Downtown Eastside
The Mainlander is featured in the civic politics segment every Tuesday morning between 7am-8am on Vancouver Co-op Radio 102.7 This Tuesday Dec 20 2011, The Mainlander’s Sean...
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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
Over the past weeks, Vancouver’s homeless shelters have been over-flowing. In this article Maria Wallstam and Nathan Crompton argue that this year there are...
City Hall
At the recent Homelessness and Affordable Housing debate (Nov 7, St. Andrew’s–Wesley Church), mayoral candidates Gregor Robertson and Suzanne Anton said a lot of...
#occupyvancouver
Today the mayor announced that the city will be ending the occupation of the Vancouver Art Gallery. The announcement comes as a surprise for...
City Hall
Vision Vancouver, Vancouver’s ruling party, won an election in 2008 by promising to “end homelessness.” But since that time, the party has adopted a...
Analysis
On July 27, council’s Standing Committee on Transportation and Traffic voted to begin a comprehensive planning process for the future of the False Creek...
City Hall
There is a renewed grassroots effort to stop condo development on the site of the historic Pantages Theatre at 138 East Hastings. Worthington properties...
Downtown Eastside
The Mainlander’s Tristan Markle again debated CityCaucus’ Daniel Fontaine from 9am-10am on CKNW’s The Bill Good Show, AM980, Tues July 5 2011. Topics included:...
City Hall
The above picture depicts City Engineers tossing the complete belongings of two homeless residents of the Downtown Eastside – shopping carts inclusive – into...
Downtown Eastside
Tomorrow, June 30th, Vancouver City Council will decide whether to seek legal injunctions to force repairs of the Palace and Wonder single-room occupancy (SRO)...
