In the fall of 2016, through necessity, two alleyway tents complete with clean injection supplies and staffed by naloxone-trained volunteers were set up in Vancouver responding to the overdose crisis that killed over 900 people in British Columbia alone last year.
When the morgues…
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Will fixed term leases erase 40 years of tenant organizing in the Downtown…
A boisterous crew was standing outside the Ross Hotel in Vancouver on New Years Day. We had called a news…
Provincial housing money a drop in the bucket
The BC government says it’s the “largest single-year housing investment by any province in Canada,” $500…
Cut the CRAP! Chinatown Concern Group fights Vancouver’s rezoning and…
City staff began preparing an update on the Chinatown Economic Revitalization Action Plan (CRAP) in October of last…
Community Policing and the health and overdose prevention dimensions of…
On Wednesday January 25, 2017, fifteen Downtown Eastside (DTES) residents showed up to speak out…
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BC Liberal self-celebrated Overdose Prevention Strategy doesn’t amount to much in…
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Metrotown Downtown Plan versus the Metrotown People’s Plan
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Keep Warm, Burn Out the Warming Shelters
On Thursday, January 12th, Vancouver Parks Board entertained a motion to direct staff to suspend…
When we see racists getting organized, that’s a symptom – Anti-racist rally…
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