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Henry Yu is a professor in the History Department at UBC, where he researches and lectures on the history of migration, racism, and early...
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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
On Dec. 18, Vancouver City Council approved the demolition of the Dunsmuir Hotel, a single-room occupancy building with 167 units at the corner of...
ABC Vancouver
Introduction Tenants in two Mount Pleasant buildings have found themselves among the first wave of renters impacted by the upcoming Broadway corridor redevelopment. The...
ABC Vancouver
This summer, City Council voted to demolish direly needed low-income housing in Vancouver’s downtown core. On July 12th, 2023, Mayor Ken Sim and the...
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...
Art & Culture
Model Minority By Gendai Edited by Maiko Tanaka and Chris Lee Published by Publication Studio Guelph $30 Model Minority is a publication assembled by...
City Hall
Image from the First Peoples Guide for Newcomers, published by the City of Vancouver (2014) On June 24th, 2014, Vancouver city council voted unanimously to...
City Hall
Japanese Hall, Alexander Street On Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday this past week over a hundred people spoke at City Hall while city council deliberated...
City Hall
Tenants and community members at 439 Powell Street, Feb 2014 On Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday this past week over a hundred people spoke at...
City Hall
Kelvin Bee, Kwakwaka’wakw Aboriginal Front Door elder, his son Hank, and Victoria Bull, stand before Vancouver City Council on Saturday Photo by Erica Holt...
Analysis
Today, Vancouver’s City Council, Parks Board, and School Board are all controlled by a relatively new party called Vision Vancouver. How did this party...
History
EDITORIAL. This year marks 100 years since the dispossession of the Kitsilano Reserve. Today also marks the renewed displacement and dislocation of diverse communities...
City Hall
This weekend, Vancouver’s left-wing municipal party will hold its annual general meeting at the Maritime Labour Centre. Before hundreds of Vancouverites file into the...
History
Most of the few remaining rights and affordable housing that tenants have in British Columbia were earned by working class activists and renters in...
