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June 19th, 2023 – Over twenty tenants living in Vancouver’s West End neighborhood filled a small community space on the evening of June 19th,...
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- Toxic Drug Crisis
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
Court finds founders of life-saving Vancouver compassion club guilty
DULF Case Wraps Up at the BC Supreme Court
- 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
‘Plan A, No Way!”: Tenants Rally Against Unfair Evictions, Surveillance, and Harassment
Gentrification
“We learned about the redevelopment through a notice in the mail, it was devastating,” shares Nikki, a tenant living with her family in the...
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...
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...
Analysis
Mainlander editor Nate Crompton sits down with Jean Swanson to discuss the loss of affordable housing in the Downtown Eastside and across Vancouver....
Analysis
Attention: Ken Sim, Mayor (ken.sim@vancouver.ca) Rebecca Bligh, COV Councillor (CLRbligh@vancouver.ca) Christine Boyle, COV Councillor (CLRboyle@vancouver.ca) Adriane Carr, COV Councillor (CLRcarr@vancouver.ca) Lisa Dominato, COV Councillor (CLRdominato@vancouver.ca) Pete Fry, COV Councillor (CLRfry@vancouver.ca)...
Dispatches
This is the first in a series of dispatches documenting tenant organizing in the Downtown Eastside. The newly-formed Portland Tenants Union (PTU) in the...
Analysis
Our unhoused neighbours across the Lower Mainland of British Columbia have been made targets of violence—openly and by high profile figures. This violence has...
Colonialism
We are tired of the stigma, tired of the assumptions, tired of the intimidation and abuses of the authorities that the ‘societal know it...
105 Keefer
Class Struggle in Chinatown: Ethnic Tourism, Planned Gentrification, and Organizing for Tenant Power
In this article, labour and community organizer Nat Lowe gives an update on the current situation in Vancouver's Chinatown and discusses how city planners and...
58 West Hastings
Downtown Eastside residents and organizers are continuing to reclaim 58 West Hastings Street, the still-empty lot at the heart of a years-long battle for...
City Hall
Now that tenants’ demands have reached Vancouver City Hall, corporate real estate interests will do their best to undermine our work and push...
City Hall
It’s the end of ‘’Gregor’s decade.’’ Are we standing at the possible threshold of a new era in Vancouver municipal politics? There’s no disputing...