On April 4th, 2020, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a $207 million COVID-19 aid package for homeless people and women fleeing violence. Packing the funding for both groups together makes it seem like the paltry amount going to communities that Trudeau called “uniquely vulnerable” to…
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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,…
“This is our Sanctuary and we won’t let them take it from us”: Surrey homeless…
Sanctuary Tent City was catapulted into the headlines in early July, 2019, after the City of Surrey threatened to…
The dead end of homeless nationalism: From refugee camps to tent cities, displaced…
At a rally supporting Anita Place tent city in the Vancouver suburb of Maple Ridge in March 2019, supporters of…