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In an area where over 13,000 people live in poverty having to survive on social assistance, gentrifying businesses are selling $138 mink eyelashes and $11 bottles of juice. Those are some of the findings of the Carnegie Community Action Project’s (CCAP)…
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Open letter to the City of Victoria Mayor & Council and Island Health
Editors note: In a disturbing trend toward community policing as a response to state-sanctioned…
We can’t do it alone – support the upcoming issue of The Volcano newspaper!…
Every season the Volcano produces a print newspaper. Members of our all-volunteer editorial collective take time…
Community Policing and the health and overdose prevention dimensions of…
On Wednesday January 25, 2017, fifteen Downtown Eastside (DTES) residents showed up to speak out…
“The USA is not a safe country!” To fight Trump racism from north of the border we…
Some Canadians love to tell the legend that the night of the Trump victory the Canadian immigration…
BC Liberal self-celebrated Overdose Prevention Strategy doesn’t amount to much in…
On December 19th all of British Columbia’s regional health authorities issued coordinated statements…
Metrotown Downtown Plan versus the Metrotown People’s Plan
The first public presentation of the People’s Plan for the development of Metrotown took place…
Keep Warm, Burn Out the Warming Shelters
On Thursday, January 12th, Vancouver Parks Board entertained a motion to direct staff to suspend…
When we see racists getting organized, that’s a symptom – Anti-racist rally…
On Sunday, January 15, the Coalition Against Bigotry held an anti-racism rally in Surrey. The rally took up…
City launches more temporary housing on the eve of Quality Inn mass evictions
Vancouver’s first modular housing building, a housing model borrowed from mining companies, is set to open in…