Gentrification
On mornings when I open the café, I walk about fifteen minutes down Kingsway towards its awkward intersection with Main. While not very scenic...
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- Toxic drug crisis
Failure to ensure city centre overdose prevention site reflects BC NDP deadly abandonment of people who use drugs: Healthcare workers, legal advocates
Emergency decade
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
- Housing
INTERVIEW | Inside the BC NDP’s alarming proposal to weaken tenant rights in supportive 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
- Features
- Toxic drug crisis
Featured
Care Not Cops, Pivot Legal, BCCLA & BCNUSJ call for action on the 10-year long toxic drug supply emergency
Class War
"This concentration of force is a direct attack on the neighbourhood, turning our streets into training grounds for police tactics"
Analysis
After 30 years of operating as a community organization by and for sex workers, PACE closed its services in 2025.
Police
Photo by Kayla Isomura In late November, 2014, Du Na Phuong (Tony) was shot by the Vancouver Police Department at the intersection of Knight...
Transit
OP-ED | The Bitter Twilight of Social Democracy: NDP, unions and enviro NGOs back transit referendum
Leaders of the transit referendum’s “yes” side | Photo credit: Business in Vancouver This spring, the provincial government will be asking Metro Vancouver residents...
City Hall
Today, the City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Public Library broke ground on a new library in Strathcona. The new VPL branch includes...
City Hall
Image from the First Peoples Guide for Newcomers, published by the City of Vancouver (2014) On June 24th, 2014, Vancouver city council voted unanimously to...
Police
Trigger warning – this article contains descriptions of police violence. Last week, on November 22nd, a Vancouver Police Department (VPD) officer shot and killed...
Police
Policing and the Neoliberal Containment State | Panel discussion with Kabir Joshi-Vijayan Monday, December 1 @ 7pm Room 1700, SFU Harbour Centre (515 W...
Indigenous Sovereignty
As of this evening, 53 people have been arrested in a sustained act of resistance against Kinder Morgan’s drilling on Burnaby Mountain. The...
Downtown Eastside
Yesterday, November 21st, was the national day of action on housing, with events and actions happening across the country. As part of this movement...
Immigration
November 20th marks 104 years since the Mexican Revolution of 1910, but in 2014 thousands march in Mexico City over the suspected massacre of...
City Hall
During this campaign Vision Vancouver has promoted their affordable housing record. But the numbers aren’t real. They’re not even half real. It's upsetting because...
Uncategorized
Tenants fight renovictions at 1850 Adanac, May 2012 Like many of today’s major cities, Vancouver is a city of slum-landlords – owners of substandard...
City Hall
Ignore the fact that tanker traffic has doubled in the Burrard Inlet under Vision’s watch, up by over 100%. Set aside the fact that...
City Hall
"Forget the issues, our politicians are now brands," BC Business Magazine (November 2014) p. 58 This election season, Vision Vancouver and the Non Partisan...
Environment
Over eighty community, labour and environmental groups have released an open letter in support of Caretakers of Burnaby Mountain and Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder...