Articles tagged with: Canada
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The poet and writer Brian Brett discusses his new memoir Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life (Greystone, 2009) with Joseph Planta.
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Dianne Whelan, an adventurer, filmmaker and author discusses her 2,000 kilometre journey in the Arctic, with Joseph Planta; she discusses what it’s like travelling with Canadian rangers charged with patrolling the Arctic, climate change, Arctic sovereignty, as well as her new book, This Vanishing Land: A Woman’s Journey to the Canadian Arctic (Caitlin Press, 2009), and her new film, This Land, which screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival.
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The political strategist Jonathan Ross discusses his new website CivicScene.ca, the surfeit of political websites and blogs covering municipal affairs in Vancouver, how the current mayor Gregor Robertson and his council are doing, the HST debate in British Columbia, and the Liberal Party of Canada under Michael Ignatieff.
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The novelist Lori Lansens talks to Joseph Planta about her new book, The Wife’s Tale (Knopf, 2009), a story about an obsese woman’s search for her husband who’s left her and the search for herself; as well, Lansens discusses moving from Canada to California, her writing and reading habits, and interacting with her readers at book clubs and elsewhere.
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Blogger (www.ronamaynard.com) and former Chatelaine editor Rona Maynard joins Joseph Planta to discuss books, David Letterman, food, the state of magazines, and Thanksgiving, among other topics.
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Nathalie Cooke, the associate dean of arts at McGill University and editor of CuiZine: The (e)journal of Canadian Food Cultures, talks to Joseph Planta about the new collection she’s edited, What’s to Eat? Entrée’s in Canadian Food History (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009), an informative and fascinating look at Canada’s foodways.
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‘One of Canada’s top five political minds,’ the conservative commentator Gerry Nicholls, former vice president of the National Citizen’s Coalition, talks to Joseph Planta about Stephen Harper, the Harper government, conservatism in Canada, and the Libertas Post, which Nicholls is editing.
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Denise Chong, the Canadian author of The Concubine’s Children and The Girl in the Picture, talks to Joseph Planta, about her new book, Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship (Random House, 2009).
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The novelist and poet Thomas Trofimuk discusses his new novel, Waiting for Columbus (McClelland & Stewart, 2009), with Joseph Planta.
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Chef Jeff Crump, executive chef at the Ancaster Old Mill in Ontario, discusses the lavish cookbook he has co-written with Bettina Schormann, Earth to Table: Seasonal Recipes from an Organic Farm (Random House, 2009), with Joseph Planta.
