Punjabi, Hindi & Urdu lit has a champ
Now South Asian literature is on the rise throughout Canada, particularly in British Columbia as evidenced by Rajwant Chilana’s 500-page… FULL STORY
Afghan spraycans at UBC
Shamsia Hassani of Kabul uses her illicit street art to alleviate the trauma of war. The gist of an exhibition… FULL STORY
Wade Davis wins Ryga Award
Now the UBC-based anthropologist has won the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness. If there is anyone from B.C. who… FULL STORY
Getting Wagamese into the circle
Four prizes out of seven went to books with Indigenous content at the 33rd annual B.C. Book Prizes. Richard Wagamese… FULL STORY
Ormsby #125 Marine birds
In it, Caroline Fox charts the distribution and long-distance migrations of North Pacific marine birds including albatrosses, puffins, and shearwaters…. FULL STORY
Ormsby #124 Grappling with apples
Michael Sasges revisits Tetlenitsa’s challenges to officialdom after Merritt City Council prevented him from selling 40 boxes of apples from… FULL STORY
Ormsby #122 Cry me a river
Eileen Delehanty Pearkes reveals why we must choose between river-as-an-eco-system or else river-as-a-machine. Review by John Gellard. REVIEW: A River… FULL STORY
Ormsby #121 A 100-mile crime novel
From Alisa Smith, co-author of The 100-Mile Diet, comes a tale of WW II espionage that takes place roughly within… FULL STORY
Ormsby #120 Down Under therapy
After coming to B.C. in 2007 with his Canadian wife and their five-year-old twins, Darren Groth has followed his acclaimed… FULL STORY
Ormsby #118 Cassiar’s grubstake angel
Gold Rush Queen recalls a beautiful, Irish-born entrepreneur, philanthropist and champion dog musher who is buried in Victoria’s Ross Bay… FULL STORY
Ormsby #117 Neel gets R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Now a Victoria exhibit, Ellen Neel: The First Woman Totem Pole Carver, has finally accorded some of the attention she… FULL STORY
Ormsby #113 Why estuaries are vital
After 35 years of research, Colin Levings focusses on 18 species of salmonids and almost 200 B.C. estuaries to make… FULL STORY
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
