On the last day of January I knocked on Nick’s door to give him a pamphlet about his rights as a renter being demovicted in Burnaby. I gave him my routine statement that we can fight together to stop the developer from abusing tenants while evicting them. He was indignant. “What’s the…
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Metrotown Downtown Plan versus the Metrotown People’s Plan
The first public presentation of the People’s Plan for the development of Metrotown took place…
BC’s broken Residential Tenancy system adds insult to demoviction in Burnaby
On July 1, 2016 Martin Lenin Fernandez, his elderly mother, and two young sons were evicted from a…
Organized destruction – CMHC data reveals the City of Burnaby is…
A reporter from Metro News contacted me to get my reaction to a graphic illustrating the change in numbers of…
Burnaby Mayor blames immigration for his mass displacement development plans
The scene at Burnaby City Hall was a predictable one. More than two-dozen people rallied in the lobby…
The City of Burnaby can demovict the plan! By Erika S, resident facing demoviction…
Here we are - in the epicenter of the ‘mass slaughtering’ of a viable neighbourhood, Burnaby’s Metrotown Rental…
Report back: Burnaby Metrotown community’s mass mobilization against…
On November 12, 2016, Metrotown residents rallied and marched with the Stop Demovictions Burnaby campaign against…
Policies inconvenient for developers have been cut from the proposed Metrotown…
I want to once again acknowledge that we are standing on the unceded, shared territory of our neighbors, the…
Demo-victions in Metrotown and a new anti-displacement movement
The housing crisis in BC has many faces. It is most starkly visible in the homeless camps that have caught…
Metrotown Demolitions Displace Communities
For the better half of my life, I’ve been living in Canada. My longest tenure as a Canadian has been my last 8…