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Carlos Tello is a Vancouver-based journalist and photographer. His work has appeared in the Vancouver Sun, the Toronto Star, The Tyee, and the Vancouver Observer, among others. He is interested in arts and culture, human rights, social justice, Latin American issues, and everything related to his home country, Peru.
Water scarcity is already a huge problem in the world. According to a 2014 report by UNICEF and the World Health Organization, approximately one in nine people around the world lack access to safe,...
When a voice rose above the beat of the drums to ask: “Who’s proud of being Aboriginal?,” a choir of more than a hundred roared: “I am.” It was minutes past 11 a.m., and a crowd of Aboriginal...
'This is all going to impact one of the world's greatest salmon rivers in probably its most sensitive part,' says MP and fisheries and oceans critic Fin Donnelly.
In an old legend from the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation, a two-headed serpent brings hunger and disease to the Burrard Inlet, killing off the salmon. In order to survive, the people had to confront the...
Hana, one of two Pacific white-sided dolphins living at the Vancouver Aquarium, died this week of a gastrointestinal illness, despite a desperate attempt to save her live with first-of-its-kind...
Nine words were enough to get the audience fired up. “The next vision I have is ousting Steven Harper,” Musqueam Nation representative Celia Point said, eliciting deafening cheers from the audience...
A damning email obtained by a northern B.C. First Nation shows the federal government's own staff had serious concerns about the crown's consultation process with First Nations. “First Nations were...
Severe migraines. Non-stop vomiting. Severe abdominal pain, and a ruptured artery. Michigan resident Chance Lowery said he suffered these symptoms during the aftermath of Calgary pipeline giant...
