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On this edition of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½˜Today in BCsa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½™, host Peter McCully chats with two authors, Grant Lawrence and Bob Williams on the second edition of the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½˜Made in BC Book Clubsa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½™.

In the first segment of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½˜Today in BCsa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½™, Grant Lawrence, CBC Broadcaster and award-winning author offers more Desolation Sound adventures in his long-awaited sequel to sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½˜Adventures in Solitude,sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½™ with stories of the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½˜Cougar Ladysa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½™, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½˜Bernard the Germansa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½™ and sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½˜Russell the Hermitsa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½™.

sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½˜Russell ended up in a homemade shack in Desolation Sound beyond any road or any semblance of electricity or plumbing. Or anything. He was a full-blown, real-life hermit that lived in a shack for 10 years and really changed my life. He opened my up my mind to rock and roll music and to alternative writing and books that I had never heard of, or writers that I had never heard of. And it was just a real cultural awakening for me,sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½™ says Lawrence.

Bob Williams is a former British Columbia cabinet minister who played a key role in establishing the Agricultural Land Reserve and the Insurance corporation of British Columbia during B.C.sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½™s first NDP government in the 1970s. sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½˜Using Power Wellsa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½™ is a biography, by Bob Williams, with Benjamin Isitt and Thomas Bevan.

sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½˜I see a naivety around decisions being made particularly on housing,sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½™ says Williams. sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½˜The fact that the housing problem is so serious in this province, especially here in the lower mainland, given what wesa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½™re doing now, itsa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½™s almost unachievable. Because the rush to the province from the rest of Canada and internationally is so substantial. In the lower mainland we have a limited capacity to accommodate them. So, we have to rethink the way we settle people in B.C. Thatsa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½™s exciting actually, but it isnsa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½™t happening even with my government right nowsa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½™.

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Grant Lawrence will be holding for his new book.

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