Last year, investor-landlords Bill Mitsui and Tyler Zhang purchased a low-rise apartment building in Maple Ridge and began intimidating vulnerable tenants to leave so that they could raise the rents without going through the trouble of finding a reason to serve a legal eviction.
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“The IIO is blocking our access to justice”: Din family speaks out…
In August 2019, Ridge Meadows RCMP officers responded to a call for an ambulance to bring Kyaw Din to the…
Abolish “the homeless” from autonomous working class and Indigenous struggle
The Volcano is publishing a series of excerpts from documents prepared for Red Braid Alliance for Decolonial…
Peace for Little Joe
Rockbottom sounds like a hole, but really it's a pile of all my old problems. - Joe Bauman, November 2, 2009
In…
Eviction Defense Network shames landlord at his West Vancouver Home
Earlier this month, Joyce Lachance's low-income, disabled son Curtis was evicted by landlords Bill Mitsui and…
Tenants resist profiteering investor-landlord’s…
Life at Cityviews Village, a low-rise apartment in Maple Ridge, has been hell ever since private investment firm…
Victims of police murder on trial: How BC’s IIO uses “mental…
In the span of one month, BC's police watchdog, the Independent Investigations Office (IIO), cleared RCMP officers…
Bowing to protest, Coast Mental Health drops its unlawful guest ban in Maple Ridge…
On Wednesday December 2nd, a group of residents of Coast Mental Health-run supportive housing buildings held a…
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,…
Justice for Kyaw is justice for all criminalized communities: Rally in Maple Ridge…
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On Saturday, October 5th, the Din family called…