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Derrick O'Keefe: Let's flip the script on housing in Vancouver and start by dealing with real people's needs

Berlin has won real rent control because it's had the political courage and clarity to aim high with its demands, targeting for elimination huge corporations that currently profit...

Derrick O'Keefe: Landlord B.C. is wrong—Vancouver tenants can't afford these rent hikes

A COPE candidate for Vancouver city council makes the case for a temporary freeze on rents.

Derrick O'Keefe: COPE has a plan to smash rent hikes in Vancouver

The annual allowable rental increase in British Columbia and Vancouver is now a maximum of four percent, based on a formula of two percent plus inflation. That needs to come down...

Derrick O'Keefe: I'm running for office because Vancouver needs more renters on city council

In these difficult times, a COPE council candidate says only antidote to cynicism is to get organized and present a hopeful political alternative.

Derrick O'Keefe: No more overlooking renters’ issues in Vancouver—we need a Rent Freeze now

Yesterday, the Straight reported on the fact that the City of Vancouver now defines a new three-bedroom unit renting at $3,702 per month as “affordable housing”.

Derrick O’Keefe and Tristan Markle: Why Gregor Robertson won't run again, and why it’s good for Vancouver 

Two Vancouver political activists make the case that Robertson's departure was necessary for things to improve in the city.

Haunting memoir The Hope in Leaving travels B.C.’s blue-collar back roads

Barbara Williams's book bridges the divides between rural and urban, past and present, helping us understand this vast province.

A tribute to Ali Mustafa, a people’s journalist

Ali Mustafa, 29, was killed Sunday in Syria.

Derrick O’Keefe: Three years on, Stephen Harper is still an enemy of the Arab Spring

In Israel, Stephen Harper spoke positively about the coup regime in Egypt as a “return to stability”.

Nelson Mandela: Resisting depoliticized histories of his life and struggle

Contrary to liberal, depoliticized histories of the life of Mandela, he was in fact a political leader who believed in achieving liberation by any means necessary.