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 ...

In the Kispiox Valley 1,000 km north of Vancouver, where “No LNG” lawn signs seem to be everywhere, rancher Gene Allen had strong words for TransCanada pipeline contractors. The crews showed up on the ...

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 ...

Electric cars are becoming an increasingly normal part of Vancouver car culture. It's common to see them quietly gliding down city streets, masked by the engine sounds of other, louder cars. Hundreds ...

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 ...

A month after the B.C. government conditionally approved a liquefied natural gas project led by Royal Dutch Shell in Kitimat, the Unist’ot’en Camp has reported escalating conflict as RCMP and the LNG ...