroll in a college you are likely going to be asked to give your name, age and… FULL STORY
Let there be reading lights
With a subsidy from BC Hydro and the support of VPL’s chief librarian Sandra Singh, Vi Hughes has spearheaded… FULL STORY
Ryga longlist announced
The George Ryga Award is annually presented to a B.C. writer who has achieved an outstanding degree of social awareness… FULL STORY
Wagamese at the box office
According to statistics compiled by Bookmanager from weekly stats obtained from 250 Canadian independent stores, the bestselling non-fiction title of… FULL STORY
Uneasy does it
The plot thickens. On a day when Green Party leader Andrew Weaver soundly criticized Premier John Horgan for drumming up… FULL STORY
The misdealing of drug info
Susan Boyd’s Busted: An Illustrated History of Drug Prohibition in Canada appears just months before marijuana becomes legalized in Canada…. FULL STORY
Ryga Award going strong
The George Ryga Award is annually presented to a B.C. writer who has achieved an outstanding degree of social awareness… FULL STORY
Here’s mud in your eye
Wanting to break free from a rigged economic and social system, a group of women led by Molly Murphy and… FULL STORY
Brunching capital
Victoria was named Brunch Capital of Canada by the Food Network, so maybe it’s not entirely surprising that Westcoast food… FULL STORY
Airstreams Elegies
Toby Snelgrove of Mayne Island feelanced for the Vancouver Courier in the 1980s as a photographer, then became the photojournalist… FULL STORY
Hudson’s Hope springs eternal
Shirlee Smith Matheson and her husband Bill Matheson (born in Peace River, Alberta) arrived in Hudson`s Hope, BC, in 1965,… FULL STORY
Trilogy completed
At age 80, Bruce Fraser will be touring in the Spring of 2018 to promote his third novel in Kamloops,… FULL STORY
Ecotrilogy presents 192 columns
Ray Grigg, author of numerous internationally sold books on Eastern philosophy, and an environmental columnist who wrote a weekly Shades of… FULL STORY
Bill Stenson’s hard-won ascendancy
Mother Tongue Publishing of Salt Spring Island B.C. has announced Bill Stenson has won its 4th Great BC Novel Contest… FULL STORY
A century of student life at UBC
Founded in 1915, UBC Vancouver is one of Canada’s largest campuses, with a total enrollment of 54,000 and an alumni… FULL STORY
Indian Horse gallops into cinema
INDIAN HORSE, THE MOVIE BASED ON RICHARD WAGAMESE’S AWARD-WINNING NOVEL, WILL OPEN IN THEATRES ACROSS CANADA ON APRIL 13th, 2018… FULL STORY
B.C. writers score four big wins
Author of thirty books, the indefatigable Daniel Francis (right) of North Vancouver is this year’s winner of the prestigious Governor… FULL STORY
