Immense support for BC nurses in Vancouver today — they’ve given a 72-hr strike notice, set for Thurs if an improved offer is not made. If anyone tries to tell you BC’s coffers are empty, remind them that Eby & BC NDP have still haven’t reversed Gordon Campbell’s corporate + income tax cuts. ✊🏼🌱
I'm at the BC Nurses' Union picket line in front of Vancouver General Hospital. Nurses across the province are currently engaged in a work-to-rule strike, refusing overtime and non-nursing duties. @pressprogress.ca
The World Cup has brought glitz and glamour to Vancouver, but as the city seeks to show its best side to the world it has also led to early-morning raids and more aggressive policing of people experiencing homelessness and drug problems in the city's Downtown Eastside, locals have told Reuters.
Anti-ABC parties must do more to support tenants in the struggle against mass displacement New editorial from three members of @vancouvertenants.bsky.social themainlander.com/2026/06/18/a... #vanpoli
Anti-ABC parties must do more to support tenants in the struggle against mass displacement
With October’s municipal election approaching, organizers with the Vancouver Tenants Union advocate for firmer opposition to displacement from progressive city councillors.
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Failure to ensure city centre overdose prevention site reflects BC NDP deadly abandonment of people who use drugs: themainlander.com/2026/05/29/c... "The Health Minister has capitulated to the ideology of criminalization and containment"
Failure to ensure city centre overdose prevention site reflects BC NDP deadly abandonment of people who use drugs: Healthcare workers, legal advocates
Care Not Cops, Pivot Legal, BCCLA & BCNUSJ call for action on the 10-year long toxic drug supply emergency
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This council: life saving overdose prevention? Nah. Life saving cooling kits? Nah. Food delivery robots flooding our sidewalks? Oh heck yeah dude
"Vancouver never saw police budgets decrease after the increases associated with the 2010 Winter Olympics:" themainlander.com/2026/02/24/a...
FIFA 2026 is coming to Vancouver at a social and economic cost to our communities
The $600 million soccer games are already linked to increased policing and criminalization – and they haven't even started.
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sharing a short reflection I wrote about working in the toxic drug crisis—which was formally declared 10 years ago today in BC. see those who can make it at Oppenheimer this evening themainlander.com/2026/04/14/e...
Emergency decade
One worker's reflections between the city and the toxic drug supply crisis.
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New on The Mainlander Academy at Woodward's marks "tactical escalation" by Vancouver police, writes drug user education group "We do not need a police super-complex in the heart of our neighbourhood." themainlander.com/2026/04/20/v... #vanpoli
Academy at Woodward's marks "tactical escalation" by Vancouver police, writes drug user education group
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No cop city anywhere - from atlanta to vancouver, cities are being militarized against their inhabitants. themainlander.com/2026/04/20/v...
Academy at Woodward's marks "tactical escalation" by Vancouver police, writes drug user education group
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BC NDP’s alarming proposal to weaken tenant rights in supportive housing Interview with Paul (@policeoversight.ca) & Matt (Our Streets) on Bill 11: themainlander.com/2026/04/13/i...
INTERVIEW | Inside the BC NDP’s alarming proposal to weaken tenant rights in supportive housing
The Mainlander sits down with Matt Tarasoff (Our Streets) and Paul Henry (P.O.W.E.R., Our Homes Can’t Wait) to talk about the BC NDP’s Bill 11 – the Residential Tenancy Amendment Act (2026). The Bill,...
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Police training facility is an affront to people’s vision for Woodward’s via @themainlander.bsky.social "It was not a surprise when London Drugs left Woodward’s in February, but rather the finale of a prolonged panic-fueled campaign" themainlander.com/2026/04/05/w...
Editorial | Police training facility is an affront to people’s vision for Woodward’s
There are urgently needed alternatives to turning the building into training grounds for cops.
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New from The Mainlander Editorial Collective: Police training facility is an affront to people’s vision for the Woodward’s development themainlander.com/2026/04/05/w... #vanpoli
Editorial | Police training facility is an affront to people’s vision for Woodward’s
There are urgently needed alternatives to turning the building into training grounds for cops.
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New in The Mainlander: Tenants on East Broadway stand against Fastmark themainlander.com/2026/04/01/t... @vancouvertenants.bsky.social #vanpoli
“This community has been a refuge against developer greed:” Tenants on East Broadway stand against Fastmark
“We learned about the redevelopment through a notice in the mail, it was devastating,” shares Nikki, a tenant living with her family in the Broadway Plan area.
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NEW: Analysis from Marilou Gagnon on Health Canada's rejection of compassion club models in the context of the DULF case themainlander.com/2026/03/09/c... #drugsky
Health Canada’s rebuff of compassion clubs predates DULF: Here’s why it matters.
Compassion clubs have resurfaced in recent years as a response to the toxic unregulated drug crisis in British Columbia (BC), and more specifically the need for community-based safer supply programs a...
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Too many people think that the current aggressions of US-Israel is a conspiracy to "distract from Epstein files." Waging sadistic wars is actually proof of - not a distraction from - Epstein files. Imperial violence is inseperable from sexual violence: organized, systemic crimes against humanity.
Israel & Saudi Arabia pushed the U.S. to attack Iran. Netanyahu killed 72,000 people in Gaza, mostly women & children. Saudi Arabia is a brutal dictatorship that allows no opposition. These are the leaders who want to bring “freedom” to Iran? Does anyone really believe that?
I love how incredibly specific this lie is I'm trying to picture them in the writing room and riffing until they landed on this one 🎄❄️🎅
Tessa Rowland@tessarowland.bsky.social · 7mo agofeatured in the article is this outrageous clip from our chief civic embarrassment
The Province has still not approve this training facility. Westbank was there but didn't take interviews. Chief Rai tapped Westbank founder Ian Gillespie on the shoulder and said, "Thanks for working with us."
CTV News Vancouver@ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social · 7mo agoVPD forges ahead with training academy despite lack of provincial approval
NEW: Read an explainer on the projected impacts of FIFA 2026 on Vancouver themainlander.com/2026/02/24/a...
FIFA 2026 is coming to Vancouver at a social and economic cost to our communities
The $600 million soccer games are already linked to increased policing and criminalization – and they haven't even started.
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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...
Premier Eby hazardously misrepresents Sublocade while endorsing forced treatment of youth
Extended release buprenorphine is not
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Hundreds of Academics Sign Letter Against City’s ‘Uplifting the DTES’ Plan themainlander.com/2025/12/08/h...
Hundreds of Academics Sign Letter Against City’s ‘Uplifting the DTES’ Plan
Academics:
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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
The Mainlander@themainlander.bsky.social · 9mo agoNEW 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...
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BC NDP aims to side-step another legal challenge to broaden the criminalization of mental health, substance use
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.
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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...
BC NDP Aims to side-step another legal challenge to broaden the criminalization of mental health, substance use
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.
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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
Tell Premier Eby and Mayor and Council to Acquire 570 Columbia / 105 Keefer
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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/...
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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.
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