Stephen Hui
Stephen Hui is the web editor and technology editor at the Georgia Straight.
Hui joined the Straight in 2007, returning to Vancouver after working for Sun Media and Canadian University Press in Toronto. He got his start in journalism at the Peak, Simon Fraser University's student newspaper, and went on to cofound Seven Oaks, an online political magazine, in 2004. In 2009, Hui won a Canadian Ethnic Media Association Award in the print category.
Among other things, Hui's interests include the environment, social issues, politics, aboriginal issues, transgender rights, social media, the Internet, vegan food, hiking, mountains, waterfalls, and photography.
You can reach Hui by email at shui@straight.com. Or, you can connect with him on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Google+, LinkedIn, Tumblr, and 500px.
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Step 1: Invite a vegan to your kitchen.
Former B.C. Liberal premier Gordon Campbell is coming to town to give his first public address to B.C.'s business community since becoming Canada's high commissioner to the United Kingdom in August.
A Vancouver tech startup will be pitching its social-media platform on CBC's Dragons' Den this week.
The Coalition of Progressive Electors says Vision Vancouver's Gregor Robertson should reconsider the membership of his Mayor’s Task Force on Housing Affordability.
You don't need to be an MP to know that the population of Canada is upwards of 30 million.
If you want to see reporters ask a series of stupid questions, attend a news conference having something to do with cyclists or bike lanes.
The task force is expected to deliver its interim report by March 12.
The body was not in Pacific Spirit Regional Park.
The B.C. government has awarded a $900,000 contract to widen a section of Highway 101 on the Sunshine Coast to make it safer for cyclists and pedestrians.
I'll save you the trouble of trekking over to Douglas College in Coquitlam for the news conference.
Tatiana Pirogovskaia says she’s feeling nervous and excited about performing a burlesque number based on the video game Portal 2.
Watch out, lactose-intolerant and vegan criminals.
But the Canadian Gamers Organization still has concerns.
The Fisherman’s Trail in North Vancouver’s Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve is an easy hike to tide you over on a rainy winter day.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper deemed fit to hold a media event in Ottawa in order to trumpet his Conservative government's support for the bloody massacre known as the Canadian seal hunt.
Two men are in custody after thieves broke the front window of a North Vancouver restaurant with a large rock and made off with "numerous bottles" of alcohol.
One of NASA’s twin GRAIL satellites has beamed back the first video footage ever recorded of the moon's far side.
Canada's transgender community is up in arms over federal rules that could stop people from boarding airplanes if their appearance is deemed to not match the gender on their identification.
A new online campaign is calling on Apple to rectify dangerous working conditions in factories making products like the forthcoming iPhone 5.
Fifteen months after starting up, Vancouver’s Sprout vegan bakery is shutting down.
Step into Buddha-Full Juice & Smoothies in North Vancouver, and you’ll be hit with owners Kyla Rawlyns and Geremie Voigt’s positive vibe.
Buddha-Full Juice & Smoothies is just one of a handful of vegan restaurants that have sprung up in Vancouver’s suburbs over the past few years.
Vanessa Mills says her passion for running the Tri-Cities’ only fully vegan and gluten-free restaurant means she doesn’t mind if she gets little sleep.
Jason Stelmachovich says his White Rock restaurant has one of the best views in B.C.’s Lower Mainland.
Paradise went fully vegan a couple or so years ago in recognition of the environmental impact of the meat-and-dairy industry.
Toderian was hired six years ago by NPA mayor Sam Sullivan.
After searching the school in response to an anonymous tip about a gun, police say they found no weapons.
Police are asking parents and guardians of students not to go to the school at this time.
Twitter's announcement of country-specific censorship has sparked outrage among many Twitter users.
Buying printed topographic maps for all the places in Canada you like to explore can get pricey.
Brian Hughes is planning a celebration of classic video games like Castlevania, The Legend of Zelda, and Space Invaders.
Like the City of Surrey, the North Shore Recycling Program has gone with Municipal Media’s My Waste product.
Five people ended up in hospital with smoke inhalation.
Another human foot may have just washed up on the B.C. coast.
The leader of the B.C. Conservative Party has appointed the first members of his shadow cabinet.
The company designs and makes the ChillTab universal tablet stand and the ChillBed laptop-cooling stands.
Nitto aluminum bicycle handlebars with the model number B259AA are being recalled.
Australian infrastructure minister Anthony Albanese has been caught lifting lines from the 1995 film
The American President.
Some of these Shit So-and-So Says videos aren't meant to be funny.
It's People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' latest "banned commercial". WTF?
The Coast Mountains school district in northwestern British Columbia has paid thousands of dollars to settle a claim over the unauthorized copying of software.
On her Facebook profile, Sara MacIntyre wrote that she would be leaving the PMO in February.
How do you pronounce the
Ubyssey anyways?
What happens when
Star Wars geeks get together online and produce a remake of the original film?
TransLink says buses are moving again at UBC.
Thanks to Sega's Toylet, getting a high score is now as easy as going to the men's washroom.
The sponsors of the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act pulled the contentious U.S. antipiracy bills.
Last year, Larissa Baptista became the third person to win VFS’s Women in Games Scholarship.
The risk is rated "high" across most of the North Shore, Sea-to-Sky, and South Coast-Inland regions.
Here's a performance of the song by the legend herself.
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