In more than a decade of journalism, political and social issues have been a central focus of my work.
From award-recognized coverage of missing and murdered aboriginal women, to reporting from the election campaign trenches at the federal, provincial and municipal levels, my work has been published in the National Post, Toronto Star, The Tyee, Briarpatch, THIS Magazine, and Vancouver Observer.
Below are some samples from my politics portfolio.
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and a majority of city council voted June 27 to allow the development of a 22-storey apartment tower in the West End, despite concerns the project will be unaffordable to many.
At Stó:lō ceremony, talk of waning Fraser River sockeye returns and political clashes with some commercial fishers.
By the time Jason Kenney began his speech yesterday morning in Surrey, the Citizenship and Immigration minister had been confronted at least four times during his short B.C. visit.
Civil liberties advocates are raising questions after five people were arrested in Vancouver on the weekend at a Quebec solidarity protest.
Members of Musqueam First Nation, battling to stop a condo development from being built on their ancient burial ground, are escalating the fight with blockades of public roads.
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.
Palmater, a lawyer and chair of Ryerson University’s Centre for Indigenous Governance, joined the quest for leadership of the Assembly of First Nations.
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.
Decades after being chosen to represent her people in the 1990 Kanehsatà:ke standoff, Ellen Gabriel at is back in the spotlight as a candidate for National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations.
‘Groundswell’ of anger by MDs, other health providers, against hit to Interim Federal Health Program.
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