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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
Yesterday the City of Vancouver announced that it will be leasing some of its land to rental housing developers. The initiative is part of...
Analysis
In the four years since the financial crisis of 2008 brought a North American-wide collapse in housing prices, the Canadian government has successfully taken...
Housing
Vision Vancouver and city planners have recently launched a series of highly branded “ideas competitions” with design-heavy titles like re:THINK and re:CONNECT. While the...
Homelessness
The already dire housing crisis in Vancouver is about to worsen with the mass expiration of funding and operating agreements for twenty-five thousand social...
City Hall
The City's developer task force released another interim report today -- a follow-up to the previous very preliminary interim report (see The Mainlander's analysis...
City Hall
The Georgia Straight recently published a cover story titled "Sullivanism versus Jane Jacobs", detailing former NPA Mayor Sam Sullivan's continuing efforts to push high-rise...
History
EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION| The first part of Nathan Crompton’s three-part essay introduced the history of anti-asian racism in Vancouver, while the second part focused on...
City Hall
On May 7th the Development Permit Board (DPB) approved the application of a 10 storey luxury development in Chinatown. The project, financed by Solterra...
City Hall
This past Monday, April 23rd, all three voting members of the Vancouver Development Permit Board (DPB) voted in favor of the 'Sequel 138' condo...