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...
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- Toxic Drug Crisis
Premier Eby hazardously misrepresents Sublocade while endorsing forced treatment of youth
STATEMENT: VANDU Education Group Stands with DULF Compassion Club
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
- 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
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...
Environment
This weekend Cafe Rebelde will be hosting The Struggle For the Land, an event that combines a photo exhibit, food, community theatre, followed by...
Environment
As part of a wave of anti-pipeline actions across BC this week, Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Expansion (BROKE) organized a march and rally...
History
Henry Yu is a professor in the History Department at UBC, where he researches and lectures on the history of migration, racism, and early...
Uncategorized
Earlier this fall, Vancouver’s Gallery Gachet was notified that 100 percent of their funding from Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) will be cut by December....
Housing
On Tuesday November 24th, protesters from the "Stop Demo-victions Burnaby" campaign brought their message to Burnaby City Hall. Chanting and singing, they marched into council chambers...
