November / December
Print & Online:
- Sex workers say Canada’s laws put them in danger — and demand the new government fix them
- Homeless in Vancouver: Will death at Kelowna homeless camp help shorten life of Vancouver’s Oppenheimer camp?
- Vancouver’s Oppenheimer Park homeless camp brings community, safety, says resident
- After latest Oppenheimer Park shooting, critics ask: will it take a death to spark change?
- City urged not to use shooting to justify Oppenheimer 'decampment'
- Tent cities are 'safest alternative for many': lawyer
- Vancouver police, fire chiefs ask council to keep budget increases for their departments
- Newsmaker of the Year 2019: Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
- VANDU: As VPD budget spirals out of control, defunding police is our community alternative to drug war
- Battle of using RVs on private property continues
- B.C. municipalities pass bylaws targeting homeless
- Bylaw targeting 'aggressive' panhandlers passes in Maple Ridge
- Oppenheimer Park Residents Are Right to Be Wary of Relocation Plans
- Here’s what those Vancouver police stats don’t tell you about Oppenheimer homeless camp and crime
Broadcast:
- Ottawa Today with Mark Sutcliffe: Dec 4 11:00-12:00 Episode (@ 35:20)
- Concerns raised over Maple Ridge panhandling bylaw (@ 1:10)
- BC Today with Michelle Eliot: Panhandling Bans (@ 28:26)
September / October
Print & Online:
- Here's Why Sex Workers' Rights Are a Big Issue This Election
- No injunction: Oppenheimer Park meeting hears of firefighter stuck with needle, police swarmed, drug turf war
- 'We're one call away from something very tragic': Park Board won't seek injunction to clear Oppenheimer
- Park Board votes for ‘collaborative’ decampment of Oppenheimer Park, but no injunction
- Expect another tent city in Maple Ridge within 6 months if changes aren't made: advocate
Broadcast:
July / August
Print & Online:
- Task force has responded to 15 homeless camps in Hamilton since April
- Oppenheimer residents caught in 'chaotic' relocation, advocates say
- 119 homeless campers at Vancouver’s Oppenheimer Park have now been housed, says city
- Oppenheimer Park residents in limbo as city mulls next move
- Vancouver housing agencies caught off guard by city’s move to clear homeless campers from Oppenheimer Park
- Confusion and chaos at Vancouver’s Oppenheimer Park homeless camp as deadline to leave looms
- Sex worker support groups join forces, hope to create provincial 'bad date' list
- ‘Not in My Backyard’: How NIMBYism impacts access to vital support services
- New options to avert North American opioid crisis
Broadcast:
- BC Today with Michelle Eliot: Homeless campers in parks
- The Simi Sara Show:Pivot Legal Society says eviction of campers from Oppenheimer Park causing ‘unnecessary stress’ (@ 0.30)
- Daybreak South with Chris Walker:Three perspectives on Kelowna's social crisis
- The Lynda Steele Show: Demolition at Anita place (@ 0:45)
- Daybreak South with Chris Walker: Know Your Rights Handbook (@1:50:00)
May / June
Print & Online:
- The Charter of Rights Can Protect Homeless Campers. Is That Enough?
- Vancouver’s ‘defensive architecture’ is hostile to homeless, say critics
- City's security measures have made Anita Place feel like a prison, tent city advocate argues
- B.C. harm-reduction groups ask Mike Farnworth to reconsider top health officer's report on overdose deaths
- Controversial pop-up drug consumption site in Maple Ridge dismantled within hours
- Pop-up supervised injection site shut down hours after opening in Maple Ridge
- Unsanctioned overdose-prevention site opens in Maple Ridge, renewing debate over drug use and homelessness
- Protestors set up rogue safe injection site in Maple Ridge
- Scrap Community Safety Act, civil society groups urge B.C. government
- Scrap Community Safety Act, civil society groups urge Victoria
- Police dog bit off most of bystander's ear during mistaken identity takedown
- Penticton’s bylaw to fine people sleeping on sidewalks criticized for targeting the homeless
- Squamish van lifers secure a temporary win
- Penticton bylaw makes sitting on downtown sidewalks a $100 offence
- UPDATE: Penticton endorses plan to ban sitting on downtown sidewalks during summer months
- Charter Rights For The Homeless
- Carl Hart is coming to Vancouver for a grownup talk about drugs
Broadcast:
- Project Inclusion Feature- Access Television
- BC Almanac Personal Best Podcast: Homelessness in Downtown Cores (@ 7:02)
- The Lynda Steele Show: Penticton officials taking legal action against homeless population in their downtown streets (@ 1:21)
- Daybreak South with Chris Walker: Penticton bylaw makes sitting on downtown sidewalks a $100 offence (@ 1:57:59)
March / April
Print & Online:
- LGBTQ advocate Drew Dennis named Pivot Legal Society's new executive director
- Overdose crisis: B.C.'s top doctor calls for decriminalization of drug possession for personal use
