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On this edition of ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½˜Today in BCÎÚÑ»´«Ã½™, host Peter McCully chats with two authors, Kate Gateley and Rob Wipond, about their first literary efforts on the first edition of the ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½˜Made in BC Book ClubÎÚÑ»´«Ã½™.
In the first segment of ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½˜Today in BCÎÚÑ»´«Ã½™, Kate Gateley who won top prize at the Canadian Book Club Awards in the sci-fi fantasy genre for ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½˜Tides of the SovereignÎÚÑ»´«Ã½™, the first book in a trilogy.
ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½˜Julia, the main character, sheÎÚÑ»´«Ã½™s in her thirties, sheÎÚÑ»´«Ã½™s found herself in university. SheÎÚÑ»´«Ã½™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, sheÎÚÑ»´«Ã½™s taking a course and this professor comes along Donal OÎÚÑ»´«Ã½™Brien, and heÎÚÑ»´«Ã½™s like strangely familiar, and she canÎÚÑ»´«Ã½™t figure out why. Long story short, theyÎÚÑ»´«Ã½™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 choicesÎÚÑ»´«Ã½™, 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 ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½˜Your consent is not required, the Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment and Abusive GuardianshipÎÚÑ»´«Ã½™, and what was the motivation behind writing it.
ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½˜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 whatÎÚÑ»´«Ã½™s their storyÎÚÑ»´«Ã½™, says Wipond.
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