Controversial Prosperity mine blocked by B.C. Supreme Court judge
After First Nations blockades, a controversial copper and gold mine faces a new hurdle: a judge.
Category Archives: Vancouver Observer
The Vancouver Observer is an online news site based in Vancouver, B.C. As full-time staff reporter and photographer, my work was among the winning submissions for the publication’s 2012 Canadian Journalism Foundation Excellence in Journalism Award. VO was also awarded the 2010 Canadian Online Publishing Award for “Best Online-Only Articles.”
Pecha Kucha a simmering saucepan of food, art and ideas
A chocolate train station. A feared food critic. A guerrilla gastronomer. Pecha Kucha Volume 19 straddled the worlds of design, eating and art.
Gabor Maté: ‘Organized insanity’ for doctors to ignore health, poverty link
Can social inequity cause sickness? Vancouver’s Dr. Gabor Maté thinks so.
Housing activists take over Hastings condo site
Paris Annex condos got some unexpected occupants today.
Is the future Green? Adriane Carr thinks so
2011 Vancouver Civic Election: Representing the newest party on Vancouver City Council, Adriane Carr culminated 30 years of vying for office with a surprise win on Saturday.
Coping with COPE’s ouster
2011 Vancouver Municipal Election: Why was Vision’s campaign ally COPE flushed from City Hall?
Mayor Gregor Robertson re-elected in landslide victory along with full Vision slate on council
Party swept back into power with seven of 10 council seats – while election allies at COPE fare disastrously.
Political hip-hop parlays on the election battle
Hip-hop isn’t your usual electoral terrain, but this week we parlayed with three rappers who want to get out the vote
NPA kept Downtown Eastside residents from voting, COPE alleges
Scrutineers’ pressure kept at least 50 people from voting and created delays that discouraged others — charges the NPA denies
Occupy Vancouver: Geography of a ‘modern agora’
It’s been exactly a month since Occupy Vancouver began. With the city heading to court tomorrow hoping to evict the campers, we map out what occupiers have built in a month
David P Ball 