Writing
Finished essays and published work, listed in reverse chronological order. No project stages and no summaries standing in for unavailable text.
What policy and academic writing taught me about editing research for a public reader.
The mayoral race will dominate Vancouver's election. For organizations with a file at City Hall, the more useful question is what the next political arrangement allows the institution to keep doing.
A practical blueprint for evaluating commercial-driver training through first-job readiness, early safety performance, and a repeatable feedback loop.
On Indigenous leadership, clean-energy labour shortages, and what a more honest green-transition conversation must admit.
What a neighbourhood institution can contribute to Vancouver's response to homelessness, mental health, and substance use, and where its role should end.
A published poem on nation, identity, violence, and the colours made to carry them.
Open questions
Updated August 2026
The obvious answer is that skill is demonstrated by education, experience, and occupational competence. But immigration selection, licensing systems, employer expectations, and the demand for Canadian experience do not recognize those things consistently. I am interested in how their interaction produces deskilling rather than merely recording it.
Businesses, residents, service providers, street-involved people, police, and municipal agencies can experience the same place through different forms of risk. The easy response is to decide which account is correct. My question is what safety policy misses when one group's immediate experience becomes the complete definition of the problem.
A service can exist on paper and remain inaccessible in practice. Urban assumptions about connectivity, specialist availability, and travel distance can reproduce exclusion in rural and remote communities. I am interested in whether the more useful intervention is a community-governed information and navigation layer rather than another isolated application.
Public funding rules create necessary accountability, but they also shape eligibility, timelines, documentation burdens, and the support staff can provide. The question is not whether compliance is good or bad. It is how operational design determines whether accountability and participant-centred delivery reinforce or undermine one another.