Dispatches
This is the first in a series of dispatches documenting tenant organizing in the Downtown Eastside. The newly-formed Portland Tenants Union (PTU) in the...
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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
- Features
Anti-ABC parties must do more to support tenants in the struggle against mass displacement
Failure to ensure city centre overdose prevention site reflects BC NDP deadly abandonment of people who use drugs: Healthcare workers, legal advocates
Academy at Woodward's marks "tactical escalation" by Vancouver police, writes drug user education group
- Toxic drug crisis
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
Class War
"This concentration of force is a direct attack on the neighbourhood, turning our streets into training grounds for police tactics"
Analysis
After 30 years of operating as a community organization by and for sex workers, PACE closed its services in 2025.
Action
This week, the Portland Tenants Union obtained a major – but temporary – victory in securing the immediate repair of the elevator in their...
Downtown Eastside
On November 1st, after 4 months of consultation & deliberation, a provincial committee released a report titled Closing Gaps, Reducing Barriers: Expanding the Response...
Analysis
Our unhoused neighbours across the Lower Mainland of British Columbia have been made targets of violence—openly and by high profile figures. This violence has...
Colonialism
Editorial Introduction | On July 25, 2022, the Vancouver Fire Service issued an order to decamp the newly-formed tent city of people sheltering outside...
Art & Culture
This year, an art exhibit and series of workshops have been organized to recognize International Day Against Police Brutality in so-called Vancouver, on the...
Colonialism
We are tired of the stigma, tired of the assumptions, tired of the intimidation and abuses of the authorities that the ‘societal know it...
Analysis
Two years into the global pandemic, the BC Provincial Health Services Authority’s strategy has become defined by its contradictions. All social gatherings that depend...
Uncategorized
For at least a century there have been two Strathconas in Vancouver: the Strathcona of urban elites and the Strathcona of the working class....
Downtown Eastside
The legalization of public drinking was top-of-mind for many in Vancouver in the wake of COVID-19 – but don’t be fooled. These “progressive” policies...
Downtown Eastside
VANDU Open Letter: The City’s current “Vancouver Model” of decriminalization will set a dangerous precedent for drug users across Canada In November 2020, Vancouver...
Downtown Eastside
In the early hours of January 5, 2021 – just five days into the new year – the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) executed a...
Police
Defunding the police seems to be the topic for the last few months. Everyone is wondering: should it be done, or should it not...
Labour
For over a decade we’ve heard breathless celebrations of local and artisanal businesses as the antidote to the runaway corporatization of daily life. Buying...
Analysis
Government inaction on the overdose crisis, and the state's insistence on perpetuating the drug war, has left thousands to die across Canada. But this...