On November 30th the Canadian Border Services Agency announced they would resume deportations of migrants and refugees, following a months-long moratorium in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This announcement caused concern in Quebec, where politicians have negotiated a deal with Ottawa to grant…
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Yearly Archives
2021
The typical “7k marathon” day of a homeless woman in Nanaimo
I was talking to a friend of mine who does outreach the other day and we both came up with the same word to…
Making space for community self-defence: An interview with the Whalley Centre’s…
Wanda Stopa is a long-time street community leader in the Whalley neighbourhood of Surrey, a low-income area in…
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…