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
Ormsby #80: The sanity of diversity
To say that Wade Davis has had an extraordinary, brilliant, and in the end very lucky career, says reviewer David… FULL STORY
Ormsby #79: In praise of grass
His new book recalls tramping 1,000 kilometres through the grasslands of southern B.C. from the border to the Cariboo and… FULL STORY
Ormsby #77: Rubber chicken & sexism
Ginny Ratsoy reviews a surprisingly engaging account of smalltown politics and one woman’s unsuccessful bid for the job of mayor…. FULL STORY
Ormsby #75: Before the flood
Through the eyes of mail-order bride Else Seel, who arrived in the community of Wistaria from Berlin in 1927, Sherwood… FULL STORY
Ormsby #74: Street views pre-Google
Nick Russell celebrates 147 of the City of Victoria’s most noteworthy residences in Glorious Victorian Homes, reviewed by Larry McCann…. FULL STORY
Ormsby #72: Reservations on reserves
Although she was illiterate, her activism and distrust of the male hierarchy resulted in her Squamish people rejecting self-government to… FULL STORY
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
