Just Imagine…. For thousands of years, right up to relatively recent times, what we now know as Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) was part of an ancient forest filled with wild berries and edible roots. Wolf, elk, and bear roamed the vast land. The Coast Salish people - Musqueam,…
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Yearly Archives
2017
“How To Remember” – Downtown Eastside art exhibit holds steadfast against…
At Gallery Gachet until May 7
In the earnest and thought provoking exhibition “How to Remember,” local artists…
Sun Peaks to Geneva – Playgrounds and Fortresses
Excerpted with permission from Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call by Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief…
from “Indolent Corollaries”: A poem
A national party that slags the native people
as stupid puns on welfare, i.e. “they
don’t want…
Women supporting Women in the Downtown Eastside
This article originally appeared in the Downtown East newspaper – the precursor to The Volcano – in February…
It’s time to be moved to action against poverty
I can tell you all the facts you want to know about the state of poverty in our province. Over half a…
Why we have homelessness
You have to be old to remember this: we didn't always have a lot of homelessness in Canada.
When I worked at the…
Editorial: BC Liberal mould has infected the walls of the house and only the…
Over the last 16 years, the BC Liberals have held power under Premiers Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark and…
The BC Liberal new-normal – A brief history of how we got in this mess
In the two decades after World War 2, Canada and the United States, alongside Britain and other Western European…
Indigenous youth in care – the continuation of the residential school system…
The situation for Indigenous youth across Canada is dire, and British Columbia is no exception. In BC, an…