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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
Anti-ABC parties must do more to support tenants in the struggle against mass displacement
Failure to ensure city centre overdose prevention site reflects BC NDP deadly abandonment of people who use drugs: Healthcare workers, legal advocates
Academy at Woodward's marks "tactical escalation" by Vancouver police, writes drug user education group
- 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
Class War
"This concentration of force is a direct attack on the neighbourhood, turning our streets into training grounds for police tactics"
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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Photo credit: Murray Bush, Vancouver Media Coop “There was no one in this building for as long as anyone can remember. Then we came...
Gentrification
Vancouver misses housing goals: 'Report Card' gives A+ for privatization and deregulation of housing
This week the City has released a Report Card evaluating its progress on housing and homelessness. The Report Card gives an A+ to Vision...
Gentrification
London’s 2012 Olympic Games housing legacy is undeniable. It is a legacy of evictions, displacement, gentrification and social cleansing. The ever-worsening housing crisis has...
News
This morning, anti-poverty activists protested inside NDP leader Adrian Dix’s office in the Joyce-Collingwood neighbourhood of Vancouver. They say that the NDP has yet...
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Jenn Jackson July 2012, installed at The Crying Room, Vancouver This past December, the Conservatives forced through legislative changes to nearly every aspect of First...
Homelessness
Credit: Vlastula on Flickr Public backlash yesterday against the City's plan to increase fines on homelessness and street-vending to $10,000 caused the Mayor’s office...
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Image by Ahamedia On today’s agenda at City Hall sits a proposal to increase the maximum fines on 42 city by-laws by a factor...
Art & Culture
Solterra President Gerry Nichele (centre) with VP Mike Bosa (right) EDITOR'S NOTE | On Jan 20th 2013, the Waldorf Hotel will close its doors...
Environment
Pick up any new condo ad and you get the sense that Vancouver is perpetually stuck in summer. Sun-drenched landscapes open up to lush...
Analysis
Currently there is a debate raging about the pros and cons of Save-on-Meats in the Downtown Eastside. The latest is a polarizing sandwich token...
Analysis
Over the past two years, a proposed development in the heart of North Vancouver has severely divided public opinion. This conflict came to its...
Analysis
Heather Place public housing near VGH, which is slated for demolition and redevelopment in the coming years, has received significant media attention this week....
Analysis
We all know the expression, “beggars can’t be choosers.” With one month left before Christmas, Downtown Eastside restaurant mogul Mark Brand Inc has launched...
News
Tues Dec 11, 2012 -- Today at 2pm, the Downtown Eastside not for Developers coalition (DNFD) is holding a demonstration against the government bailout...