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- Toxic Drug Crisis
Emergency decade
Health Canada’s rebuff of compassion clubs predates DULF: Here’s why it matters.
Premier Eby hazardously misrepresents Sublocade while endorsing forced treatment of youth
STATEMENT: VANDU Education Group Stands with DULF Compassion Club
Court finds founders of life-saving Vancouver compassion club guilty
- Housing
INTERVIEW | Inside the BC NDP’s alarming proposal to weaken tenant rights in supportive housing
“This community has been a refuge against developer greed:” Tenants on East Broadway stand against Fastmark
The Vancouver Tenants Union Wants To Teach Landlords a Lesson
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
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After 30 years of operating as a community organization by and for sex workers, PACE closed its services in 2025.
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The Mainlander sits down with Matt Tarasoff and Paul Henry to talk about the BC NDP’s Bill 11 – the Residential Tenancy Amendment Act...
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The $600 million soccer games are already linked to increased policing and criminalization – and they haven't even started.
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The politics of the Mental Health Act amendments in Bill 32 reflect a trend of the BC NDP circumventing court rulings under Premier Eby’s...
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Introduction Our goal in writing this article is to provide a comprehensive overview of the historical evolution of government subsidies provided to Canada’s real-estate...
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Police and their business sponsors never tire of finding new ways, or recycling old ones, to demonize poor people. They wield a politics of...
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It’s raining heavily and the uniforms of Vancouver city workers are easy to spot alongside a slow moving garbage truck. A Vancouver Police Department...
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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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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...