Nathan Caddell

Vancouver

Editor-in-Chief at The Georgia Straight

Editor-in-Chief @BCBusiness. Previous @vanmag_com @vantechjournal @georgiastraight et al. Backhanded passes and compliments galore.

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Articles

Should the Vancouver Canucks sign head coach Rick Tocchet to an extension?

1 week ago | straight.com | Nathan Caddell

It isn’t rare for a team to have a disappointing year after its coach wins the Jack Adams Award, given annually to the league’s top coach. So maybe, in a vacuum, the Vancouver Canucks’ performance this year shouldn’t actually be surprising or disappointing at all. Look at the past five Jack Adams winners before Canucks head coach Rick Tocchet won last year.
Rare Americans pulls off uncommon feat for Vancouver band

2 weeks ago | straight.com | Nathan Caddell

There’s an argument to be made that, aside from the possible exception of St. Louis Blues captain Brayden Schenn, James Priestner is more famous than anyone he played hockey with. That’s hard to do when you spent four seasons stopping pucks in the Western Hockey League, one of the direct feeding pools for the NHL draft. Despite being a second-round bantam pick of the Kamloops Blazers and putting up solid numbers in the WHL, Priestner never made it to the big leagues.
Predicting the Vancouver municipal byelection

2 weeks ago | straight.com | Nathan Caddell

There are no polls (that I’ve seen, anyway) that show insight into how the municipal byelection on April 5 will go. That’s probably because very few complete freaks (yours truly included) really care about the result. But there are a handful of us that do. Voter turnout in the last municipal byelection was just under 11 percent, which is obviously not great, but early signs have that number going up.
New book looks into the trials and tribulations surrounding the development of Olympic Village

2 weeks ago | straight.com | Nathan Caddell

Richard Littlemore insists his new book, City Builders: The Maleks, The Olympics, and a Historic Gift to Vancouver, commissioned by the Malek brothers themselves, is a work of fact. That’s despite the tale of the speedy building of Olympic Village—and the municipal government maneuvering by Gregor Robertson and Vision Vancouver that accompanied it—seeming like something out of a John Grisham novel.
Ins Choi is back in his happy place with Son of a Preacherman

3 weeks ago | straight.com | Nathan Caddell

Ins Choi readily admits that the past few years have been a little rough. In 2021, Choi left the hit show he had created, Kim’s Convenience, before its sixth season was set to film. The comedy, which appeared on CBC and centred on a Korean-Canadian family that runs a convenience store, was then cancelled.
Vancouver byelection candidates hit concerts, bars, and mosques to get out the vote

3 weeks ago | straight.com | Nathan Caddell

Handing out pamphlets and wearing a long coat emblazoned with a pin that reads “Evict Ken Sim” on a cold Saturday afternoon outside the Riley Park Farmers’ Market, Sean Orr doesn’t seem much worse for wear. As Orr, a city council candidate for COPE, introduces himself to passersby and asks them if they know about the Vancouver byelection happening on April 5, he seems motivated, informed and, most of all, sharp.
You Nearly Missed: Ché Aimee Dorval with Wallgrin at the Fox Cabaret

3 weeks ago | straight.com | Nathan Caddell

Music by Nathan Caddell on April 2nd, 2025 at 9:04 PM It’s rare you get to see one great Vancouver musician on stage at one of the city’s easiest to access and most chill venues, let alone two. But that’s the case on Friday, April 4, when both Ché Aimee Dorval and Wallgrin will be on hand at the Fox Cabaret. Dorval is a genre-bender, mixing in folk, soul and hip-hop influences with an alt-rock swagger and her striking vocals. Our own Mike Usinger was rocked by a recent single of Dorval’s.
Hinds doesn’t look back at the Wise Hall

3 weeks ago | straight.com | Nathan Caddell

Reviews by Nathan Caddell on March 30th, 2025 at 7:08 PM Hinds has been on my radar since their first studio album, 2016’s Leave Me Alone. If I had ever been cool enough for Mike Usinger to ask me what’s in my fridge, I would have definitely pointed out the four-piece band’s video for “Warts” as one of my favourite music vids of all time. Hinds (like many of us) has been through a lot since then.
You Nearly Missed: Fear brings 40 years of More Beer to the Rickshaw

3 weeks ago | straight.com | Nathan Caddell

The website for iconic L.A. punk rockers Fear very appropriately features multiple members of the five-piece band giving the universal sign for fuck off to the site visitor. Appropriate in that this is the same band that, after being recommended by Saturday Night Live star and Fear fan John Belushi, put on such a raucous show at Studio 8H that they were put on the permanently banned list.
David Cross on podcasts, pertinence, and that time he got lost in Stanley Park

1 month ago | straight.com | Nathan Caddell

David Cross is searching for a word to describe the title of his current tour, The End of the Beginning of the End. And because I’m recording our Zoom call, I can report that it takes him 66 seconds to find it. “It’s much more… what’s the word I’m looking for? Shoot. It’s a very common word… not prevalent...”I try to help him out. Self-evident? “No, that’s close though.. Help me here, Nathan. Not relative. The harder I try to think about it… This is silly.” He just about gives up before getting there.