Education
BC Liberal leadership candidate Kevin Falcon's campaign team sent out a press release yesterday (Jan 4) proposing that BC teachers' pay should be tied...
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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.
Features
With an ongoing recall campaign and a proposed referendum in September of this year, the HST has the potential to be one of the...
Downtown Eastside
This is the second of five installments of our “Top Stories of 2010″ countdown. Here we tell the story of how the announcement of...
Education
This is the first of five installments of our "Top Stories of 2010" countdown. None of these stories would have unfolded or seen the...
Analysis
Gregor Robertson's 2008 campaign for Mayor rode the Obama wave. At the time, however, positive comparisons between the two were decidedly false. Ironically, present...
Homelessness
A house fire on Pandora Street took three lives last Thursday. The event instigated the right-wing NPA to call for an inquiry. However, to...
News
WIKILEAKS | Earlier this week The Guardian released a Wikileaks cable that discusses logistics and security concerns surrounding the Vancouver Olympics. You can view...
Analysis
Last month City Council adopted the Mount Pleasant Community Plan (MPCP). The MPCP, the culmination of three years of community feedback and consultations, is...
City Hall
We previously reported that on Jan 20 2011, Vancouver City Council will consider a proposal to build seven condo towers in the Downtown Eastside,...
Analysis
It is common for Vancouver journalists to bemoan the "fiasco" of the Olympic Village, but they are so often bogged-down in financial matters above...
Analysis
In addition to rent increases caused by the upscaling and renovation of dozens of low-income buildings around the city, Vancouver is losing affordable housing...
Analysis
Vancouver City Council will hold a special meeting this Tuesday, Dec 12, to look over the proposed municipal budget. An administrative report distributed November...
Analysis
Longtime Downtown Eastside advocate Jean Swanson has written a letter to City Council and City staff strongly urging them to "hold off on giving...
Gentrification
There is a new massive condominium development planned for the South-East corner of Broadway at Kingsway. The building that is set to fill the...
Features
This winter, Vancouver has already been hit by record snowfalls and low temperatures. Despite warnings of a coldsnap beginning Nov 18 2010, the City...