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On this edition of 91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ˜Today in BC91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™, host Peter McCully chats with two authors, Kate Gateley and Rob Wipond, about their first literary efforts on the first edition of the 91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ˜Made in BC Book Club91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™.
In the first segment of 91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ˜Today in BC91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™, Kate Gateley who won top prize at the Canadian Book Club Awards in the sci-fi fantasy genre for 91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ˜Tides of the Sovereign91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™, the first book in a trilogy.
91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ˜Julia, the main character, she91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s in her thirties, she91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s found herself in university. She91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™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, she91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s taking a course and this professor comes along Donal O91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™Brien, and he91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s like strangely familiar, and she can91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™t figure out why. Long story short, they91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™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 choices91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™, 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 91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ˜Your consent is not required, the Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment and Abusive Guardianship91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™, and what was the motivation behind writing it.
91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ˜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 what91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s their story91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™, says Wipond.
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