Analysis
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
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
Court finds founders of life-saving Vancouver compassion club guilty
DULF Case Wraps Up at the BC Supreme Court
- Housing
The Vancouver Tenants Union Wants To Teach Landlords a Lesson
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
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...
