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On this edition of 鈥楾oday in BC鈥�, host Peter McCully chats with two authors, Kate Gateley and Rob Wipond, about their first literary efforts on the first edition of the 鈥楳ade in BC Book Club鈥�.
In the first segment of 鈥楾oday in BC鈥�, Kate Gateley who won top prize at the Canadian Book Club Awards in the sci-fi fantasy genre for 鈥楾ides of the Sovereign鈥�, the first book in a trilogy.
鈥楯ulia, the main character, she鈥檚 in her thirties, she鈥檚 found herself in university. She鈥檚 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, she鈥檚 taking a course and this professor comes along Donal O鈥橞rien, and he鈥檚 like strangely familiar, and she can鈥檛 figure out why. Long story short, they鈥檝e 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 choices鈥�, 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 鈥榊our consent is not required, the Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment and Abusive Guardianship鈥�, and what was the motivation behind writing it.
鈥業 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 what鈥檚 their story鈥�, says Wipond.
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