Downtown Eastside
VANDU Open Letter: The City’s current “Vancouver Model” of decriminalization will set a dangerous precedent for drug users across Canada In November 2020, Vancouver...
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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
- Toxic drug crisis
Analysis
The Mainlander sits down with Matt Tarasoff and Paul Henry to talk about the BC NDP’s Bill 11 – the Residential Tenancy Amendment Act...
Downtown Eastside
A historic Charter challenge begins today at the BC Supreme Court, brought forward by the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF). The Charter challenge asserts...
Downtown Eastside
Hearings wrapped up today in the BC Supreme court in a crown case brought against Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) co-founders Eris Nyx and...
ABC Vancouver
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has announced a plan to freeze supportive housing development in the Downtown Eastside (DTES). The plan is part of a...
Downtown Eastside
In the early hours of January 5, 2021 – just five days into the new year – the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) executed a...
Analysis
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...
Analysis
As a resident of Vancouver for more than 40 years, I have gained an intimate understanding of the issue of random police street...
58 West Hastings
Downtown Eastside residents and organizers are continuing to reclaim 58 West Hastings Street, the still-empty lot at the heart of a years-long battle for...
58 West Hastings
It’s the end of ‘’Gregor’s decade.’’ Are we standing at the possible threshold of a new era in Vancouver municipal politics? There's no disputing...
58 West Hastings
For years, an empty lot at 58 West Hastings has been at the centre of a fight for social housing in the Downtown Eastside...
58 West Hastings
Organizers from the Our Homes Can’t Wait Coalition (OHCW) have blockaded the entrances of Vancouver City Hall in an effort to shut down the...
Chinatown
INTRO | In November 2017, members of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) interviewed Vince Tao, organiser with Chinatown Action Group (CAG)....
Art & Culture
Editor's Introduction | In the past year, across North America, artists in solidarity with anti-displacement struggles are voicing their discontent with the neoliberal turn...