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It's the end of "Gregor's decade." Are we standing at the possible threshold of a new era in Vancouver municipal politics? Mainlander Editor Andrei...
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Thousands of people have died & the people who seek to profit off the crisis appear fearful of any accountability.
Dispatches
As filmmaker Ryan Sudds states, the documentary “encourages people to take a critical approach to the City of Vancouver’s work, and not believe Mayor...
Analysis
This is about context. And in the current context where there is no housing for unhoused people, calls to clean up the streets mean...
Analysis
Though we should treat the overdose crisis with the severity it deserves, desperately bleak portrayals in the mainstream press can overshadow the actual experiences,...
#occupyvancouver
“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat.” ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man...
#occupyvancouver
Below, Tristan Markle of The Mainlander interviews Vision Vancouver's Geoff Meggs, who is running for re-election to Vancouver City Council. We discuss Vancouver's unaffordability...
Analysis
Vancouver's two developer-funded parties, the NPA and Vision, are identical on core policy issues. Both put developers before people, and hold their breath for...
City Hall
The Mainlander's Tristan Markle debated CityCaucus' Daniel Fontaine from 9am-10am on CKNW's The Bill Good Show, AM980, Tues June 28. Topics included: the social...
Analysis
"The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images" - Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord...
ABC Vancouver
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has announced a plan to freeze supportive housing development in the Downtown Eastside (DTES). The plan is part of a...