Art & Culture
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology Dir: Sophie Fiennes May 5 at the DOXA Film Festival Sophie Fiennes' new film, The Pervert's Guide to Ideology,...
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- Essays
- Housing
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
Post-Mortem of a Failed Policy Fix: Temporary Modular Housing in Vancouver (2016–2023)
- Policing & Carcerality
- Toxic Drug Crisis
Nowhere to seek safety as gender-based violence worsens under drug supply & displacement crises
Reversal of Bill 34 is a People’s Victory
Empty detox beds do not fix the poisoned supply or keep people safe.
From the US Border to Whalley & the Downtown Eastside: Drug Bust Stories Should Never be One-Sided Celebrations
Surrey Union of Drug Users Opens Pop-Up Inhalation Tent in Whalley
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....
News
Elizabeth Comack's Racialized Policing: Aboriginal People’s Encounters with the Police unflinchingly describes disturbing police behaviours toward Indigenous peoples that enforce the racial order so...
News
Most Canadian intellectuals ask too many questions. They seem to love posing the kind of rhetorical query that hides a vicious truth-claim behind the...
Reviews
We never thought they'd deport him. It seemed that, as a journalist in Pakistan, the Old Man had pissed off a general or two...
Art & Culture
The yellow record label on OK VANCOUVER OK's new food Shelter water LP reads: "CAPITALISM DOESN'T WORK AND IT MAKES YOU SAD". That's an...
Reviews
The struggles against pipelines and tankers, against colonial dispossession, span from Vancouver to Haida Gwaii. The Haida were among the first to take a...
Art & Culture
Juan Manuel Sepúlveda’s film, Every Image calls for its Redemption - Matter is not created nor destroyed (it only changes form) (2012) sets off...
Analysis
Nina Power, One-Dimensional Woman, London: Zero Books, 2009. 81 pages. ISBN: 9781846942419 Nina Power’s One-Dimensional Woman provocatively takes the cue for its title and...
Art & Culture
Photography in Vancouver during the 1980s passed through an experimental phase that destabilized the technological determinism and established perspectives of image-making in the 20th...
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...