After 11 years of bringing you local reporting, the team behind the Vancouver Observer has moved on to Canada's National Observer. You can follow Vancouver culture reporting over there from now on. Thank you for all your support over the years!
Alexis Stoymenoff covered environmental policy and sustainability issues for the Vancouver Observer from 2011-2012. Prior to VO, she worked in print, online news, radio and television. She has also traveled to India and Thailand for documentary projects. Alexis is a graduate of UBC School of Journalism, and she's also a former treeplanter with a passion for all things wild and green. In June 2012, she left VO to work in communications for a local environmental group.
Rae Abileah, a leading member of the women-led activist group CODEPINK, addressed war-related social and economic issues at this weekend's World Peace Forum.
2011 Vancouver municipal election: Even the Sun’s writer, Jeff Lee, commented in his civic affairs blog that reporting on internal polls can be “sketchy business”.
A new poll from Justason Market Intelligence shows that 77 per cent of Metro Vancouver residents are satisfied with the economy, and most are happy with their overall quality of life.
If you're traveling to or through YVR, a guide to the airport: where you can sleep, where you can get coffee in the middle of the night, the best food, even where you can get botox. Who knew?
