Earlier this month, Joyce Lachance's low-income, disabled son Curtis was evicted by landlords Bill Mitsui and Tyler Zhang, who run the private real estate investment company Columbia Wealth Investments (CWI).
Last September CWI purchased Cityviews Village, a low-rise apartment building…
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Tenants resist profiteering investor-landlord’s…
Life at Cityviews Village, a low-rise apartment in Maple Ridge, has been hell ever since private investment firm…
Victims of police murder on trial: How BC’s IIO uses “mental…
In the span of one month, BC's police watchdog, the Independent Investigations Office (IIO), cleared RCMP officers…
Bowing to protest, Coast Mental Health drops its unlawful guest ban in Maple Ridge…
On Wednesday December 2nd, a group of residents of Coast Mental Health-run supportive housing buildings held a…
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,…
Justice for Kyaw is justice for all criminalized communities: Rally in Maple Ridge…
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On Saturday, October 5th, the Din family called…
Maple Ridge Mayor’s home demolitions will not break the homeless justice movement
Maple Ridge’s demolition of Dwayne Martin’s cabin in Anita Place Tent City had been a long time coming. In…
BC NDP orders RCMP to shut down Ridge Meadows Overdose Prevention Site
In BC, the rapid expansion of harm reduction services has prevented more than 3,000 possible overdose deaths…
Drug Prohibition, Criminalizing Poverty, and Internal Displacement in the Lower…
Experiences from Alliance Against Displacement
On May 4th, 2019 the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users hosted…
It’s no secret that they want us gone: Vigilante arsons follow on the heels…
Within a week of the City of Maple Ridge cutting power and heat to Anita Place tent city and deploying dozens of…