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Emails reveal housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment
Documents obtained via Freedom of Information requests show that BC Housing kept supportive housing units empty while thousands of people were left unsheltered.
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NEW: Housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment according to internal correspondence obtained by The Mainlander
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Economic Justice for Families is Needed to Eradicate Poverty in BC:
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Economic Justice for Families is Needed to Eradicate Poverty in BC:
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Economic Justice for Families is Needed to Eradicate Poverty in BC
Over the past year, a resurgence of nationalism in Canada and internationally has allowed governments to paper over economic injustice.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Economic Justice for Families is Needed to Eradicate Poverty in BC:
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Economic Justice for Families is Needed to Eradicate Poverty in BC:
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Happy to hear the conviction will be in abeyance until this moves through Supreme Court. Glad Justice Murray recognized that these two had noble intentions of saving lives (something elected leaders are reluctant to do). She was bound by the law as written. But this isn’t over!
📣 DULF found guilty for life-saving compassion club 📣
But WAIT! Not so fast…
drugdatadecoded.ca/court-finds-...
But WAIT! Not so fast…
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Court finds DULF guilty for compassion club "heralded as success"
Convictions are on hold as the compassion club founders prepare for a Charter challenge to begin on November 24.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Happy to hear the conviction will be in abeyance until this moves through Supreme Court. Glad Justice Murray recognized that these two had noble intentions of saving lives (something elected leaders are reluctant to do). She was bound by the law as written. But this isn’t over!
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NEW: Housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment according to internal correspondence obtained by The Mainlander
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Emails reveal housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment
Documents obtained via Freedom of Information requests show that BC Housing kept supportive housing units empty while thousands of people were left unsheltered.
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September 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
NEW: Housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment according to internal correspondence obtained by The Mainlander
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"The unregulated drug supply and the policies that shape it have been the cause of a “forever” public health emergency in BC since April 2016."
"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
DULF Case Wraps Up at the BC Supreme Court:
themainlander.com/2025/10/15/d... #drugsky
DULF Case Wraps Up at the BC Supreme Court
Final hearings concluded today in the BC Supreme court in a crown case brought against the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF)
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October 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
"The unregulated drug supply and the policies that shape it have been the cause of a “forever” public health emergency in BC since April 2016."
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"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"
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the mainlander.com/2025/04/29/gbv/
Nowhere to seek safety as gender-based violence worsens under drug supply & displacement crises
Community organizations amplify calls alongside women and gender diverse people in the DTES for freedom and safety from violence
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April 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"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"
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“The troubling thing about this prosecution is that everyone knew what was happening. It seems like [Nyx & Kalicum] are being hung out to dry. As soon as politicians started complaining, all of a sudden VPD—which before was fine—suddenly was not fine.” -Judge 1/
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"Everyone knew what was happening," judge admonishes Crown as DULF awaits trafficking verdict
Justice Catherine Murray closed the trial with remarks that showed sympathy for the accused and noted the confusing behaviour of Health Canada, the Vancouver police and all other political entities du...
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October 16, 2025 at 2:58 AM
“The troubling thing about this prosecution is that everyone knew what was happening. It seems like [Nyx & Kalicum] are being hung out to dry. As soon as politicians started complaining, all of a sudden VPD—which before was fine—suddenly was not fine.” -Judge 1/
drugdatadecoded.ca/everyone-kne...
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"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
DULF Case Wraps Up at the BC Supreme Court:
themainlander.com/2025/10/15/d... #drugsky
DULF Case Wraps Up at the BC Supreme Court
Final hearings concluded today in the BC Supreme court in a crown case brought against the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF)
themainlander.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:27 AM
"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
DULF Case Wraps Up at the BC Supreme Court:
themainlander.com/2025/10/15/d... #drugsky
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“Imagine someone coming into your house, attacking you, taking your stuff, then destroying your house, and saying ‘have a nice day.’ That’s how it feels.” #VanPoli themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...
Emails reveal housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment
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
September 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
“Imagine someone coming into your house, attacking you, taking your stuff, then destroying your house, and saying ‘have a nice day.’ That’s how it feels.” #VanPoli themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...
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International Overdose Awareness Day brings people together against legislated violence of drug policy & militarizing, racial capitalist global war on drugs.
DULF is facing protracted legal battle & prison time for harm reduction
Join me in wage solidarity fundraiser:
chuffed.org/project/dulf...
DULF is facing protracted legal battle & prison time for harm reduction
Join me in wage solidarity fundraiser:
chuffed.org/project/dulf...
Wage Solidarity: Fight the War on Drugs
Every August 31, International Overdose Awareness Day brings people together around the world to take action on preventable overdose deaths and the legislated violence of drug policy. On August 31, We...
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September 3, 2025 at 12:26 AM
International Overdose Awareness Day brings people together against legislated violence of drug policy & militarizing, racial capitalist global war on drugs.
DULF is facing protracted legal battle & prison time for harm reduction
Join me in wage solidarity fundraiser:
chuffed.org/project/dulf...
DULF is facing protracted legal battle & prison time for harm reduction
Join me in wage solidarity fundraiser:
chuffed.org/project/dulf...
