Imagine Canada hits back at Environment Minister Peter Kent, asserting that there is nothing illegal about receiving funds from foreign donors. With nearly 16 per cent of its budget from foreign ...
Some fantastic musicians performed at the 36th Annual Folk Festival held at beautiful Jericho Beach Park this weekend. Here are some highlights from the event, in photos: This week Marcus King and his ...
For the past four months, Grade 4 and 5 students from Henderson Annex have been producing a podcast project aimed at exploring their diversity and answering the question of “how did we get here?” ...
This article can now be found in Extract: The Pipeline Wars Vol. 1 Enbridge. Extract contains a year of the Vancouver Observer's powerful reporting on the proposed Enbridge pipeline. Get your copy ...
We're still waiting to see if Christian Paradis, the Minister of Industry, will put an end to the Big Telecom’s backroom deal. This is the deal that would allow Rogers to acquire public assets from ...
The 2014 Strachan Hartley Legacy Run 5k/10k is coming up quickly and organizers are hoping to get the word out to Vancouver schools to get signed up. The run is organized by the Strachan Hartley ...
I must admit, I am stymied. How could such a thing happen? How could somebody be so completely insane that he committed such a treacherous, deliberate, premeditated, totally horrendous act against ...
The energy of this month is focused on power and authority. However, if you look closely, you will notice that the events of this month, positive and negative, are in some ways a direct result of ...
"Glee" star Cory Monteith's body was cremated days after his death, following a private viewing of his body by members of his immediate family and girlfriend Lea Michelle. Monteith is one of a growing ...
Amnesty International is calling for a stop work order on British Columbia’s $8.8 billion Site C hydroelectric dam, saying the mega project on the Peace River threatens the human rights of indigenous ...
Despite being born in the 1970s, in a postwar, economically devastated North Korea with then idolized ruler Kim ll-Sung in power, Lucia Jang thought her life was going quite well until she was ...
Louisa Russell has been a front-line worker with Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter for eighteen years. She has presented before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) ...