Wanda Stopa is a long-time street community leader in the Whalley neighbourhood of Surrey, a low-income area in Metro Vancouver’s biggest suburb. A perpetual creator, Wanda has fought persistently in defence of the lives of dignity of her community. During the time of the “135A Strip” homeless…
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January 2021
For collective survival and resistance: Whalley Centre Founding Statement
Whalley People's Resource Centre
We acknowledge the Whalley People’s Resource Centre operates on the unceded…
JJ Bean is waging war on the poor. Which side are you on?
JJ Bean Coffee Roasters, a multimillion dollar corporation with 21 coffee shop locations throughout Metro…
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…
Contradictory messages from “anti-bullying” car rally in Mission, BC
On January 17th, many hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Mission to protest the recent hate crime against a…
Are ‘Behavioural Agreements’ the latest attack on the rights of Supportive Housing…
When Coast Mental Health first took over operation of the Alouette Heights Supportive Housing building in 2018,…
Lying landlord uses legal loopholes to evict tenants to the streets
Evicted during COVID-19
Two Surrey tenants were made homeless after their unscrupulous landlord lied to the…
The Volcano’s Top 12 of 2020
The year 2020 was a whirlwind: the #ShutDownCanada movement in defence of Wet’suwet’en sovereignty, the global…
Stop framing tent cities for murder
Wanda Stopa was a founding member of Sanctuary Tent City, a camp in a wooded area off of King George Boulevard in…
Two observations about the 2020 BC election
To hear the CBC coverage, you'd think the NDP victory in the recent BC election means a ringing mandate for a…