"The manager bullied me and said “sign or you leave,” Humberto Macias-Carracas told people at a news conference in front of the Ross House on Alexander St. on New Year's day. "I can’t see, I don’t even know what I am signing. I have nowhere to go, I am going blind, I don’t know what to do.…
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New Year, Same Fight – Resisting cops as mental health workers in Victoria
On January 9, acting Victoria Police (VicPD) Chief Del Manak requested that Victoria City Council add…
BC’s broken Residential Tenancy system adds insult to demoviction in Burnaby
On July 1, 2016 Martin Lenin Fernandez, his elderly mother, and two young sons were evicted from a…
Go ahead displace me, you’re going to have to kill me to get me to stop fighting
Well to be quite honest I only recently came to know what DISPLACEMENT means. Being displaced is first of all…
Build community power – support The Volcano newspaper: By the Editors
As 2016 comes to a close, The Volcano editors are assembling the first issue of 2017, the Winter issue.…
Top 10 of 2016 – This year’s 3 most-read Volcano articles and 7 you might…
In 2016 The Volcano published more than 200 articles in 3 print newspapers, one special edition insert about the…
Being the thinking point between experience and action – Social movement…
Articles published in The Volcano this year sketch a map of the difficulties that our social movements –…
Not the solution we need – A first glance at the federal government’s legal…
On Monday December 12, 2016, the federal health minister, Jane Philpott, announced a new bill, almost…
Cancelling the promised Maple Ridge shelter is part of a broader anti-poor…
Anyone who has driven Highway 7 east of Coquitlam since the summer will be familiar with the Ridgeilante…
Organized destruction – CMHC data reveals the City of Burnaby is…
A reporter from Metro News contacted me to get my reaction to a graphic illustrating the change in numbers of…