On May 9th 2017, people in British Columbia will go to the polls to vote for a new Provincial government. For many of us, this election feels significant after 15 years of BC Liberal social program austerity, corporate tax cuts, wars on the most vulnerable of unionized working people, a continued…
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Mayor’s office sit-in nets Demovictions movement its first partial victory against…
On Thursday March 9th, myself and a group of activists with the Stop Demovictions Burnaby campaign occupied the…
Creating Temp Tenants – Burnaby’s demoviction tenant assistance policy…
The ‘eviction’ part of a demoviction is a long process that starts long before a developer-landlord signs the legal…
“We are too poor to afford anything” – new report uncovers the…
Download the full pdf of this report here
In an area where over 13,000 people live in poverty having to survive…
Open letter to the City of Victoria Mayor & Council and Island Health
Editors note: In a disturbing trend toward community policing as a response to state-sanctioned…
In Memoriam: Mary Dawn Vickers
December 19, 1966 - November 4, 2016
Heiltsuk activist, parent, and contributor to many communities, Mary was…
Remembering Art Manuel, leader of an intergenerational struggle to unsettle Canada
Art Manuel, former Chief of the Neskonlith band of the Secwepemc nation, and lifelong fighter for Indigenous…
Sad Siren Song
My name is Tracey Morrison. I am an Ojibwe woman who resides in the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, BC. I volunteer…
Under an unjust state, break unjust laws – A call to revisit our strategies…
Our protests for social justice usually shout out in one of two directions: we shout against the laws that police…
Go ahead displace me, you’re going to have to kill me to get me to stop fighting
Well to be quite honest I only recently came to know what DISPLACEMENT means. Being displaced is first of all…