The third week of March is Canadian Agricultural Safety Week, aiming to raise awareness about the importance of farm safety. The editors of Farm Workers in Western Canada: Injustices and Activism worked hard to get the word out about, well, injustices and activism. Editor Shirley A. McDonald organized a book launch in Kelowna, BC on February 24. She […]
Author: Monika Igali
Dear Young Reader, or Old(er) for that matter. We hope you’ll enjoy James Gifford’s musings about how to deal with reviews of a more negative nature. James is a UAP author; we published two of his books, Personal Modernisms and From the Elephant’s Back. Boring, Risible, and Execrable, and Those are Just Its Good Qualities I was […]
What is the real Alberta? Is it cowboys, blue skies, oil, all that larger-than-life stuff? It’s all that, and then some… Come celebrate the greatness and the craziness of Wild Rose Country in a special Rodeo-Week screening of the documentary film Will the Real Alberta Please Stand Up? by Geo Takach. Art Gallery of Alberta […]
Hi Kathryn, We met so briefly at the Barbours’ 50th commemoration, which was a shame as I had lots of questions to ask about Edmonton’s gardening history. Well, now having read the book, you have certainly answered the big question [Why grow here?] and settled numerous other issues. I wanted to write you a fan letter, to […]
By Machno’s Wagon: A Meditation on Public Museums by Roger Epp St. Petersburg is a city founded on Russian imperial ambition and filled with the museums to prove it: the Hermitage, with its throne rooms and art treasures; Peterhof, the summer palace on the Baltic, with its fountains and gardens; St. Isaac’s Cathedral, with its […]
…how to write, publish, and market a national bestseller. The book in question, James Daschuk’s Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation and the Loss of Aboriginal Life, has sold more than 15,000 copies since publication by the University of Regina Press (URP) in 2013. Read more…
… reading words on screen. Naomi S. Baron – a linguistics professor at American University in Washington, DC – challenges the conjecture, anecdote, and ageism that typically short-circuit the debate on the comparative advantages and effects of print versus digital reading. More…