Monday, July 30, 2012

Moving Launch of New Book on the Air India Tragedy


On July 21, 2012, I was honored to be one of the speakers at the memorable book launch of Fighting Hatred with Love: Voices of the Air India Victims' Families, by Helping You Get Published author Gurpreet Singh (Chetana Parkashan, publisher).

At the launch, which took place at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, family members and others close to the tragedy spoke out against the fundamentalism and extremism that led to the 1985 terrorist bombing that killed 331 innocent people. The roster of speakers included: Ujjal Dosanjh, former federal Health Minister and a vocal critic of extremism; Kerry-Lynne D. Findlay, MP and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice; Dave Hayer, MLA; D. K. Sharma, the acting Counsel General of India, Vancouver; Major Singh Sidhu, vice president of the Khalsa Deewan Society, Vancouver, on behalf of the victims’ families; Jinny Sims, MP; and Charlie Smith, editor of the Georgia Straight, who gave the keynote address.

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Stampeding Sales for Helping You Get Published Author

Helping You Get Published author Rob Lennard is the award-winning creator of three time-travel books for children. The first, written for the 2005 Alberta centennial, has been expanded to become his latest book, with new chapters that take time-travelling teen twins back to 1912 and the first Calgary Stampede.

The new book, The Amazing Alberta Time Travel Adventures of Wild Roping Roxy and Family Day Ray was launched in May and is garnering praise and selling well in bookstores and at this year's centennial Calgary Stampede.