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Tag Archives: Food

Grassy Narrows marchers offer government mercury-tainted fish

June 23, 2012by David P. Ball Leave a comment

Decades after Dryden Chemicals dumped 10 tonnes of the neurotoxin into northwest Ontario’s English-Wabigoon River in the 1960s, Aboriginal communities are literally reeling from its effects.

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Windspeaker newspaper

First Nations call for greater representation on fisheries boards

June 23, 2012by David P. Ball Leave a comment

With salmon numbers in B.C.’s once-abundant Fraser River stocks predicted to take another devastating hit this summer, some are questioning why First Nations are under-represented in managing a fishery that has become almost exclusively theirs.

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Raven's Eye newspaper, Windspeaker newspaper

Don’t want coal mines? Then don’t buy steel: Compliance Energy CEO

June 20, 2012by David P. Ball Leave a comment

The head of Compliance Energy Corp. said his firm’s proposed Raven Underground Coal Project, in Vancouver Island’s Comox Valley, will not harm the environment.

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The Tyee

Budget bill will have ‘direct impact on our rights,’ says Atleo

June 1, 2012by David P. Ball Leave a comment

Aboriginal leaders are increasingly turning their sights on the federal government’s Budget Implementation Bill, Bill C-38.

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Raven's Eye newspaper, Windspeaker newspaper

Chinese New Year: food shopping in Chinatown’s most popular grocery store

January 25, 2012by David P. Ball Leave a comment

The lunar new year on Monday saw thousands of Vancouverites welcoming the Year of the Dragon, but today Chinatown has settled down.

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Vancouver Observer

Pecha Kucha a simmering saucepan of food, art and ideas

November 30, 2011by David P. Ball Leave a comment

A chocolate train station. A feared food critic. A guerrilla gastronomer. Pecha Kucha Volume 19 straddled the worlds of design, eating and art.

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Vancouver Observer

Cooking up a storm: Tremors of Power at the G20

September 16, 2010by David P. Ball Leave a comment

Eyewitness report column from the G20 protests and the largest mass arrests in Canadian history

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Shameless magazine

The meaning(s) of Thanksgiving

May 9, 2010by David P. Ball Leave a comment

A delegation of peacemakers spends more than a week at Grassy Narrows First Nation

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All Things New magazine

Growing food and harvesting community

October 24, 2005by David P. Ball Leave a comment

WINNIPEG – Community gardens have contributed strongly to the community, and have also begun addressing some of the brokenness that too often comes with urban poverty.

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United Church Observer magazine
Photo: David P Ball

Dumpster Diving: Garbage Spirituality

October 16, 2005by David P. Ball Leave a comment

A glimpse into the rituals of modern urban hunter-gatherers

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Geez magazine

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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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