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On this edition of º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç˜Today in BCº¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç™, host Peter McCully chats with two authors, Grant Lawrence and Bob Williams on the second edition of the º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç˜Made in BC Book Clubº¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç™.
In the first segment of º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç˜Today in BCº¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç™, Grant Lawrence, CBC Broadcaster and award-winning author offers more Desolation Sound adventures in his long-awaited sequel to º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç˜Adventures in Solitude,º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç™ with stories of the º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç˜Cougar Ladyº¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç™, º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç˜Bernard the Germanº¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç™ and º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç˜Russell the Hermitº¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç™.
º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç˜Russell ended up in a homemade shack in Desolation Sound beyond any road or any semblance of electricity or plumbing. Or anything. He was a full-blown, real-life hermit that lived in a shack for 10 years and really changed my life. He opened my up my mind to rock and roll music and to alternative writing and books that I had never heard of, or writers that I had never heard of. And it was just a real cultural awakening for me,º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç™ says Lawrence.
Bob Williams is a former British Columbia cabinet minister who played a key role in establishing the Agricultural Land Reserve and the Insurance corporation of British Columbia during B.C.º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç™s first NDP government in the 1970s. º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç˜Using Power Wellº¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç™ is a biography, by Bob Williams, with Benjamin Isitt and Thomas Bevan.
º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç˜I see a naivety around decisions being made particularly on housing,º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç™ says Williams. º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç˜The fact that the housing problem is so serious in this province, especially here in the lower mainland, given what weº¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç™re doing now, itº¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç™s almost unachievable. Because the rush to the province from the rest of Canada and internationally is so substantial. In the lower mainland we have a limited capacity to accommodate them. So, we have to rethink the way we settle people in B.C. Thatº¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç™s exciting actually, but it isnº¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç™t happening even with my government right nowº¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Éç™.
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Grant Lawrence will be holding for his new book.
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