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Vermette took home the $60,000 fiction prize, Highway won the $60,000 nonfiction prize and Dimaline was honoured for her body of work.

The winners were announced in a virtual ceremony hosted by author JJ Lee.

It’s been six months since the Leighton Art Centre was open to the public, and with the first stage of Alberta’s reopening taking place earlier this week,…

Steve Patterson had an ace up his sleeve when it came to negotiating an extension of the deadline for his book Dad Up! with publisher Penguin Canada.

Northern Light is a book by Kazim Ali.(Goose Lane Editions) Kazim Ali was the child of South Asian immigrants, who unexpectedly spent years of his childhood in the small Manitoba town of Jenpeg, a town that existed because of the hydroelectric dam nearby. As an adult, he found himself wondering about the town: did it even exist anymore? And if it did, what was it like? These questions sent him on a journey, one that looked at the environmental destruction the dam caused, and the local Pimic...

Canadian writers jump into the Climate Debate: Open Letter regarding Climate Accountability Bill signed by over 170 acclaimed writers, including Ondaatje, Atwood, Atom Egoyan, Eden Robinson.

by David Suzuki on Wednesday Apr 14 2021 Photo of David Suzuki by Jennifer Roessler; David Suzuki Foundation [Editors note:  the map accessed by the link at the beginning of the fourth paragraph from the bottom takes a long time to load, but provides sobering information about the state of BCs forests.] Anyone who’s read the book I wrote with Wayne Grady, The Hidden Life of Trees, knows there’s a big difference between a healthy forest and a tree plantation. Pr...

David Suzuki: It’s time to stop logging old-growth forests The BC government has received a failing grade for not protecting old-growth forests By David Suzuki SkyF / Getty Images Plus Anyone who’s read the book I wrote with Wayne Grady, Tree: A Life Story, or Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life Of Trees, knows there’s a big difference between a healthy forest and a tree plantation. Primary forests, especially old-growth, are complex, interconnected communities, with a variety o...

By - Australian Golf Media As the golfing world mourns the loss of ‘Lynds’, Mike Clayton remembers his pal who was “everyone’s friend”. There has been a long-time joke on the Australian tour about getting caught on the wrong side of the draw. You know, when half the field gets a perfect, windless morning only for the afternoon lot to have to play through a heavy seaside wind on greens drying out and getting slicker by the minute. It’s been universally known in Australia as...

The Crash Palace is a book by Andrew Wedderburn.(Coach House Books, Malcolm Overend) The Crash Palace is about a woman named Audrey, who used to work in the oil fields and attend parties at a remote lodge in the wilderness known as the Crash Palace. Audrey has long left that life behind her, and now has a daughter. But one night, she is compelled to return to the now-abandoned Crash Palace — where she must also reckon with her past. When you can read it: Jan. 12, 2021 Andrew Wedderburn is a ...