Last Updated: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 | 4:45 PM
CBC News
A group of advocates for the homeless has taken over another abandoned building in Vancouver, this time just a block from city hall.
About 20 protesters occupied the boarded-up, two-storey building at Cambie Street and West Broadway on Tuesday afternoon and say they plan to stay.
The Anti-Poverty [...]

The Anti-Poverty Committee is sending a delegation to mayor Sam Sullivan’s office on Thursday at 2pm. If Sullivan refuses to meet with the activists they intend to occupy his office until he does.
Mary Clermount explained, “We want Sam to have a sincere discussion with us so that we can work together in figuring out the [...]

Yesterday just after 1pm, while over a 150 people rallied outside the police entered the North Star Squat and removed the half a dozen squatters inside. The Anti-Poverty Committee had demanded that Sam Sullivan, the mayor and leader of the Non-Partisan Association (NPA), meet with the squatters by 1pm Tuesday afternoon to talk about the [...]

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 | 5:46 PM
CBC News
Vancouver police have moved in and ousted a small group of homeless activists from an abandoned hotel in the city’s Downtown Eastside.
Police read a final warning before 20 officers entered the vacant North Star hotel on Tuesday afternoon and removed the six squatters one by one.
There [...]

News Report
Activists push to put poverty on agenda
GUTS members gather at city tavern to celebrate Anti-Poverty Day of Action
THANA DHARMARAJAH
GUELPH MERCURY
GUELPH (Oct 23, 2006) Poverty advocates rallied at a downtown bar to send a loud message to incoming city councillors to wake up to the poverty in their wards. “Trim the Fat off the Pigs, [...]

A building was squatted in downtown Victoria in solidarity with the APC squat and to demand that the regional governments and provincial governments build social housing. The Victoria riot squad shot tear gas into the building and arrested former APC member and Victory Squat resident Craig.
Communique from Victoria
COMMUNIQUE #1
VICTORIA’S HOMELESS SQUAT JANION BUILDING DEMAND EMERGENCY [...]

Please find time today to make your way down to 8 W. Hastings (beside pigeon park) to support the occupation of North Star hotel.
The top floor of building is occupied by a handful of people who are demanding that the NPA immediately convert the building into social housing.
We request your solidarity on site. If you [...]

APC occupies the former North Star hotel.
The empty building formally known as the North Star Hotel is currently being occupied by a handful of people. A demonstration organized by the Anti-Poverty Committee marched to the building with 200-250 protesters. Occupiers inside hung banners out the top story windows as the march rallied in front [...]

Today the Anti-Poverty Committee and supporters took an empty city-owned building near City Hall and stated that it will be turned into women’s emergency housing.
About 150 people gathered today on the lawns of City Hall, ready to occupy the city chambers and demand the city council buy a hotel and convert it to social housing, [...]