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Here are five basic things you'll need to know to guide you through the fog of the 2011 Vancouver civic election campaign 1. Both...
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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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Tenants in two Mount Pleasant buildings have found themselves among the first wave of renters impacted by the upcoming Broadway corridor redevelopment. One of...
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In BC alone, more than 13,000 people have died from overdoses and drug poisonings related to the unregulated and systemically toxic drug supply since...
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As the election approaches, we can expect the assault on harm reduction to grow and metastasize as a lurid wedge issue, fed from Conservative...
#occupyvancouver
Today the mayor announced that the city will be attempting to end the occupation of the Vancouver Art Gallery. The announcement comes as a...
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Here Andrew Witt and Sean Antrim of The Mainlander interview Sandy Garossino, who is running as an independent candidate for Vancouver City Council this...
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At the top of the entrance to the Georgia and Granville skytrain station, the actor who played the former chief coroner of BC and...
#occupyvancouver
A massive, global social movement has erupted weeks before a municipal election. Its goal is to bring light to the injustice and unsustainability of...
#occupyvancouver
Many occupiers have wondered about the city’s Street & Traffic By-Law 71.1, posted on city signs throughout the Art Gallery grounds. The purpose of...
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This weekend, Vision Vancouver declared its official kick-off of the 2011 civic election campaign. The party sent members a video of a speech by...
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Today, 614 COPE members cast ballots to nominate candidates for this fall's Vancouver civic elections. The turnout was large, at least when compared to...
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Anyone who witnessed on 19 April 2011 the seven hours — all morning and all evening — that Vancouver City Council spent cobbling together...
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I) Vancouver’s ‘Reserve Army’ For Vancouver’s unemployed and working poor, social and economic life is increasingly precarious. Ruled by a post-Fordist economy determined by...
