Let me begin by being clear about the oil sector in Canada and who is running the show. Canada’s energy strategy is determined in the boardrooms of a handful of multinational corporations and by the ...

Mayor Gregor Robertson, standing with Canucks owner Francesco Aquilini and Canucks General Manager Mike Gillis, told an enthusiastic crowd today on the back lawn of City Hall that April 27th was ...

This has been the worst six months of my life. I came home from my summer holidays to discover a "For Sale" sign outside our row housing complex. Now, I have lived here for almost 33 years, more than ...

British Electronic group Clean Bandit took the stage at the Commodore Ballroom on Wednesday evening. Here are some photo highlights if you missed the night. Unfortunately, their West coast portion of ...

Leadnow.ca executive director Jamie Biggar recalled how his organization became the torch-bearers for electoral cooperation to defeat Prime Minister Stephen Harper. "It was like we had built the only ...

If you listen carefully, right now, you can hear the sound of a filmmaker screaming in Vancouver. Or sobbing. Or laughing. Nearing the end of eight days of insane work, six teams of Vancouver ...

The city's public review of the controversial Sequel 138 condominium development near Hastings and Main Street – the heart of the impoverished Downtown Eastside (DTES) – came under fire today as ...

To celebrate Earth Day 2012 this Sunday, Vancouverites flocked to Commercial Drive for a lively parade and rally co-hosted by local environmental groups Youth for Climate Justice Now and the ...

At some point in every election cycle, often related to discussions of voter turnout, the question of civic literacy is raised. We gnash our teeth and question our failure to educate (or be educated) ...

Three hundred and fifty of Vancouver’s art elite gathered last Thursday for the presentation of the Audain and VIVA awards under the plant-draped Great Hall of the Arthur C. Erickson’s BC Law ...

If reading Barry Saxifrage's articles on The Vancouver Observer is enough to get you riled up about the deterioarating state of our planet Earth, do something about it. Like Ryan Gosling. Gyllenhaal ...

Today Observer Media Group (OMG) announced that Linda Solomon Wood is leaving her role as editor-in-chief of the Vancouver Observer to become editor-in-chief of the National Observer. Wood is CEO of ...