Heather Lamoureux, artistic director of Vines Arts Festival

The Pulse Interview: Heather Lamoureux, artistic director of Vines Art Festival

Today on the show: Megan Milton, a volunteer with the Vancouver Tenants Union, tells us about the new province legislation that took effect on July 1st and is designed to limit landlords' ability to renovict a tenant for their apartment. We look at the pros and cons of the legislation and what protections the Vancouver Tenants Union says are really needed for Vancouver apartment dwellers.

Aly Laube talks to Laura Shaver, of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), about the challenges faced by the community's drug users during the past year as they live not only through the COVID-19 pandemic but a huge spike in opioid deaths too.

In this episode, we talk to Mile Lavkulich, who runs the technical aspects of SFU Woodwards' School of the Arts.

In this episode, we talk to Don Larsen, host of Co-op Radio's "Main and Hastings" show, and one of the community founders of Crab Park, the DTES's only waterfront park. More than 30 years after its establishment, Crab Park still needs to be defended from the encroachment of the Port of Vancouver.

In this episode, Aly Laube talks to Joel Harnest, Co-executive Director of Qmunity, BC's Queer, Trans, & Two-Spirit Resource Centre.

DTES Response was set up in the weeks after the pandemic health emergency was declared in March last year. The organization is a loose coalition of organizations working in the area. It fundraises and offers aid. Kathy Shimizu is the group's frontline community network coordinator.

Louise Chaynes is director of La Bousolle, a community and education centre located at 312 Main in the DTES, and caters to the Francophone residents of the neighbourhood.

Mo Tarmohammed has been the owner/operator of the Rickshaw Theatre for over a decade. It's the only large, live music venue in the neighbourhood.