Last week, BC NDP Premier Eby made misleading claims about Sublocade. A decade into BC's toxic drug emergency, there is a heightened risk when government leaders promote this type of disinformation. It should not be acceptable. Read in more detail: themainlander.com/2025/12/10/v...

Hundreds of Academics Sign Letter Against City’s ‘Uplifting the DTES’ Plan themainlander.com/2025/12/08/h...

there's a certain type of guy — Julian Somers, Daniel Vigo, David Eby — whose work starts off at least somewhat on the right side of history before cynically turning to politics of moral panic the minute they get some semblance of power

NEW analysis in The Mainlander: The politics of the Mental Health Act amendments in Bill 32 reflect a trend of the BC NDP circumventing court rulings under Premier Eby’s leadership. themainlander.com/2025/12/05/b...

I just wrote a letter urging the Provincial and City governments to purchase the 570 Columbia / 105 Keefer site for community uses rather than gentrifying market condos. You can write a letter too: share.nwmd.social/s/p7r32R7G #vanpoli #vanre #chinatown #keefer

What it means: The SCC affirmed that ODs are a medical event – not a policing opportunity. When police arrive at the scene, no one is to be arrested for, charged with, or convicted of drug possession. Read the decision here: decisions.scc-csc.ca/.../en/item/...

BREAKING WIN for PWUD: Supreme Court of Canada rules against the Saskatchewan government and police attempt to claw back the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act in R v Wilson. Pivot argued, and the court agreed, the law protects against simple possession convictions, charges, AND arrests at ODs.

"In a province where five people per day die from the toxic and unregulated drug supply, not one member of the compassion club overdosed while using the DULF supply" DULF Case Wraps Up at the BC Supreme Court: themainlander.com/2025/10/15/d... #drugsky

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...

"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...

"When exactly, the novel asks, does playacting become metamorphosis?" Read Grace Linden's review of "Audition" by Katie Kitamura: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

.‪@natecrompton.bsky.social interviews Andrew Witt about documentary as form and photographing L.A. in a preview of LARB Quarterly, no. 45: Submission. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-persists-what-remains/

A joy to march in NYC Pride with the people's champ Tish James 🏳️‍🌈

“No employer should be able to silence any worker for challenging injustice.” Solidarity with #KatherineGrzejszczak! cupe.on.ca/cupe-ontario...

Mark Carney just committed Canada to spend 5% of GDP on defence—more than double NATO’s target. No serious debate. No scrutiny. Just consensus from a political class sleepwalking into permanent militarization while public services decline.

It is no longer enough to condemn. Canada must end its complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza by halting arms exports, imposing sanctions, and recognizing Palestine. The time for words has passed. It is time to act.

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 !!

The new Mexican film 1938 tells the story of the nation’s historic expropriation of the oil industry. Jacobin sat down with director Sergio Olhovich to talk about the long-awaited project — finally realized with the support of the AMLO administration.

Public support. 61% Unions 44% big bus Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever, analysis of new data from me & Adam Reich In data back 60 years, Americans' sentiments are both warmer toward unions & cooler towards big business than ever before. lnkd.in/g3bq5DGv

This week marks the 70th anniversary of the historic anti-colonial 1955 Bandung Conference, when 29 nations from Asia and Africa gathered in Indonesia. “They all gathered together because they understood their unity was very important,” says @vijayprashad.bsky.social.

Happy Wednesday

JUST IN: Councillor @seanorr.bsky.social’s first motion has passed unanimously. He was elected to fight for fully-funded public services. And that's exactly what he's doing. We'll keep fighting until we win 7-days-a-week libraries in every neighbourhood of Vancouver. #FightForVancouver #vanpoli

Great to see this motion pass unanimously at Council. Fantastic way to honour Trey Helten!

Advocates accuse Doug Ford's government of targeting the homeless with its new Bill 6. It "doesn’t actually solve homelessness, it just punishes people," says @dianacmcnally.bsky.social.

The health care conglomerate is facing mounting financial problems – and ongoing consumer anger over high costs and denied claims.

With deadly, rights-stripping forced treatment legislation set to pass in Alberta tonight, please read and share this critical perspective from Dr @bonnierae.bsky.social 🙏 thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

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Check out our locals section - new #CRACKDOWN

In 2008 Gregor Robertson was elected on a promise to “end homelessness.” Instead he proceeded to give hundreds of millions in developer tax breaks, refused to increase CACs and DCLs & doubled the police budget in a naked war on the poor. Now we face Carney’s austerity agenda with Gregor at the helm

Great to see cuts to City’s grant for school meal programs reversed by unanimous vote. Now bring back Renters Office, restore library hours, end the supportive housing ban, become a Living Wage employer again, and invest in desperately-needed social infrastructure. #vanpoli

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is sidestepping questions on how the budget for a five-million-dollar task force aimed at cracking down on the Downtown Eastside was approved. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

The federal election shows that our electoral institutions were never created or kept in place with democratic objectives in mind. Canada’s voting system is a pre-democratic holdover and it remains in use because it serves those that benefit from it.

This is one of the best articles I've read in a long time. Many don't get the underlying eugenics of the far right (beyond COVID). Read this.

"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/

Aaron Gunn coming up the middle thanks to "strategic voting" on Vancouver Island feels like both an immediate effect and larger metaphor for the way unprincipled action (disguised as "strategy") has opened a wider and wider space for the Right in recent years

He's also the contemptible self-hating closet case who once boasted about preventing gay men from visiting their dying partners in hospital.

NEW: Former premier Rachel Notley and Amazon Labour Union founder Chris Smalls offered contrasting visions of the federal NDP's inevitable rebuild at Tuesday's rally in Edmonton. www.readtheorchard.org/p/will-the-f...

To solve the housing crisis we need to turn away from neoliberal doctrines. Our own history teaches us that the only way to restore housing affordability is to create non-market housing alternatives that anchor prices and push the investor class out of the housing system.

VPD whistleblower says Task Force Barrage was ‘entirely motivated by politics’ City Councillor Sean Orr urges Ken Sim to put real public safety over political games www.votecope.ca/news/vpd-whi... #vanpoli

what a cool economy we live in www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Came across this text b/w lobbyist Gurpreet Vinning & Mayor Sim's staffer Trevor Ford. Vinning wanted this kept quiet: Rogers wants to get more government contracts. Were they trying to sweeten the deal by giving money to things Sim cares about? I have questions. vancouver.ca/files/cov/20...

Sean Orr had the most votes at 14 of the 25 polling locations, sweeping East Van and winning at False Creek, Marpole-Oakridge and the West End. Ken Sim's billionaire-backed ABC got trounced in every corner of Vancouver. #vanpoli #EvictKenSim

Rally and march tomorrow (Monday)—please join us to commemorate the thousands of lives lost to this senseless drug war, nine years after the BC government and Provincial Health Officer declared a public health emergency in 2016

NEW: As Shell finalizes the sale of its onshore oil and gas operations in Nigeria, critics say the company's exit is a strategic move to avoid responsibility for hundreds of spills that have resulted in an "environmental genocide."

Your new City Councillor @seanorr.bsky.social has had a busy week: “Launched a campaign to restore public library hours, did some intensive training at City Hall, met some folks who I’ll be sharing a workplace with — and now back to the dishpit.” #FightForVancouver #vanpoli

NEW: John Clarke on building a liberatory class politics in the face of the escalating trade war between Canada and the US. www.midnightsunmag.ca/from-trade-w...