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Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥: Authors Grant Lawrence and Bob Williams discuss their new books

MADE IN B.C. BOOK CLUB: Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥œReturn to Solitude and Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥˜Using Power WellÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™
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On this edition of Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥˜Today in BCÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™, host Peter McCully chats with two authors, Grant Lawrence and Bob Williams on the second edition of the Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥˜Made in BC Book ClubÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™.

In the first segment of Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥˜Today in BCÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™, Grant Lawrence, CBC Broadcaster and award-winning author offers more Desolation Sound adventures in his long-awaited sequel to Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥˜Adventures in Solitude,Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™ with stories of the Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥˜Cougar LadyÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™, Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥˜Bernard the GermanÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™ and Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥˜Russell the HermitÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™.

Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥˜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,Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™ 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.Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s first NDP government in the 1970s. Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥˜Using Power WellÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™ is a biography, by Bob Williams, with Benjamin Isitt and Thomas Bevan.

Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥˜I see a naivety around decisions being made particularly on housing,Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™ says Williams. Ï㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥˜The fact that the housing problem is so serious in this province, especially here in the lower mainland, given what weÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™re doing now, itÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™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. ThatÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s exciting actually, but it isnÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™t happening even with my government right nowÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™.

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Grant Lawrence will be holding for his new book.

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Peter McCully

About the Author: Peter McCully

Peter has been a broadcaster and publisher on both of CanadaÏ㽶ÊÓƵֱ²¥™s coasts and has owned a small newspaper and run an advertising agency along the way.
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