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Vancouver's civic election on Saturday has brought us a new City Council. But as the five million dollar campaign fades, we should take a...
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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...
Housing
The Park Beach Tenant Collective, members of the Vancouver Tenants Union, and supporters gathered outside Plan A Real Estate Services’ offices in downtown Vancouver...
Action
A building permit application made to the City of Vancouver in September 2022 reveals that landlord Andrzej Kowalski intends to replace the seven rental...
Analysis
In this essay Maria Wallstam and Nathan Crompton provide an overview of the historical evolution of government subsidies provided to Canada’s real-estate sector. State-backed...
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...
Art & Culture
The Mainlander's Sean Antrim sat down with their Mayoral candidate Randy Helten of Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver (NSV) to talk about affordability, accountability,...
#occupyvancouver
Mayoral candidates debate against the public Tonight’s mayoral debate on homelessness and affordable housing was a heated fight -- not between the two candidates, but between...
Analysis
Here Andrew Witt and Sean Antrim of The Mainlander interview Sandy Garossino, who is running as an independent candidate for Vancouver City Council this...
#occupyvancouver
A massive, global social movement has erupted weeks before a municipal election. Its goal is to bring light to the injustice and unsustainability of...
City Hall
The 2011 Vancouver municipal election is in full swing. What do the candidates really think, and what can we expect of them? The Mainlander...
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...
#occupyvancouver
As protests in solidarity with #OccupyWallStreet spread across the continent, the "99%'ers" here are beginning to think about what #OccupyVancouver might look like. This...
Analysis
This weekend, Vision Vancouver declared its official kick-off of the 2011 civic election campaign. The party sent members a video of a speech by...
