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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...
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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.
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...
News
On Thursday, September 27th, the Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU) at Simon Fraser University has served their employer, Simon Fraser University, with a 72...
Gentrification
The world has lost a key thinker and an inspirational person. The geographer Neil Smith passed away in New York early in the morning...
City Hall
This article was originally posted on thecityfm.org Mayor Gregor Robertson’s Task Force on housing affordability avoided using Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s (CMHC) definition...
History
Yesterday Vision Vancouver released its final report on Housing Affordability in Vancouver. Shortly after being elected for a second term, Vision created an Affordability...
City Hall
This article was originally posted at timlouis.ca Much of the past century saw a winning-streak by the right wing NPA, Vancouver’s historic party of wealth and...
Housing
In 2008 a financial crash in the United States was quickly followed by the most severe global economic contraction since the Great Depression....
City Hall
Along the north eastern shores of False Creek, between Science World and BC Place, lies a vast expanse of land owned by developer Concord...
Homelessness
Vancouver has a long history of playing shell games with homeless shelters. Shelter residents have created the term “shelter shuffling” to communicate the harsh...
Column
This article was originally posted at timlouis.ca This week, City Councillors will be returning to City Hall from their summer break. One of the...
News
This morning, supporters gathered at the Little Mountain housing project to hear tenants speak out about their upcoming eviction hearing at the Residential Tenancy...
City Hall
Photograph of shopping-cart demolition last year, June 25, 2011. The VPD prohibits the demolition of a homeless persons’ property under the Abandoned Property Policy,...
News
Yesterday, over 27,000 workers in the BC Government and Service Employee’s Union went on strike; the largest job action the Union has taken in...
Art & Culture
I.) In a time of periodic riots, enthusiastic uprisings and the rejuvenation of mass mobilizations of the oppressed, a new rebellious subjectivity has re-emerged...