“With a yard and 1,100 sq ft living space...we will never, on our PWD cheque, find anything close or even be able to afford a new place! We feel betrayed as we bought with these years in mind. Patricia is suffering major depression...and all of this is taking its toll on our health.” - Patricia and…
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Gentrification & Displacement
SRO renovictions break up communities
“I feel incredible. I’m very happy.” That’s what Mohammad Valayati told people at a news conference…
Maple Ridge homeless camp faces community hostility
There’s a grassy area and a forested ravine just next to the Cliff Ave cul-de-sac in Maple Ridge that has been…
Metrotown – A developer’s Heaven
Metrotown is one of the fastest growing, densest areas in Canada. It includes the spectacular Central Park,…
“We are somebody” – Abbotsford Homeless take the City to Court
On June 4, 2015, members of the Abbotsford Chapter of the Drug War Survivors and their allies gathered at the…
Our long Summer of Evictions begins: By the Editors
When the Volcano editorial collective got together in April to plan this issue we had a different issue in mind…
The Chinatown Shockwave
Redeveloped in 2009, anti-poverty activists have described the Woodward’s project as creating a…
Fiery Displacement from View Towers
At 7:00 am on the morning of May 15, 2014, a fire broke out in a suite of the infamous View Towers in Victoria,…
Hogan’s Alley and Gentrification
Wayde Compton is a poet, writer, and advocate for histories and legacies of the Black community in Vancouver. In…
“There is No camping here. It’s time to move on. Thanks.”
These words were on the note Cody O’Day and Mackenzie Skorepa found attached to their tent in Ravine Park in…