Downtown Eastside
The legalization of public drinking was top-of-mind for many in Vancouver in the wake of COVID-19 – but don’t be fooled. These “progressive” policies...
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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
ABC Vancouver
This past Saturday, June 17, Mayor Ken Sim launched “Vancouver Beautification Day,” a new city-wide event dedicated to fighting graffiti and vandalism on...
Analysis
Mainlander editor Nate Crompton sits down with Jean Swanson to discuss the loss of affordable housing in the Downtown Eastside and across Vancouver....
Action
April 14, 2023: This week marks one year since the tragic fire at the Atira-operated Winters Hotel. The fire, which occurred on April 11,...
Downtown Eastside
March 2023: Vancouver, Downtown Eastside The PHS Drinkers Lounge Community Managed Alcohol Program has at last installed a brand new parklet for drinkers in...
105 Keefer
Class Struggle in Chinatown: Ethnic Tourism, Planned Gentrification, and Organizing for Tenant Power
In this article, labour and community organizer Nat Lowe gives an update on the current situation in Vancouver’s Chinatown and discusses how city planners and...
Analysis
Last November, a journalist who relocated from Vancouver to Calgary to avoid rising rents penned a widely read personal essay for The Tyee...
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...
