On the evening of Tuesday, May 29, Maple Ridge City Council lined up with the mob of anti-homeless Ridgeilantes and voted down BC Housing's rezoning application for a permanent supportive housing and shelter building on Burnett Street. Unlike the temporary modular building that BC Housing plans to…
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Anita Place Tent City vision for self-determined homes and health care
200 Homeless People Need 200 Apartments to Decamp Anita Place
Maple Ridge Tent City announces negotiations with…
Arrests in Nanaimo as homeless campers resist an attempt by RCMP and the City to…
Five residents and supporters from Nanaimo’s DisconTent City were briefly arrested in the morning of Tuesday, May…
Discontent City’s space of resistance provides relief for homeless people besieged…
On Thursday, May 17, 2018, a new tent city emerged in an unused city lot on the port lands above the railway tracks…
DisconTent City Founding Declaration
"We homeless, low-income communities are the heart and soul of Nanaimo. "
Tenants in Hamilton challenge the international capitalist class
On May 1st, International Workers Day, tenants in an apartment complex in Hamilton, Ontario, started a rent strike…
“One of the Most Ferocious Days our People Have Witnessed”
On Sunday May 13th, senior members of the Donald Trump administration gathered in Jerusalem for the opening of the…
Public Protest for Housing Justice in the Downtown Eastside
On Tuesday May 1st, members of Our Homes Can't Wait (OHCW) coalition staged a public protest by blocking entrances…
Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations defend the coast, and their sovereignty
Transcripts of a press conference held by Khelsilem (Squamish Nation Council) and Ta’ah (Amy George, Tsleil-Waututh…
Not sorry for raiding bathhouses nor brothels – The limits of Trudeau’s LGBT…
On April 18th, historians, LGBT activists, and community members criminalized under Canada’s former anti-LGBT laws…