So far, conflicts over the expansion of the Alberta tar sands have centered on giant pipeline projects into B.C. and the U.S., where fierce opposition from environmentalists, Aboriginals, citizens and ...

TransCanada has rolled its long-awaited 20,000-page, 68 two-inch binder application for the Energy East project into the Calgary office of the National Energy Board on Thursday. It is the company's ...

This story is Part One in a three-part series on the cancellation of Pamela Masik’s “The Forgotten” portrait collection from the UBC Museum of Anthropology, originally scheduled to run February 15 – ...

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 ...

Prominent author J. B. MacKinnon has been arrested on Burnaby Mountain while protesting against the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline. Hands cuffed behind him with plastic, the author was guided into a ...

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) ...

The good weather is finally here and with it comes the debate about school dress codes. Yup. Some people still think we need policies dictating what kids can and can’t wear to school. The first parent ...

The British Columbia government has bought a former seniors care facility in downtown Victoria and plans to turn it into 140 housing units for the homeless. The purchase comes as the province heads to ...

The cats have arrived. After two years of planning, fundraising, negotiating, paperwork, and building, Michelle Furbacher opens the doors to Catfé, Vancouver’s first cat cafe, on December 14.

You might think Harjit Sajjan takes a pretty mean combat gear photo, but Canada's new Minister of National Defence is some kind of next-level Spy vs Spy war hero. A 2006 letter of appreciation for ...

Building on her extraordinary success as a National Observer columnist, writer Sandy Garossino now joins the publication as Associate Editor. Sandy is a former Crown prosecutor. She has contributed ...

"To mount an operation of this size and begin to execute this plan, (RCMP) would have had to have approval at the highest levels, and that takes considerable time, and I suspect those decisions were ...