Victoria, B.C.

I’ve been to Victoria when I was 9, but I don’t really remember too much from that visit so I decided to go again. Some tour company charged $150 for a day trip to Victoria from Vancouver by ferry, but I managed to do more for just $119.98, here’s how… Read more

Is entertainment news…news?

Every morning at 8:30am the journalism professor would ask us to bring up interesting stories from the past 24 hours. Today, Anthony Bourdain died and the Beckhams were falsely rumoured to be planning a divorce. This got me thinking: is entertainment news actually news? I was fascinated by late president Read more

Vancouver Public Library

Although the VPL has dozens of branches all over the city, my favorite location is the central library in downtown Vancouver. You might have noticed that I have an affinity for libraries having visited the Peabody Library, the Grimm Zentrum, and the Library of Congress on several occasions The central Read more

Flying Shotgun

On my trip back to Vancouver from Nanaimo the captain kindly allowed be to fly with him in the cockpit. How often do you get to say “I’m flying shotgun”? I got to chat with the captain during the flight and got beautiful panoramic views of the Georgia Straight. Once Read more

Cultural Relativism

I learned about Franz Boaz in my linguistic anthropology class and thought about his warnings on ethnocentrism when he researched linguistic anthropology in the US. I had many experiences of cross-cultural conflict in my lifetime having lived on three continents, yet I didn’t have a specific word to describe this Read more