Whale in the Door

A Community Unites to Protect BC's Howe Sound

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We Wrote We Folded We Sang for the Orcas

Folding for the Orcas

On August 11, the Alice McKay Room at the Vancouver Public Library was vibrant with young and old coming together to ask for more protection for the Southern Resident Orcas. Their letters to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans were folded into origami Orcas while poets Miranda Pearson, Barbara Pelman, and Marlene Grand Maitre read from the poetry anthlogy, Refugium: Poems for the Pacific, also published by Caitlin Press. Latash […]

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A Whale on the Ferry

Whale in the Door on BC Ferries

Next time you travel on BC Ferries, go into the bookstore and check out their wonderful display of BC books. My friend, Judi, was so pleased to see the Whale on the shelves that she sent me this photo. Next to Whale in the Door is Carbon Play, a fascinating book by Robert Falls. Robert and I read together last fall at a Read Local BC event at Co-op Books […]

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