News
Feb 2nd, 2010
Delve into Vancouver through its rich array of ethnic news organizations. Our list...
Overheard at the Olympics
Jan 31st, 2010
Of economic catastrophe, compelling "adverbiage" and an editor's beautiful prose.
IndieVan
Jan 19th, 2010
Chikatetsu: Iron Underground.
News
Jan 18th, 2010
As I sit here, writing from what seems to be the very edge of the world, my writing place, a dining table by the stormy, winter Pacific Ocean, the tragedies of the past week in our tenuous world seem...
Comfort vs Change
Jan 16th, 2010
On Wednesday, January 13th, Mayor Gregor Robertson cut the ribbon on the new media room at Directions Youth Services, funded by EA Sports, an award winning developer of sports video games including...
IndieVan
Jan 9th, 2010
The Galactic Federation of...Piano Teachers?
Techplanations
Jan 9th, 2010
Yeah, we get it, newspapers as we know them are in trouble. Just like the advent of the telegraph changed how news was gathered, transmitted and reported, the Internet has done the same for papers....
Media
Jan 5th, 2010
Hendrik Beune walks into the cafeteria at the Carnegie Centre in Vancouver, scratches his cell phone number on his business card and passes it over to me. The back of the card has an imprint...
Editor's Desk
Jan 4th, 2010
When I began using The Vancouver Observer's new drupal open source software on October 2, I quickly realized that I had a platform at my fingertips that was powerful enough to push the work of...
Comfort vs Change
Dec 22nd, 2009
Advertising Agency, Burnkit, donated $12,500 in creative services to Union Gospel Mission, resulting in ads that are making Vancouver rethink homelessness.