Some speculation on some speculation April 12, 2008

Here’s the unedited text of my most recent column in Business in Vancouver:

News item: Metro Vancouver’s transportation authority is launching a real estate division that could produce up to $1.5 billion in revenue over the next 10 years, modelled on an agency that has reshaped Hong Kong. …TransLink will purchase land along new rapid transit [...]

Flying Balloons in Paris March 23, 2008

Here’s the unedited text of my most recent column in Business in Vancouver:

Ah, Paris: the city that lives up to its cliches. They really do play sentimental accordion music on the streets, the elderly busker in the Metro really is singing “Je ne regette rien,” the women really are astonishingly chic. (Do they all take [...]

Being Green February 4, 2008

Here’s the unedited version of last week’s Business in Vancouver column:
        Sometime in the last year – while the smart money people in North America were preoccupied with credit default swaps – bike-sharing turned into a billion-dollar industry.
        I may be exaggerating when I say “industry.” But not “billion.”
        “Banks and private equity firms are [...]

Hapa Culture November 27, 2007

My column in Business in Vancouver last week:
Vancouver culture now meeting newcomers halfway
In Vancouver today, there’s a lot of hapa happening. In Japanese, “hapa” means leaf. In Hawaiian, half. It also means people of mixed racial ancestry.
But hapa culture is bigger than that. If you live or work in Vancouver, it includes you. Because living [...]