[Photograph of an individual with a microphone outside the Vancouver Sun office at Granville Square]

Photograph of an unidentified individual addressing the crowd outside the Vancouver Sun office, located at Granville Square in Vancouver, British Columbia (B.C.). Individuals had gathered outside The Vancouver Sun office to protest against Kim Bolan.

Kim Bolan, a Canadian journalist, started working for The Vancouver Sun in 1984, since her journalism career began. Bolan has reported on minority, women's, education, social service issues, Sikh extremism, and the bombing and trials related to Air India Flight 182. The work at The Vancouver Sun has taken her to wars in El Salvador, Guatemala and Afghanistan. Bolan has been a contributor to CBC radio and an occasional writer for various magazines and periodicals. She graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in English and Creative Writing at University of Victoria and completed her Master's Degree in Journalism at the University of Western Ontario in London, Toronto. Bolan is a recipient of numerous awards including the Courage in Journalism Award presented by the International Women's Media Foundation in 1999.

The Sun, Vancouver's largest daily newspaper, first appeared as The Vancouver Sun on February 12, 1912. With its 1917 purchase of the Daily News-Advertiser (est 1886), it claimed to be the city's oldest newspaper; with its 1924 acquisition of The Evening World (est 1888), it became undisputedly the city's second most important newspaper. Not until its chief rival, The Vancouver Daily Province, suffered a prolonged labour dispute (1946-49) did the Sun emerge as the leading journal of the province.