City Hall
This year there are eight candidates running in the Vancouver city council by-election, including Jean Swanson and Judy Graves. Given their longtime involvement in...
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- Toxic Drug Crisis
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
Reversal of Bill 34 is a People’s Victory
- 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
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...
Column
There appears to be a growing consensus between the two dominant poles of politics in British Columbia. The Conservatives and the BC NDP have...
Downtown Eastside
A small media storm emerged last week after a profile of ‘Socially Responsible Vancouver tours‘ appeared in Travel section of the Toronto Star. Since...
Downtown Eastside
Photo credit: @woodwardsmile In 2008, Gregor Robertson built his successful mayoral campaign around the tragic death of Darrel Mikasko, a homeless man who burned...
Downtown Eastside
April of this year marks nine years since welfare rates – still frozen at $610 a month for a single person – have gone...
Downtown Eastside
On Friday, August 14th, the Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society (WAHRS) held a rally and picket to support the Unist’ot’en Camp. The camp, located...
City Hall
Today, the City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Public Library broke ground on a new library in Strathcona. The new VPL branch includes...
Downtown Eastside
Yesterday, November 21st, was the national day of action on housing, with events and actions happening across the country. As part of this movement...
Downtown Eastside
WEST VANCOUVER, UNCEDED COAST SALISH TERRITORIES: On Wednesday August 6th, Downtown Eastside residents evicted from gentrified hotels, Oppenheimer homeless campers, and housing advocates held...
Downtown Eastside
Editors’ Note | Tomorrow, Sunday morning at 7am, the Mayor’s Encampment Committee is going to try to evict the tent city at Oppenheimer park....
Analysis
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...
