Was Jack Layton a feminist?
He led through consensus, but was Jack Layton a feminist?
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Missing Women Inquiry resumes next week, but will it make a difference?
The New Year sees Round Two of the inquiry into the botched Pickton investigation, but many questions remain.
A year that set hearts on fire: From #ArabSpring to #Occupy and beyond
One year ago, a 27-year-old fruit vendor died to spark a global uprising. The Left Coast Post looks back on the struggles that marked 2011.
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.
#COPE: Is there hope for the extra-parliamentary Left?
Nearly a month since Vancouver’s Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) were evicted from City Hall (but for Allan Wong’s single school board seat) in the November 19 elections, many on the Left are grappling with COPE’s loss.
#VanElxn: Confronting Vision’s ‘Creative City’: Evictions, gentrification, developers
The Left Coast Post looks beyond the election: can you back Vision Vancouver and not back gentrification?
#VanElxn: Systemic dysfunction and addiction to campaign financing
With 3 days left until the election, The Left Coast Post catches up with Randy Helten and Nicole Benson of Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver. Spoilers or prophets? You decide
#VanElxn: Overcoming the left’s ambivalent relationship with power
In this third instalment of The Left Coast Post, Occupy Vancouver becomes a leading election issue, the mayor is interrupted by lobsters, and we talk with Vision councillor Andrea Reimer
#VanElxn: Occupy City Hall, decolonize Vancouver
In week two of The Left Coast Post’s election coverage, we interview the only City Council candidate camping at #OccupyVancouver
#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
David P Ball 