Fighting violence against women in Vancouver’s sex trade
It’s been 22 years since the Montreal massacre. We talk violence against women, and ways to end it, with a survival sex work organizer Jennifer Allan.
Tag Archives: Downtown Eastside
Homeless shelter clients, staff ‘frustrated’ with city enforcement
Homeless shelter asks: No room at the inn for Mary and Joseph?
Housing activists take over Hastings condo site
Paris Annex condos got some unexpected occupants today.
#VanElxn: Confronting Vision’s ‘Creative City’: Evictions, gentrification, developers
The Left Coast Post looks beyond the election: can you back Vision Vancouver and not back gentrification?
NPA kept Downtown Eastside residents from voting, COPE alleges
Scrutineers’ pressure kept at least 50 people from voting and created delays that discouraged others — charges the NPA denies
Occupy Vancouver affordable housing march decries rising prices, condominium developers
Nearly 150 demonstrators from Occupy Vancouver held a protest for affordable housing Saturday, protesting upscale developments they said are causing rising prices
Mayoral homelessness debate a sham: DTES residents
As Mayor Gregor Robertson faced his main election opponent in a tense homelessness debate tonight, residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) in attendance called the debate a sham
Mayoral homelessness debate: Photograph
Mayor Gregor Robertson and Councillor Suzanne Anton speak to the congregation at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church
#VanElxn: Do developers control city hall?
In the first of The Left Coast Post’s eight-part series on the November 19 Vancouver civic elections, we meet journalist Tristan Markle
Turning the tide for affordable housing in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
With one of the highest urban Indigenous populations in the country, Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside has become the site of a battle over rising housing prices, a lack of affordable lodgings, and encroaching up-scale development
David P Ball 