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Mayor and Police Chief at Vancouver Police Board (Sept 17th, 2013) Last week Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson held a joint press conference with the...
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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
- Features
- Toxic drug crisis
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.
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Vision Vancouver can always be relied-upon to see one thing with clarity: image. While I find many faults with the current city council, their...
News
Press conference this morning about the York Rooms Hotel evictions Tune in now to hear The Mainlander's first radio show (the show begins around 2:30)....
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Photo credit: Pivot Legal Society A mass “renoviction” is underway at the York Rooms hotel on the Downtown Eastside. The York is a Single...
News
Model of False Creek Bob Ransford has recently published yet another article in the Vancouver Sun repeating his mantra that the affordability crisis in...
Art & Culture
Beyond the highly publicized and debated issues that pertain to Vancouver’s visual and physical space, mainly focused on the Downtown Eastside, there is a...
History
EDITORIAL. This year marks 100 years since the dispossession of the Kitsilano Reserve. Today also marks the renewed displacement and dislocation of diverse communities...
Downtown Eastside
Low income residents taking the street at a Rally against Displacement and Gentrification on June 14th, 2013 Last week the City of Vancouver released...
News
It’s Sunday early evening and we’re at Victory Square, a park in Vancouver, holding a Vigil for Trayvon Martin. We’re here to mourn Martin’s...
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On June 10th, The Mainlander hosted The Foreign Invest Myth: Understanding the Housing Crisis & Confronting Racism in Vancouver, a panel with Jackie Wong, Pablo Mendez and...
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Jose Guadalupe Posada, “Calavera de Don Quijote” Mexican printmaker & political cartoonist (1852-1913) This week another high-end destination restaurant has opened in the heart...
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Photos: DM GILLIS As summer sets in, city staff are already making preparations for the coming fall. For the Downtown Eastside this means that...
Immigration
Editor’s Note: This article is the first in a Mainlander series that will bring the research of academics into the public sphere. The...
Downtown Eastside
Last week, Pidgin co-owner Brandon Grossutti stole the satirical mascot known as "the People's Pickle" from the protest picket outside his restaurant. According to...