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Broadcaster and bestselling author Mike McCardell haunts British Columbia's past in order to summon spellbinding tales of Western Canada. Reprising his 2013 bestseller Haunting Vancouver, Mike McCardell summons the ghost of real-life pioneer Jock Linn to provide hair-raising and humorous versions of what really happened during some of the formative events that shaped British Columbia. In Haunting British Columbia, McCardell's ghostly narrator ...

A new collection of humorous and moving tales from master storyteller Mike McCardell.

>Written with all the warmth and ironic humour his fans have come to know and love, Cardboard Ocean is an affectionate evocation of a childhood in a rough setting, but with the thrills, chills and loves that will be familiar to anyone who was ever young. McCardell was raised by a working mother in the borough of Queens where even the grade schoolers ran in gangs, fiercely protecting their turf from intrusion by the tykes a few blocks away. The...

What if Mike McCardell -- beloved reporter of glasses half-full and the brighter side of life -- is actually dead... or, more specifically, un-dead? Suppose he has continued to walk among the living ever since he was a sapper with the famous detachment of Royal Engineers who came to British Columbia in 1859 and was known as Jock Linn -- the namesake for North Vancouver's misspelled Lynn Creek. And then imagine that after Linn died or, more acc...

Vancouver news icon and co-host of CTVs The Last Word, Mike McCardell is the crafter of human-interest stories that counteract the doom and gloom of conventional news programming. With his unerring instinct for teasing out the powerful hook of human connection from the most innocuous (or bizarre) events, McCardells unique perspective has endeared him to hundreds of thousands of fans. He has also collected many of his favourite stories within s...

Publishing sensation and popular Global TV personality Mike McCardell returns with a new collection of hilarious, heart-warming and honest stories. These are stories of the defender of a handicapped parking spot, a woman who has delivered home-made Valentine cards to neighbours for twenty years, and love between a widower and a woman who had never been on a date before. They are the stories that never make front page headlines, but that Mike, ...

An ultra-fan whose home is a shrine to the Vancouver Canucks thinks he may have the answer to the teams shocking collapse in the 2011 playoffs, a homeless man who has become a caring mainstay at the Downtown Eastside shelter run by the First United Church, and many anecdotes of generosity among people who have nothing are only a few of the inspirational tales that appear among Mike McCardells latest collection of stories.

A collection of simple stories. It presents the stories of the ownerless shoes, sitting in a washroom used mainly by big-time celebrities, the big cajones one dare not mention and the magic dachshund whose poop can clear the snow off driveways, and, the roving women's fitness group that performs for a homeless man who lives in a shopping cart.

Features over one hundred stories from television tales the author has shared on the "News Hour". It contains stories that portray the rules of life.

Mike declare's in "The Expanded Reilly Method, " "I have found the answer to enjoying an incredible life, no matter who you are or where you are or what you are doing or how much you weigh.

Mike's heartwarming stories now in Tradepaper!

Mike McCardell is an institution in BC television with his antinews stories of oddball inspiration that close the News Hour on Global BC. Lately he has become a publishing institution as well with his series of heartwarming books full of stories about the ways in which ordinary people cope with extraordinary challenges. Fresh from 2009s bestselling The Expanded Reilly Method, he is back with another winner in Everything Works.

McCardell's frank, sparkling style, his eye for the human condition and his deft handling of an enormous range of material have made him one of BC's great TV personalities.