We, the street population, are the heart and soul of Maple Ridge. We are taking unused City-owned land to protect ourselves against the hostility of the government and property owners because we experience safety in numbers, and to improve our lives and better contribute to the community we…
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Homelessness, poverty, and the police state: Anti-election week of action exposes…
In the week before the 2017 BC election, Alliance Against Displacement (AAD) staged an “anti-election week of…
BC’s real housing crisis revealed in Maple Ridge: Standing in solidarity with…
On Thursday May 4, I went to visit a tent city in Maple Ridge, which was erected a week before the BC election.…
Open letter to John Horgan: Cut Anne Kang and stand with the People of Metrotown
Dear John Horgan, leader of the BC NDP,
On Tuesday April 11th, a group of housing justice activists with…
Just Imagine! Rest, music, and the richness of life in the Downtown Eastside…
Just Imagine…. For thousands of years, right up to relatively recent times, what we now know as Vancouver’s…
Sun Peaks to Geneva – Playgrounds and Fortresses
Excerpted with permission from Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call by Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief…
Women supporting Women in the Downtown Eastside
This article originally appeared in the Downtown East newspaper – the precursor to The Volcano – in February…
It’s time to be moved to action against poverty
I can tell you all the facts you want to know about the state of poverty in our province. Over half a…
Why we have homelessness
You have to be old to remember this: we didn't always have a lot of homelessness in Canada.
When I worked at the…
Editorial: BC Liberal mould has infected the walls of the house and only the…
Over the last 16 years, the BC Liberals have held power under Premiers Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark and…