The vacuum that Mayor Corrigan and Mayoral candidate Hurley are jostling to appear to fill is between the NDP’s development-at-all-cost City politics and the new uncompromisingly anti-eviction political pole set up in the streets and apartment buildings of Metrotown. Regardless of the electoral…
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Turning walls into banners
Editors’ note: A statement by Stop Demovictions Burnaby was distributed at the July 1st paint-in in order to…
The End of Mayor Corrigan’s Laughter: As Burnaby Council votes to demovict another…
At 11:30 pm on Tuesday May 29th 2018, immediately after Mayor Corrigan’s Burnaby City Council unanimously…
The Long Demoviction: Burnaby tenants speak out against a new breed of slumlord…
On Monday, May 28th tenants and supporters held a press conference outside their apartment building at 6508…
Mobilizing the Frontline of the Eviction Crisis
In the summer of 2017, Burnaby City Council passed a development plan for the Metrotown neighbourhood.
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…
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…
Demovicted tenants need City defence, not assistance: Metrotown demoviction…
On Tuesday, March 28th, Stop Demovictions Burnaby organizers attended the city of Burnaby’s “Planning and…
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…