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This past Thursday, the Vancouver Police Department published a press release about a series of arrests made in the Downtown Eastside. It describes eight...
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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.
News
Academics: "Any plan that limits social housing is unacceptable"
News
The Surrey Union of Drug Users – SUDU – opened a temporary supervised inhalation tent near City Parkway and 107A Avenue in the Whalley...
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AFFORDABILITY | Several BC cities have been ranked "severely unaffordable" in a recent world-wide affordability report. The list included Vancouver, Victoria, Abbotsford and Kelowna.Vancouver...
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Instead of hearing 80 speakers from the public, City Council voted today to defer hearings until a later consulation. Fifty of those speakers were at...
Analysis
Mayor Robertson and his party won power on the backs of the poor, claiming to represent their aspirations and promising to "End Homelessness." Today,...
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NORTH EAST FALSE CREEK | A new deal between the city and the Concord Pacific development corporation might further change the social geography of...
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In a letter written to City Council in advance of this Thursday's vote on approving new condo developments in the Downtown Eastside, former Vancouver...
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The 10 SITES COALITION of Downtown Eastside organizations has issued a statement opposing the "Historic Area Height Review," which goes before City Council on...
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At a forum held last night at the VPL, residents questioned the way the City of Vancouver conducts public consultations. The event’s organizers, a...
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CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM | Legislation that would make Vancouver municipal parties disclose their donors and would cap corporate donations and overall campaign spending, might...
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A memorial service for the three men who died in an East Van house fire was held Saturday at the Longhouse Council Native Ministry....