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Eden Robinson
Eden Victoria Lena Robinson (born 19 January 1968) is an Indigenous Canadian author. She is a member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations in British Columbia, Canada.Eden Robinson's entry in . Personal life Robinson was born in Kitamaat, British Columbia, and is a member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations. Robinson pursued her academic journey, earning a Bachelor of Arts from the |
Kitimat, British Columbia
Kitimat is a district municipality in the North Coast region of British Columbia, Canada. It is a member municipality of the Regional District of Kitimat–Stikine regional government. The Kitimat Valley is part of the most populous urban district in northwest British Columbia, which includes Terrace to the north along the Skeena River Valley. The city was planned and built by the Aluminum Company of Canada ( Alcan) during the 1950s. Its post office was approved on 6 June 1952. Kitimat's municipal area is . It is located on tidewater in one of the few wide, flat valleys on the coast of British Columbia. The 2016 census recorded 8,131 citizens. The District of Kitimat Development Services situates the port of Kitimat as an integral part of the Northwest Corridor connecting North America to the Pacific Ocean and the Pacific Rim. History "Kitimat" in the Tsimshian language refers to the Haisla First Nation as the "People of the Snow". Before 1950 the Kitimat township was a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Room (magazine)
''Room'' (formerly ''Room of One's Own'') is a Canadian quarterly literary journal that features the work of emerging and established women and genderqueer writers and artists. Launched in Vancouver in 1975 by the West Coast Feminist Literary Magazine Society, or the Growing Room Collective, the journal has published an estimated 3,000 women, serving as an important launching pad for emerging writers. ''Room'' publishes short fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, art, feature interviews, and features that promote dialogue between readers, writers and the collective, including "Roommate" (a profile of a ''Room'' reader or collective member) and "The Back Room" (back page interviews on feminist topics of interest). Collective members are regular participants in literary and arts festivals in Greater Vancouver and Toronto. History The journal's original title (1975-2006) ''Room of One's Own'' came from Virginia Woolf's essay '' A Room of One's Own''. In 2007, the collective relaunc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBC Books
CBC Arts () is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that creates and curates written articles, short documentaries, non-fiction series and interactive projects that represent the excellence of Canada's diverse artistic communities. Some of the series and projects CBC Arts has produced include ''21 Black Futures'', ''Art 101'', ''Art Hurts'', ''Big Things Small Towns'', ''Canada's a Drag'', ''The Collective'', ''Crash Gallery'', ''Exhibitionists (TV series), Exhibitionists'', ''The Filmmakers'', ''Interrupt This Program'', ''The Move'', ''Super Queeroes'' and ''The 2010s: The Decade Canadian Artists Stopped Saying Sorry''. CBC Arts has received considerable acclaim, winning multiple Canadian Screen Awards including for best talk show (''The Filmmakers''), non-fiction webseries (''Canada's a Drag'') and interactive production (''Super Queeroes'' and ''The 2010s: The Decade Canadian Artists Stopped Saying Sorry''). Staff members Amanda Parris and Peter Knegt both wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBC Television
CBC Television (also known as CBC TV, or simply CBC) is a Television in Canada, Canadian English-language terrestrial television, broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcasting, public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952, with its main studios at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto. Its French-language counterpart is Ici Radio-Canada Télé. CBC Television is available throughout Canada on over-the-air television stations in urban centres, and as a must-carry station on cable and satellite television providers, and live streamed on its CBC Gem video platform. Overview CBC Television provides a complete 24-hour network schedule of news, sports, entertainment, and children's programming; in most cases, it feeds the same programming at the exact local times nationwide, except to the Newfoundland Time Zone, where programs air 30 minutes "late". On October 9, 2006, at 6:00 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trickster (Canadian TV Series)
''Trickster'' is a Canadian coming-of-age supernatural thriller drama television series, which premiered on CBC Television on October 7, 2020. The series is created by Tony Elliott and Michelle Latimer with Latimer also directing, and is adapted from Eden Robinson's 2017 novel ''Son of a Trickster''. The series was renewed for a second season prior to the first season's premiere; however, these plans were eventually cancelled on January 29, 2021, due to controversy around Michelle Latimer's Indigenous heritage. Premise The series centres on Jared, an Indigenous Haisla teenager and small-time drug dealer in Kitimat, British Columbia, who becomes increasingly aware of the magical events that seem to follow him. Cast Main * Joel Oulette as Jared * Crystle Lightning as Maggie, Jared's mother * Kalani Queypo as Wade *Nathan Alexis as Crashpad, Jared's best friend * Anna Lambe as Sarah * Georgina Lightning as Sophia, Jared's grandmother Supporting *Craig Lauzon as Phil Nelson, Jared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House Limited is a British-American multinational corporation, multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, with the merger of Penguin Books and Random House. Penguin Books was originally founded in 1935 and Random House was founded in 1927. It has more than 300 Publishing imprint, publishing imprints. Along with Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Hachette, HarperCollins and Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Random House is considered one of the "Big Five (publishers), Big Five" English-language publishers. On April 2, 2020, Bertelsmann announced the completion of its purchase of Penguin Random House, which had been announced in December 