This is VANCOLOUR

Juno Award-winning stand-up comedian, writer, and actor, Ivan Decker, chats about his journey, Vancouver's comedy scene, rebooting Becker, being an alien of extraordinary ability, Bumble, and how social media and the Internet has changed the entertainment landscape. You've seen him on Conan, you've heard his comedy album "I Wanted To Be a Dinosaur", you'll be streaming him on Netflix very soon, an...

Kennedy Stewart may be the most high-profile and experienced mayoral candidate in Vancouver. Scholastically, he completed his Masters in urban politics and policy at Simon Fraser University and his PhD on world cities at the London School of Economics. He has advised governments and the United Nations about cities and housing. In 2011, as part of NDP's monumental Orange Wave, he was elected as a M...

Ahmed Danny Ramadan is is a Syrian-Canadian author, public speaker, storyteller and an LGBTQ-refugee activist. Since his arrival to Vancouver in 2014, Danny's community contributions as a storyteller and activist are a testament to the strength of diversity in our community. As an activist, he has been involved in coordinating online and on the ground efforts to support Queer and Trans identifying...

Vancouver mayoral candidate, Patrick Condon, wants to be the "Bernie Sanders" of Vancouver as he makes Metro Vancouver's housing crisis the central focus of his election campaign. He breaks down the causes of the housing crisis, what the crisis means for people who live and work in Vancouver, his solutions (including increasing non-marketing housing in Vancouver and implementing Vancouver's very f...

Megan Edwards and Janet Reynolds, collectively known as THE UND8ABLES (@TheUnd8ables), kick off This is VANCOLOUR, with an exploration of the often treacherous dating terrain in Metro Vancouver. We went over time talking about dating rules (or lack thereof), first date etiquette, dick pics, coffee dates, catfishing, and more, unfiltered and unapologetically. Their collection of stories about unsuc...

A preface for "This is VANCOLOUR": a podcast about the creative class in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.