The reporter and bestselling author Mike McCardell discusses his recent book Haunting British Columbia: Ghostly Tales from the Past (Harbour Publishing, 2021), going into cardiac arrest recently, and more, with Joseph Planta.

Haunting British Columbia: Ghostly Tales from the Past by Mike McCardell (Harbour Publishing, 2021). Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: Haunting British Columbia

Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at TheCommentary.ca.

Mike McCardell joins me again. The beloved television reporter and bestselling author recently published Haunting British Columbia: Ghostly Tales from the Past. In the book, Mike summons a ghost to tell stories of people and events that shaped British Columbia. These are stories told in Mike’s inimitable style, often thoughtful, sometimes moving, and illustrated with archival photos and doodles that add much to the stories told about people we ought to remember for good, and sometimes bad. This past fall, Mike suffered an episode of ill health. I’ll ask him about what happened to his heart, and how he recovered. Mike McCardell is the author of the bestselling essay collections Unlikely Love Stories, Here’s Mike, Chasing the Story God, Back Alley Reporter, Getting to the Bubble, The Expanded Reilly Method, The Blue Flames That Keep Us Warm, Everything Works, None of This Was Planned, Shoelaces Are Hard, Haunting Vancouver, and Cardboard Ocean, a memoir. He’s been on the podcast for a number of those books; in fact, this is his ninth appearance on the show. This new book, as well as the others is from Harbour Publishing. He appears nightly on the CTV Vancouver’s News at Six broadcast with The Last Word. Please welcome back to the Planta: On the Line program, Mike McCardell; Mr. McCardell, good morning.

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