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On this edition of Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥˜Today in BCÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™, host Peter McCully chats with two authors, Kate Gateley and Rob Wipond, about their first literary efforts on the first edition of the Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥˜Made in BC Book ClubÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™.
In the first segment of Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥˜Today in BCÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™, Kate Gateley who won top prize at the Canadian Book Club Awards in the sci-fi fantasy genre for Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥˜Tides of the SovereignÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™, the first book in a trilogy.
Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥˜Julia, the main character, sheÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™s in her thirties, sheÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™s found herself in university. SheÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™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, sheÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™s taking a course and this professor comes along Donal OÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™Brien, and heÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™s like strangely familiar, and she canÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™t figure out why. Long story short, theyÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™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 choicesÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™, 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 Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥˜Your consent is not required, the Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment and Abusive GuardianshipÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™, and what was the motivation behind writing it.
Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥˜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 whatÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™s their storyÏã½¶ÊÓÆµÖ±²¥™, says Wipond.
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