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Christopher Cheung

@bychrischeung.bsky.social
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Vancouver writer. Punctuation patrol at BCIT j-school. Author of "Very Vancouver" and "Under the White Gaze." www.christophercheung.net

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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ICYMI: My chat with the master Margaret Gallagher about "Very Vancouver" at the VPL last week!
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Christopher Cheung: Uncovering the Soul of Vancouver | Culture @ VPL | September 23, 2026
YouTube video by Vancouver Public Library
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
You never know where your books end up! My first book "Under the White Gaze" on race and representation in Canadian journalism got picked up by this scrappy Dutch outlet. Great to see this discussion in a new setting (not to mention my interview quotes in Dutch 😉). dekanttekening.nl/wereld/op-re...
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This was a really fun interview! Thanks, @jackermann.bsky.social.
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
📕✨🚀 I'll be doing my first big book event for 𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘝𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘷𝘦𝘳 at the VPL's Central Library! Sept. 23 at 7 p.m. I'll be in convo with CBC's Margaret Gallagher about everything Vancouver from Specials to storytelling (but not yoga pants). Sign up to secure your free seat. Hope to see you there.
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Christopher Cheung: Uncovering the Soul of Vancouver
Vancouver journalist Christopher Cheung has spent most of his career chasing the stories that no one else was covering, taking readers beneath the surface of the “city of glass” to expose the beating,...
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
📕✨🚀 I'll be doing my first big book event for 𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘝𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘷𝘦𝘳 at the VPL's Central Library! Sept. 23 at 7 p.m. I'll be in convo with CBC's Margaret Gallagher about everything Vancouver from Specials to storytelling (but not yoga pants). Sign up to secure your free seat. Hope to see you there.
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Christopher Cheung: Uncovering the Soul of Vancouver
Vancouver journalist Christopher Cheung has spent most of his career chasing the stories that no one else was covering, taking readers beneath the surface of the “city of glass” to expose the beating,...
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
📕 VERY VANCOUVER is out! It's an odyssey through backyard gardens, alley bottle hoards, eateries like Duffin's and east-side family life beyond our pretty skylines and granola reputation. I hope you enjoy these 15 stories and hanging out with the ~70 larger-than-life figures who lent their voices.
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Patrick Johnston 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @risingaction.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
What is Canada to be? The answer shouldn’t be left to Bay Street and certainly shouldn’t be left to Silicon Valley. theprovince.com/sports/sport...
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Sportsnet 650's demise reminds us that lack of competition is bad for Canadians
Patrick Johnston: Where is the Competition Bureau? Who thought sports ownership consolidation would be good for the rest of us?
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Searching for sweets in Surrey last week. It was fun to see crowds who had come up from the U.S. doing the same. Rookie move: Realized too late that the jaggery was to accompany the paratha I had already eaten (ended up gnawing at it at my table).
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Back to the big hole!
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 08/05/2026
personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.
Editors’ Note: May 1, 2026
This article was updated after The Times learned that a remark attributed to Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was in fact an A.I.-generated summary of his views about Canadian politics that A.I. rendered as a quotation. The reporter should have checked the accuracy of what the A.I. tool returned.  The article now accurately quotes from a speech delivered by Mr. Poilievre in April. He said, “My personal opinion is that when a member of Parliament goes back on the word they made to their constituents and switches parties, constituents should be able to petition to throw them out and have a byelection. That would put the people back in charge of our democracy rather than having dirty backroom Liberal deals by Mark Carney determine our destiny.” He did not refer to politicians who changed allegiances as turncoats in that speech.
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
People love celebrating the first Asian Canadian doctors, teachers, etc. But it got me thinking about the "firsts" we still experience today as we step into white spaces, from offices and boardrooms, to parks and towns on family vacations. My piece in the Straight: www.straight.com/city-culture...
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The flip side of Asian Canadian “firsts”
"We treat Asian Canadian firsts as if they are Asian Canadian lasts."
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Love Richmond's Asian malls? You can catch the new doc "The Golden Village" on YouTube, with lovely scenes of mall life and how migrants made them home. Directed by Karen Cho of "Big Fight in Little Chinatown", feat. me chiming in over pork chop rice! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tba1...
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
✨ Cover reveal! 📕 "Very Vancouver" will be out in August. It's a non-fiction storybook by me, a kaleidoscopic odyssey through backyard gardens, alley bottle hoards, SROs, Duffin's at midnight, and east-side family life — tales that take you beyond our pretty skylines. ecwpress.com/products/ver...
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
And now, we rank the Amazing Brentwood, which "insists upon itself."
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
...and here we are talking about it on On the Coast! www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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© CBC/Radio-Canada 2026. All rights reserved.
