The bloom of warmth, like a smile, and underlying, unbreakable strength — these are parts of the healing journey that are discovered through the prose and poetry written inside a Downtown Eastside recovery centre
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More about our Peer Newsroom“Why "The Shift?" So the framework of Megaphone magazine can “shift” to being a more inclusive street paper, empowering those with lived and living experience to tell the stories that matter the most to them and their communities.”
Paula Carlson Editorial and Program Director
Read about the modern history behind Vancouver Specials' gate guardians and what these iconic stone lions say about migration and making a home in the city.
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