Canuck faithful heartbreak

Book review by Daniel Gawthrop posted on British Columbia Review on October 16, 2024 Never Boring: The Up and Down History of the Vancouver Canucks by Ed Willes Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2024 $28.95 / 9781990776892 Over the first fifty-four years of their existence, the Vancouver Canucks made it to the Stanley Cup final three times. As everyone knows, they lost all three—the last two going seven games. In 2011 against the Boston Bruins, the…

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Reading in 2021: A selection

  After a first pandemic year in which I buried myself in novels and non-fiction for much of the time I wasn’t working, I didn’t expect to read more books in 2021. But that’s what happened. What follows is a sampling, with the usual eclectic mix of subject matter. If you’re looking for titles about the world’s biggest health issue, though, you’ve come to the wrong place: I didn’t read a single book about the…

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