I’m going to address issues raised on the first day of the hearing and earlier today.
One point is cleaning up the streets, which I support. These individuals who want Chinatown to be cleaned up can get their Narcan training and pick up a pair of tongs and a bucket to pick up used needles and…
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Beedie’s 105 Keefer condo tower threatens the existence of Chinatown’s most…
Good evening, mayor and council, I would like to thank you for allowing me to speak tonight. I would also like…
Culture is a collective product of people and relationships, not a commodity
My name is Yuly Chan, and I’m here to oppose the rezoning application for 105 Keefer. I’m a community organizer…
Don’t condemn Chinatown to the same fate suffered by Vancouver’s Pauerugai
Good evening, Mayor and Council. First, I’d like to acknowledge that we are on the Unceded Coast Salish…
Do not tell us the City cares about people more than profits – show us!
Before going further, I wish to acknowledge the unceded, traditional, and ancestral Coast Salish territories of…
More unaffordable housing and unaffordable retailers and unaffordable restaurants…
Hello my name is Mark Lee. 我叫陳德聰 I am a community interpreter and translator who has been volunteering with…
Ten Year and Anita Place Tent Cities: Security for the homeless, sites of struggle…
For those who are evicted and displaced, tent cities have become spaces of survival and also of resistance. By…
Ten Year Tent City beats Vancouver in Court!
Supreme court decision affirms the value of homeless people lives over the City’s property rights
On May…
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…
Community Spotlight – Jean Swanson, a life against poverty: By Sarah…
For our issue on the BC Liberal legacy, Volcano editors turned to our Community Spotlight on a legacy of our…