I want to once again acknowledge that we are standing on the unceded, shared territory of our neighbors, the Tsleil-watuth, Squamish and Musqueam. Not long ago they were displaced from the land we stand on today. The First Nations shared this land for thousands of years. Most of us have only been…
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Open Letter: Portrait of a Negative Externality on the Eve of a National…
By the Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs
Originally published November 14th, 2016 on…
Tent Cities: Fighting displacement when there’s nowhere else to go
On Thursday, November 3, I had the privilege of watching occupants of the homeless encampment at 58 West…
“Tent City is far from perfect… but it has greatly improved my life”
From an affidavit from an anonymous woman resident of 58 W. Hastings
In 2014 I moved to Grande Prairie,…
City of Vancouver returns to court for an injunction to break up the lifesaving…
The injunction hearing for 58 West Hastings on the of morning, Monday November 14th, 2016, at the…
No unity with fascists, no hiding behind borders – What not to do with a…
I woke up the morning of September 11th 2001 to a man shouting from a dirt road near the shack I had built on Haida…
Chinatown not Coffeetown! An interview with Mrs. Kong from the Chinatown Concern…
Translation by Beverly Ho, Chinatown Concern Group
Mrs. Kong, who goes by 鄺太 (or Kong Tai), has lived in…
The Police Are Not Our Friends
“Can I just talk to you over here for a moment?”
It’s not the first time this question made me feel…
Emergency call to action to save 3,000 units of rental housing in Metrotown
This Saturday November 12th marchers will take the streets around Metrotown to protest against the city…
Women face harsh consequences from housing insecurity and the threat of…
In the Metrotown area of Burnaby, over 600 households have already been displaced by ‘demovictions’, that…