David P. Ball, Reporter/Photojournalist

Vancouver-based reporter & photojournalist

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Veterans Deploy 'Boots on the Ground' to Help Homeless Comrades

'We would never leave them in the field, ever. You're not going to leave them on the street.'

Read the story in The Tyee and Huffington Post.

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Golden Tree to Honour Farm Workers Killed on Job

Eight years after an overcrowded farm van crashed, victims' families warn not enough has changed.

Read my story in The Tyee.

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Vancouver Mayor: City Is 'At a Breaking Point'

Urgent action needed to cool housing market, but Gregor Robertson says he needs help.

Read my interview in The Tyee.

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Watchdog asks gov't to review expenses for five-star hotels, spa resorts and fine chocolates.

Read my story in The Tyee.

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What Vancouverites Don't Know Is Hurting Our Housing Hopes

We know the data we need. Time to demand it, critics say.

Read my story on The Tyee.

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Canadian 'Totalitarianism'? Hope Can Win, Says Author Thomas King

Governor General award winner talks election politics and the power of words.

Read my interview in The Tyee.

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A Foot in the Door: Canadians on the Housing Brink

Affordable housing used to be an accepted right in Canada. For many it's increasingly out of reach -- a silent national crisis. In this election-year series, the Tyee Solutions Society looks at what's failed, and how it can be fixed.

Read the series at The Tyee.

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Will Canada Unblock this People's 'Road to Freedom'?

The First Nation of Shoal Lake 40 are surrounded by water they can't drink but Winnipeg can. But they have a dream.

Read my story in The Tyee.

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Migrant Detention in Canada Sparking Mental Health Crisis

Total days detained in CBSA custody spiked to 200,000 last year, U of T law group finds.

Read my story in The Tyee.

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Journalist Kevin Donovan Dishes on Breaking the Ghomeshi Scandal

'To do it well, you need to be really, really sure that you're right.'

Read my interview in The Tyee.

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A Metro Vancouver Midnight Transit Odyssey

With $7.5 billion transport plan at stake, The Tyee joins a hospital cleaner on her nightly commute home.

Story by David P. Ball, photos by Ashley Hastings. Read it at The Tyee.

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Low-Rent Mansion Living? In Vancouver? Really?

Yes, really. Groups of frustrated renters are snapping up urban acreages, and spend less on housing than the rest of us.

Read my story in The Tyee.

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Inside Vancouver’s Sanctuary City Movement

For the city’s undocumented immigrants, fear of discovery lurks in emergency rooms, schools, the local bus.

Read my award-nominated series in The Tyee.

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Cross-border Coal War?

As North American producers massively ramp up plans to export coal to Asia, B.C. figures large in their plans -- and in opposition efforts of citizens worried about climate change. 

Read the CAJ and Webster award-winning series at The Tyee.

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‘It opens your heart’: Canada approves use of ecstasy in study into post-traumatic stress disorder

Exactly a century after ecstasy was first patented, Health Canada has approved the drug’s import for the first Canadian study using the illegal substance in trauma survivors’ therapy.

Read my story in the National Post.

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