David P. Ball

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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.

11 Articles

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.

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By David P. Ball | News | October 16th 2020

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.

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By David P. Ball | News | October 9th 2020

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.

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By David P. Ball | Features | August 29th 2020

Kitasoo First Nation councillor and public works manager Isaiah Robinson and Chief Coun. Roxanne Robinson stand by a hydroelectric turbine in their territories in July 2020

‘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.’

By David P. Ball | Features | July 20th 2020

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.

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By David P. Ball | Features | July 10th 2020

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.

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By David P. Ball | Analysis | July 6th 2020

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.

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By David P. Ball | News | June 19th 2020

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.

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By David P. Ball | Features | June 12th 2020

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.

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By David P. Ball | News, Business | June 5th 2020

Sandy Garossino photographed in Ottawa in 2017 by Alex Tetrault

In Trump’s war with Twitter, company finally ‘displayed a backbone’

Award-winning columnist, Sandy Garossino, discusses two tech battles with Conversations host Linda Solomon Wood—Trump’s meltdown against Twitter as U.S. descends into chaos, plus how Canada got stuck between China’s ‘jackboot diplomacy’ versus American ‘escalation' on Huawei.

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By David P. Ball | News | May 29th 2020