Art & Culture
Editor’s Introduction | In the past year, across North America, artists in solidarity with anti-displacement struggles are voicing their discontent with the neoliberal turn...
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- Toxic Drug Crisis
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
Empty detox beds do not fix the poisoned supply or keep people safe
- 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
Gentrification
Today a coalition of Vancouver tenants, including artists, activists, and community organizers held an alternative tour and protest of Westbank’s Fight For Beauty exhibition. The...
Art & Culture
Editorial Introduction Despite the latest rejection of Beedie Living’s application to build market housing at 105 Keefer, the ongoing gentrification of Chinatown remains a...
City Hall
This year there are eight candidates running in the Vancouver city council by-election, including Jean Swanson and Judy Graves. Given their longtime involvement in...
Analysis
Editorial Note | What follows is a personal essay written by a long-term resident of Belvedere Court, Sean MacPherson. The Belvedere is a rental apartment...
Art & Culture
This letter is a response to CBC Radio One’s August 11, 2017 coverage of the Vancouver Mural Festival on the program The Early...
Art & Culture
While arts and culture aren’t bad things, governments and developers have increasingly instrumentalized them as a way to stimulate market value in marginalized and...
Homelessness
Evictions, rent increases, and developer tax breaks — when it comes to the housing crisis it is hard to see where the parties truly differ. “Every day...
Analysis
Gay movements in Canada must confront the history of the Canadian state or risk folding into the nation-building project of dispossession As Canada 150...
Art & Culture
I. In Vancouver, there is no image of nature that is not at the same time an image of private property. Possession structures the...