The Fraser Institute, Canada's leading right-wing think tank, received over $4.3 million in the last decade from eight major American foundations including the most powerful players in oil and ...

A candle-light vigil -- with signs reading "We are all Ashley" -- was held in front of the art gallery, as Occupy Vancouver protestors mourn the death of a woman in her 20s who died of a suspected ...

Anna Ling Kaye’s journalism has appeared in the International Herald Tribune and Caijing Magazine, amongst others. Her fiction has appeared in anthologies in Hong Kong and Vancouver. Having lived in ...

Diane Walsh, MA is an independent journalist and writer. Originally from Montreal, she lives and works in the Pacific Northwest region. Her work is published internationally and covers cultural and ...

In an apparent turn of events since the "Fort Nelson Incident", in which 33-year-old Fort Nelson First Nation Chief Sharleen Gale held up a feather and kicked out government officials from an LNG ...

BP's recently released "BP Energy Outlook 2030" report claims that a dramatic rise in new unconventional sources of oil -- tight oil, tar sands and NGLs -- will solve the "peak oil" problem. These new ...

Ever wondered how much Olympic athletes get paid for winning medals? The numbers may surprise you: the United Kingdom, host of this year's summer Olympics in London, pays its athletes nothing, while ...

Jason Hall, Senior Editor - Arts & Culture, brings his passion for the local side of the Vancouver arts scene to the Vancouver Observer. Having grown up in a family of artists and theatrical designers ...

Musician Neil Young and Rueben George, Sundance Chief from the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, rallied protesters in Washington, D.C. today against the Keystone XL pipeline. "You can't put a price on the ...

OTTAWA — National Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier has asked the Canada Revenue Agency to look into the actions of real estate speculators in B.C. following a newspaper investigation. The Globe ...

It's official: Prime Minister Stephen Harper has approved the controversial Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) today.In a short, two-paragraph news release, ...

Chuck Strahl, Chairman of the federal body which oversees Canada’s spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), has registered to lobby on behalf of Enbridge’s ‘Northern Gateway ...