Dylan Waisman

Dylan Sunshine Waisman received her Master's degree in International Human Rights law in 2018 from Radboud University in the Netherlands, and received her degree in European Law at Nottingham Trent University in England. Find Dylan's work on National Observer's FacebookLive page.

40 Articles

High school students walk out to protest Kinder Morgan

An organizer of the high school student rally in Vancouver said “that youth value our lands, livelihood and future, over a pipeline that proceeds without Indigenous consent, in disregard of Canada’s climate change commitments and threatens our climate future.”

KINDER MORGAN

By Dylan Waisman in News, Energy, Politics | May 24th 2018

Protesters stage dramatic "die-in" at Kinder Morgan gates

Covered in fake blood, dozens of people staged a 'die-in' in front of the gates of a Kinder Morgan pipeline terminal on Burnaby Mountain on Wednesday.

KINDER MORGAN

By Dylan Waisman in News | May 17th 2018

Kennedy Stewart explains his guilty plea for blockading Kinder Morgan pipeline

NDP MP Kennedy Stewart is one of over 200 people arrested on a Burnaby construction site in metro Vancouver, where the Texas energy giant is trying to proceed with its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

KINDER MORGAN

By Dylan Waisman in News | May 14th 2018

From career criminals to A-students through women's prison education

Half of all women in solitary confinement in Canadian prisons are Indigenous, though Indigenous women make up merely four per cent of the general female population.

By Dylan Waisman in News | May 11th 2018

Kennedy Stewart, Ottawa, Kinder Morgan, Burnaby, Trans Mountain expansion

Climate champion Kennedy Stewart launches bid to become Vancouver's next mayor

The outspoken climate and anti-pipeline advocate will be an independent candidate in the race to be Vancouver’s next mayor in the fall.

By Dylan Waisman in News, Energy, Politics | May 10th 2018

Judge says he cannot consider environment or Indigenous rights, as protesters plead guilty, with a catch

Two have pled guilty to contempt of court for crossing the court-ordered injunction line while protesting the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion at the gates of its Burnaby terminal construction site in British Columbia.

KINDER MORGAN

By Dylan Waisman in News, Energy, Politics | May 8th 2018

How a Syrian refugee and a Jordanian immigrant became 'brothers' in Surrey

Hasan Sheblack, a Syrian refugee, and Guss Ash, a Jordanian immigrant, met while working construction at the Fairmont Hotel in Vancouver. A few years later, the two are not only business partners, they consider each other “brothers.”

Syrian Refugees in Canada

By Dylan Waisman in News | May 4th 2018

Two years of ups and downs for Syrian refugees who settled in Vancouver

Ola Al Abbas, a 19-year-old student, came to B.C. with her six sisters, two brothers and her parents. At first, she hated school and had difficulty understanding classes and making friends.

Syrian Refugees in Canada

By Dylan Waisman in News | May 2nd 2018

Green MLA vows to bring Tsleil-Waututh youth's concerns back to Victoria

"Would you put your life on the line?" Twenty-year-old Tsleil-Waututh youth leader Cedar George asked Green party MLA Sonia Furstenau, who met with Indigenous activists protesting the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion on Burnaby Mountain on Monday.

By Dylan Waisman in News, Politics | April 30th 2018

Oil disaster in Wisconsin raises questions for those living and working near Kinder Morgan tank farm

Officials have lifted an evacuation order on the city of Superior, Wisconsin where, one day earlier, an explosion at an oil refinery released black clouds of noxious smoke into the air, injuring 20 people and sending the 27,000 residents of the city fleeing. The explosion has residents of Burnaby questioning how our city would handle such a disaster.

By Joel Ballard & Dylan Waisman in News, US News, Energy, Politics | April 27th 2018