British Columbia has been in a housing crisis for years, with high rents, poor living conditions, homelessness and evictions being the norm. A recent study by the University of British Columbia analyzed data from 2013 to 2018 and found that evictions were the reason for 10.5 per cent of renters moving in B.C. This is […]

The NDP leadership likes to present themselves as supporters of Indigenous people, but in the Wet’suwet’en struggle the sad reality is that the B.C. NDP is primarily responsible for this violation of Indigenous rights. The federal NDP is not much better, issuing equivocal statements in order to camouflage the actions of their provincial counterparts. It […]

Torrential rains have caused devastation across British Columbia. Hundreds of people have been trapped by landslides, thousands have been forced to evacuate, and hundreds of thousands have gone without electricity. The city of Vancouver, the second largest port in North America, has been cut off from the rest of Canada. But this biblical-scale flooding is […]

Members of the Gidimt’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en nation enforced an eviction order against Coastal GasLink (CGL) on Sunday, Nov. 14, ordering the corporation to cease operations and leave Wet’suwet’en territory. The eviction order was originally issued by the hereditary chiefs of all five clans of the Wet’suwet’en in January 2020. In February of that […]

A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has denied an application by Teal Cedar Products Ltd. to extend the injunction against blockades by protestors of old-growth logging in the Fairy Creek watershed on Vancouver Island. Teal Cedar was requesting a 12-month extension, but the court ruling means the injunction has now expired. This is a huge […]

Old-growth forests in British Columbia are under attack. With the forestry industry facing a crisis, the capitalists have turned to lucrative logging of old growth to make a quick buck. In response, environmentalists and Indigenous activists have set up blockades to protect the Fairy Creek watershed. The police have clamped down, arresting hundreds. The labour […]

In late May, B.C. lawyer Breen Ouellette came out with allegations of Indigenous girls being forced by social workers to receive intrauterine devices, or IUDs. According to Ouellette, children younger than 10 were not only made to get the procedure, but weren’t even given medical followup. This practice violates not only B.C. and Canadian law, […]

British Columbia has seen a massive uptick in anti-Asian racist attacks, which have skyrocketed by 717 per cent in Vancouver compared to the same period last year. The proliferation of anti-Asian racism reflects a general international trend fueled by governments and the capitalist press, spreading conspiracy theories and xenophobic propaganda to distract from their own […]

Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been nothing short of a disaster. As of Apr. 15, Canada ranks 28th in the world for number of administered vaccines per 100 people. Health concerns over the AstraZeneca vaccine could slow things down even further. Through all this, a certain sector of the economy has been given preferential treatment: […]

On Oct. 24, the B.C. NDP scored a crushing election victory, winning 55 out of 87 seats. The main loser was the corporate-backed B.C. Liberal Party who had their lowest share of the vote in nearly 30 years. However, the electoral success of the NDP, led by the moderate leadership of John Horgan, is only […]