Jack Gates wins Residential Tenancy Branch compensation
Jack Gates, a tenant leader at the Regent Hotel in Vancouver, and a member of the SRO Collaborative, won $1675…
Invisible Heroes: Aboriginal Stories from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
A new book written by Victoria Rose Bull, Leslie Nelson, Sue Blue, Herb Varley, Stanley Paul, Emma Lucy Charleson,…
Homeless on the Stage
For a Muse of Fire is an original live performance piece set on the #20 bus that weaves personal stories from…
In Memory of Wolverine
Love, respect, hope, strength, and a deep thirst for freedom and justice flowed through Wolverine’s Memorial…
Real Crisis, Fake Responses: Editorial
This issue of The Volcano circles around two main topics:
One: The ongoing, widespread Indigenous resistance and…
Occupy INAC – Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories
On Monday April 18th, Indigenous families and allies occupied the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)…
Caring Society vs Canada – foster care is modern day residential school for…
On January 26th, the Human Rights Tribunal of Canada made a historic ruling for Indigenous peoples and…
When “rights” are not enough – Lessons from Tent City Resistance
It felt like a major victory when, this spring, the courts refused to grant an injunction to the Provincial…
Revisiting the Tao of Deception in Canada’s colonial war on the poor
The Tao (way) of deception, Tabula Raza (empty slate or no history), Terrus Nullius (empty land): these are some of…
Prime Minister Trudeau and Reconciliation – The New Tokenism Is Still The…
I have been banging my head against the wall over and over again. I am speaking figuratively of course.
I…