Ormsby #70: Booze once ruled Victoria
Refused, she took the case to the B.C. Supreme court and won the right for women to drink in public… FULL STORY
Ormsby #66: Scorn for media moguls
“I feel like we are being robbed blind, mugged by the oligarchs, and fed a diet of content you wouldn’t… FULL STORY
Oxymoronic sustainable development
The Sustainability Dilemma recounts the B.C. Forest Service’s efforts to manage the forests before “sustainability” began to trip lightly off the… FULL STORY
From Irish Sea to Salish Sea
A sublime casting director gathers sixty years of fish lit with conservation concerns always on his mind. “How fortunate we… FULL STORY
A fox behind a smile
Her biographer Judi Tyabji believes Clark is much more than “a heartless, arrogant, corporate sellout.” REVIEW: Christy Clark: Behind the Smile… FULL STORY
The true north origins of B.C.
Anthony Kenyon’s The Recorded History of the Liard Basin 1790-1910: Where British Columbia Joins the Yukon and N.W.T. is a… FULL STORY
Weller turns up the heat
At the front of it is Duncan Weller. Dimiter Savoff operates Simply Read Books. Duncan Weller is a writer and… FULL STORY
Coming out as Métis
Indebted to Brian Mulroney and Stephen Harper, Gerry St. Germain owed much of his integrity as a Senator to his… FULL STORY
Civil Gothic to West Coast Modern
Architectural historian Harold Kalman reviews two books about architects who made major contributions to B.C.’s built environment. REVIEW: Thomas Fuller: Architect… FULL STORY
Rock art before Led Zeppelin
Chris Arnett says First Signs by Genevieve von Petzinger is, “a ‘go-to’ book for the initiate looking for a sense… FULL STORY
Vaqueros south and north
Luis Fabini’s photos and Wade Davis’ text celebrate ‘centaurs’ who share a powerful bond with the land and with their… FULL STORY
Stroke and distance
Using the index finger of his left hand, he began typing The Defiant Mind eight months after a massive ischemic… FULL STORY
Seeing Red
Steven Ferguson responds to Robin Brunet’s, Red Robinson: The Last Deejay. Usually cited as Vancouver’s first rock ‘n’ roll deejay,… FULL STORY
15 stories, 94 calls to action
Decolonization in Canada gives rise to In This Together, published from Victoria. REVIEW: In This Together: Fifteen Stories of Truth &… FULL STORY
Fernie fiasco results in book and opera
Prejudice led to the hanging, in 1923, of Fernie-based bootlegger Emilio Picariello and Filumena Lassandro. REVIEW: The Rise and Fall… FULL STORY
Oppenheim not Oppenheimer
Whereas Louis Oppenheim, from Poland, married Nukwa of the Nlaka’pamux people. Now his great-granddaughter has retrieved her mixed-race heritage. Bonnie… FULL STORY
Dawson City or bust
Robert McCandless reviews the Klondike recollections of a 24-year-old gold-seeker. REVIEW: All for the Greed of Gold: Will Woodin’s Klondike… FULL STORY
One man’s passion for Passchendaele
But Alan MacLeod’s Great Canadian Statue Hunt required dedication and stamina. Having had a great uncle who fought in World War… FULL STORY
Melanoma miracle
Claudia Cornwall’s Battling Melanoma outlines a triumph over “the fog of medicine.” An emotional upheaval can follow a diagnosis of… FULL STORY
Aloha Wanderwell, tomboy starlet
Bonnie Reilly Schmidt looks at her fascinating biography. REVIEW: Aloha Wanderwell: The Border-Smashing, Record-Setting Life of the World’s Youngest Explorer…. FULL STORY
