Foot Notes for women’s footie
Ricou has already seen some of the women’s World Cup matches, taking in a doubleheader at BC Place. “The Japan-Switzerland… FULL STORY
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How to Grow a Farm
Saving Farmland: The Fight for Real Food (Rocky Mountain $25) is their instructive and inspiring story. According to Saving Farmland,… FULL STORY
The bicycle thief gets his due
Not so great at school, Glenn Ryder would arrive late each day to, ahem, borrow a bicycle. He needed transportation… FULL STORY
Amor De Cosmos, our second premier
Now a new biography by Gordon Hawkins, The De Cosmos Enigma (Ronsdale $17.95), brings the brilliant and odd character of… FULL STORY
Aislinn Hunter wins top fiction prize
Hunter’s novel was reviewed eight months ago in BC BookWorld. “This is a book about affection, ” she said. “…Our… FULL STORY
Pony Tales
It’s a horse race, of sorts. Nikki Tate has seven equestrian novels and now Julie White is catching up with… FULL STORY
Bring back the tar ‘n’ feathers
Nobody wants to read about poverty. So let’s ignore this article. Ever since slave owners in the United States wrote… FULL STORY
Ryga Award gets a boost
Shelley Wright’s Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change (McGill-Queens $39.95) has… FULL STORY
Comox looks gift houses in the mouth
It happens more than you think. A person or a group makes a donation to the public to preserve a… FULL STORY
Goodbye Dubai
“My childhood was not that strange,” he says. “Riding bikes, camping, being bored at church or school, being nervous around… FULL STORY
From the Azores to Brockton Point
As well, she profiles First Nations artist, Luke Marston, who created the monumental bronze sculpture. Suzanne Fournier is a journalist… FULL STORY
B.C. leads the way in homebirthing
These illustrated memoirs, all by mothers and fathers in British Columbia, are celebratory endorsements of the homebirth process. Preece’s “manifesta”… FULL STORY
Deranged B.C. author cuts off both ears
Being compared to van Gogh in the Spring issue of BC BookWorld has proven hazardous for do-it-yourselfer Ernest Hekkanen, who… FULL STORY
The Family Stone, Vanderhoof style
Stone women are connected through summers spent at the family cabin under the shadow of Mount Pope, at Stones Bay on… FULL STORY
Festival founder Keller gets her due
Betty Keller has been chosen to receive the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence at the next B.C. Book Prizes gala.. “It’s… FULL STORY
Lamp Post Lit
This ongoing project was kickstarted by the vision of poet and philanthropist Yosef Wosk and spearheaded by the city’s Chief… FULL STORY
A better world is possible
Instead of dystopianism, the Victoria futurist wants to encourage people to imagine bold solutions to environmental challenges. On its way… FULL STORY
The prime of Ms. Jean Barman
Jean Barman, recipient of the George Woodcock Lifetime Award in 2014, will be celebrated on Saturday, April 11, in Vancouver…. FULL STORY
Getting the goods on Godwin
Fred Braches has produced a monograph that includes revelations from Geroge Godwin’s correspondence. B.C.’s universities have undertaken precious little spadework on… FULL STORY
Which way you goin,’ Billie?
“It’s such a mixed bag of feelings, this book-to-film process,” says Livingston. Based on Billie Livingston’s story, ‘The Trouble with… FULL STORY