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
🏬🍽️🛍️🛒✨
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I just learned that the Canadian Press offers an online test and certification? And that you can become a CP "Master" if you score 100 per cent in record time? Now I'm curious how many CP Masters are out there... www.thecanadianpress.com/writing-guid...
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Trying to scare the students with their greatest fear... Hide your Oxford commas!
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Already shared with my j-school class. Thanks for speaking up, Jackie!
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Incredible that they posed for a photo op for their own capture. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Winnipeg police seeking 3 of Canada's most wanted fugitives | CBC News
Winnipeg police are searching for three of Canada’s most wanted fugitives, as a countrywide search program updated its Top 25 most wanted list on Wednesday in Vancouver.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Global News laid off 26 journalists in B.C. and Alberta today. In B.C. the layoffs include virtually all of the online team, along with many others. The business is increasingly cruel, and the hollowing out of newsrooms providing fair and reliable information continues to suck.
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
This happens too often.
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The last houses of Whalley, Surrey. On film.
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Getting ready for back to school season! I'll be teaching journalism at BCIT.
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Belties! Admiring @climatesteves.bsky.social's cows by the Richmond dyke last night.
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Very Vancouver scene in last night's Last of Us.
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Not our beloved Fraser Street... My heart is broken. I feel so sick reading the horrific details of what people experienced at this evening's attack. This is a violent violation of a special safe place shared by so many, on a day to celebrate Lapu Lapu. Take care of each other.
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
A nice surprise this week! I'm nominated for the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes alongside these great folks with impactful work. @bcyukonbookprizes.bsky.social
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
🐟 some news 🐟 I have said goodbye to the Tyee! It's hard to believe it's been 10 years since my first story, and I've been itching for some change. Reporting for the rising outlet has been the richest of adventures alongside the most talented colleagues. Thanks to all who followed along.
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The flag was muted during a reckoning with residential schools. Then it was embraced by the convoy protests. Now, it's everywhere as a symbol of Canadian sovereignty. A vexillologist, an Indigenous artist and a scholar of the right on this recent whiplash of meanings. thetyee.ca/News/2025/03...
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A Whiplash of Feelings about the Maple Leaf | The Tyee
Canada’s flag has been buffeted by winds of controversy. Then Trump levelled his threats.
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Nathaniel likes the Broadway Plan. He's a nurse who moved to the area to be near VGH, where he works. He knew his building would be demolished, but that he'd have the "strongest renter protections in Canada." But then he found out he didn't qualify. In @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2025/03...
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The Broadway Plan Protects Displaced Renters. But Not All | The Tyee
Some who expect cash and a new unit are surprised to learn they don’t qualify.
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Abbotsford is home to the oldest gurdwara in the western hemisphere, built with wood men carried on their backs from a mill where they worked. Within that family of lumber barons were two supporters of the KKK. Here's local historians and the family on that legacy. thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
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The Case of the Gurdwara, the Lumber Barons and the KKK | The Tyee
In Abbotsford, the first Sikh place of worship holds a complicated history.
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The Dunsmuir rotted. The Winters burned down. The Balmoral was condemend. A @thetyee.ca interview with Vancouver's building chief on the lessons learned, negligent landlords, tricky demolitions, quake-proofing SROs, and problems with vacant buildings. thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...
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He Decides Which Buildings Should Live or Die | The Tyee
Vancouver building chief Saul Schwebs on seismic scares, SROs, safeguarding residents and more. A Tyee interview.
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Six progressive parties "blew up" the ballot last Vancouver election with too many candidates. This byelection, three parties (the Greens, OneCity, COPE) have agreed to limit themselves to one candidate each to prevent a split. Two seats are up for grabs. In @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...
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Why Three Parties Cut a Deal Before Vancouver’s Byelection | The Tyee
With two seats open, each will run just one candidate, an imperfect ‘formula’ to avoid progressive vote splitting.
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
reading the Power 50 list again and there is too much positivity. we need the Power Baddies 50. www.vanmag.com/city/power-5...
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Introducing Vanmag’s 2025 Power 50 List - Vancouver Magazine
To be clear: this list isn’t about highlighting only those in power. […]
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I always knew Jen St. Denis was Powerful but now it's official: she made the Vanmag power list this year (#19)! It's a thrill being part of @thetyee.ca team with @jenstden.bsky.social and hearing what she's up to. Nice to see journos recognized in this space. www.vanmag.com/city/power-5...
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
As the new Sen̓áḵw goes up, a scholar looks back at how Vancouver coveted the urban reserve, how an AG coerced an illegal sale in 1913, and how the displacement of Sḵwx̱wú7mesh people sparked a political debate on how colonization should be packaged more nicely. @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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When Settlers Seized and Set Fire to the Kitsilano Reserve | The Tyee
As the Squamish Nation rebuilds with an ambitious new housing project, a scholar examines its long history of displacement.
