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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.”

Occupy Vancouver in shock after suspected overdose death

November 5, 2011by David P. Ball Leave a comment

A candle-light vigil was held in front of the art gallery, as Occupy Vancouver protestors mourn the death of a woman in her 20s who died of a suspected drug overdose Saturday at the camp

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Activism bred in the bone: Ellen Woodsworth COPEs with the election campaign

November 4, 2011by David P. Ball Leave a comment

Wanna know Councillor Ellen Woodsworth’s fundamental political position? People matter

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Occupy Vancouver will remain despite police crackdown in U.S.

October 28, 2011by David P. Ball Leave a comment

Undaunted by rain or reports of police violence at other Occupy sites, Vancouver protesters vow to stay the course

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B.C. intervened to halt Bush torture case

October 26, 2011by David P. Ball Leave a comment

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

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Occupy Vancouver protesters target financial institutions with ‘run on the banks’

October 22, 2011by David P. Ball Leave a comment

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

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Former Guantanamo prisoner supports Bush arrest

October 20, 2011by David P. Ball Leave a comment

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

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Lawyers press for Bush arrest, as #Occupy activists set to converge in Surrey

October 19, 2011by David P. Ball

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

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Families of missing women take to the streets, joined by #OccupyVancouver

October 17, 2011by David P. Ball Leave a comment

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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About David P. Ball


I'm an award-winning reporter, editor, podcaster & photographer in Vancouver.

Currently freelancing, I am on the editing team at IndigiNews, and was previously a staff reporter with CBC, the Toronto Star, The Tyee, and B.C. correspondent for Agence France-Presse.

My 25 years of experience include award-recognized investigative reporting, radio and video storytelling, photojournalism, and editing.

BYLINES:
Al Jazeera. Globe & Mail. Le Monde. VICE. The Guardian. The Tyee. National Post. South China Morning Post. Times of India.

For six years I've hosted Cited Media's Addiction Practice podcast, have experience in broadcast TV & radio at CBC, and previously produced & hosted the daily Pulse news show for CFRO 100.5fm.

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REPORTING PUBLISHED IN 150+ publications internationally, reaching billions:

• CBC News
• Al Jazeera
• Globe & Mail
• Agence France-Presse
• Toronto Star
• The Guardian
• The Tyee
• VICE
• Xtra!
• Windspeaker
• National Post
• New York Post
• Daily Mail UK
• Ottawa Sun & QMI chain
• iPolitics
• Hamilton Spectator
• 24 Hours
• Georgia Straight
• Greystone Books Points of Interest
• Canada's National Observer Extract

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PHOTOGRAPHY

• Globe & Mail
• New York Post
• Bild am Sonntag (DE)
• National Post
• Toronto Star
• Georgia Straight
• VICE
• The Province
• Jakarta Post

IMAGES LICENSED for:

• Canadian Museum of History exhibit
• Canadian Museum of Human Rights exhibit
• Museum of Anthropology exhibit
• International School of Geneva exhibit
• Canadian Centre for Architecture exhibit
• University of Toronto Press cover, Responding to Human Trafficking (J Kaye)
• University of Toronto Press photo in Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women (A Dean)
• John Wiley & Sons photo in Abnormal Psychology 5th Canadian Ed. (ed. G Davison)
• Chenelière Éducation photo in textbook


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