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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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- 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
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Anti-ABC parties must do more to support tenants in the struggle against mass displacement
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
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ABC Vancouver
With October’s municipal election approaching, organizers with the Vancouver Tenants Union advocate for firmer opposition to displacement from progressive city councillors.
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Care Not Cops, Pivot Legal, BCCLA & BCNUSJ call for action on the 10-year long toxic drug supply emergency
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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Is it better for the province to give rent supplements to low income people than to build more social housing? This is an important...
Analysis
AUTHOR'S NOTE | This article emerges from 5 years of working as a community organizer for the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)....
Indigenous Sovereignty
The following is a speech by Natalie Knight delivered at "Decolonization 101," a panel organized by Streams of Justice on June 2, 2014. The...
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Photo courtesy of BCTF Today I was one of the 28,809 teachers that voted yes in favour of a strike escalation. I did so...
Immigration
Lynval Daley has been in immigration hold for three years while Canada attempts to deport him to Jamaica since they has trouble in proving...
Housing
“The Bird Sanctuary” is the name tenants have for the third floor room of the Clifton Hotel where an unsealed window opens the way...
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Postering: one of the many activities you can participate in. The Mainlander is currently looking for more writers and editors to cover diverse political...
Analysis
Image credit: No One is Illegal Toronto One of the experiences that propelled me into the migrant justice movement occurred thirteen years ago when...
News
Decolonization 101: What it is and why it matters Community Forum organized by Streams of Justice Panelists Glen Coulthard – Yellowknives Dene scholar and...
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After entering Burrard Inlet in the early morning of May 23rd, 1914, the Komagata Maru stopped a kilometre from the shore and dropped anchor....
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The Mainlander has been covering municipal politics from a critical perspective for four years, and our last year has been spent digging deeper into...
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David Chudnovsky with Vision councillor Tony Tang, photo credit: Brent Granby In 2008 Vision Vancouver was elected on a platform to end homelessness and...
Analysis
International Workers’ Day Statement by No One Is Illegal Toronto and No One Is Illegal Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory Last Thursday, Jason Kenney announced...
Downtown Eastside
Editor’s note: William Damon will be speaking at Policing the Crisis in Vancouver, an upcoming event co-organized by The Mainlander and SFU’s Institute for...