Part 4: Shining Vancouver’s Reconciliation Brand / City Versus Country
The Four Progressive parties also make some overtures to Indigenous peoples, some using language like…
Part 3: Inoffensive reforms for the servants of the Professional-Managerial Class
The version of the “housing crisis” that is dominating BC’s 2018 municipal election in urban centres is one that…
Part 2: Chasing moral panic votes
In Surrey the number one election issue is “crime,” which means politicians across the spectrum are making promises…
Part 1: Free market fundamentalism / Progressives compete on a narrow political…
Free market fundamentalism
In Vancouver the electoral right has a slough of pretenders that are competing for…
They get elected, we get evicted: Going beyond the inoffensive reforms of…
The 2018 municipal elections in British Columbia are significant in two ways: one, they are dominated by “the…
From Camp Namegans to marching as one
On Saturday September 29th, the community that has been marching and fighting alongside the Namegans homeless in…
Fight the Doug Ford Tories! Statement from Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
Doug Ford is now Premier of Ontario and a hard right, class war Tory Government is in power. Our message is that…
Cops Everywhere, Justice Nowhere: Layers of Policing in Surrey
The investment-based economies and social program cuts of neoliberal austerity regimes create crises within working…
Remembering Harold Lavender, founding editor of the Downtown East and Volcano…
Harold was committed to making radical politics real: they believed radical left and anti-colonial ideas are the…
In memory of Harold Lavender
The last time I spoke with Harold was a couple of weeks ago before they went into the hospital. They mentioned that…