September 2025
Documents obtained via Freedom of Information requests show that BC Housing kept supportive housing units empty while thousands of people were left unsheltered.| themainlander.com
Documents obtained via Freedom of Information requests show that BC Housing kept supportive housing units empty while thousands of people were left unsheltered.| themainlander.com
Documents obtained via Freedom of Information requests show that BC Housing kept supportive housing units empty while thousands of people were left unsheltered.| themainlander.com
Community organizations amplify calls alongside women and gender diverse people in the DTES for freedom and safety from violence| themainlander.com
Mohammed El-Kurd’s new book, centred on the dehumanization of Palestinian people across the West, is an important re-evaluation of appealing to “empire’s stenographers”|
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has announced a plan to freeze supportive housing development in the Downtown Eastside (DTES). The plan is part of a wider set of policy changes targeting the DTES and spear…| themainlander.com
Sim’s abrupt pause on housing and newest police crackdown is for the wealthiest – at the expense of all of us.|
After serving Abby with a significant rent increase in 2023, her landlord attempted to evict her altogether. But the reason keeps changing.|
Critique of involuntary treatment expansion has focused on urban areas. The consequences will be worse for people in the north.|
The VPL has implemented a branch-wide ban on employees who show symbols of support for the Palestinian people. According to internal workplace memos obtained by The Mainlander, library management h…| themainlander.com
The bill would have criminalized people that police “believe” consumed drugs outdoors.|
On Dec. 18, Vancouver City Council approved the demolition of the Dunsmuir Hotel, a single-room occupancy building with 167 units at the corner of Dunsmuir and Richards Street. The decision marks yet another feather in the cap of property developer Holborn Properties, with plans for a large-scale residential redevelopment of the site.|
There appears to be a growing consensus between the two dominant poles of politics in British Columbia. The Conservatives and the BC NDP have together embraced a series of regressive policies as the provincial election devolves into a surreal fantasy land where up is down, left is right, but somehow right is still right.| themainlander.com
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim confrontation at Komagata Maru sign unveiling a reminder from the local anti-colonial Panjabi movement that colonial violence is not past tense| themainlander.com
