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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...

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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...