With more Native kids in custody today than ever attended Indian residential schools, child welfare advocates continue to raise the alarm about the record numbers of children being seized, many adopted out into non-Aboriginal families or sucked into the criminal justice system.
This summer, Vancouver’s Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) is unveiling efforts to give itself a sustainable spruce-up.
Part of a series published in The Tyee | July 16, 2014 The mayor of Burnaby has thrown cold water on a push to have B.C.’s third-largest city offer undocumented […]
The anti-gentrification war in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is heating up after a group of nonprofits and businesses labelled protesters as “bullies.”
One Lower Mainland police force is trying a cheeky new tactic to discourage bad drivers: embarrassing them online.
Many deportations start with checks of Skytrain riders. Second in a four-part series.
FarmFolk CityFolk is a celebration of ‘everything agriculture.’
The Rainbow Concert Band kicked off Surrey’s 14th Pride festival with a short march through Holland Park, and organizers say the afternoon event’s welcoming, “family-friendly,” community-fair vibe is a better fit for their community than a massive street march like Vancouver’s.
Photo published in The Dominion magazine | June 25, 2013
Street nurse Bonnie Fournier is remembered as the “mom of the Downtown Eastside.”
David P Ball 