Soleiman Faqiri was murdered. Hands and feet bound, a hood over his face, he was beaten to death in a correctional centre in Ontario. Between 2012 and 2017, nearly 270 people died in Canadian provincial jails. Soleiman was one of them. The chain of events that led to his death began on December 4,…
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2019
Maple Ridge wins partial court injunction against Anita Place Tent City, but the…
On Friday February 8th, BC Supreme Court Justice Grauer released his judgement on the City of Maple Ridge’s…
Defend the Schoolhouse Four and break the back of property rights!
Alliance Against Displacement statement about dropped and remaining criminal charges from the Nanaimo Schoolhouse…
Canada’s anti-immigrant, pipeline loving “Yellow Vests” confronted by…
On Saturday, February 9 2019 a “Stand up to Racism” rally was organized at Vancouver City Hall to counter a…
Hands off Venezuela! Canada’s subversion of Venezuelan sovereignty is motivated by…
On Saturday February 9th, dozens of people gathered on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery to protest against…
Should Surrey keep the RCMP or create a municipal police force? Neither.
The Surrey Board of Trade (SBOT), a business lobby group with a history of pushing for the criminalization of poor…
Burnaby’s Housing Task Farce: A developer-heavy housing task force won’t…
In his neighbourhood of Metrotown, Alaidjah sees lots of homes being built, “but not affordable homes”. At a press…
We can’t vote away police violence: Elections and policing in Surrey
The following is based on Lenee Son's talk, prepared in collaboration with Isabel Krupp, at Alliance Against…
Politics are happening in the streets not in city hall: Lessons from Burnaby’s…
The following is based on Cecile Revaux's talk at Alliance Against Displacement's panel on BC's municipal…
Vancouver’s referendum on Sinophobia: Another “socialism of fools” in the shadow…
This article is part of The Volcano's primer on Metro Vancouver's 2018 civic elections.
A tweet from a…