David P. Ball
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Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Vancouver Women’s Memorial March marks 30-year anniversary with prayers and ceremony
Snow, slush and freezing temperatures did not deter Sunday’s annual Women’s Memorial March from marking its 30th anniversary in Vancouver. → Read More
First Nations pledge “unity” after growing, widespread COVID-19 racism allegations
Two Indigenous leaders in British Columbia are just the latest to speak out against a growing litany of reports about discrimination against their mem... → Read More
Feds defend ‘interim’ First Nations education funding after chiefs’ concerns grow
The federal government’s “interim” education funding formula for First Nations is increasingly raising the hackles of some leaders. → Read More
Buckingham Palace throws cold water on Treaty chiefs’ request to intervene in Governor General replacement
Buckingham Palace won’t be acting on a letter from Treaty Six chiefs to intervene in the selection of the Queen’s next stand-in to Canada, the Governo... → Read More
Decrying medical racism, Indigenous leaders demand health care ‘transformation’
Canada must “transform” the discriminatory health care it offers Indigenous peoples, leaders demand after a series of troubling incidents across the c... → Read More
This Canadian's cartoons are helping the Lincoln Project unnerve and unseat Donald Trump
“If you told me I was going to draw cartoons for former Republicans, I would have thought you were smoking some weed or something!” the Canadian cartoonist told Canada's National Observer editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood on Thursday. → Read More
Reporter recounts "heartbreak" of Brazil's Indigenous people affected by COVID-19
With a "responsibility to pay attention and speak," the First Nations Forward managing director shares her first-hand experiences inside the world's new pandemic epicenter — that's hitting Indigenous people's the hardest. → Read More
‘Insane in the brain’: Tens of thousands fill Vancouver park for first 4-20 fest since legalization
Weed event turns 25 as park board urges cancellation of Cypress Hill performance over crowd-control fears. → Read More
Sharmarke Dubow was elected six months ago. He wants to move on from being known as Victoria’s ‘refugee city councillor’
Sharmarke Dubow has a long story as a displaced person and asylum seeker, but a key part of his narrative that gets short shrift is his tireless work as a community organizer and activist for youth, immigrants and refugees, and tenants. → Read More
Jason Kenney’s Alberta election vow will not derail national carbon tax, says environment minister
“It can no longer be free to pollute,” Environment Minister Catherine McKenna tells the Star. → Read More
Can Alberta’s next premier and B.C.’s John Horgan find common ground?
The United Conservative Party’s reign began with barbed threats against British Columbia’s New Democrats. But Kenney’s “real quarrel” is federal, and both he and Horgan could play up the left-right tensions for their bases. → Read More
One is a lonely number for Canada’s only NDP premier
B.C. is now an outlier in Confederation and may be forced to cosy up to Ottawa, despite differences over the federal purchase of the Trans Mountain pipeline. The NDP is increasingly isolated provincially after Rachel Notley’s defeat in Alberta, with six provinces now led by Conservatives and four by Liberals. → Read More
B.C. drug users demand clean supply, but fear they won’t live to see it happen
On the National Day of Action on the Overdose Crisis, and almost three years since B.C. declared drug-related overdoses a public health emergency, Vancouver advocates say their ranks have been decimated by contaminated drugs. ‘It’s hard to organize or think strategically when you’re always doing triage, planning a memorial,’ says a member of the B.C. Association of People on Methadone. → Read More
B.C. lawyers say refugee restrictions hidden in Liberal bill at odds with election rhetoric
The Trudeau government’s budget legislation has immigration lawyers and B.C. MPs “outraged,” but others say it’s needed to close a loophole with irregular crossings. → Read More
The elevator broke in these Vancouver seniors’ nine-storey building. 200 days later, it’s still not fixed
Low-income residents of a Chinatown non-profit housing complex describe wheelchair users crawling up stairs — and seniors on upper floors forced to become shut-ins. → Read More
B.C. NDP’s plan to save threatened caribou could kill forest and mining jobs, Liberals argue
The government says the plan is necessary to save the dwindling southern mountain population ravaged by habitat loss. But the opposition and businesses warn the “forest and possibly mining industries will suffer.” → Read More
New B.C. Conservative leader says he’ll reverse the fortunes of the once-powerful party
Former real estate businessman and resource town councillor Trevor Bolin aims to ‘get a foothold’ for a party long sidelined by the BC Liberals. → Read More
Jody Wilson-Raybould could beat Vancouver riding rivals by nearly double digits, poll suggests
Just months before election, pollster finds nearly double-digit support for MP over her former Liberal party. But she tells the Star she’s still “thinking about options” about whether to run as an independent. → Read More
Vancouverites rally for Indigenous rights bill as MP ‘amazed by all the people who believe in it’
As time dwindles to pass Bill C-262 before federal election, Romeo Saganash tells the Star ‘pressure coming from the public’ is the best hope for his final act in Ottawa. → Read More
‘I will never vote again for the Liberals’: B.C. voters reconsider their ballots after Jody Wilson-Raybould expulsion
The Star talks to Liberal voters disappointed by the SNC-Lavalin scandal and the government’s “smoke and mirrors” approach to its promises. → Read More