Analysis
Gender-based violence is not new to the province of British Columbia (BC), to the city of Vancouver, or to the Downtown Eastside (DTES). But...
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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.
Book Review
Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal, a new book by Mohammed El-Kurd, is a necessary meditation on the tensions of complying with parameters...
ABC Vancouver
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has announced a plan to freeze supportive housing development in the Downtown Eastside (DTES). The plan is part of a...
ABC Vancouver
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is obsessed with keeping the city’s Downtown Eastside on his tongue. The residents, the neighbourhood, the backdrop – the DTES...
tenant's rights
Abby Leung has lived in the same suite — the ground floor of a Vancouver Special in Joyce-Collingwood — for 17 years. She has...
Forced treatment
Between 2008 and 2018, use of involuntary treatment under the Mental Health Act (MHA) more than doubled from 560 to 1,140 times per year...
ABC Vancouver
The Vancouver Public Library (“VPL”) has implemented a branch-wide ban on employees who show symbols of support for the Palestinian people. According to internal...
Toxic Drug Crisis
On Oct 5, 2023, BC NDP Premier David Eby and Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth announced their intent to increase police tools and discretion...
ABC Vancouver
On Dec. 18, Vancouver City Council approved the demolition of the Dunsmuir Hotel, a single-room occupancy building with 167 units at the corner of...
Toxic Drug Crisis
As I write this I am sitting in the only detox facility in the West Kootenays, in the interior of British Columbia. I am...
Labour
On Sept. 11, a near-unanimous majority of workers at Massy Books and Massy Arts Society voted to join the Arts and Cultural Workers’ Union,...
Column
There appears to be a growing consensus between the two dominant poles of politics in British Columbia. The Conservatives and the BC NDP have...
Racial Capitalism
None of us are free until all of us are free. At the core of our vision is a world built on mutual care...
ABC Vancouver
Introduction For more than two decades, the number of people living without a home in Vancouver has continued to climb. No level of government...
Dispatches
From the Surrey Union of Drug Users’ Research Committee & Police Oversight with Evidence and Research (P.O.W.E.R) at the Vancouver Area Network of Drug...