Top 8 Vancouver Day Trips: Shopping Trip in Victoria
Victoria, British Columbia offers travellers and vacationers great shopping opportunities, from book stores and tea shops, to ancient rainforest within an hour’s drive of the city limits.
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.”
Sara MacIntyre brings Harper-style media-repression tactics to Premier Christy Clark’s office
Sara MacIntyre, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former press secretary, made a splash in her first week on the job as British Columbia Premier Christy Clark’s media handler. And handle the press, she did.
Lifelong Canadians face discrimination by their own government…still
With a citizenship lawsuit filed in federal court last month, Lost Canadians continue their quest to end bizarre legal loopholes.
Canada-EU free trade: water privatization not happening, authorities insist
Part Two in a series on the secretive CETA free trade deal. Critics fear the agreement opens up Canada’s water to multinational corporations.
Canada-EU free trade agreement called corporate Trojan horse
With NDP and Liberals criticizing Canada’s secretive CETA agreement, this launches a series on its impact on Canada’s water, democracy, jobs and health.
Canadian Women’s Foundation fights poverty, violence against women, and ‘sexual slavery’
Beverley Wybrow, president and CEO of the Canadian Women’s Foundation, hopes to empower women to overcome barriers. Photo by David P. Ball
Fukushima anniversary: B.C. looks south to closest nuclear plant
Sitting a six-hour drive south of Vancouver, the Columbia Generating Station is B.C.’s closet nuclear plant. As we near the one year anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, VO investigates.
Missing women inquiry lawyer resigns, saying police given priority over Aboriginal voices
The Pickton inquiry faced a new setback today, as the lawyer for Aboriginal interests quit – the latest in a string of boycotts and criticisms which some say has cost the commission its legitimacy.
Robocall scandal by the numbers: up to 82 ridings allege election fraud
Opposition vote-stealing allegations are unproven, but misleading election phone calls are now reported in up to 82 ridings – some of them razor-thin Conservative wins as low as 18 votes.
National Geographic explorer Wade Davis on Enbridge, First Nations and mining
Speaking out on the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and mining near his home, the author of Sacred Headwaters spoke with VO on nature, industry and First Nations.
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