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Today The Mainlander and the SFU Institute for Humanities are co-hosting a panel discussion with Chris Dixon, a longtime writer, educator and non-hierarchical/anarchist organizer....
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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.
Homelessness
When they are pressed to comment on social housing and homelessness, most civic politicians pass the buck. It’s a Federal and Provincial responsibility, they...
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Downtown Eastside Votes, a newly-formed group of residents, is organizing a voter registration drive in the Downtown Eastside. The DTES neighbourhood has the...
Immigration
This past week an all-white jury listened to testimony at the inquest into the death of Lucia Vega Jimenez while in Canada Border Service...
Art & Culture
For the past year The Mainlander’s editorial collective has been working to diversify our range of content, deepen our engagement with local politics,...
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Oppenheimer Park (August 4, 2014), Open-air meeting of the VANDU Tuesday Education Group Today Vision Vancouver issued another eviction notice to the residents of...
Art & Culture
From Genero Sound Often, we liken cafés to living rooms due to their hospitable decorum. To apply that comparison to a concert floor, however,...
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Earlier this week the Mayor and city council voted to approve the recommendations of the Mental Health and Addictions Task Force. At the public...
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A coalition of eight immigrant, refugee and Latin American community groups have been denied participant status by the BC Coroners Service into the death...
Education
Tomorrow morning a group of parents and supporters will be picketing outside one of Vancouver's most well-funded private schools. While public schools remain closed,...
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Contained within a reasonably small vestibule on the 6th floor of the Vancouver Public Library Central Branch was a picture archive. It was...
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This event will take place at SFU Harbour Centre, in room 2270, this Thursday from 7-9pm. With Dr. Ama Biney, author of The...
Immigration
Osman Fernando de León Reyes, a 29-year old Guatemalan man, is facing deportation from Surrey next week. His lawyer is seeking a judicial stay...
Immigration
Yesterday a media leak revealed that immigration officials are recommending the removal of citizenship rights from babies born to non-residents in Canada. This came...
Police
Immigration detention is Canada’s fastest growing form of incarceration. Pending deportation, the Canadian governments puts migrants in immigration hold, separating them from their families,...