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hey it's a depraved betrayal of PHS's mission and constitution that the executive director of the Portland Hotel Services Society agreed to this and the board needs to address this at the AGM which just happens to be in a few weeks
BC housing kept 117 PHS housing units vacant in the lead-up to the 2023 decampment, and no one can even say that anyone from the Hastings encampment received housing, per The Mainlander
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Emails reveal housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment
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
September 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
hey it's a depraved betrayal of PHS's mission and constitution that the executive director of the Portland Hotel Services Society agreed to this and the board needs to address this at the AGM which just happens to be in a few weeks
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BC housing kept 117 PHS housing units vacant in the lead-up to the 2023 decampment, and no one can even say that anyone from the Hastings encampment received housing, per The Mainlander
themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...
themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...
Emails reveal housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment
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
September 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
BC housing kept 117 PHS housing units vacant in the lead-up to the 2023 decampment, and no one can even say that anyone from the Hastings encampment received housing, per The Mainlander
themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...
themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...
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"[O]ne BC Housing employee requested a personalised street sweep outside their Gore Street office to the City’s then-director of homelessness services, Sue Baker."
I don't even know what to say. The hatred from BC Housing and CoV towards unhoused people is truly disgusting. #vanpoli #bcpoli
I don't even know what to say. The hatred from BC Housing and CoV towards unhoused people is truly disgusting. #vanpoli #bcpoli
"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...
@natecrompton.bsky.social & I obtained documents that offer insight into how they are engineered:
themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...
Emails reveal housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment
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
September 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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they do this for everything. make people fight each other for the opportunity to BEG for it. to make you indebted, grateful
September 3, 2025 at 1:51 AM
they do this for everything. make people fight each other for the opportunity to BEG for it. to make you indebted, grateful
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"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...
@natecrompton.bsky.social & I obtained documents that offer insight into how they are engineered:
themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...
Emails reveal housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment
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
September 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"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...
@natecrompton.bsky.social & I obtained documents that offer insight into how they are engineered:
themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...
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"But neither the City nor BC housing are able to confirm that a single person displaced as part of the Hastings decampment successfully secured housing that day."
September 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"But neither the City nor BC housing are able to confirm that a single person displaced as part of the Hastings decampment successfully secured housing that day."
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"Some of these housing units potentially sat empty for lengthy periods during a housing crisis in order to make space for the people who were slated for decampment, in theory."
September 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"Some of these housing units potentially sat empty for lengthy periods during a housing crisis in order to make space for the people who were slated for decampment, in theory."
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The machinations of a grotesque man and the soulless ghouls that conspire with him.
themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d... "Correspondence shows that one nonprofit held more than 100 housing and shelter units empty for the week of April 3 to 7, 2023, the same week as the Hastings decampment."
themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d... "Correspondence shows that one nonprofit held more than 100 housing and shelter units empty for the week of April 3 to 7, 2023, the same week as the Hastings decampment."
Emails reveal housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment
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
September 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The machinations of a grotesque man and the soulless ghouls that conspire with him.
themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d... "Correspondence shows that one nonprofit held more than 100 housing and shelter units empty for the week of April 3 to 7, 2023, the same week as the Hastings decampment."
themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d... "Correspondence shows that one nonprofit held more than 100 housing and shelter units empty for the week of April 3 to 7, 2023, the same week as the Hastings decampment."
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"Imagine someone coming into your house, attacking you, taking your stuff, then destroying your house, and saying 'have a nice day.'"
"That's how it feels."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Housing #Policing
"That's how it feels."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Housing #Policing
Emails reveal housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment
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
September 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
"Imagine someone coming into your house, attacking you, taking your stuff, then destroying your house, and saying 'have a nice day.'"
"That's how it feels."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Housing #Policing
"That's how it feels."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Housing #Policing
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...
themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...
Emails reveal housing sat empty as people were displaced to nowhere during Hastings decampment
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
September 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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...
themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...
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August 31. 12pm-3pm at Oppenheimer Celebration of life for Elder Clint & 3pm-6pm block party 300 block hastings
August 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
August 31. 12pm-3pm at Oppenheimer Celebration of life for Elder Clint & 3pm-6pm block party 300 block hastings
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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 !!
June 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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 !!
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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 !!
June 17, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Canada signed a joint letter with the UK and France earlier this week condemning Israel's ethnic cleansing plan in Gaza, and threatening sanctions. The tone shift is welcome—but we're well past the time for joint letters. By @whosestreets.bsky.social
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Joint letters won’t stop a genocide. An arms embargo and sanctions on Israel could. - CCPA
It seems like possibly, maybe, the countries of the world could be finally willing to consider putting some real pressure on Israel to stop its genocide in Gaza. In a joint statement with the United K...
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May 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Canada signed a joint letter with the UK and France earlier this week condemning Israel's ethnic cleansing plan in Gaza, and threatening sanctions. The tone shift is welcome—but we're well past the time for joint letters. By @whosestreets.bsky.social
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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I missed this: BC is holding involuntarily hospitalized people - by definition among the most vulnerable - in solitary confinenent. This runs counter to Mandela Rules and, going by prior court rulings, Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. www.mapleridgenews.com/home2/bcs-fi...
B.C.'s first involuntary care beds for incarcerated men open in Surrey
Ten beds are only for men being held in the custody at the Surrey pretrial centre
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May 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I missed this: BC is holding involuntarily hospitalized people - by definition among the most vulnerable - in solitary confinenent. This runs counter to Mandela Rules and, going by prior court rulings, Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. www.mapleridgenews.com/home2/bcs-fi...