David P. Ball
About David P. Ball
David P. Ball is an award-winning freelance journalist and host of The Pulse on CFRO radio show and podcast. His investigative journalism has won awards from the Canadian Association of Journalists and the Jack Webster Foundation. He is a former reporter for the Toronto Star, and has been published in the Globe and Mail, National Post, Agence France Presse, VICE, The Tyee, iPolitics, Times of India and the Daily Mail.
CNN's Jim Sciutto on 'The Madman Theory,' Canada and Donald Trump
CNN’s chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto says Canadians should brace for even more erratic foreign policy if Donald Trump returns to the White House in January.
This Canadian's cartoons are helping the Lincoln Project unnerve and unseat Donald Trump
“If you told me I was going to draw cartoons for former Republicans, I would have thought you were smoking some weed or something!” the Canadian cartoonist told Canada's National Observer editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood on Thursday.
Former top spy calls for royal commission on disinformation, fears rising intolerance
Richard Fadden, former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, called for the national commission in a public conversation with Canada's National Observer on Thursday.
FFS America! Processing Trump's 'alarming, chilling' RNC with Linda Solomon Wood and Sandy Garossino
'Trump has now entirely and completely distanced himself from the rule of law,' national affairs columnist Sandy Garossino warns. And amidst a it's not just the White House at stake.
‘We feel like we're held hostage’ say diesel-dependent First Nations
Two B.C. hydroelectric projects are the latest to see Indigenous communities envisioning a path to ‘energy sovereignty.’
Reporter recounts "heartbreak" of Brazil's Indigenous people affected by COVID-19
With a "responsibility to pay attention and speak," the First Nations Forward managing director shares her first-hand experiences inside the world's new pandemic epicenter — that's hitting Indigenous people's the hardest.
The future of the Conservative Party and how Trump's America strong-armed Canada
Top political analysts Bruce Livesey and Sandy Garossino join Linda Solomon Wood to tackle wide-ranging questions about the conservative movement on both sides of the border.
Facing spending attacks, federal minister Catherine McKenna doubles down on 'social infrastructure' aims
After months of social distancing, working from home, and going out only for essentials like groceries and exercise in nature, McKenna said the COVID-19 crisis has truly illuminated much more than the societal gaps and inequities. It has also shown Canadians what matters most.
Nature Canada’s Graham Saul on pushing for social change and a green recovery
The executive director of one of Canada's oldest environmental groups explains why he's strangely optimistic about our global moment — if nature advocates can learn from the smartest social movements.
Inside Amazon with a fired whistleblower and former VP: Maren Costa and Tim Bray
The vice-president who quit. The fired senior designer. Both spoke out on the e-commerce giant’s warehouse conditions — and working for the world's richest person, Jeff Bezos.