Opinion
Translink has announced that in the new year it will raise fares by 10% to 12.5%. But these fare increases are not fair, and...
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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
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
OP-ED | Make Holborn Pay for Loss of the Dunsmuir Hotel
- Features
- Toxic drug crisis
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.
News
This past Saturday British Columbians took to the streets to build public support for social housing and rent control in the lead-up to next...
Analysis
Editors’ note: This is the first part of a series exploring the politics of sustainability, development and urban entrepreneurialism. The second part of this...
News
SFU's Teaching Support Staff Union has issued a notice that they will be kicking off more job action tomorrow. On November 7th, the TSSU...
Analysis
A plan to redevelop the Oakridge Mall at Cambie and 41st, unveiled this past week, includes 2,800 condo units in 16 buildings, 6 of...
History
Most of the few remaining rights and affordable housing that tenants have in British Columbia were earned by working class activists and renters in...
City Hall
Vision Vancouver has recently approved a long-term transportation plan. One of the stated aims of the plan is to increase the percentage of foot, bike...
News
Yesterday morning, tenants of non-profit housing near Commercial Drive held a press conference to support two of their neighbours currently fighting evictions. In collaboration...
City Hall
Recently Vancouver’s ruling party, Vision Vancouver, appears to be working at cross purposes with itself. On one hand, it is pursuing the most aggressively...
Uncategorized
• This is a response to a recent letter written by Geoff Meggs addressed to The Mainlander and the Vancouver Renters’ Union, where he accused...
City Hall
City Hall is taking steps towards removing the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts, leaving high-cost housing and new traffic problems in their place. The City...
News
Today the pending eviction of the remaining four households at Little Mountain Housing was officially cancelled. As stated in a press release signed jointly...
City Hall
This weekend NDP voters in the Vancouver-Fairview riding rejected Vision councillor Geoff Meggs as their representative in the upcoming provincial elections. The defeat of...
Analysis
The rent bank is being used as a political tool by Vision to gloss over their inadequate efforts to provide real solutions for Vancouver’s...
City Hall
Former city councilor Ellen Woodsworth speaks about her experience not only as a personal loss, but also as another casualty in Vancouver’s diminishing affordable...