Analysis
According to Metro Vancouver's Homelessness Count released today, the number of homeless folks in Vancouver increased from 1,580 to 1,605 over the last 3...
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- Toxic drug crisis
Failure to ensure city centre overdose prevention site reflects BC NDP deadly abandonment of people who use drugs: Healthcare workers, legal advocates
Emergency decade
Health Canada’s rebuff of compassion clubs predates DULF: Here’s why it matters.
Premier Eby hazardously misrepresents Sublocade while endorsing forced treatment of youth
STATEMENT: VANDU Education Group Stands with DULF Compassion Club
- Housing
INTERVIEW | Inside the BC NDP’s alarming proposal to weaken tenant rights in supportive housing
“This community has been a refuge against developer greed:” Tenants on East Broadway stand against Fastmark
The Vancouver Tenants Union Wants To Teach Landlords a Lesson
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
- Features
- Toxic drug crisis
Analysis
The Mainlander sits down with Matt Tarasoff and Paul Henry to talk about the BC NDP’s Bill 11 – the Residential Tenancy Amendment Act...
Features
“We learned about the redevelopment through a notice in the mail, it was devastating”
Class Struggle
Local landlord Andrzej Kowalski is attempting to sue the Vancouver Tenants Union in Small Claims Court claim for $35,000.
Housing
On the evening of April 5, 2023, as the first day of the Hastings decampment operation came to a close, Vancouver Mayor Ken...
City Hall
Over the past two years, Vancouver City Council and its Planning Department have been increasing height allowances throughout the City. Almost every neighbourhood faces...
City Hall
This week, Taiwan implemented a "luxury tax" on housing properties lying dormant due to speculation (as reported by the BBC). This begs the...
Art & Culture
This week, Downtown Eastside residents rallied at the abandoned Pantages Theatre on the 100 block of East Hastings, and painted its facade with slogans...
Analysis
Last week Sean Antrim outlined how the past three years of a Vision government has been anything but progressive. For reasons of principle and...
Gentrification
It is two months since The Mainlander hosted a story on new Chinese housing policy that is exporting real estate investment pressures — especially...
City Hall
By deciding to arrest the group of eight, Mayor Robertson made a clear choice, sending a clear message. Robertson is no longer the "End...
Analysis
COPE's Executive announced today that it has negotiated a coalition deal whereby COPE will limit the number of council members it will run in...
City Hall
Five homeless shelters are scheduled for closure in Vancouver this week because the provincial government refuses to regularize funding. Each of the 5 shelters...
City Hall
The anti-protest bylaw passed by Mayor Robertson this week will hurt the homeless, Darcie Bennett of PIVOT Legal Society told The Mainlander. The bylaw...