2019, by buying Pearson plc's 25% ownership of the company. With the purchase, Bertelsmann became the sole owner of Penguin Random House. Bertelsmann's German-language publishing group Verlagsgruppe Random House will be completely integrated into Penguin Random House, adding 45 imp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian Public broadcasting, public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster, with its English-language and French-language service units known as CBC and Radio-Canada, respectively. Although some local stations in Canada predate its founding, the CBC is the oldest continually-existing broadcasting network in Canada. The CBC was established on November 2, 1936. The CBC operates four terrestrial radio networks: The English-language CBC Radio One and CBC Music, and the French-language Ici Radio-Canada Première and Ici Musique (international radio service Radio Canada International historically transmitted via shortwave radio, but since 2012 its content is only available as podcasts on its website). The CBC also operates two terrestrial television networks, the English-language CBC Television and the French-language Ici Radio-C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Son Of A Trickster
''Son of a Trickster'' is a 2017 coming of age novel by Indigenous Canadian author Eden Robinson. The first novel in ''The Trickster'' trilogy, it follows 16-year-old Jared, who wades through the complications of a broken family, social pressure, drugs, alcohol, and poverty. The novel interweaves the Indigenous myth from Haisla/Heitsuk oral storytelling, as Jared discovers the Haisla trickster, Wee'jit. The story is set in Kitimat, British Columbia. It took Robinson eight years to write, and is followed by the 2018 novel, ''Trickster Drift''. The third and final novel, titled ''Return of the Trickster'', was published in 2021. Reception and awards The novel was selected for the 2020 edition of ''Canada Reads'', in which it was defended by actress Kaniehtiio Horn. Television adaptation Filmmaker Michelle Latimer and Streel Films secured the rights to adapt the book into a TV series. The series premiered on CBC Television as ''Trickster'' in 2020. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Georgia Straight
''The Georgia Straight'' is a free Canadian weekly news and entertainment newspaper published in Vancouver, British Columbia, by Overstory Media Group. Often known simply as ''The Straight'', it is delivered to newsboxes, post-secondary schools, public libraries and a large variety of other locations. ''The Straight'' has a long history of independent, unconventional editorials and content, and is known as a vocal critic of government, notably the former Liberal government of Gordon Campbell. As surveyed by VAC its per-issue circulation average , was once 119,971 copies, and its average weekly readership was once 804,000 . Its website traffic once ranked 92,215 globally and 5,395 within Canada, from Alexa. In January 2020, the newspaper's acquisition by Media Central Corporation was announced, a few weeks after the same company announced a deal to acquire the similar Toronto publication '' Now''. In September 2022, after Media Central Corporation filed for bankruptcy, ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian (Charlottetown)
''The Guardian'' is a daily newspaper published five days a week in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. The paper was originally launched in the 1870s as ''The Presbyterian and Evangelical Protestant Union'', owned by Presbyterianism, Presbyterian minister Stephen G. Lawson. It adopted its current name in 1887. After a succession of local owners, the newspaper was bought by Thomson Corporation in the 1950s. Postmedia News, Southam Newspapers acquired the paper from Thomson in 1996, before itself being acquired by Canwest, Canwest Global Communications in 2000. Canwest sold the paper to Transcontinental (company), Transcontinental in 2002, before being sold to SaltWire Network, a newly formed parent company of ''The Chronicle Herald'', in April 2017. ''The Guardian'' had a sister publication, ''The Evening Patriot'', which was discontinued in 1995 amid efficiency changes by the publishers. While the slogan of ''The Guardian'' for many years has been "Covers the Island li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor General's Awards
The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the governor general of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields. The first award was conceived and inaugurated in 1937 by the Lord Tweedsmuir, a prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction; he created the Governor General's Literary Award with two award categories. Successive governors general have followed suit, establishing an award for whichever endeavour they personally found important. Only Adrienne Clarkson created three Governor General's Awards: the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, the Governor General's Northern Medal, and the Governor General's Medal in Architecture (though this was effectively a continuation of the Massey Medal, first established in 1950). Governor General's Literary Awards Inaugurated in 1937 for 1936 publications in two categories, the Governor General's Literary Awards have become one of Canada's most prestigiou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotiabank Giller Prize
The Giller Prize (known as the Scotiabank Giller Prize from 2005-2023) is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English (including translation) the previous year, after an annual juried competition between publishers who submit entries. The prize was established in 1994 by Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch in honour of his late wife Doris Giller, a former literary editor at the ''Toronto Star'', and is awarded in November of each year along with a cash reward (then CAN$25,000) with the winner being presented by the previous year's winning author. Since its inception, the Giller Prize has been awarded to emerging and established authors from both small independent and large publishing houses in Canada. History From 1994 to 2004, the prize included a bronze figure created by artist Yehouda Chaki. The current prize includes a trophy designed by Soheil Mosun. On September 22, 2005, the Giller Prize established an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
