Ormsby #114 Genocide in slow motion
Gary Geddes tells it like it was: sterilization, starvation, botched operations, sexual abuse, medical experiments, absence of family and neglect…. FULL STORY
Ormsby #116 It’s Wiebe, not Spade
The public is invited to hear Wiebe present his new mystery Invisible Dead on April 27 at VPL’s South Hill… FULL STORY
Ormsby #111 Christ not Almighty
“Residents of B.C. and Washington State were far more likely to reject, dismiss, and ignore religion,” she says, “particularly in… FULL STORY
Ormsby #110 Bill Reid is next to Emily
Martine Reid’s study of her late husband “reveals relationships that more conventional categorizations obscure” according to reviewer Victoria Wyatt REVIEW: Bill… FULL STORY
Ormsby #109 From exclusion to equals
Policies for Chinese settlers in Canada have ranged from free entry, to a head tax, outright exclusion, selective entry and… FULL STORY
Ormsby #108 Iceland in their veins
White Settler Reserve traces the little-known mass migration of thousands of Icelandic immigrants in the late 19th century. REVIEW: White Settler… FULL STORY
Ormsby #107 Moodyville & mudflats
Originally the construct known as North Van stretched from Horseshoe Bay to well up Indian Arm, the Pacific coast’s southernmost… FULL STORY
Ormsby #104 Greenhorn dads
George Bowering and Charles Demers are aligned on most aspects of what it’s like to be a father in The… FULL STORY
Ormsby #102 David vs. climate change
David Suzuki and Ian Hanington have provided realistic solutions in Just Cool It: The Climate Crisis and What We Can… FULL STORY
Ormsby #99 From Betsy to Oscar
In Oscar of Between, she meditates on persons between genders, between homes, between citizenships, between jobs, between genres. REVIEW: Oscar… FULL STORY
Ormsby #98 Our Eden, revisited
Mapmaker Michael Layland charts a second paean of praise for Vancouver Island. REVIEW: A Perfect Eden: Encounters by Early Explorers… FULL STORY
BCBookLook adopts an African village
“I went there to learn about a pioneer in the treatment of epilepsy, Dr. Louise Jilek-Aall. And instead I discovered… FULL STORY
Ormsby #94 Saving the Chilcotin Ark
Now photographer Chris Harris says the Chilcotin Ark, a 2.5 million hectare tract of B.C. wilderness, should be saved from… FULL STORY
Ormsby #88 The Empire Games of ’54
Reviewer Roger Robinson insists the Games helped transform Vancouver from a colonial outpost to a multicultural metropolis. REVIEW: The Miracle Mile…. FULL STORY
Ormsby #92 Of salmon and abalone
In People of the Saltwater, UBC anthropologist Charles Menzies provides an ethnography of his own people, known variously as the… FULL STORY
Ormsby #90 Yellowcake & destruction
Patricia Sandberg recalls happily growing up in a boom town that was a key supplier of uranium in response to… FULL STORY
Ormsby #89 Leishmaniasis in Peru
Vancouver Islander Inge Bolin is now helping a Peruvian “Culture of Respect” eradicate a deadly, disfiguring disease. Inge Bolin’s first… FULL STORY
Ormsby #85: Site C will flood Eden
Mark Eliesen, former CEO of BC Hydro, considers the Site C dam a “white elephant” that will mire Hydro so… FULL STORY
Ormsby #84: The coast was not clear
Captain Colin Henthorne was one of five crewmembers whose employment was eventually terminated by BC Ferries. REVIEW: The Queen of… FULL STORY
Ormsby #81: A Fen fan on Lansdowne
The ROM was showing J. Fenwick Lansdowne’s work in 1956, the Vancouver Art Gallery mounted a one-man show in 1981,… FULL STORY
