“Imagine someone coming into your house, attacking you, taking your stuff, then destroying your house, and saying ‘have a nice day.’ That’s how it feels.” #VanPoli themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...

International Overdose Awareness Day brings people together against legislated violence of drug policy & militarizing, racial capitalist global war on drugs. DULF is facing protracted legal battle & prison time for harm reduction Join me in wage solidarity fundraiser: chuffed.org/project/dulf...

hey it's a depraved betrayal of PHS's mission and constitution that the executive director of the Portland Hotel Services Society agreed to this and the board needs to address this at the AGM which just happens to be in a few weeks

BC housing kept 117 PHS housing units vacant in the lead-up to the 2023 decampment, and no one can even say that anyone from the Hastings encampment received housing, per The Mainlander themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...

"[O]ne BC Housing employee requested a personalised street sweep outside their Gore Street office to the City’s then-director of homelessness services, Sue Baker." I don't even know what to say. The hatred from BC Housing and CoV towards unhoused people is truly disgusting. #vanpoli #bcpoli

they do this for everything. make people fight each other for the opportunity to BEG for it. to make you indebted, grateful

"housing freezes" are a cruel policy that sees people prioritized for housing based on electoral interests. they are part of an explicit process of dehumanization @natecrompton.bsky.social & I obtained documents that offer insight into how they are engineered: themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...

NEW: Housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment according to internal correspondence obtained by The Mainlander themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...

"But neither the City nor BC housing are able to confirm that a single person displaced as part of the Hastings decampment successfully secured housing that day."

"Some of these housing units potentially sat empty for lengthy periods during a housing crisis in order to make space for the people who were slated for decampment, in theory."

The machinations of a grotesque man and the soulless ghouls that conspire with him. themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d... "Correspondence shows that one nonprofit held more than 100 housing and shelter units empty for the week of April 3 to 7, 2023, the same week as the Hastings decampment."

"Imagine someone coming into your house, attacking you, taking your stuff, then destroying your house, and saying 'have a nice day.'" "That's how it feels." #BritishColumbia #Canada #Housing #Policing

NEW: Housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment according to internal correspondence obtained by The Mainlander themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...

August 31. 12pm-3pm at Oppenheimer Celebration of life for Elder Clint & 3pm-6pm block party 300 block hastings

Excited to be carrying @power1312.bsky.social work on gender based violence in dtes! Come check out the zine section - best way to collect critical local updates !!

thank you for sharing this @spartacusbooks.net bsky.app/profile/spar...

Canada signed a joint letter with the UK and France earlier this week condemning Israel's ethnic cleansing plan in Gaza, and threatening sanctions. The tone shift is welcome—but we're well past the time for joint letters. By @whosestreets.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

I missed this: BC is holding involuntarily hospitalized people - by definition among the most vulnerable - in solitary confinenent. This runs counter to Mandela Rules and, going by prior court rulings, Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. www.mapleridgenews.com/home2/bcs-fi...

the Mental Health Act was already being weaponized outside of its terms 'on paper' before this expansion, just as many forms of carceral discretion are in BC and beyond. Eby was the head of the BCCLA and of course knows this. He just doesn't care. bsky.app/profile/mehl...

BCCLA is extremely disappointed and concerned that today Toronto City Council approved a Bylaw Amendment which broadly infringes democratic Charter rights without sufficient, tailored, and transparent justification.

we need non-carceral, harm reduction & culturally safe responses to violence themainlander.com/2025/04/29/g... #drugsky

"[C]ommunity spaces close while police budgets grow." "Displacement in the DTES, over-policing, and surveillance push women and gender-diverse people into greater violence and precarity—while stripping away the resources meant to keep them safe." #BritishColumbia #Canada #Drugs #Housing

"as intersecting and seemingly unending crises continue to become more urgent, the acuity and nature of this violence has changed in shape. Both the frequency of gendered violence and lack of remaining space for respite is alarming" the mainlander.com/2025/04/29/gbv/

New Review: Perfect Victims Spars with the Politics of Respectability themainlander.com/2025/03/28/p...

Theres a lot of work to do in 2025. The drug supply is more toxic than ever, violent involuntary care is coming soon, Surrey’s few shelters are threatened by redevelopment, and a single standalone OPS serves the entire city. SUDU members are ready to speak out. themainlander.com/2024/07/09/s...

SUDU is on Bluesky! Surrey has experienced the second highest number of drug toxicity-related deaths in BC. Despite this, people who use drugs in Surrey are still struggling to access basic services. Politicians and service providers are not coming to save us - we organize together to stay safe.

📢 Our March/April issue is out! Featuring harm reduction to combat racism and imperialism. Plus: Writing in the Margins contest winners, universities in service of imperialism, and more! 🎨 cover by Kira Buro Link below to order a copy/start reading briarpatchmagazine.c...

New article - hard truths about Ken Sim’s dtes plan themainlander.com/2025/03/18/h...

It might be even worse. themainlander.com/2023/11/23/m...

staff at the Vancouver Public Library report being told they cannot wear a keffiyeh unless they speak "Palestinian Arabic" or are wearing it as "culture attire." curious how such a policy could be enforced without explicitly racist inquiries!! themainlander.com/2025/01/16/p...

Calls to “Clean Up the Streets” Are Calls to Violence themainlander.com/2022/10/06/c...

Ken Sim Ran on Manufactured Panic. He Runs the City on Social Murder themainlander.com/2025/01/27/k...

Vancouver mayor Ken Sim, everyone. themainlander.com/2025/01/27/k... #bcpoli #vanpoli

Ken Sim Ran on Manufactured Panic. He Runs the City on Social Murder. themainlander.com/2025/01/27/k...

Care is Not Forced in Prince George themainlander.com/2025/01/21/f...

Palestinian Symbols Banned at Vancouver Public Library themainlander.com/2025/01/16/p...

Reversal of Bill 34 is a People’s Victory (December 2024) @hrna.bsky.social @pivotlegalsociety.bsky.social themainlander.com/2024/12/25/r...

Make Holborn Pay for Loss of the Dunsmuir Hotel (December 2024) #vanpoli themainlander.com/2024/12/23/o...

Empty detox beds do not fix the poisoned supply or keep people safe (December 2024) #careisnotforced themainlander.com/2024/12/16/d...

Workers Have Unionized at Massy Books and Massy Arts Society (November 2024): themainlander.com/2024/11/04/w...

"Vancouver itself is the eviction capital of the region." "78% of Vancouver’s homeless population became homeless living in Vancouver. Vancouver is their home." "The promise to return evicted tenants 'back to their home communities' is absurd and nonsensical." @themainlander.bsky.social

NEW: Hard Truths About Ken Sim’s DTES Plan themainlander.com/2025/03/18/h...