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Defunding the police seems to be the topic for the last few months. Everyone is wondering: should it be done, or should it not...
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In a now scrubbed blog, current VPD spokesperson Steve Addison gave insight into the thoughts of a Vancouver cop. What did he have to...
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
The daily seizure and destruction of belongings is part of the systematic decimation of encampments. This violence has happened in cities far and near,...
Analysis
We call on the Mayor, Council, and city staff to stop the decampment of Hastings and to instead redirect public resources to creating, maintaining, and...
Analysis
In the wake of political events erupting across North America over the past month, we are now at a moment in history when Vancouver...
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? Mainlander Editor Andrei...
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...
Gentrification
On November 13th, the City of Vancouver announced that it would launch a crackdown on illegal street vendors in the Downtown Eastside (DTES). The...
Police
In late November, 2014, Du Na Phuong (Tony) was shot by the Vancouver Police Department at the intersection of Knight Street and East 41st...
Police
Last week, on November 22nd, a Vancouver Police Department (VPD) officer shot and killed a 51 year old man at the intersection of East...
Police
In recent years we have seen a massive bolstering of the capacity of the Canadian state to contain poor and oppressed communities. These shifts...
Police
Chak’s illustrations reveal the underbelly of facilities intentionally hidden away. “Spaces of incarceration are both nowhere and everywhere, blended into our landscapes,” she writes....
Police
Canada’s federal government is pursuing an aggressive tough-on-crime agenda. Federal legislation has increased sentence lengths, imposed unrealistic and probably unconstitutional fines on offenders, and...
