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Vancouver historian Michael Barnholden has written that there are at least two recurring themes in Vancouver’s political discourse. The first is a theme of...
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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
This month more buildings were added to the list of disappearing affordable housing in Vancouver. On May 1st the Colonial and Seaview hotels were...
Analysis
According to Metro Vancouver's Homelessness Count released today, the number of homeless folks in Vancouver increased from 1,580 to 1,605 over the last 3...
Analysis
Cambie Street just got a little 'denser', in more ways than one. By approving Phase 2 of the so-called Cambie Corridor Plan, not only...
City Hall
Over the past two years, Vancouver City Council and its Planning Department have been increasing height allowances throughout the City. Almost every neighbourhood faces...
City Hall
Thanks to a single municipality with clear vision and sturdy backbone — Coquitlam — the juggernaut Regional Growth Strategy (RGS) has at least temporarily...
City Hall
This week, Taiwan implemented a "luxury tax" on housing properties lying dormant due to speculation (as reported by the BBC). This begs the...
Art & Culture
This week, Downtown Eastside residents rallied at the abandoned Pantages Theatre on the 100 block of East Hastings, and painted its facade with slogans...
Analysis
Last week Sean Antrim outlined how the past three years of a Vision government has been anything but progressive. For reasons of principle and...
Gentrification
It is two months since The Mainlander hosted a story on new Chinese housing policy that is exporting real estate investment pressures — especially...
City Hall
By deciding to arrest the group of eight, Mayor Robertson made a clear choice, sending a clear message. Robertson is no longer the "End...
Analysis
COPE's Executive announced today that it has negotiated a coalition deal whereby COPE will limit the number of council members it will run in...
Uncategorized
Three more shelters are supposed to close this week. The closures seem inevitable, but they are not. Today, people living at the three remaining...
City Hall
Five homeless shelters are scheduled for closure in Vancouver this week because the provincial government refuses to regularize funding. Each of the 5 shelters...
City Hall
The anti-protest bylaw passed by Mayor Robertson this week will hurt the homeless, Darcie Bennett of PIVOT Legal Society told The Mainlander. The bylaw...