#VanElxn: Do developers control city hall?
In the first of The Left Coast Post’s eight-part series on the November 19 Vancouver civic elections, we meet journalist Tristan Markle
Author Archives: David P. Ball
Turning the tide for affordable housing in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
With one of the highest urban Indigenous populations in the country, Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside has become the site of a battle over rising housing prices, a lack of affordable lodgings, and encroaching up-scale development
Police rough up anti-Cheney protesters
As former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney spoke in Vancouver on Monday night, several hundred people demanded his arrest on charges of war crimes and torture, blocking both entrances to the upscale Vancouver Club by linking arms, as others staged a sit-in lasting several hours.
Residents fight gentrified Downtown Eastside
A colourful annual march for safe, affordable housing in Vancouver was overshadowed by the death of an Indigenous woman, who fell from the sixth floor of her single-resident occupancy hotel room almost exactly a year after a similar suspicious death
Photograph assignment for Xtra!
Photograph published in Xtra! West weekly newspaper, on assignment
Conference confronts police ‘culture of oppression’
Native people are more often killed or abused by police officers than are others in Canada, but police actions are more often than not chalked up to ‘bad apples’ on the force instead of symptoms of systemic problems within police ranks
CAJ AWARD 2011 FINALIST: Cops & queers, good bedfellows?
Finalist, Canadian Association of Journalists 2012 Community News Award. Police across the country are seeking closer ties with gay, lesbian and transgender communities, but speakers at a recent international conference on policing questioned whether cops and queers make good bedfellows
Copwatch Conference: Seeking alternatives to the police
Despite only occasionally surfacing in the news — with more than 1,000 G20 arrests, tasering deaths, lethal shootings and abuse in holding cells — police misconduct is not only widespread and historic it is also deeply entrenched, said presenters at a major conference on policing last week in Winnipeg
Canada prepared for ‘lethal force’ against Natives, says Indigenous leader
Biting a chunk out of the common adage that a few “bad apples” in the police are responsible for misconduct, Winnipeg Indigenous leader Leslie Spillett pointed to an inherent “culture of oppression” in Canada’s police forces at an international conference on policing
Policing the borders means policing Canadian journalism?
Professional reporter evicted from an important, far-reaching speech by Canada’s Immigration Minister Jason Kenney
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