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- Toxic Drug Crisis
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
DULF Case Wraps Up at the BC Supreme Court
Nowhere to seek safety as gender-based violence worsens under drug supply & displacement crises
- 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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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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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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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...
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Part of the history of the last five centuries on these territories is the story of Europeans displacing Indigenous peoples for economic gain....
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St. Ehlmo hotel, photo credit: Susannah Anderson On May 31st, 2014, another Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Hotel in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side (DTES) was sold...
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Photo credit: Melanie Cervantes With recent media scandals about the abuse of temporary foreign workers and the subsequent outrage about migrant workers stealing Canadians’ jobs,...
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AUTHOR'S NOTE | This article emerges from 5 years of working as a community organizer for the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)....
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Image credit: No One is Illegal Toronto One of the experiences that propelled me into the migrant justice movement occurred thirteen years ago when...
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International Workers’ Day Statement by No One Is Illegal Toronto and No One Is Illegal Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory Last Thursday, Jason Kenney announced...
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Today, Vancouver’s City Council, Parks Board, and School Board are all controlled by a relatively new party called Vision Vancouver. How did this party...
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Adrian Dix and the NDP have been defeated in an election that was widely expected to yield a comfortable win for the centre-left party....