According to part-time camp resident and public advocate Chrissy Brett, there are 115 tents and around 200 people living Oppenheimer tent city. “The winter is now here,” she explained as she protested a displacement motion at Vancouver City Hall on October 23rd, “and people are wet and cold.” But…
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Homelessness is nothing for Canada’s progressive political parties
If Canada’s 2019 federal election was a Shakespearean play, it would be MacBeth: a tale told by an idiot, full of…
Secrecy shrouds Maple Ridge’s “public safety” plans as danger escalates for…
The City of Maple Ridge, apparently, has a lot to hide.
At the annual “strategic plan” progress report,…
“This is our Sanctuary and we won’t let them take it from us”: Surrey homeless…
Sanctuary Tent City was catapulted into the headlines in early July, 2019, after the City of Surrey threatened to…
The dead end of homeless nationalism: From refugee camps to tent cities, displaced…
At a rally supporting Anita Place tent city in the Vancouver suburb of Maple Ridge in March 2019, supporters of…
Maple Ridge Mayor’s home demolitions will not break the homeless justice movement
Maple Ridge’s demolition of Dwayne Martin’s cabin in Anita Place Tent City had been a long time coming. In…
The NIMBYs lost at Surrey City Hall last week, but who won?
A dozen homeless people and supporters rallied outside Surrey City Hall on Monday, July 22, calling for “Homes…
“I’m done hiding around corners and behind dumpsters”: Life on the streets after…
Wanda Stopa was a leader of the tent city on 135A Street, known as the Surrey Strip. She organized events and…
Busting Police Myths about the Clearance of the 135A Strip and Homelessness Today…
The truth about Surrey homelessness one year after the clearing of the 135A Strip is that homeless people and…
Fear of a Tent City: The City of Coquitlam ordered the RCMP to break up ‘We Exist’…
On June 13th, Tri-Cities homeless activists and supporters launched the ‘We Exist’ tent city to create a space to…