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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
- Toxic drug crisis
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Analysis
After 30 years of operating as a community organization by and for sex workers, PACE closed its services in 2025.
Policing & Carcerality
There are urgently needed alternatives to turning the building into training grounds for cops.
Analysis
It’s raining heavily and the uniforms of Vancouver city workers are easy to spot alongside a slow moving garbage truck. A Vancouver Police Department...
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,...
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...
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
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...