In 2002, an Afghan man named Asad Aryubwal denounced a powerful American-backed warlord in an interview with the veteran journalist Carol Off. As a result, he, his wife, Mobina, and their five children were forced to flee Afghanistan. Off spent the better part of a decade helping to get Aryubwal and his family to Canada. Her award-winning book, All We Leave Behind is a story of consequences and responsibility, for those who expose injustice, and for the journalists who tell their stories.
Tanya Talaga negotiated similar questions in the course of reporting on the deaths of seven Indigenous high school students in Thunder Bay, Ontario, between 2000 and 2011. In Seven Fallen Feathers, Talaga, an award-winning investigative journalist, poignantly explores the lives of the seven—Jordan Wabasse, Kyle Morrisseau, Curran Strang, Robyn Harper, Paul Panacheese, Reggie Bushie, and Jethro Anderson—and the story of their northern city.
Talaga and Off...
Carol Off is a reporter, documentarian, and co-host of CBC Radio’s flagship current affairs program, As It Happens. Her book, All We Leave Behind is the winner of the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize and Governor General’s Award.
Tanya Talaga is an award-winning investigative journalist with the Toronto Star. Her book, Seven Fallen Feathers, has been a finalist for multiple awards including the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the RBC Charles Taylor Prize.
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