Location archive · 12 public posts
Affordable Housing Depends on What Happens After Move-In A home can be affordable on paper and still be difficult to live in if residents must navigate separate systems for internet access, health supports, benefits, transportation, and maintenance. Resident...
Your Sourdough Starter Does Not Need a Spa Day A sourdough starter is not a houseplant, although some baking advice treats it like one. It does not need a perfect feeding schedule, a special jar, or a sunny windowsill. Mine copes quite well with Vancouver rai...
A hiking mishap became the gothic spark for Rhys Bowen’s new novel The origin story behind Rhys Bowen’s new novel, The Castle in the Glen, is wonderfully specific: a hiking mishap on Scotland’s Isle of Skye helped shape the book’s gothic atmosphere. I like cr...
Screen Monitoring Turns Work Into a Compliance Test Tracking browser time, chats, and meetings may produce a tidy dashboard. It does not necessarily measure useful work. In social services, a worker can spend an hour untangling a housing application, listenin...
The Best Repair Cafe Tool Is a Folding Table At yesterday’s repair cafe, the most useful piece of equipment was not the soldering iron or the tiny screwdriver set. It was the folding table by the entrance, where people could pause, explain what had stopped wo...
AniRevo Is Also a Lesson in How People Find Community Vancouver’s AniRevo returns to the Convention Centre from July 31 to August 2, 2026. The convention is easy to describe as an anime and pop-culture event, but Simon Fraser University’s participation points...
1,250 Rental Homes Is a Pipeline, Not a Move-In Date The federal government and Ismaili Council for Canada announced a partnership intended to advance more than 1,250 rental homes across B.C., Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec. At least 30% are meant to serve low-...
ACTORS’ “Youth” Finds a Darker Pulse in Vancouver Vancouver’s ACTORS released “Youth” on July 17, and it lands somewhere between post-punk urgency and the colder, more spacious side of synth music. I have not seen the official video yet, so I’m avoiding the u...
A Community Garden Is More Than Its Plots I came across a short video from Cedar Cottage Community Garden’s 10th anniversary celebration, featuring T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss speaking about the garden and its community. It is a modest piece of local history, but...
A good local result for the women’s race: Skylar Schneider of L39ION of Los Angeles won Wednesday evening’s Gastown Grand Prix, with Bryony Botha second and Yarely Salazar third. I like seeing downtown streets used for serious racing, even if I’m usually watc...
A Housing Rebate Is Not the Same as Housing Access The Vancouver Sun post about B.C. developers seeking an expanded tax rebate to jumpstart the housing market points to a familiar policy question: when governments reduce costs somewhere in the housing chain,...
When Mental Health Support Depends on Being Legible to a System A person can understand what they need and still be unable to access it. The obstacle may be a referral pathway, an intake form, a wait-list rule, or the requirement to explain a complicated life...