Connection is the root of our power
Director's Corner: For 10 years, Megaphone has advocated for policy changes to the systems that entrench poverty and has put more than $500,000 directly into the pockets of homeless and low-income people.
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Remembering Sang Hussain
Warm, charming and determined to meet life’s challenges, Victoria vendor was a genuine pleasure to be around.
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Looking at controversy
2018 DOXA Documentary Film Festival features flicks about local rabble-rouser Harry Rankin and iconic photographer of North America’s Indigenous people, Edward Curtis.
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Finding Play
Arts Profile: Victoria’s popular interactive art display and party, Urbanite, is coming up this month
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Spreading the love
Cover Story: From Grand Chief Stewart Phillip to other folks deserving of extra celebration
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Is it goodbye forever for the Cobalt?
Cobalt Cabaret operator says “I think that’s it” for beloved bar.
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Undeniable electricity
Arts Preview: Vancouver Opera partners with The Kettle Society to produce a chamber musical about homelessness
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Putting a face to homelessness
Heartbeats: Connecting through storytelling and lived experience, Victoria’s Speakers Bureau is ready to be heard
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Ladies of Comedy
Feature: Just For Laughs NorthWest returns to the West Coast, with many women lighting up the stage.
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A lesson learned
Vendor Voices: Vancouver vendor Peter Thompson talks favourite food and the proper way to smoke fish
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Indigenous lives: Finally time to listen
Director's Corner: The truth is, to understand the realities of racism, the voices we need to listen to are those of the people most affected by it.
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Q&A: My father struggled with drug use
Vancouver journalist Trevor Jang shares what it was like growing up after losing a father to a drug overdose
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Meet Victoria’s Artist in Residence
Arts Profile: Victoria’s Artist in Residence gets an extension to share more of his social, environmental, and politically inspired work
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Coffee Cup Revolution
Viewpoints: Megaphone Vendor Hendrik Beune reflects on the Binners’ Project’s latest social innovation
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You got us there. We reached our stretch goal in under 48 hours!
We did it! You got us there. Way past there, even. Thank you.48 hours 80 backers 2 crowdfunding goals left in the dust. $6,560 raised to cover moving costs to Megaphone's new office.Thank you.
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We did it!! So we are upping the ante
Holy smokes! You guys really like label makers. You blew away all our expectations. We hit our goal of $4,000 in less than 5 hours!?! We’ve got the basics covered for our move, but we want to make the new vendor hub a great home base for our vendors. If...
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Meet the new director of Together Against Poverty Society
Heartbeats: How Together Against Poverty Society’s new executive director is pushing for systemic change in housing affordability in Victoria and beyond
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Severe burnout: How the overdose crisis is impacting front line workers
Out Front: Community organizations and staff share their experiences as the opioid epidemic rages on
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