B.C. intervened to halt Bush torture case
Questions of political interference are being raised after a court case against former U.S. president George W. Bush was stopped in its tracks by the attorney general last week
Author Archives: David P. Ball
Occupy Vancouver protesters target financial institutions with ‘run on the banks’
Demonstrators — buoyed by David Suzuki’s support for the Occupy movement — march against Canadian financial institutions, culminating in a boisterous take-over of a bank
Legal challenge seeking George W. Bush’s arrest during B.C. visit fails
George W. Bush’s visit to Surrey, B.C., on Thursday was met with a protest and an unsuccessful courtroom bid to have him detained for torture during his presidency
Xposed
After a five-month hiatus, Fag Fridays packed its new venue, The Helm, on Fri, Oct 7. DJ Adam Dreaddy kept the energy high and the crowd moving, including one dancer who was literally swinging from the rafters only metres from the turntables
Photograph assignment for Xtra!
Photograph published in Xtra! West weekly newspaper, on assignment
Former Guantanamo prisoner supports Bush arrest
After spending five years as an extra-judicial prisoner of George W. Bush’s ‘war on terror,’ Murat Kurnaz is disappointed that Canada did not arrest the former U.S. president during his visit to Surrey
Vancouver box sweep stifles community newspapers
City staff’s decision to suddenly remove hundreds of newspaper boxes from Vancouver’s downtown core in anticipation of possible violence from Occupy Vancouver has many community newspaper publishers and civil libertarians crying foul
Lawyers press for Bush arrest, as #Occupy activists set to converge in Surrey
A 70-page legal indictment — accompanied by a staggering 4,000-page dossier — has been filed in B.C. court to have former George W. Bush arrested during his visit to Surrey tomorrow
#VanElxn: Occupy City Hall, decolonize Vancouver
In week two of The Left Coast Post’s election coverage, we interview the only City Council candidate camping at #OccupyVancouver
Families of missing women take to the streets, joined by #OccupyVancouver
As a troubled inquiry into missing women entered its second week, family members of the disappeared took over a busy downtown intersection in opposition
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