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Artwork by Rocky Tobey. Found at Justseeds. On Sunday, August 10th, people both inside and outside the prison system came together in solidarity against...
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- Toxic Drug Crisis
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
Nowhere to seek safety as gender-based violence worsens under drug supply & displacement crises
Reversal of Bill 34 is a People’s Victory
- Housing
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
“Forget it, leave us here:” East Van Tenants Draw Crowd to Reject Eviction by Landlord Loophole
Understanding Canada’s State-Backed Real Estate Crisis
Analysis
Gender-based violence is not new to the province of British Columbia (BC), to the city of Vancouver, or to the Downtown Eastside (DTES). But...
Police
Content warning: The officers blog posts will likely be disturbing for some, and topics of police violence and harassment are discussed in this article. ...
Dispatches
As community members filed in, the auditorium at Japanese Language Hall began to ring with connections old and new. Organizations handed out harm reduction...
Analysis
It’s raining heavily and the uniforms of Vancouver city workers are easy to spot alongside a slow moving garbage truck. A Vancouver Police Department...
Analysis
AUTHOR’S NOTE | This article emerges from 5 years of working as a community organizer for the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)....
Analysis
Image credit: No One is Illegal Toronto One of the experiences that propelled me into the migrant justice movement occurred thirteen years ago when...
Downtown Eastside
Editor’s note: William Damon will be speaking at Policing the Crisis in Vancouver, an upcoming event co-organized by The Mainlander and SFU’s Institute for...
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...
