As Hurley’s term begins, Stop Demovictions Burnaby’s work will intensify. While we must celebrate our movement’s successful dethroning of the demoviction king, this victory is far from a reason to stop fighting. Our imaginations and hopes will not be restrained by what politicians inside colonial…
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Evictions & Reno/Demovictions
Metrotown residents challenge anti-demoviction candidates to do “more than a…
On Thursday, October 18th, just days before the Municipal election, tenants facing demoviction and those fighting…
“We’re not eggs in an omelette, we are people”: Burnaby finally embraces…
The vacuum that Mayor Corrigan and Mayoral candidate Hurley are jostling to appear to fill is between the NDP’s…
Turning walls into banners
Editors’ note: A statement by Stop Demovictions Burnaby was distributed at the July 1st paint-in in order to…
Regent Hotel eviction a loss for low-income DTES residents and a gain for serial…
A year after the Balmoral Hotel was shut down, the City of Vancouver has declared that its sister building, the…
The End of Mayor Corrigan’s Laughter: As Burnaby Council votes to demovict another…
At 11:30 pm on Tuesday May 29th 2018, immediately after Mayor Corrigan’s Burnaby City Council unanimously…
The Long Demoviction: Burnaby tenants speak out against a new breed of slumlord…
On Monday, May 28th tenants and supporters held a press conference outside their apartment building at 6508…
From Apartment Renoviction to Anita Place Tent City
I met Libby when I knocked on her door in an apartment building up the street from Anita Place Tent City.
Mobilizing the Frontline of the Eviction Crisis
In the summer of 2017, Burnaby City Council passed a development plan for the Metrotown neighbourhood.
Open letter to John Horgan: Cut Anne Kang and stand with the People of Metrotown
Dear John Horgan, leader of the BC NDP,
On Tuesday April 11th, a group of housing justice activists with…