Beau Dick was the real McCoy
It has now propelled a new book into the world about the quintessential Kwakwaka’wakw artist and activist Beau Dick. Beau… FULL STORY
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Stephen Reid (1950-2018)
By the end of his life, Reid had published two books and served time in more than 20 American and… FULL STORY
There has always been a housing crisis
There were times when Chelene Knight slept in her shoes in case her mother might tell her to leave in… FULL STORY
Feed your head. Save your dime.
A B.C. guys visits every country on the planet in a mere 23 years, without a camera, to discover, “Good… FULL STORY
Chinese Cultural Revolution revisited
As Katherine Luo makes clear in her memoir, The Unceasing Storm, it mostly ruined Chinese lives instead. The Unceasing Storm:… FULL STORY
Hughes renewed by Amos
Even though the reclusive Hughes looked like Thomas Hardy, he became a star in his eighties. * “B.C. is the… FULL STORY
From props to hot properties
A Malaspina grad is now one of the country’s most sought-after sculptors. Review by Maria Tippett. Life and Bronze: A… FULL STORY
Richard Wagamese’s third solitude
Reviewer Eldon Yellowhorn concludes Indian Horse “is the composition that will forever evoke the name Richard Wagamese.” Indian Horse By… FULL STORY
Christy Clark’s downfall
Rob Shaw and Richard Zussman claim that Christy Clark was also unable to convince L.G. Judith Guichon to send voters… FULL STORY
A little revolution, please
He recommends Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau would do well to pick up a copy of City On Edge with… FULL STORY
All hail the middle of the road
In The Canadian Party System we learn only three leaders in that party’s entire history have not become prime minister…. FULL STORY
Finding Franklin, nailing Harper
While covering the Franklin story, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist got sacked for blowing the whistle on Prime Minister Harper’s… FULL STORY
When camping was no picnic
In the ’30s and ’40s, he became a leftist in response to the intransigence of the authorities; he later became… FULL STORY
Thirty years of protecting wilderness
He also criticizes Parks Canada for terminating its warden service in 2008, leaving trails without maintenance and parks without environmental… FULL STORY
Al Neil continues to percolate
But there’s nothing like a personal reminiscence–or three–to reveal how extraordinary and perplexing and difficult and odd he could be.
When horses are wishes
Now she’s written a memoir about adjusting to life in a 6.4 million hectare wilderness area in the northern Rockies…. FULL STORY
The under-heralded Kathy Page
Page’s themes have been identified as loss, survival and transformation: “the magic by which a bad hand becomes a good… FULL STORY
At the heights of his powers
Mary Sanseverino compares the work of the Banff-based photographer to American wilderness lensmen Ansell Adams and Galen Rowell. The Canadian… FULL STORY
Emotional time bombs
“This is a terrific debut and a book to reread just to admire the use of the language and to… FULL STORY
Disturbing: The Peace
In July, two civil law suits will be heard alleging that the impacts of Site C, west of Fort St…. FULL STORY
