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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.
#occupyvancouver
Many occupiers have wondered about the city’s Street & Traffic By-Law 71.1, posted on city signs throughout the Art Gallery grounds. The purpose...
City Hall
The 2011 Vancouver municipal election is in full swing. What do the candidates really think, and what can we expect of them? The Mainlander...
City Hall
Vision Vancouver, Vancouver's ruling party, won an election in 2008 by promising to "end homelessness." But since that time, the party has adopted a...
#occupyvancouver
As protests in solidarity with #OccupyWallStreet spread across the continent, the "99%'ers" here are beginning to think about what #OccupyVancouver might look like. This...
Analysis
This weekend, Vision Vancouver declared its official kick-off of the 2011 civic election campaign. The party sent members a video of a speech by...
Analysis
Today, 614 COPE members cast ballots to nominate candidates for this fall's Vancouver civic elections. The turnout was large, at least when compared to...
Analysis
Anyone who witnessed on 19 April 2011 the seven hours — all morning and all evening — that Vancouver City Council spent cobbling together...
Analysis
I) Vancouver’s ‘Reserve Army’ For Vancouver’s unemployed and working poor, social and economic life is increasingly precarious. Ruled by a post-Fordist economy determined by...
Gentrification
"Vancouver - Is homeownership becoming a far-fetched dream?" That is the question at the heading of a new housing affordability report by RBC Economics...
Environment
[ Graphic Is Building Massing Drawing for STIR Project Now Under Construction at 3522 Porter Street, 1896-1898 Victoria Diversion, 3615 Victoria Drive (DE413947) ] Short Term...
Uncategorized
[First published at The Tyee. Tyee Editor's Note: Vancouver revels in its reputation as North America's most 'livable’ city. Yet for as many as...
Analysis
This week, City Council approved a massive rezoning request by developer Wall Financial Corporation for Shannon Mews in Kerrisdale. Kerrisdale is but one of...
Analysis
On July 27, council's Standing Committee on Transportation and Traffic voted to begin a comprehensive planning process for the future of the False Creek...
City Hall
This week the City released its three-year plan for addressing housing affordability in Vancouver. The plan has been received with wide appeal as an...