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September 16: Vancouver city council candidates debate | Women Transforming Cities
September 21: Emily St John Mandel in conservation | Vancouver Writers Fest
Podcasts & TV
The North State | May 12, 2026 | NYT's Canada bureau chief used AI for fake Poilievre quote
Media Indigena | May 4, 2026 | Beyond fires & floods: moving beyond crisis talk in climate coverage
Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud | Nov. 26, 2025 | What happens when an author who claimed he was Indigenous now says he’s not?
The Jas Johal Show | Nov. 21, 2025 | Should Vancouver remove baby changing tables due to vandalism?
The Last Show with David Cooper | Sep 4, 2025 | Breakups, back-to-school stress, solo travel & obstacle parenting
TLDR | July 9, 2025 | How much your kid will cost you
The Narwhal | June 26, 2025 | One big way Canada can tackle climate change
Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud | Dec 31, 2024 | From Alice Munro to the Giller Prize, the scandals that rocked CanLit this year
Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud | Dec 12, 2024 | One year after the Buffy Sainte-Marie investigation, what’s changed for Indigenous artists?
Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud | Sep 25, 2024 | Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo is here
VANCOLOUR | Sep 5, 2024 | Is the BC NDP attacking your property rights?
Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud | Sep 5, 2024 | The controversy around ELLE Magazine’s list of influential women
TLDR | August 6, 2024 | How housing prices rose so high, so fast
Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud | July 10, 2024 | Like many of her characters, Alice Munro betrayed her own daughter
Hard Truths | Mar 1, 2024 | Asking homeowners to put their wealth to work
Culture Study with Anne Helen Petersen | Jan 10, 2024 | The mutated IP of the Mean Girls reboot
Urbanism Vancouver | Dec 4, 2023 | The future of housing
Unreserved with Rosanna Deerchild | Dec 1, 2023 | Healing after harm: The Buffy Sainte-Marie investigation
Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud | Nov 27, 2023 | Celebrating Buffy Sainte-Marie is more complicated now
VANCOLOUR | Sep 23, 2023 | Do Canadian politicians actually want housing to be “affordable”?
Pop This! | Sep 13, 2023 | Barbie the movie, the podcast
The Big Story | Apr 11, 2023 | Why do people fake Indigenous ancestry?
berrygrounds | Mar 28, 2023 | Vianne Timmons and the race-shifting conundrum
VANCOLOUR | Feb 3, 2023 | Celebrating the many great Vancouver novels
Unladylike | Jan 31, 2023 | The “Pretendian” long con
As seen in…
Longreads Top 5, July 9, 2026, Inside the strange, fragile world of keeping exotic cats as pets
APTN News, June 26, 2025, Can you be sued for saying someone is a Pretendian?
The Walrus | Aug 14, 2024 | The hidden racism of book cover design
LitHub | Mar 9, 2024 | Against the objectification of books
Longreads | Jan 31, 2024 | How Connie Walker got us listening
NeimanLab | June 1, 2023 | What we’re reading
Culture Study | October 30, 2022 | The pattern of Pretendianism
Longreads | Sep 9, 2022 | Top 5 longreads of the week
Public speaking & events
Emily St. John Mandel in Conversation | September 15, 2026
2026 Atkinson Lecture, Toronto Metropolitan University | March 27, 2026
R.F. Kuang | September 13, 2025
Vancouver Writers Fest | October 2024
Megaphone Breakfast Fundraiser | October 17, 2024
katherena vermette, BC Libraries | October 15, 2024
Decolonizing the media at WORD Vancouver | September 28, 2024
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, Impacts and addressing Indigenous identity fraud | September 25, 2025
Sugarcane | VIFF Theatres | August 23, 2024
In conversation with Gregor Cragie, author of “Our Crumbling Foundation,” on solving the housing crisis | Apr 3, 2024
National Indigenous Citizenship Forum, Journalists’ perspectives on identity fraud | Mar 17, 2023
In conversation with Angela Sterritt, SFU Library’s 2023 Non-Fiction Writer in Residence | Jan 13, 2023