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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
Anti-ABC parties must do more to support tenants in the struggle against mass displacement
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
- Features
- Toxic drug crisis
ABC Vancouver
With October’s municipal election approaching, organizers with the Vancouver Tenants Union advocate for firmer opposition to displacement from progressive city councillors.
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.
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...
Analysis
Last November, a journalist who relocated from Vancouver to Calgary to avoid rising rents penned a widely read personal essay for The Tyee...
58 West Hastings
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...
58 West Hastings
Organizers from the Our Homes Can’t Wait Coalition (OHCW) have blockaded the entrances of Vancouver City Hall in an effort to shut down the...
Homelessness
Evictions, rent increases, and developer tax breaks — when it comes to the housing crisis it is hard to see where the parties truly differ. “Every day...
Downtown Eastside
Photo credit: @woodwardsmile In 2008, Gregor Robertson built his successful mayoral campaign around the tragic death of Darrel Mikasko, a homeless man who burned...
Homelessness
In their annual Housing and Homelessness Report Card, the City of Vancouver reports that 1,683 units of new social housing are in development or...
History
Henry Yu is a professor in the History Department at UBC, where he researches and lectures on the history of migration, racism, and early...
Housing
On Tuesday November 24th, protesters from the "Stop Demo-victions Burnaby" campaign brought their message to Burnaby City Hall. Chanting and singing, they marched into council chambers...