Science NOT silence

When the elements of survival we all depend on are threatened, people’s health, well-being and even their lives are also… FULL STORY
When the elements of survival we all depend on are threatened, people’s health, well-being and even their lives are also… FULL STORY
Many illicit drug users die needlessly of overdoses says scholar and activist Susan Boyd. In this Q&A, she lays out… FULL STORY
Author Darren Groth, an advocate for neurodiversity in literature based the boy, Kasper and dog, Tao on his son and… FULL STORY
Keath Fraser contends in his new novella that charity, like its sister virtues of hope and faith, is fundamental in… FULL STORY
After a devastating diagnosis, Wood finds his lifelong passion for a more profound connection with nature — what he calls… FULL STORY
One of the largest, most broad-based political protests in Canadian history gets its due in a new book by David… FULL STORY
Wayman helped bring into being a new movement of “work poetry” in North America, and was a co-founder and prominent… FULL STORY
Although piously religious, both women write of their mutual questioning of Islam and their outrage at patriarchy, prompting these lines:… FULL STORY
Reviewer Alexander Varty discovers that Luschiim’s new book introduces readers to the joys of hazelnuts in the wild and other… FULL STORY
Joseph McKay became an explorer, a Hudson’s Bay Company manager, an elected official, a signor of many treaties with First… FULL STORY
Early artists who combined drawings with words include Emily Carr who drew cartoons for Western Women’s Weekly in 1918 and… FULL STORY
The four poetic narratives in “The Ventriloquist” all share Gary Geddes’ preoccupations with the physical and psychological ravages of conquest… FULL STORY
With Holocaust stories gleaned from 85 B.C. authors and 160 books, Out of Hiding: Holocaust Literature of British Columbia includes… FULL STORY
Tamas Dobozy’s new short story collection tells of, among others, a professional wrestler previously an Olympic hopeful in his ancestral… FULL STORY
Much has been written about Bomber Command but little of the feelings of the aircrew who followed orders without question… FULL STORY
As co-manager (with his wife Veronica) of the Ronsdale Press imprint, Ron Hatch was the recipient of the Jim Douglas… FULL STORY
In his new book about major North American rivers, UBC professor Eric Taylor shows why rivers are key to human… FULL STORY
Known as one of the province’s most generous art patrons, Audain overcame a difficult boyhood, volunteered for civil rights in… FULL STORY
A couple on Saturna Island had to be “takers and makers of opportunities” says reviewer Christa Grace-Warrick, with jobs like… FULL STORY
With all bookings cancelled early on in the pandemic, non-binary Ivan Coyote started answering the hundreds of letters and emails… FULL STORY