Political observers have noted an ongoing global decline in democracy over the past two decades. And now, the world’s most powerful nation is led by a president who is openly challenging the democratic ideals on which it was built. What are the roots of this backsliding, and how can democracy be strengthened for the 21st century?
In 2013, Darcy Gaechter became the first woman to kayak the Amazon River from source to sea. In early March, she published a memoir about the experience titled Amazon Woman. It is an extraordinary...
Hand Drawn Vancouver is Emma FitzGerald’s new book of whimsical sketches of Vancouver accompanied by thoughtful observations and snippets of overheard conversations. Take a tour of Vancouver’s sites...
Sara Hodson, who received an Alumni Builder Award from alumni UBC in 2020, is the founder of LIVE WELL exercise clinics. After leaving UBC, Hodson worked for a number of years in cardiac rehab,...
After graduating from UBC, Reagan B. Anderson's journey took him twice to Iraq as a combat doctor, then as a civilian doctor, and now as a veteran seeking care. Through compelling stories, Dr. Reagan...
Eleonore Schönmaier's Wavelengths of Your Song (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017) was published in German in August 2020 as Wellenlängen deines Liedes by Parasitenpresse, Cologne (translator...
Richard Warren Little has moved with his family to the Los Angeles area, to work as VP for Audio at a start-up called Droplabs. Droplabs is developing wearable audio products. Their first product...
Victoria Shroff is grateful to have received a February 2020 SEEDS Award from the August International Society for Animal Rights (1959), based in the USA. The award recognizes her 20-year career as a...
Don Hutchinson has published his second book with Word Alive Press. Church in Society: First-Century Citizenship Lessons for Twenty-First-Century Christians was released in December 2019. In...
John MacKay's 2018 book, Dziga Vertov: Life and Work (Vol. 1, from Academic Studies Press) was reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement by Emma Widdis, and in Cineaste by Stuart Liebman. MacKay...
In November 2019, Robin Keirstead retired as university archivist at Western University. After undergraduate and graduate studies in history at Acadia and Queen’s, he moved to Vancouver to earn a...