In collaboration with Science World, the BC Centre for Disease Control's Foundation for Public Health hosted an evening panel focused on addressing the opioid overdose crisis: a public health disaster ...

One of Vancouver's most creative and unique spaces is so obscure it takes a Youtube video to find it: through an alley, behind the blackbird-painted door across from some dumpsters, and up a creaky ...

There are more than fifty ways to please an audience. Sting and Paul Simon took the stage together last Thursday, February 20, 2014 to a sold out Rogers Arena. The two musical legends will be touring ...

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 ...

Money from Ottawa to fight an ongoing overdose crisis helped sway British Columbia into signing a new 10-year, $1.4 billion health funding deal, says the province's health minister. Terry Lake stood ...

Dr. Paul Ehrlich has been warning humanity about the dangers of exceeding the planet’s carrying capacity for decades. He first wrote about the dangers of over-population in his 1968 book The ...

British Columbia's representative for children and youth is urging the province's attorney general to intervene in the case of a Metis toddler being adopted to non-aboriginal parents in Ontario. Mary ...

For the coming week, through February 18 th, the electric marquee in front of the Firehall Theatre flashes just a single syllable: “Elle.” French pronoun, third person singular. Decidedly feminine.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's housing industry has been jolted by allegations that real estate agents are taking part in so-called shadow flipping. The controversial practice involves brokers ...

Hacktivist group Anonymous launched its latest privacy-invading attack on safety minister Vic Toews' 'online spying' bill today – only a week after they revealed the name of a girlfriend.