The Enbridge oil pipeline would threaten the Aboriginal tradition of living off the land and eating local foods, say members of First Nations communities. Canada announced its support yesterday for ...

US and Canadian Muslims find themselves between an all-too-familiar rock and a hard place in catastrophes like the murder of a US ambassador and three other American diplomats in Libya Tuesday and the ...

It goes without saying, but this is going to be one epic weekend. It's our Canada Day event edition and it's jam packed with dance parties, live music festivals, food tastings, cruises and even a ...

Explosions and robot battles are making most of the noise on the big screens this week.There are alternatives in the new films, though, including sex, strident pessimism and economic meltdown.

After sundown in the Vancouver Film School Cafe, dozens of local youth sit hunched over long tables, their hands busily drawing on a long roll of white paper. Their sketches depict bizarre scenes of ...

When BC-based internet users seek out YouTube videos about the oil sands, they're likely to be confronted with ads like this one by British Columbians for International Prosperity (BC4IP), a ...

"Dr. Shehla Ebrahim, of Ambleside Dermedics, confirms that I’m not the only one who prefers the pinprick of a needle to the knife," author Lynn Schnernberger writes.

Valentina is the Observer Media Group's social media director. She is a multimedia and multiplatform journalist from Venezuela, proficient in both long-form and 140-character pieces.

Bard on the Beach has a special treat in store this year with its brand new Mainstage Theatre. This marks the start of a new era and is history in the making as Bard on the Beach Shakespeare ...

Members of the Canadian federal government's opposition parties and environmental groups across Canada reacted with renewed vigor against the Harper government's proposed omnibus budget Bill C-38 on ...

Failure to track the impact of the flow of foreign capital marks this country as an international outlier, says #donthave1million trendsetter Eveline Xia. The Canadian House of Commons debated a ...

Abduction, ransom (aka “dowry”), sleep deprivation, starvation rations, desert isolation, solitary confinement, contra-factual dogmas, coerced fealty, swords, ropes and cudgels; hardly a recipe for ...