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AUTHOR'S NOTE | This article emerges from 5 years of working as a community organizer for the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)....
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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
One of the experiences that propelled me into the migrant justice movement occurred thirteen years ago when Bilquis Fatima, a 64-year Pakistani refugee in...
Downtown Eastside
Last week, four Downtown Eastside residents went to court to challenge a Vancouver bylaw that effectively prohibits subsistence street vending in the city. The...
News
SFU Institute for the Humanities and The Mainlander Present: Policing the Crisis in Vancouver Tuesday, April 29th – 7:00pm Please note location change to...
Downtown Eastside
Louise Lagimodiere (right) and Dave Hamm (left) – Photo by Ward Perrin, The Province Louise Lagimodiere (picture above) is a 70-year old Indigenous senior...
City Hall
Last week the Vancouver Police Board voted to dismiss a joint complaint filed in March 2013 by VANDU (Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users)...
Police
On Monday, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson confirmed his support of the criminalization of dissent. Following the Vancouver Police Department’s recent threat of arrests against...
City Hall
Photo credit: DM GILLIS After ten steady weeks of nightly protests by anti-poverty activists in front of the PiDGiN restaurant in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside,...
City Hall
This article was originally posted at timlouis.ca Much of the past century saw a winning-streak by the right wing NPA, Vancouver’s historic party of wealth and...
City Hall
On Saturday, September 2 2012, the Vancouver Police Department once again demolished the cart of a homeless DTES resident. The cart contained personal belongings...
