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David P. Ball is a reporter and photojournalist in Vancouver, on unceded Coast Salish land. His website is www.davidpball.net. On Twitter: @davidpball. Co-winner, with The Vancouver Observer, of the 2012 Canadian Journalism Foundation's award for Excellence in Journalism (small media), and finalist for the Canadian Association of Journalists community news award, David studied professional writing and political science. He followed his passion for independent journalism to the Middle East, where he reported from the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war. A veteran of more than a decade of global justice convergences and movements, David has written and shot for more than 30 publications including The Tyee, Windspeaker, Indian Country Today Media Network, Xtra!, Shameless, Briarpatch, Geez and the Dominion/Media Co-op.
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Reconciliation Week a chance for 'critical conversations' on colonialism

As the Truth and Reconciliation Commission wraps up its Vancouver hearings into residential school abuses Saturday, organizers of a week of public events are renewing their call for 50,000 people to take to the streets Sunday as a symbol of reconciliation.

The four days of testimony are the latest national event gathering painful stories from those who survived the church-run schools, the last of which closed in 1996 amidst revelations of widespread sexual and physical abuse across the country.

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Ottawapiskat: Amidst raft of scandals, are Canadians really ready for self-government?

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Greek opponents of Eldorado mine take message to company's Canadian HQ: 'Leave us alone'

Greek activists outside Eldorado's Vancouver headquarters May 31.

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Greek villagers brought their region's fierce battle against Vancouver-based Eldorado Gold to the firm's headquarters Friday, marking the end of the activists' cross-Canada tour opposing open-pit gold mining in their homeland.

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Judy Rebick: Henry Morgentaler was a 'lightning-rod for the women's movement'
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David P. Ball
| May 30, 2013

Yesterday, Dr. Henry Morgentaler died at age 90. A pioneer for Canada's reproductive rights movement, Morgentaler openly defied the country's restrictive abortion laws by opening clinics across the country, starting in Montreal in 1968.

He faced death threats, fire bombings and arrest -- until eventually Canada's abortion legislation was overturned in 1988.

Renowned author, and rabble.ca co-founder, Judy Rebick knew Morgentaler since 1982, when she became a spokesperson for his Toronto clinic. The next year, she prevented a garden shear-wielding man from attacking the physician, a clip widely broadcast at the time, and featured in the award-winning recent documentary on Canadian feminism, Status Quo.

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Jane Sterk (Photo: Stephen Rees)
'These two parties just don't understand': BC Green leader Jane Sterk on democracy and fossil fuels
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David P. Ball
| May 13, 2013

Don't media just adore a two-horse election race. And in B.C., which heads to the polls tomorrow (May 14), the latest opinion polls bear that out with an ever-nailbiting NDP lead over the Liberals.

Though only two parties are considered contenders for a majority, on Friday, Green Party leader Jane Sterk in fact featured prominently at the top of a full-page advertizement in the Victoria Times-Colonist, under the headline: 'Who is strong enough to stand up for B.C.? ... Jane Sterk and the Greens have strong, clear views about how to protect our coast.'

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Democracy North

B.C. Election: Greens' Jane Sterk talks fracking, vote-splitting and democracy

May 13, 2013
| Vote-splitting, democratic choice and electoral reform. Natural gas fracking supported by Liberals and NDP. Who will defend the coast?
Length: 08:50 minutes (8.09 MB)
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B.C. Election: Sean Holman explores the 'secret world' of party discipline

May 12, 2013
| Investigative reporter, journalist and filmmaker Sean Holman talks about his new doc, "Whipped: The Secret World of Party Discipline." Interviewed by David P. Ball.
Length: 19:25 minutes (17.79 MB)
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B.C. Election: Ex-mayor Sam Sullivan talks about his BC Liberal run, drug laws and BC Rail scandal

May 12, 2013
| Vancouver's former mayor talks about legalizing marijuana, his past conflicts with Christy Clark and the BC Liberal Party campaign. Interviewed by David P. Ball.
Length: 10:41 minutes (9.79 MB)
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Democracy North

B.C. Election: Vicki Huntington, province's first independent elected since 1949, on the failure of parties

May 12, 2013
| B.C.'s first elected independent candidate since 1949 talks about democratic reform and representative politics.
Length: 11:57 minutes (10.95 MB)
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B.C. Election: Duane Nickull (BC Conservatives)

May 12, 2013
| BC Conservative candidate and punk rocker, a.k.a. "Duane Chaos," talks about libertarianism, green energy and party discipline. Interviewed by David P. Ball on May 9.
Length: 09:33 minutes (8.76 MB)
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