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On this edition of B´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·˜Today in BCB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™, host Peter McCully chats with two authors, Kate Gateley and Rob Wipond, about their first literary efforts on the first edition of the B´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·˜Made in BC Book ClubB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™.
In the first segment of B´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·˜Today in BCB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™, Kate Gateley who won top prize at the Canadian Book Club Awards in the sci-fi fantasy genre for B´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·˜Tides of the SovereignB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™, the first book in a trilogy.
B´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·˜Julia, the main character, sheB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™s in her thirties, sheB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™s found herself in university. SheB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™s not super satisfied. Very similar to my own experience. Not sure what to do with herself and feeling like she was on the wrong path, sheB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™s taking a course and this professor comes along Donal OB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™Brien, and heB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™s like strangely familiar, and she canB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™t figure out why. Long story short, theyB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™ve shared past lives together, so they have been living through reincarnation and prophecy-based curses to defeat the big bad Cassius. So, she goes one life to the next and she has to make some pretty big choicesB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™, Gately says.
Rob Wipond is an investigative journalist. His articles have been nominated for 17 magazine and journalism awards. He talks abouts his new book B´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·˜Your consent is not required, the Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment and Abusive GuardianshipB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™, and what was the motivation behind writing it.
B´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·˜I got very interested in it because it happened to my father. He reached out at a difficult period in his life for help at a local psychiatric hospital in Kelowna and was fairly rapidly turned into an involuntary patient and treated against his will. I was quite aghast that here a person with no mental health history of any kind, a career college professor of computer engineering, could suddenly be a certified mental patient, supposedly lacking insight and needing to be forcibly treated. I was just aghast and immediately started to wonder who else is this happening to and whatB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™s their storyB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™, says Wipond.
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