J.B. MacKinnon is an independent magazine journalist and writer. He is the author of Dead Man in Paradise (Douglas & McIntyre, 2005), which won Canada’s highest award for literary nonfiction. He is also coauthor of The 100-Mile Diet (Random House, 2007, with Alisa Smith), a bestseller that is widely credited as a catalyst of the local foods movment, and I Live Here (Pantheon, 2008, written with Mia Kirshner, Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons), a unique “paper documentary” about displaced people.
J.B.'s Connection to BC: Born is Sheffield, England, but raised in Kamloops, B.C., J.B. loves this province. (He has been down nearly every highway and a lot of the dirt roads, too.)
Reporting Beat: Environment, food.
Website: J.B. MacKinnon
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For BC, it’s just a matter of time, say scientists. Warning systems are improving, yet may offer mere minutes to react.
Without the new designation, one of the world’s most vital stretches of river faces ‘death by a thousand cuts.’
Two experts say more needs to be done to reduce the risk from the variants that pose new dangers.
Community looks forward to Oppenheimer Park’s June reopening as the neighbourhood’s largest green space.
An ‘immersive,’ supersized experience of the Dutch painter is on now in Vancouver.
Metro Vancouver is undergoing a rapid transit boom. Will measures designed to stem renter displacement work?
Leader Sonia Furstenau says government is failing to take big steps needed to protect public from third wave.
Alan Sayers’ family is mourning the prolific Downtown Eastside artist, who died in March.
When my favourite team’s bubble burst, so did mine. Call your shot, Dr. Steve!
Vastly improved communication key to past year of stability, say both faculty and board.
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