Downtown Eastside
UNCEDED COAST SALISH TERRITORY, VANCOUVER: On Tuesday April 10th more than 100 Downtown Eastside residents gathered for a rally in the theatre of the...
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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...
COUNTERPOINT
EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION | Since publishing Part I of this three-part series, other publications have followed suit, with similar columns appearing in the Vancouver...
Art & Culture
EDITORAL INTRODUCTION | From the start, Vancouver has been marked by a history of racism against Chinese and Asian immigrants. This is an uncomfortable...
Housing
Yesterday, the Mayor’s Developer Task Force released its interim report. On the surface, the four page pamphlet does not provide anything new, containing only...
Education
Teachers across the Province went on strike yesterday and will continue for the next two days. With over 41,00 teachers walking out, the industrial...
City Hall
This open letter was originally published in the Georgia Straight. It is a response to a letter originally posted here. The time has come...
City Hall
Three dozen seniors living on fixed incomes in the Lions Manor building at 6th and Main have been served with a 45% rent increase....
Housing
Two weeks after Vancouver was once again named one of the most unaffordable cities in the world, Mayor Gregor Robertson has unilaterally appointed the...
Features
Although the Mayor's "affordable housing task force" is unlikely to drive real change, it could have the positive impact of triggering public debate around...
Analysis
This Tuesday, the Vision-controlled City Council struck a developer-run “affordable housing” task force. The public debate surrounding the affordability crisis has begun in earnest...