David P. Ball

My latest for Windspeaker News does the Liberals proposed bill ending mandatory minimums for nonviolent drug offences go far enough for Indigenous people?

Photos from the Feb. 14, 2021 Women’s Memorial March in Vancouver by David P. Ball.

My latest for Windspeaker News, on just the latest examples of COVID being used an excuse for racism. (And also how refreshing it is to see First Nations showing far more COVID transparency than health authorities ... Often at an unfair and inaccurate cost in nearby communities)

My obituary of a titan I’ve been interviewing since I first started my journalism career full time we spoke briefly last December. But I had no real idea how much his life and history intersected with so many of the major upheavals of the 20th century.

My latest for The Tyee: I grew up believing in the goodness of people. This was naive on my part That is the curse of systemic discrimination. Government doesn’t create change; it responds to change, sometimes to legal orders. And when the public says, We’ve had enough.

My radio special feature with Cara McKenna on how CRAB park ecosystem hopefuls might find inspiration in another city and First Nation's ambitious plan to tear out a former waterfront industrial site. (Read our full project here: https://salishseasentinel.ca//kus-kus-sum-komoks-estuary-/

Proud to be back in The Tyee, my first story there since 2016! And with my old beat there, HOUSING SOLUTIONS, FROM WEIRD TO WORKABLE

My first international wire photography, for Agence France-Presse, appears in the world's largest English-language newspaper, The Times of India

My story today for Agence France-Presse, published a bunch of places including International Business Times (below), La Presse, Journal de Montreal and Straits Times

My first article in France’s Le Monde newspaper (used to read its page in the Guardian Weekly years’ back) ... Cool

Proud that my latest dispatch for Agence France-Presse appears in Sciences et Avenir, the respected French popular science magazine [I’ll post the English translation below and separately]

My latest dispatch for Agence France-Presse on the Meng Wanzhou extradition battle:

My first story published in The Guardian, a favourite paper across the pond if not anywhere

A feature I really enjoyed researching and talking to people far away for. Dependency on oil was designed into the reserve systemEnergy sovereignty for these communities looks like finding a path away from that

I was honoured to talk to some Coast Salish #indigenous health heroes during #COVID19, on Vancouver Island & hard-hit Fraser Health from the Pandemic frontlines: long-term care homes and public health authorities Check it out in the Salish Sea Sentinel!

Thanks for all the kind readers’ notes about my first weekend Globe & Mail feature! Go buy a copy, support print journalism :) Gratitude to all my interviewees & the paper's enthusiasm for this story of young Indigenous scholars who are decolonizing an historically racist discipline Also pretty damn cool to be below my former Star colleague Tanya Talaga's byline on the frontpage ... (Read it online: https://www.theglobeandmail.com//article-how-indigenous-r/ )

On my CFRO The Pulse podcast today, ex-Vancouver police officer Lorimer Shenher & I had a conversation on being white, and about defunding/reforming police #BlackLivesMatter Hear it: https://spreaker.com//coo/cfro-the-pulse-june-8-broadcaast... (It complements my show last week with Black organizers: https://spreaker.com/user/coopradio/cfro-thepulse-3jun2020)

"The roots of this are deep herethe Canadian and American states were formed in a way to ensure my subjugation" I feel particularly moved & impacted by my radio show today just humbled and honoured that three people I deeply respect offered their time as Black community organizers for a wide-ranging conversation on CFRO The Pulse, especially knowing many are already exhausted. Thank you so much to Angela Marie MacDougall, Lama Mugabo and Udokam Iroegbu. #blacklivesmatter