History
Yesterday Vision Vancouver released its final report on Housing Affordability in Vancouver. Shortly after being elected for a second term, Vision created an Affordability...
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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...
History
EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION| The first part of Nathan Crompton’s three-part essay introduced the history of anti-asian racism in Vancouver, while the second part focused on...
Art & Culture
EDITORAL INTRODUCTION | From the start, Vancouver has been marked by a history of racism against Chinese and Asian immigrants. This is an uncomfortable...
Art & Culture
‘Fabricating the Creative City’ is a three part series commissioned by The Mainlander. In Part 1, the authors pried into Vancouver’s rendition of ‘creative...
City Hall
This piece was originally published in rabble.ca here In the poorest urban neighbourhood in Canada, Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES), gentrification has been on the...
Art & Culture
“With the upheaval of the market economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.” –...
Art & Culture
For the last three years, there has been a broad increase in private and public support of the arts in Vancouver. This augmentation in...
Analysis
At the top of the entrance to the Georgia and Granville skytrain station, the actor who played the former chief coroner of BC and...
Analysis
Anyone who witnessed on 19 April 2011 the seven hours — all morning and all evening — that Vancouver City Council spent cobbling together...
Analysis
Habitat 67, on the shore of of St. Lawrence seaway in Montreal, was originally designed to be an affordable community. Similar to Vancouver’s Olympic...
