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  1. Me, food and the Downtown Eastside

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    May 14, 2013 by Jen

    All of you who live in Vancouver know about the protests outside Pidgin, a new restaurant opposite Pigeon Park in …
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  2. The children are always collateral damage

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    March 27, 2013 by Jen

    I read a news item today about how the Ministry of Children and Family Development is failing children in care …
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  3. I get it, but I can’t bear to watch

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    February 15, 2013 by Jen

    I’ve wanted to post something for a long time, but I was waiting for something good to occur to me, …
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  4. The state of publishing (because I couldn’t think of something bigger to write about)

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    November 16, 2012 by Jen

    I often think that I have something really earth-shattering to say about the publishing industry, and that if people would …
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  5. Hooray, haloo for W. H. New!

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    September 26, 2012 by Jen

    W.H. New’s collection of poems, YVR, won the City of Vancouver Book Award, which is exactly how it should have …
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  6. The Better Mother is a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award!

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    September 13, 2012 by Jen

    Holy Moses! All right, I know I’ve moaned in the past about how nobody ever notices my books and that …
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  7. Paperback! Paperback! Paperback!

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    June 7, 2012 by Jen

    For all of you book lovers who refuse to touch an e-reader (I am one of your kind, at least, …
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  8. Goodbye Wheels, goodbye MCA

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    May 4, 2012 by Jen

    Here’s the thing: I don’t blog very often. I tell myself every week that I should really be updating this …
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  9. Canada Reads inspires hand-wringing across the country

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    February 11, 2012 by Jen

    Drag our Leaf Icon above to your taskbar to bookmark TGAM in Internet Explorer 9. Show me how Please don’t …
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  10. The P-word

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    December 8, 2011 by Jen

    I’ve been meaning to post on the plagiarism suit launched against Ling Zhang and her novel, Gold Mountain Blues, for …
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