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Vancouver historian Michael Barnholden has written that there are at least two recurring themes in Vancouver’s political discourse. The first is a theme of...
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- Toxic drug crisis
Failure to ensure city centre overdose prevention site reflects BC NDP deadly abandonment of people who use drugs: Healthcare workers, legal advocates
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
- Housing
Anti-ABC parties must do more to support tenants in the struggle against mass displacement
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
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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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According to Metro Vancouver's Homelessness Count released today, the number of homeless folks in Vancouver increased from 1,580 to 1,605 over the last 3...
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Cambie Street just got a little 'denser', in more ways than one. By approving Phase 2 of the so-called Cambie Corridor Plan, not only...
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Last week Sean Antrim outlined how the past three years of a Vision government has been anything but progressive. For reasons of principle and...
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COPE's Executive announced today that it has negotiated a coalition deal whereby COPE will limit the number of council members it will run in...
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The Olympic Village represents a "fiasco," but more and more it's turning into a fiasco of journalism. Prominent columnists have spent the last week...
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Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories – In response to numerous rapes and assaults that have continuously occurred in the co-ed shelters in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside...
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Grassroots activism has won social housing above the new library, soon to be built on the 700-block of East Hastings. The development will now...
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Corporate developers are 'betting' that they can twist enough arms to transform Edgewater Casino into a mega-casino next to BC Place. But resistance has...
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The City of Vancouver stands to profit from selling-off housing units at the Olympic Village that were promised for affordable and social housing. The...