December 16, 2009
A coalition of community members and activists in the Downtown Eastside marched against the Assistance to Shelter Act. The coalition says although the government claims that the aim of the Act is to...
Keywords: Homelessness, Organizing, British Columbia
December 10, 2009
The City of Victoria has lost its appeal of a 2008 court ruling that struck down the city's anti-camping bylaws. This means that homeless people have the right to set up temporary camps in public...
Keywords: Homelessness, British Columbia
December 9, 2009
Last week HandyDart riders flooded the Translink head office to protest in support of striking drivers. The riders say that the quality of service has gone down since an American company took over...
Keywords: Disability, British Columbia
December 3, 2009
Megaphone magazine has run a feature carrying the voices and stories of some DEWC Power of Women members. Titled "Our Lives, Our Voices: Downtown Eastside women find healing through narrative", seven...
Keywords: Women, British Columbia
December 2, 2009
Advocates are referring to the recently passed Assistance to Shelter Act as the "Olympic Kidnapping Act." The bill gives police the power to take homeless people to shelters during severe weather,...
Keywords: Government Policy, Homelessness, British Columbia
November 24, 2009
According to a report released today by First Call and Campaign 2000, although child poverty is persistent across Canada, BC has the highest rate of child poverty in Canada for the sixth year in a...
Keywords: Children and Youth, Poverty Research, British Columbia
November 10, 2009
Vancouver's oldest social housing complex, Little Mountain is now being demolished. Little Mountain was built in the early 1950's to house the families of homeless and underhoused veterns.
In 2008,...
Keywords: Homelessness, Housing, British Columbia
November 4, 2009
Below is the Hansard transcript from the November 3rd, 2009 Legislative Assembly about the Legal Aid cuts.
LEGAL AID SERVICES
L. Krog: Today we've learned that Legal Services' budget is going to be...
Keywords: Government Policy, Legal Aid, British Columbia
November 3, 2009
The Legal Services Society has announced that they will be closing five legal aid offices in towns across BC and laying off 58 staff members. This is the second time this year LSS has announced...
Keywords: Government Policy, Legal Aid, Legal aid cuts, British Columbia
October 27, 2009
The show RedEye on Co-op radio interviews David Eby about a plan to get the homeless off the streets during the Olympics in February next year.
Keywords: British Columbia
October 20, 2009
The Tyee has put together a stunning photo essay on homelessness in Vancouver and struggle for affordable housing over the past two years. They also put together a panel of experts to assess...
Keywords: Art and Culture, Government Policy, Homelessness, photo essay, British Columbia
October 1, 2009
According to Stats Canada the number of Canadians receiving regular EI benefits declined in July 2009 which is likely a result of unemployed workers running out of EI benefits without finding a job....
Keywords: statistics, Unemployment, British Columbia, All of Canada
September 10, 2009
The BC Liberal government claims to protect vital services including education, health care and social services in the recent September Budget Update, but critics claim that many social services are...
Keywords: Government Policy, British Columbia
September 10, 2009
Since January, various activists and residents of Vancouver have been passing on the torch of the 2010 Homelessness Hunger Strike Relay. The hunger strike relay was created as an active symbol to...
Keywords: Homelessness, Organizing, British Columbia
September 10, 2009
As Vancouver comes closer to hosting the Olympics, more residents of Vancouver are becoming victims of Olympic-related evictions. Last week the residents of a Downtown Eastside hotel were given...
Keywords: Homelessness, Housing, British Columbia
August 18, 2009
For six years, the Mobile Access Project (MAP) Van provided safety and services for survival sex workers living and working on the streets of Vancouver. In June the van was forced off the road due to...
Keywords: British Columbia
August 18, 2009
It is never a good time to be poor but the criminalization of poverty seems to be intensifying locally and internationally. In Vancouver this week, a homeless man died in a park in East Vancouver in...
Keywords: criminalization, Homelessness, Panhandling, British Columbia, International
July 31, 2009
An editorial by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives reveals how the BC government has been stonewalling requests to disclose Employment Standards enforcement records for farmworkers. A review...
Keywords: Workers' Rights, British Columbia
July 30, 2009
Through the next six months, Tenants in the Lower Mainland are vulnerable to Olympic-related evictions. TRAC and the City of Vancouver have a couple of resources, including the online tenancy...
Keywords: Tenants' Rights, British Columbia
July 30, 2009
If you want to apply for these student loan repayment programs - Debt Reduction, Interest Relief and BC's Permanent Disabiities Loan Forgiveness - that will end after July 31, 2009, Debt 101 has the...
Keywords: Children and Youth, Debt and Consumer Law, British Columbia
