After a rally against the gentrification of Whalley on Saturday, a group of homeless community members displaced two years ago from the 135A Strip set up their tents on a city-owned lot, at approximately 10716 135A Street, and proclaimed that they were not leaving.
Wanda Stopa, a leader of that…
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Injunction hearing against Crab Park tent city begins, threatening 100 homeless…
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority (VFPA) has filed an injunction against a tent city set up in CRAB Park by…
Poor women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside respond to Trudeau’s $40…
On April 4th, 2020, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a $207 million COVID-19 aid package for homeless…
Inside the Hothouse Squat
It was a small walk from our meeting point to the squat, and we all walked in small groups to respect the COVID-19…
RCMP evict Surrey’s Hothouse Squat but cannot stop the #Squat2Survive…
On April 1st 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, dozens of poor and homeless people and supporters took…
Gentrification and COVID-19: Fast-tracking the death of Surrey’s poor
When the City of Surrey forcibly dismantled the homeless camp along 135A Street in June 2018, only 160 people…
#Squat2Survive! Homeless communities must take over vacant buildings to escape…
For our communities to survive, we need to do what the government refuses: house ourselves by taking over abandoned…
Governing the dangerous poor: Vancouver City Council uses the displacement of…
According to part-time camp resident and public advocate Chrissy Brett, there are 115 tents and around 200 people…
Homelessness is nothing for Canada’s progressive political parties
If Canada’s 2019 federal election was a Shakespearean play, it would be MacBeth: a tale told by an idiot, full of…
Secrecy shrouds Maple Ridge’s “public safety” plans as danger escalates for…
The City of Maple Ridge, apparently, has a lot to hide.
At the annual “strategic plan” progress report,…