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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.
Housing
Two weeks after Vancouver was once again named one of the most unaffordable cities in the world, Mayor Gregor Robertson has unilaterally appointed the...
Uncategorized
Vancouver’s 6-year Director of Planning has been fired by city council. In lieu of a normal transition process, the city has fired Toderian without...
City Hall
In a report to the Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) members this weekend, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) representative Bill Pegler delivered a...
Gentrification
Main Street has become a frontier for high-end real-estate development. Whether at Little Mountain, 33rd Avenue, King Edward, 16th Avenue, Broadway, South East False...
Art & Culture
“With the upheaval of the market economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.” -...
Art & Culture
For the last three years, there has been a broad increase in private and public support of the arts in Vancouver. This augmentation in...
Features
Although the Mayor's "affordable housing task force" is unlikely to drive real change, it could have the positive impact of triggering public debate around...
Downtown Eastside
The Mainlander is featured in the civic politics segment every Tuesday morning between 7am-8am on Vancouver Co-op Radio 102.7 This Tuesday Dec 20 2011, The Mainlander's Sean...
Analysis
This Tuesday, the Vision-controlled City Council struck a developer-run “affordable housing” task force. The public debate surrounding the affordability crisis has begun in earnest...
City Hall
Vision Vancouver-dominated city council voted yesterday, Tues Dec 13, to approve the terms of reference for a so-called "affordability task force." The task force...
City Hall
The Mainlander is featured in the civic politics segment every Tuesday morning between 7am-8am on Vancouver Co-op Radio 102.7 This Tuesday Dec 13 2011, The...
Gentrification
The new plan for the redevelopment of Little Mountain neighbourhood in East Vancouver has been released to the public. The plan calls for wholesale...
Downtown Eastside
Over the past weeks, Vancouver’s homeless shelters have been over-flowing. In this article Maria Wallstam and Nathan Crompton argue that this year there are...
Analysis
Vancouver's civic election on Saturday has brought us a new City Council. But as the five million dollar campaign fades, we should take a...