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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.
Uncategorized
Vision Vancouver dominated yesterday's Vancouver civic election. They elected each of their candidates for City Council, Parks Board, and School Board. The right-wing NPA...
Analysis
Definitions Democracy axis: City Hall is currently controlled by developers that finance the large political parties. An alternative approach is for council to...
Election 2011
The Vancouver municipal election takes place this Saturday November 19th. Here the editors of the Mainlander present our endorsements for Vancouver City Council, Parks Board,...
City Hall
At the recent Homelessness and Affordable Housing debate (Nov 7, St. Andrew's–Wesley Church), mayoral candidates Gregor Robertson and Suzanne Anton said a lot of...
Art & Culture
The Mainlander's Sean Antrim sat down with their Mayoral candidate Randy Helten of Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver (NSV) to talk about affordability, accountability,...
#occupyvancouver
These are notes towards -- what? -- a manifesto? list of demands? Not really. Just three key thoughts/impressions about the Occupy movement that have...
Analysis
Here are five basic things you'll need to know to guide you through the fog of the 2011 Vancouver civic election campaign 1. Both...
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Below, Tristan Markle of The Mainlander interviews Vision Vancouver's Geoff Meggs, who is running for re-election to Vancouver City Council. We discuss Vancouver's...
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Mayoral candidates debate against the public Tonight’s mayoral debate on homelessness and affordable housing was a heated fight -- not between the two candidates, but between...
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Ashlie Gough, only 23 years old, passed away November 5th 2011 during a weekend visit to Vancouver from Victoria. Ashlie passed before her time,...
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Today the mayor announced that the city will be ending the occupation of the Vancouver Art Gallery. The announcement comes as a surprise for...
Analysis
Here Sean Antrim of The Mainlander interviews Sandy Garossino, who is running as an independent candidate for Vancouver City Council this November 19. Sean...
Analysis
At the top of the entrance to the Georgia and Granville skytrain station, the actor who played the former chief coroner of BC and...
City Hall
Here Sean Antrim and Tristan Markle of the Mainlander interview Adriane Carr and Stuart Mackinnon of Vancouver's Civic Green Party. Mackinnon is an incumbent...