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The Whale’s Choice helped to kick off the New Year at the Sunday Edition. This program was originally broadcast in October 2012 and the introduction is posted in that original entry.
January 6, 2013.
The Whale’s Choice helped to kick off the New Year at the Sunday Edition. This program was originally broadcast in October 2012 and the introduction is posted in that original entry.
January 6, 2013.
Summer 2012: ‘He came and dwelt among us.’ Meet Father Joseph Buliard, a missionary whose arrival in the Garry Lake region of Nunavut signalled the end of a traditional way of life, and a series of tragedies that emptied an entire region of its people.
Wa’xaid was also known as Cecil Paul. He was Xenaksiala from Xesdu’wäxw, what they call the Kitlope on the British Columbia coast, and he lived to be 90 years old.
When I was at The Banff Centre last year for the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival, the filmmakers there asked me to tell them a story. Bears came to mind, Grizzly Bear Babysitting, in fact. Click through to see their incredible animation.
It’s been three years since I defended my master’s in creative non-fiction writing at the University of Victoria, and since then I’ve done a lot more thinking about wilderness – about how it is both a real place and a construction, how it has its own essence regardless of where we find it. So on this three year anniversary of my defense, as my manuscript makes the round of publishers, I wanted to share Sherwin Arnott’s analysis of my work, from 2010.
November 8, 2011: New Tribe was rebroadcast on this program which “celebrates the art of the radio documentary.” Visit the documentary’s webpage on In the Field and click the audio link. Or you can go through The Sunday Edition’s documentary section listed below.
Johannes Eyberg Ragnarsson (Eyberg) and his wife Gudlaug Sigurdardottir (Lauga) make farming look easy. When I visited, they had 100 sheep, 30 dairy cows, 32 calves and a few cattle that they… Source: Western Iceland’s land of milk and hay | Meet the North