The Tyee Works
A selection of my Tyee reporting. (I’ve omitted the really newsy stuff, so if you want to read about fun things like land value capture and municipal tenant relocation policies, you can view the full list of my work at my Tyee bio.)
FRESH OFF THE SHELF
Putting Cultural Foods Back on the Table
The Steamy, Beany Tofu Factory
Love, Loss and Beef Balls
Sleepless at the Tortilleria
Taking Paneer to the Skies
Global Food, Locally Made
December 18, 2023
How Vancouver Specials Got Their Guardians
December 18, 2023
Fleeing the Fire at the Keefer Rooms
June 7, 2024
The Revitalizing Power of Indigenous Typography
August 22, 2023
Building the Future with Mass Timber
November 15, 2023
The Yips Are In the House Again
July 24, 2023
Down in the Ditches of Ditchmond
July 14, 2023
On Bottle Binning in Chinatown
May 18, 2023
A West Coast Mango Quest
April 18, 2022
‘No Return Ticket’: A New Exodus from Hong Kong
July 1, 2022
Putting Down Roots in Vancouver’s Backyard Gardens
September 21, 2021
The Mystery of the Baklava Man
April 5, 2018
The Treasures of Crystal Mall
July 2, 2019
Invasion of the Himalayan Blackberry
August 21, 2020
Will a Rezoning Damage Vancouver’s Filipino Heart?
March 12, 2021
The Translator Kids
August 30, 2021
After Six Decades in Politics, Harold Steves of Steveston Retires
December 5, 2022
In Burnaby, How to Resurrect a River
February 21, 2019
Real Cities Give People Places to Pee
August 29, 2019
“We Don’t Do Eggos.” Dining out in the Downtown Eastside
September 6, 2018
Rapidly, Reproducing Rabbits
January 27, 2023
Metro Vancouver’s Increasing Inequality, By the Numbers
November 15, 2018
The Dogs Who Spot Overdoses
February 24, 2022
How Yucho Chow’s Photos Reframed Vancouver’s History
Part One, Part Two
May 16, 2019 and December 29, 2019
A Tai Chi Master at the Mall
August 12, 2022
The Ziggurats of Richmond
January 8, 2022
Of Power, Places and Unnaming
August 24, 2021
The Courier and Metro Years
Here are a few stories from when I wrote my reported column in the Vancouver Courier called Talk of the Block (2015 to 2018) and another in Metro called Urban Scrawl (2017 to 2018). I am a bit embarrassed by the writing as I was a fresh grad at the time! But they were popular reads nonetheless, and almost always on the front page. Because both papers have since closed, the links here are via Wayback Machine.
The Dictator, the Doughnut King and a Shop Called Duffin’s
Vancouver Courier, July 12, 2016
East Van’s Immigrant Farmers, Before the Hipsters Came
Vancouver Courier, August 10, 2016
How the Vancouver Special Made Vancouver Special
Metro News, October 27, 2017
Building Vancouver’s Future, One Model at a Time
Vancouver Courier, May 25, 2016
Moving Heaven and Earth to Create Beer Island
Vancouver Courier, September 14, 2017
Balikbayan Boxes, To the Philippines with Love
Vancouver Courier, November 16, 2016
Realtors, Assemble! A Real-Life Game of Monopoly
Vancouver Courier, February 21, 2018
Peru, the Pacific and a Plaza: The Story of Killarney Market
Vancouver Courier, February 26, 2018
Welcome to… Fraserhood? A Gentrification Story
Metro News, December 15, 2017