Just Imagine…. For thousands of years, right up to relatively recent times, what we now know as Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) was part of an ancient forest filled with wild berries and edible roots. Wolf, elk, and bear roamed the vast land. The Coast Salish people - Musqueam,…
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Gentrification & Displacement
Women supporting Women in the Downtown Eastside
This article originally appeared in the Downtown East newspaper – the precursor to The Volcano – in February…
It’s time to be moved to action against poverty
I can tell you all the facts you want to know about the state of poverty in our province. Over half a…
Why we have homelessness
You have to be old to remember this: we didn't always have a lot of homelessness in Canada.
When I worked at the…
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…
A post-viaduct Hogan’s Alley will redress racist history or it will continue…
Open letter to the City of Vancouver in support of Black community demands for reparations as part of the Georgia…
Out of Control: SRO hotel survey finds that market real estate development and…
Homelessness in the DTES is a humanitarian crisis. For the first time in recorded history, the number of…
Stop Displacement! Save Whale Wall! Fighting gentrification-by-playground in…
On Tuesday, March 21st, activists interrupted a City of Victoria consultation process to protest the…
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…