When two plainclothes officers approached Dr. Chris Shaw last June, it had started off like any other day for the Vancouver-based neuroscientist. Shaw had just stepped out of a café with his morning caffeine fix, and was heading to his office at a university research lab around the corner. Within moments, Shaw was flanked by the two intelligence officers from the
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posted by Sean Casey filed under Fiction,
Politics
Decades of journalism had taken their toll on Clark Kent. He’d covered every epic news event throughout his career. He reported live from the jungles of Vietnam, and watched as Falkland Islands burned. He was on-site when Iraqi tanks rolled onto Kuwaiti sand, and reported live when General Zod’s clone army from the Phantom Zone attacked Earth. For thirty years,
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posted by Sean Casey filed under Vancouver
I'm incredibly proud to announce today's launch of Bankrupt Magazine -- Vancouver's newest online literary magazine.
Bankrupt is the brainspawn of Meredith Hambrock and I. It's a place for up-and-coming Vancouver writers to share their work with the world.
We're looking for fiction and literary non-fiction that's written for readers, not just other writers. Reading should be exciting; it should
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posted by Sean Casey filed under Memoirs,
Travel
Evening descended upon the Ou river in Laos, and still we had not found shelter. Our hand-scrawled map of the river was not drawn to scale. The next village could be mere minutes away, or many miles yet.
Arms sore, I laid down my paddle across the front of our canoe. Looking up at the towering limestone cliffs that enclosed both
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I'll be reporting at The Tyee -- an independent online magazine based in Vancouver -- over the next few months.
Check out a few of my recent posts there:
Nuclear arms ban is hot again
Police conduct report shows flaws with complaint process: Pivot
Canada slow to track human trafficking: UBC legal prof
Vancouver may loan Millennium up to $100-million
Union jobs at risk in BC's
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posted by Sean Casey filed under Random
Coffee is the new smoking. It seems like everyone's trying to give it up. I've overheard it everywhere recently: "I've been trying to quit since last week / My friend's felt fantastic since giving it up / My manager picked the wrong day to get in a fight with me, it'd been three days since I had a cup /
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"Pleasantly shocked" best describes my reaction to David Eby's announcement today that he is seeking a nomination for City Council for the November elections, and will be running under Vision Vancouver's flag.
If you don't know who David is, here's a quick run-down: he's a social activist lawyer who has worked with the Pivot Legal Society for the past three years,
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In the grey Sunday morning light, a costumed procession marches through the quiet streets of Downtown Vancouver's financial district. Dressed in matching black business suits and stylized Guy Fawkes masks, the sombre group looks more like a displaced Day of the Dead parade than members of an organized protest.
A loud cheer greets the group as they swing onto West Hastings
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Seen through the lens of Lung Liu, a scarred victim of a motorcycle accident becomes buoyantly handsome. A half-nude woman lying in a condom-strewn alleyway transforms into a caricature of beauty. Photos from his series on the Downtown Eastside capture Vancouver’s ignored and isolated denizens, of those forced to live in SRO hotels or on the street. While Lung’s
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posted by Sean Casey filed under Memoirs
My grandfather Jimmy steps, steps, steps into the living room, led by a stainless steel walker. He lowers himself into the nearest chair, and pulls the dinner table towards him. An empty glass sits beside his daily can of Guinness. Jimmy struggles to grasp the can with his left hand. Two major strokes have deadened the entire right side of
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