Occupy the New Year: Reflections on covering a global movement
From tragedy to community, critique to inspiration, reporting on Occupy yielded hopes for the New Year.
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.”
CJF 2012 AWARD-WINNER: Christmas in Vancouver’s brothels & sex work strolls
What are the holidays like for one of our city’s most marginalized communities? VO brings you into Vancouver’s brothels and onto its street corners to find out.
Noche de rábanos: Digging to the root of Oaxaca’s Christmas radish festival
Ever heard of radishes the weight and size of a watermelon? In one Mexican city, carving them is a holiday tradition.
A Grinch’s survival guide for holiday haters
What if it just ISN’T the most wonderful time of the year?
Sex workers call for hate crime law, end to violence
Sex workers and supporters lit candles on the steps of a police detachment as part of a global day of action.
Mother of Pickton victim says cops brushed her off, withheld daughter’s possessions
Brushed off by the missing persons unit. Denied even her murdered daughter’s possession or photos. A mother speaks out at the Missing Women Inquiry today.
Tensions at Missing Women’s inquiry boil over
B.C.’s Missing Women’s Inquiry saw a pointed argument between the lawyer for families of Robert Pickton’s murder victims.
Missing Women Inquiry: LePard insists detectives, not VPD, ‘compromised’ Pickton case
Deputy police chief Doug LePard – who authored an internal review into the botched Robert Pickton murder investigation – fended off suggestions of wider police department failures
Peggy Nash nets NDP’s ‘top endorsement’ as Layton’s finance critic
2011 NDP race: Largely overlooked, leadership hopeful Peggy Nash goes deep in a wide-ranging VO exclusive interview.
NDP hopefuls vow to defeat Stephen Harper. But how?
2011 NDP race: Nine leaders took the stage in Vancouver’s NDP town hall. Which one will replace Jack Layton?
David P Ball 