Analysis
For the last few years the City has repeatedly claimed that there is no money for housing. As the Mayor said last October when...
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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
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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
Analysis
After 30 years of operating as a community organization by and for sex workers, PACE closed its services in 2025.
Art & Culture
BCCLA REPORT ON RCMP | A report released this week by the BC Civil Liberties Association has given a glimpse into what life can be like...
Uncategorized
The City of Vancouver currently has the lowest business taxes in the world. A report published by the global financial auditor KPMG places Vancouver...
City Hall
VANCOUVER VIEWS | Later today at City Hall there will be a discussion and vote on "Vancouver Views," a policy that would see increased heights...
City Hall
This past Thursday, the Vancouver Police Department published a press release about a series of arrests made in the Downtown Eastside. It describes eight...
Analysis
Last Thursday, grassroots pressure forced Vancouver City Council to halt plans for two condo towers, as well as halting overall plans for height upzoning...
City Hall
AFFORDABILITY | Several BC cities have been ranked "severely unaffordable" in a recent world-wide affordability report. The list included Vancouver, Victoria, Abbotsford and Kelowna.Vancouver...
City Hall
Instead of hearing 80 speakers from the public, City Council voted today to defer hearings until a later consulation. Fifty of those speakers were at...
Analysis
Mayor Robertson and his party won power on the backs of the poor, claiming to represent their aspirations and promising to "End Homelessness." Today,...
City Hall
NORTH EAST FALSE CREEK | A new deal between the city and the Concord Pacific development corporation might further change the social geography of...
City Hall
In a letter written to City Council in advance of this Thursday's vote on approving new condo developments in the Downtown Eastside, former Vancouver...
City Hall
The 10 SITES COALITION of Downtown Eastside organizations has issued a statement opposing the "Historic Area Height Review," which goes before City Council on...
City Hall
At a forum held last night at the VPL, residents questioned the way the City of Vancouver conducts public consultations. The event’s organizers, a...
City Hall
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM | Legislation that would make Vancouver municipal parties disclose their donors and would cap corporate donations and overall campaign spending, might...
City Hall
A memorial service for the three men who died in an East Van house fire was held Saturday at the Longhouse Council Native Ministry....