Northwest Resistance: A Girl Called Echo (Volume 3), Katherena Vermette (Author), Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator), Donovan Yaciuk (Illustrator) Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats by Maya Goodfellow History is alive By Gail Picco (March 6, 2020) Northwest Resistance: A Girl Called Echo (Volume 3), Katherena Vermette (Author), Scott B. … [Read more...] about Hostile Environment & A Girl Called Echo: Feeling that you belong (or not)
Literary Circle
Under the Influence: Marketing for People Who Hate Marketing
by Diane Hill (March 3, 2020) This I Know: Marketing Lessons from Under the Influence, Terry O’Reilly, Vintage Canada Paperback, Dec 31, 2019, 304 pp., $12.49 The other day I was shopping online for couches. When I went on social media a few minutes later, my screen was peppered with furniture ads. “Oh no,” I groaned to myself. Unwanted end tables are going to … [Read more...] about Under the Influence: Marketing for People Who Hate Marketing
McWatt, Cole, Gordon, Hannah-Jones: Writers to read as Black History Month draws to a close
Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging by Tessa McWatt The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership by Ed Gordon The 1619 Project, edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones By Gail Picco (February 27, 2020) Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging, Tessa McWatt, … [Read more...] about McWatt, Cole, Gordon, Hannah-Jones: Writers to read as Black History Month draws to a close
Invisible Man: One of the best books ever written in the English language
By Gail Picco (February 25, 2020) Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, Vintage; 2nd ed. Edition, March 14, 1995, originally published 1956, 608 pp., $21.78 Ralph Ellison was an unknown writer when he published his first full novel in 1956, an exquisite work of fiction based on the gruelling realities faced by a Black man born in Oklahoma in … [Read more...] about Invisible Man: One of the best books ever written in the English language
Beyond Shelters & On Our Street: Homelessness in Canada
Beyond Shelters: Solutions to Homelessness in Canada from the Front Lines, Ed. James Hughes. James Lorimer & Company Ltd On Our Street: Our First Talk About Poverty, Dr Jillian Roberts and Jaime Casap, Illustrated by Jane Heinrichs, Orca Book Publishers Homelessness in Canada—News from the Frontline By Katherine Verhagen Rodis (February 22, 2020) Beyond … [Read more...] about Beyond Shelters & On Our Street: Homelessness in Canada