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This piece was originally published in rabble.ca here In the poorest urban neighbourhood in Canada, Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES), gentrification has been on the...
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- Toxic Drug Crisis
STATEMENT: VANDU Education Group Stands with DULF Compassion Club
Court finds founders of life-saving Vancouver compassion club guilty
DULF Case Wraps Up at the BC Supreme Court
Nowhere to seek safety as gender-based violence worsens under drug supply & displacement crises
Reversal of Bill 34 is a People’s Victory
- Housing
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
‘Plan A, No Way!”: Tenants Rally Against Unfair Evictions, Surveillance, and Harassment
“Forget it, leave us here:” East Van Tenants Draw Crowd to Reject Eviction by Landlord Loophole
Understanding Canada’s State-Backed Real Estate Crisis
City Hall
This open letter was originally published in the Georgia Straight. It is a response to a letter originally posted here. The time has come...
City Hall
Three dozen seniors living on fixed incomes in the Lions Manor building at 6th and Main have been served with a 45% rent increase....
Housing
Two weeks after Vancouver was once again named one of the most unaffordable cities in the world, Mayor Gregor Robertson has unilaterally appointed the...
Uncategorized
Vancouver’s 6-year Director of Planning has been fired by city council. In lieu of a normal transition process, the city has fired Toderian without...
City Hall
In a report to the Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) members this weekend, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) representative Bill Pegler delivered a...
Gentrification
Main Street has become a frontier for high-end real-estate development. Whether at Little Mountain, 33rd Avenue, King Edward, 16th Avenue, Broadway, South East False...
Art & Culture
“With the upheaval of the market economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.” –...
Art & Culture
For the last three years, there has been a broad increase in private and public support of the arts in Vancouver. This augmentation in...
Features
Although the Mayor’s “affordable housing task force” is unlikely to drive real change, it could have the positive impact of triggering public debate around...
Downtown Eastside
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