I met Libby when I knocked on her door in an apartment building up the street from Anita Place Tent City.
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Homelessness and the Overdose Crisis are Designed this Way
Dwayne always tells me that he didn’t like me when he first met me. He says he couldn’t figure out what my angle…
“Pigs are not our friends”
Joe was one of the first people to move into Anita Place. He is a builder.
What’s the use in staying in housing if I can’t have the person I love there?
Mama Bear was a founder of Maple Ridge’s last tent city across the bypass from Anita Place on Cliff Avenue, which…
Making Anita Place
May 2nd marks the one-year anniversary of the beginning of Anita Place Tent City in Maple Ridge.
Just Imagine! Rest, music, and the richness of life in the Downtown Eastside…
Just Imagine…. For thousands of years, right up to relatively recent times, what we now know as Vancouver’s…
Sun Peaks to Geneva – Playgrounds and Fortresses: By Art Manuel
Excerpted with permission from Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call by Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief…
The BC Liberal new-normal – A brief history of how we got in this mess: By…
In the two decades after World War 2, Canada and the United States, alongside Britain and other Western European…
From serving workers to serving the NDP – Electoral pragmatism and the end…
There is a famous expression that Margaret Thatcher’s most lasting legacy in British politics is her impact on…