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...
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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
Housing
On the evening of April 5, 2023, as the first day of the Hastings decampment operation came to a close, Vancouver Mayor Ken...
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...
Housing
On June 11 2024, tenants from the Park Beach Tenant Collective (PBTC), members of the Vancouver Tenants Union, and supporters gathered outside Plan A...
Action
Terry McIntosh has lived at 1171-1177 East 14th Avenue in East Vancouver for 26 years. A botanist by training and vocation, McIntosh maintains a...
Analysis
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...
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 Sean Antrim of The Mainlander interviews Sandy Garossino, who is running as an independent candidate for Vancouver City Council this November 19. Sean...
#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...
