Cities
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 Read more…
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SkyTrain Fare Loophole
On July 1st, 2018, TransLink BC has a Canada Day present for residents of Greater Vancouver – a neat fare increase. With this fare increase, a 2-zone monthly pass will cost $128 (up from $126) , and a 3-zone monthly Read more…
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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 Read more…
People
Keeping up with the Jonses
On my American cross-country road trip the first long stop I made was in Minneapolis with Emily and her husband Ben. I met Emily back in 2014 in a university small group when she was an exchange student. Having moved Read more…
Experiences
West Coast Express
I’ve always wanted to board a West Coast Express train ever since I found out that Vancouver had a commuter railway. But only having five trains a day in each direction made it hard to catch, especially when I lived Read more…
Iconic Places
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, Read more…
Flights
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 Read more…
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Every single SkyTrain station
Marcus lives in Vancouver and doesn’t drive, so I said: “Let’s go to every single station on the SkyTrain network.” He said: “This sounds like a bad idea…but ok.” We started off in high spirits off Broadway-City Hall station, then Read more…
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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, Read more…
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Why the West Coast Express Failed Vancouver
In the past decade, Vancouver has been increasingly transit friendly with the mayor promoting cycling combined with public transportation as an environmentally friendly alternative to driving. The West Coast Express (WCE) is a commuter rail link serving eight stations between Read more…