Since the Sex Workers United Against Violence (SWUAV) Society formed, we have been working for better living and working conditions for sex workers, primarily through our participation in the constitutional challenge to the previous Canadian laws criminalizing prostitution. However, what…
Read More...
Browsing Tag
Issue 6 Fall 2016-2
Tenacious tenant undeterred by lack of enforcement action at Regent Hotel
The plot thickens at Vancouver's notorious Regent Hotel. The building has 153 single room occupancy (SRO)…
S.O.S. at PHS
A report from inside Victoria’s first Portland Hotel Society-run “supportive” housing
In April after the…
Inside the jail of supportive housing
Since Canada’s federal government cut regular social housing construction in 1993, homelessness has become the…
Violence on the Surrey Strip is rooted in criminalization and dehumanization
Over the last month, Alliance Against Displacement (AAD) has been holding organizing meetings on 135A Street in…
No One Grows Up Wanting
All should have to live the life
That we were forced to do
For just a little while at least
To…
Urban farming fight exposes gentrification, displacement, and colonization at core…
This summer, the City of Victoria wanted to change the Official Community Plan (OCP) to undermine urban…