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Tag Archives: Municipal Politics

Occupy Vancouver: Drug Den or Harm Reduction Haven?

November 7, 2011by David P. Ball Leave a comment

One death, one near-fatal overdose. How deep goes drug culture at the tent village?

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The Tyee

Occupy Vancouver camper wins Last Candidate Standing election debate

November 7, 2011by David P. Ball Leave a comment

Light sabres. Pineapples. Saxophones. Bribery. Not your usual election props…

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Vancouver Observer

What are Occupy Vancouver’s demands?

November 6, 2011by David P. Ball Leave a comment

With many issues on display, one of the struggles for observers is understanding Occupy Vancouver’s actual demands. In fact, there are none — and some don’t see that as a problem

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Vancouver Observer

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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Vancouver Observer

#VanElxn: Overcoming the left’s ambivalent relationship with power

November 3, 2011by David P. Ball Leave a comment

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

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rabble.ca

‘Special interest groups’ shouldn’t drive policy: Parents’s Voice

November 2, 2011by David P. Ball Leave a comment

Anti-homophobia Policy 5.45 dominates Burnaby school board debate

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Xtra!, Xtra! West newspaper

#VanElxn: Occupy City Hall, decolonize Vancouver

October 18, 2011by David P. Ball Leave a comment

In week two of The Left Coast Post’s election coverage, we interview the only City Council candidate camping at #OccupyVancouver

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rabble.ca

#VanElxn: Do developers control city hall?

October 10, 2011by David P. Ball Leave a comment

In the first of The Left Coast Post’s eight-part series on the November 19 Vancouver civic elections, we meet journalist Tristan Markle

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rabble.ca

Build housing now, say downtown squatters

October 24, 2002by David P. Ball Leave a comment

Following a wave of similar housing squats across Canada, from Toronto to Vancouver, activists occupied a Victoria building and hung a banner from the roof that read, “Build Housing Now”

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The Martlet newspaper

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About David P. Ball

I BELIEVE IN JOURNALISTS' DUTY TO INFORM, IMPACT & DEFEND DEMOCRACY

I am a reporter with CBC News, Canada's public broadcaster, in Vancouver.

I have experience in podcasting, radio and video storytelling, photojournalism, investigative & digital news.

BYLINES:

CBC. Toronto Star. Agence France-Presse. Globe & Mail. VICE. The Guardian. The Tyee. National Post. South China Morning Post. Times of India.

Previously B.C. correspondent for Agence France-Presse, the world's oldest news service, I also worked in the Toronto Star's B.C. bureau for four years, have hosted podcasts for CFRO 100.5fm and Cited Media, and did investigative and enterprise journalism at TheTyee.ca.

My work has been published in the Globe & Mail, The Guardian, National Post, South China Morning Post, VICE, Le Monde, and the Times of India — and won awards from the Canadian Association of Journalists, Jack Webster Foundation, and Canadian Journalism Foundation.

CAJ Award-Winner & Multiple Finalist

Webster Award Award-Winner & Finalist

CJF Co-winner

Search my reporting:

Published in over 100 publications, reaching more than 1.5 billion readers worldwide:

• Globe & Mail
• Toronto Star
• Agence France-Presse
• The Guardian
• National Post
• New York Post
• Daily Mail UK
• VICE
• Ottawa Sun & QMI chain
• iPolitics
• Huffington Post
• Hamilton Spectator
• 24 Hours
• The Tyee
• Georgia Straight
• Xtra!
• Windspeaker
• Extract: Pipeline anthology chapter

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MY PHOTOJOURNALISM:
Published in the Globe & Mail, The Province, New York Post, CBC News, Toronto Star, National Post, Bild am Sonntag (DE), Arsenal Pulp Press, Georgia Straight, Tricity News


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