Analysis
Mainlander editor Nate Crompton sits down with Jean Swanson to discuss the loss of affordable housing in the Downtown Eastside and across Vancouver....
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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
Class Struggle
In April, Care Not Cops with endorsement from the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition, Dudes Club Society, Disability Alliance BC, Sanctuary Health, Coalition of Peers...
Action
April 14, 2023: This week marks one year since the tragic fire at the Atira-operated Winters Hotel. The fire, which occurred on April 11,...
Analysis
Attention: Ken Sim, Mayor (ken.sim@vancouver.ca) Rebecca Bligh, COV Councillor (CLRbligh@vancouver.ca) Christine Boyle, COV Councillor (CLRboyle@vancouver.ca) Adriane Carr, COV Councillor (CLRcarr@vancouver.ca) Lisa Dominato, COV Councillor (CLRdominato@vancouver.ca) Pete Fry, COV Councillor (CLRfry@vancouver.ca)...
Downtown Eastside
March 2023: Vancouver, Downtown Eastside The PHS Drinkers Lounge Community Managed Alcohol Program has at last installed a brand new parklet for drinkers in...
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...
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...
Downtown Eastside
Toxic Drug Crisis
