On June 13th, Tri-Cities homeless activists and supporters launched the ‘We Exist’ tent city to create a space to be for homeless community and to fight for homes for all. The camp was immediately broken up by the RCMP, acting on a pre-existing encampment “operations” plan prepared in advance by…
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Drug Prohibition, Criminalizing Poverty, and Internal Displacement in the Lower…
Experiences from Alliance Against Displacement
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The spring of 2018, apparently, is the season of housing policy reform. The Trudeau Liberal government has released…
Has multiculturalism killed gay liberation?
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