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
Pickton & popcorn
Filming is scheduled to start this week in Vancouver for a CBC movie about the murders on Robert Pickton’s hog… FULL STORY
B.C. led the way for female rights
Dominique Clément recounts how and why B.C. became the first province to enact laws prohibiting discrimination based on sex. Given… FULL STORY
Boarding house outreach
Emily Carr famously ran a boarding house in Victoria. Susan Musgrave runs a bed ‘n’ breakfast on Haida Gwaii. Now… FULL STORY
Off-the-continental breakfasts
Susan Musgrave has veered away from everything safe in her life, even now as the proprietor of Copper Beech House,… FULL STORY
From the beautiful to the bizarre
Douglas L. Hamilton and Darlene Olesko’s Accidental Eden: Hippie Days on Lasqueti Island (Caitlin $24.95) tells it like was. It’s… FULL STORY
EVENT founder resurfaces
Around the time David Evanier founded EVENT, when Douglas College was little more than a collection of trailers, Jon Paul… FULL STORY
Strait goods
Dick Beamish and Sandy McFarlane invited ten other experts to help them complete an unprecedented, 384-page book about the geology,… FULL STORY
