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Mainlander editor Nate Crompton sits down with Jean Swanson to discuss the loss of affordable housing in the Downtown Eastside and across Vancouver....
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- Toxic Drug Crisis
STATEMENT: VANDU Education Group Stands with DULF Compassion Club
Court finds founders of life-saving Vancouver compassion club guilty
DULF Case Wraps Up at the BC Supreme Court
Nowhere to seek safety as gender-based violence worsens under drug supply & displacement crises
Reversal of Bill 34 is a People’s Victory
- Housing
Emails reveal housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment
OP-ED | Make Holborn Pay for Loss of the Dunsmuir Hotel
‘Plan A, No Way!”: Tenants Rally Against Unfair Evictions, Surveillance, and Harassment
“Forget it, leave us here:” East Van Tenants Draw Crowd to Reject Eviction by Landlord Loophole
Understanding Canada’s State-Backed Real Estate Crisis
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Gender-based violence is not new to the province of British Columbia (BC), to the city of Vancouver, or to the Downtown Eastside (DTES). But...
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Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has announced a plan to freeze supportive housing development in the Downtown Eastside (DTES). The plan is part of a...
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Introduction Tenants in two Mount Pleasant buildings have found themselves among the first wave of renters impacted by the upcoming Broadway corridor redevelopment. The...
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Compassion club denial On August 23 2021, the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) and Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) applied to Health...
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Attention: Ken Sim, Mayor (ken.sim@vancouver.ca) Rebecca Bligh, COV Councillor (CLRbligh@vancouver.ca) Christine Boyle, COV Councillor (CLRboyle@vancouver.ca) Adriane Carr, COV Councillor (CLRcarr@vancouver.ca) Lisa Dominato, COV Councillor (CLRdominato@vancouver.ca) Pete Fry, COV Councillor (CLRfry@vancouver.ca)...
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Our unhoused neighbours across the Lower Mainland of British Columbia have been made targets of violence—openly and by high profile figures. This violence has...
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Two years into the global pandemic, the BC Provincial Health Services Authority’s strategy has become defined by its contradictions. All social gatherings that depend...
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Government inaction on the overdose crisis, and the state’s insistence on perpetuating the drug war, has left thousands to die across Canada. But this...
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As a resident of Vancouver for more than 40 years, I have gained an intimate understanding of the issue of random police street...
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Class Struggle in Chinatown: Ethnic Tourism, Planned Gentrification, and Organizing for Tenant Power
In this article, labour and community organizer Nat Lowe gives an update on the current situation in Vancouver’s Chinatown and discusses how city planners and...
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Last November, a journalist who relocated from Vancouver to Calgary to avoid rising rents penned a widely read personal essay for The Tyee...
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Editorial Note | What follows is a personal essay written by a long-term resident of Belvedere Court, Sean MacPherson. The Belvedere is a rental apartment...
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Gay movements in Canada must confront the history of the Canadian state or risk folding into the nation-building project of dispossession As Canada 150...
