Election 2011
The Vancouver municipal election takes place this Saturday November 19th. Here the editors of the Mainlander present our endorsements for Vancouver City Council, Parks Board,...
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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
At the recent Homelessness and Affordable Housing debate (Nov 7, St. Andrew’s–Wesley Church), mayoral candidates Gregor Robertson and Suzanne Anton said a lot of...
Art & Culture
The Mainlander’s Sean Antrim sat down with their Mayoral candidate Randy Helten of Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver (NSV) to talk about affordability, accountability,...
#occupyvancouver
These are notes towards — what? — a manifesto? list of demands? Not really. Just three key thoughts/impressions about the Occupy movement that have...
Analysis
Here are five basic things you’ll need to know to guide you through the fog of the 2011 Vancouver civic election campaign 1. Both...
#occupyvancouver
Below, Tristan Markle of The Mainlander interviews Vision Vancouver’s Geoff Meggs, who is running for re-election to Vancouver City Council. We discuss Vancouver’s unaffordability...
#occupyvancouver
Mayoral candidates debate against the public Tonight’s mayoral debate on homelessness and affordable housing was a heated fight — not between the two candidates, but between...
#occupyvancouver
Ashlie Gough, only 23 years old, passed away November 5th 2011 during a weekend visit to Vancouver from Victoria. Ashlie passed before her time,...
#occupyvancouver
Today the mayor announced that the city will be ending the occupation of the Vancouver Art Gallery. The announcement comes as a surprise for...
Analysis
Here Sean Antrim of The Mainlander interviews Sandy Garossino, who is running as an independent candidate for Vancouver City Council this November 19. Sean...
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