- B.C. top doctor's drug decriminalization report good first step: advocates
- Maple Ridge’s homeless feel abandoned by the city they call home
- New federal guidelines direct prosecutors to reduce bail conditions for addicted drug offenders
- Vancouver-area mayor under fire for suggesting homeless people are ‘raping and pillaging’ his city
- PM addresses homeless crisis in Maple Ridge
- 51 supportive housing units for Maple Ridge homeless campers not enough: Pivot Legal Society
- Province to move ahead with Maple Ridge supportive housing without city’s support
- Jean Swanson’s Idea for Housing Homeless Campers Shot Down
- Judge rejects appeal of injunction against Maple Ridge homeless camp as housing concerns deepen
- B.C. Housing Minister calls Maple Ridge social housing plan ‘not workable’
- Vancouver police stats suggest a softer touch on drugs but users say it's a different story on the streets
- Evacuation order lifted at Maple Ridge homeless camp
- Evacuation order at Anita Place tent city conditionally lifted
- Evacuation order lifted for Maple Ridge homeless camp
- Decriminalizing sex work is a better solution
- Some campers evacuated from Maple Ridge tent city may not be able to return
- Not 'collaborative': Homeless advocates feel shut out of Maple Ridge housing discussions
- Evacuation of Maple Ridge homeless camp has been completed: City
- Campers at Maple Ridge tent city expected to return after eviction notice expires
- Residents ordered out of tent city in Maple Ridge, B.C. after string of fires
- 'Assault on the camp': Authorities move in on Maple Ridge tent city
- Many homeless unsure where to go after being forced to leave 'Anita Camp' in Maple Ridge, BC
- National Post: Residents evacuated from homeless encampment in Maple Ridge, B.C.
- The London Free Press: Residents evacuated from homeless encampment in Maple Ridge, B.C.
- Burnaby Now: Residents evacuated from homeless encampment in Maple Ridge, B.C.
- Vancouver Courier: Residents evacuated from homeless encampment in Maple Ridge, B.C.
- Maple Ridge homeless camp residents bracing to be evacuated
- Firefighters battle third fire in two days at B.C. homeless encampment
- UPDATED: Third fire at Maple Ridge’s tent city in two days
- More security coming to Maple Ridge homeless camp after string of fires
- Maple Ridge cannot just freeze out its homelessness dilemma
Broadcast:
- Maple Ridge mayor says homeless addicts 'raping and pillaging'
- The Pivot Legal Society is also speaking out against the comments made by the Mayor of Maple Ridge
- Fire sparks safety debate over Maple Ridge homeless camp (@1:18)
January / February
Print & Online:
- Maple Ridge camp opens doors after police leave
- This City Will Start Outing Johns. Sex Workers Think It’s a Terrible Idea
- B.C. legal group files appeal after six arrested at homeless camp
- After arrests at Maple Ridge homeless camp, legal society appeals B.C. Supreme Court order
- The Prince George Citizen: B.C. legal group plans to go back to court after 6 arrested at homeless camp
- The Vancouver Star: B.C. legal group plans to go back to court after six arrested at homeless camp
- UPDATE: Pivot files court appeal on Maple Ridge tent city clean-up order
- Six arrested at Anita Place homeless camp during safety enforcement
- Six arrested in Maple Ridge during fire safety enforcement at tent camp
- 6 arrested at Maple Ridge homeless camp
- Residents of Maple Ridge homeless camp arrested as city enforces court injunction
- UPDATE: Anita Place camp resident barricades himself in shelter as more inspections take place
- Mounties arrest six as tensions escalate at Maple Ridge homeless camp
- Camp residents, activists arrested at Maple Ridge tent city
- UPDATE: Safety regulations enforced at Maple Ridge tent city
- UPDATE: City starts safety improvements at Maple Ridge camp
- City starts safety improvements at Maple Ridge camp
- Maple Ridge can address fire risks at Anita Place tent city: court
- Maple Ridge allowed to address tent-city safety
- Maple Ridge granted injunction to enforce fire safety at tent city
- UPDATE: Maple Ridge granted authority to address fire safety at homeless camp
- Vancouver detox facility proposal under attack from Grandview-Woodland Area Council
- In This Nature Preserve, a Human Social Crisis Has Sprouted
- The dissenting camp: Why Canada’s tent cities keep coming back
- Judge delays decision on Maple Ridge’s third attempt to get an injunction against Anita Place tent city
- UPDATE: Judge reserves decision on application for tent city enforcement orders
- Efforts to disband Maple Ridge tent city reach B.C. Supreme Court
Broadcast:
- Ruling on injection sites consultations (@1:30)
- Explosion and fires at camp for homeless (@1:40)
- Pivot Legal Represents Anita Place Tent City in B.C. Supreme Court Hearing (@1:27:20)
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