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Excerpt: Mysterious Dreams of the Dead

Mysterious Dreams of the Dead Terry Watada Anvil Press Excerpt 1987 One of those rootless, forgotten nights. I leaned against the giving rail of...

Kyowakai: Memory and Healing in New Denver, BC

Japanese Canadians began to arrive in New Denver on May 21, 1942, part of a wave of 22,000 internees forced out of a 100-mile...

A Totem Pole for Mio

Sammy Takahashi, president of the Japan-Canada Chamber of Commerce, was shopping at the Save-On-Foods on Marine Drive near his home in North Vancouver when...

Remembrance Day 2020: 100 years of memories

by Linda Kawamoto Reid  One hundred years of people gathering at the cenotaph conjures up so many images, stories, emotions, and memories of tribute....

Plowing My Parents’ Landscape of Conscience

From the 1990s, my parents’ home became a meeting place and a regular lodging for various members of the Líl’wat Nation and many other indigenous leaders and representatives. My mother, a retired social worker, befriended many of these activists.

On Being Yukiko – a graphic novel

When acclaimed artists Jeff Chiba Stearns and Lillian Michiko Blakey decided to pool their considerable talents to create a graphic novel for young readers,...

RM Greenaway: River of Lies

In 2014, Nelson resident Rachel Greenaway won the Arthur Ellis Unhanged award for best unpublished novel for her novel Cold Girl. The award led...

Remembrance Day 2020

Thanks to Veteran’s Affairs Canada, we are able to live stream the Remembrance Day service this year, and hope to reach more than the...

Miso Soup for the Soul: Kabochallah

Jewpanese Maple KaboChallah by Carmel Tanaka At the ripe old age of 27, I learned to bake my first challah. My teacher was none...