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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.

The 21st Women's Memorial March in Vancouver

Photo: David P. Ball
Nearly 2,500 people walked through the streets of downtown Vancouver for this year's Women's Memorial March.

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rabble.ca interview with B.C. NDP leader Adrian Dix

BC NDP leader Adrian Dix. Photo: David P. Ball
After 10 years exiled from office in British Columbia -- and a decade of severe cutbacks under the BC Liberals -- the NDP says it is ready to take back power in 2013.

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Medics at Occupy Vancouver share tales in face of eviction

The first aid tent at Occupy Vancouver. Photo: David P. Ball
Concerns about force being used on Occupy protesters.

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Occupy Vancouver prepared for potential police violence: Medics

The first aid tent at Occupy Vancouver. Photo: David P. Ball

Volunteer medics at Occupy Vancouver -- including an emergency room nurse and a first aid responder trained in the military -- are preparing for the worst as political rhetoric over the three-week-old encampment escalates.

After the death this weekend of Ashlie Gough, 23, in the camp, Mayor Gregor Robertson has come under pressure from his right-leaning opponent in the upcoming city election, Suzanne Anton, to remove Occupy Vancouver's tent city -- although the mayor said Sunday he was happy to let the protest continue, without people sleeping in tents. Stronger warnings from City Hall have medics at the encampment worried.

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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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'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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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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