It is very strange that this news report failed to connect the dots regarding a part of what is going on.

She placed her shop on the west side of Vancouver.

Hello?

If you look around you can find the news reports about shops and businesses dying there, including along Dunbar and Broadway, in a mechanism that has to do with money flooding in from overseas that buys up house after house after house.

When you have so many empty houses, and when you have so many parachute families whose lives centre more on Hong Kong and Shanghai than they do on Dunbar and Broadway, zipping back and forth to the airport in 150,000 dollar sports cars, then hello, your cute little cook book store is doomed.