Gentrification
On a cold Saturday night in January a haphazard line-up has formed outside the Fox Cabaret. Everyone is underdressed – young women with leather...
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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
Art & Culture
In the central rotunda of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Alison Yip has constructed a mural of a ruined gazebo. Rendered in trompe l’oeil, Yip’s...
Gentrification
During the last weeks of August, many Vancouverites spent time checking out the city’s first annual Mural Festival – an exhibition of 35...
Art & Culture
Last spring, an Economist article declared Vienna, Geneva, and Vancouver to be “mind-numbingly boring” cities. The concept is well worn. The author of the...
Downtown Eastside
A small media storm emerged last week after a profile of ‘Socially Responsible Vancouver tours‘ appeared in Travel section of the Toronto Star. Since...
Downtown Eastside
Photo credit: @woodwardsmile In 2008, Gregor Robertson built his successful mayoral campaign around the tragic death of Darrel Mikasko, a homeless man who burned...
Homelessness
In their annual Housing and Homelessness Report Card, the City of Vancouver reports that 1,683 units of new social housing are in development or...
Event
The Volcano is an independent printed newspaper in British Columbia distributed four times a year. The Volcano reports on low-income, working-class, and Indigenous peoples’...
Downtown Eastside
April of this year marks nine years since welfare rates – still frozen at $610 a month for a single person – have gone...
Transit
Transit prices are unaffordable for an increasing number of people in British Columbia. But they’re especially costly for recipients of welfare, who today receive...