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Michelle Gamage @michellegamage.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
If we're all taking a moment to celebrate Canadian and local food, then there's no better time to re-post this amazing series by @bychrischeung.bsky.social about delicious local food made by family-owned businesses here in B.C. thetyee.ca/News/2023/05...
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When We Celebrate ‘Local Food,’ What Gets Left Out? | The Tyee
Diasporas produce a vital but unheralded food industry in Canada. Can we make it easier to set up shop and grow? Last in a series.
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
the downtown eastside is dangerous and full of luxury suvs that might lure and lock you inside www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGTi...
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LOCKED l Official HD Trailer l Starring Bill Skarsgård and Anthony Hopkins l Only in Theater 3.21.25
YouTube video by The Avenue Film
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
An aunt in my family went to the grand opening and she couldn't stop telling me about the freshly-squeezed orange juice from the vending machine lol On the Capstan Station opening: thetyee.ca/News/2025/01...
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Behind the Canada Line’s New Stop, Years in the Making | The Tyee
Capstan Station is finally open. How did Richmond get developers to chip in?
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Hong Kong bakeries are known for egg tarts and pineapple buns, but Lunar New Year means it's time to deep fry treats. Pine House shreds taro, folds pastries, and crimps dumplings that go into a wok of oil — often working into the a.m. On the Cantonese craft. @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
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Every Day Is Fry Day Until Lunar New Year | The Tyee
From peanut dumplings to ‘taro shrimp,’ Pine House Bakery keeps the art of traditional treats alive.
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🍃 Adriane Carr, Green champion and Vancouver councillor since 2011, has resigned. I chatted with her in @thetyee.ca on: "losing trust" with Mayor Sim, making change in opposition, Green growth, why long meetings can be good for democracy, and the coming byelection battle. thetyee.ca/News/2025/01...
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Adriane Carr, Green Champion, Leaves Vancouver’s City Hall | The Tyee
From underdog to veteran councillor, she resigned mid-term. A Tyee Q&A on trust, ‘real democracy’ and what’s next.
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Hong Kong bakeries are known for egg tarts and pineapple buns, but Lunar New Year means it's time to deep fry treats. Pine House shreds taro, folds pastries, and crimps dumplings that go into a wok of oil — often working into the a.m. On the Cantonese craft. @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
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Every Day Is Fry Day Until Lunar New Year | The Tyee
From peanut dumplings to ‘taro shrimp,’ Pine House Bakery keeps the art of traditional treats alive.
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
It's so nice to read a review of my book by someone who "gets" what I'm trying to say! In The B.C. Review. thebcreview.ca/2025/01/20/2...
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Jessica Poon reviews Under the White Gaze: Solving the Problem of Race and
Jessica Poon reviews Under the White Gaze: Solving the Problem of Race and Representation in Canadian Journalism, by Christopher Cheung (Vancouver: UBC Press/Purich Books, 2024) $24.95 / 9780774881111
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I've been enjoying all the real estate tea in Storeys, particularly the profiles and the latest on insolvencies and receiverships. They do a great job of explaining how development works. My @thetyee.ca interview with this fellow digital outlet. thetyee.ca/News/2025/01...
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In a Hot Housing Market, ‘Storeys’ Delivers the Inside Scoop | The Tyee
Real estate shapes everyday life. A digital outlet is upping the game on industry news.
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Trying to find a pic of those "fake" posters by the Independent tower in Mount Pleasant advertising a DOA concert and Sunday jazz at the Cellar. They're no longer there. Does anyone happen to have a snap? Perhaps @vanalogueyvr.bsky.social?
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
A new book chronicles the fascinating history of craft beer in Vancouver: 🍺 the rowdy pre-prohibition era on Brewery Creek (alongside real beavers) 🍺 sticking it to corporate beer in the '70s and '80s 🍺 the boom and mainstreaming of growlers and tasting rooms @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2024...
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Outlawed and Thirsty: Inside Vancouver’s Craft Beer Booms | The Tyee
A new book chronicles the generational search for the perfect pint and the story of a city in flux.
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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
How a MAGA kid became a key player in B.C. politics and an architect of the modern Conservative Party of BC. My #longread today in @thetyee.ca takes a look at the controversial career of Angelo Isidorou #bcpoli thetyee.ca/News/2024/12...
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From MAGA Kid to Canadian Right-Wing Power Player | The Tyee
Angelo Isidorou runs BC’s Conservatives. His approach to politics is shaped by a controversial past.
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