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The demolition of a historic building on 439 Powell Street that was initially scheduled for Monday morning has been put on hold until at...
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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
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.
Featured
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.
News
Season 1, Episode 16 After Haiyan: The politics of disaster relief in the Philippines Co-hosts: Aiyanas Ormond and Tristan Markle Click HERE to listen On...
Downtown Eastside
Louise Lagimodiere (right) and Dave Hamm (left) – Photo by Ward Perrin, The Province Louise Lagimodiere (picture above) is a 70-year old Indigenous senior...
City Hall
Last week, Vision Vancouver city councilor Geoff Meggs wrote an opinion piece for The Tyee claiming that City Hall is taking bold steps to...
Immigration
On Oct 21st 2013, The Mainlander hosted the The Sanctuary City Movement: Challenges and Possibilities, featuring Gil Aguilar of the Agricultural Workers Alliance-Surrey, Harsha...
News
Season 1, Episode 13 Victoria vs. Vancouver: Poverty, Gentrification and the War on Drugs Co-hosts: Tristan Markle and Nathan Crompton Click HERE to listen...
News
Season 1, Episode 12 "If capitalism doesn't work, what does?" - Highlights from the annual World Peace Forum teach-in in Vancouver Co-hosts: Daniel Tseghay...
Environment
Photo credit: Murray Bush for VMC This past week, several local environmental groups asked us to reassess Vancouver's role in the climate crisis. On...
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Community paint-in at former police station, Main & Cordova, April 14, 2013 In a recent interview, Mayor Gregor Robertson joked about how cool it...
News
Season 1, Episode 11 How to build a sanctuary city Click HERE to listen Co-hosts: Daniel Tseghay and Tristan Markle On this episode of...
Reviews
We never thought they'd deport him. It seemed that, as a journalist in Pakistan, the Old Man had pissed off a general or two...
Environment
Crouching in the grass, armed with snipers and dressed in military fatigues, they aim their assault rifles at elders, women, and children. "Don’t point...
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Photo Credit: Murray Bush, Flux Photo Vancouver residents will remember the 2009 and 2010 dockings of the MV Sun Sea and Ocean Lady. These...
News
The Sanctuary City Movement: Challenges and Possibilities Alejandra Lopez – Sanctuary Health Tracey Mann & Harsha Walia – No One is Illegal, Vancouver Unceded...
City Hall
Last week the Vancouver Police Board voted to dismiss a joint complaint filed in March 2013 by VANDU (Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users)...