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Artwork by Rocky Tobey. Found at Justseeds. On Sunday, August 10th, people both inside and outside the prison system came together in solidarity against...
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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.
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The Mainlander is an online publication based in Vancouver that focuses on local social justice issues and radical politics. After three years, with the...
Downtown Eastside
WEST VANCOUVER, UNCEDED COAST SALISH TERRITORIES: On Wednesday August 6th, Downtown Eastside residents evicted from gentrified hotels, Oppenheimer homeless campers, and housing advocates held...
Analysis
Part of the history of the last five centuries on these territories is the story of Europeans displacing Indigenous peoples for economic gain....
Gentrification
This weekend, several hundred people took to the streets in Vancouver to highlight the housing crisis and protest against corporate housing policies. In 2014,...
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Vancouver’s housing crisis has never been worse. That’s not just a turn of phrase – 2014 marks the largest homeless population ever recorded in...
News
City-Wide Housing March Saturday July 26th Meet 138 E Hastings, 1PM End the evictions, empower the people. Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish territories The housing crisis...
Downtown Eastside
Editors’ Note | Tomorrow, Sunday morning at 7am, the Mayor's Encampment Committee is going to try to evict the tent city at Oppenheimer park....
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Photographs by Mauricio Rivera Yesterday hundreds gathered in downtown Vancouver–Coast Salish Territories to march in solidarity with Palestinians. People gathered in front of the...
Analysis
St. Ehlmo hotel, photo credit: Susannah Anderson On May 31st, 2014, another Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Hotel in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side (DTES) was sold...
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Mag sumite sa Mainlander Filipino edisyon Sa nakalipas na ilang taon ang Mainlander ay nabuo bilang isa sa mga tagapagtaguyod ng progresibong pagsusuri ng...
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This is the second part of a two-part series. Part I can be found here. Labour market management: Controlling the ‘surplus population’ Managing the...
Analysis
Photo credit: Melanie Cervantes With recent media scandals about the abuse of temporary foreign workers and the subsequent outrage about migrant workers stealing Canadians’ jobs,...
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Is it better for the province to give rent supplements to low income people than to build more social housing? This is an important...