Year of the Nuck: Can Vancouver finally bring home the Stanley Cup?
As hockey fever takes over Vancouver, Megaphone gives a preview of the playoffs and offers a few predictions (plus a desperate prayer on behalf of the Canucks). In Megaphone #76, we also look at the politics behind the impending closure of five low-barrier shelters in Vancouver; David Suzuki defends...
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Your Weekend Ahead: Music Waste Fundraiser @ Anza, Record Store Day 2011 @ Scratch Records
Plenty going on this weekend, where to begin... Tonight (Friday April 16th), our friends at Music Waste are throwing their second fundraiser for the upcoming festival over at the Anza Club. Featuring a bunch of live music: 10:15pm - KEEP TIDY 10:40pm - PHONECALLS 11:30pm - MODE MODERNE 12:30am - WIZERDZ...
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PHOTOS: 24-Hour Soccer Marathon to Save New Fountain Shelter
Here are some hot-off-my-camera photos from the afternoon and late evening of the 24 Hour Soccer Marathon to save the New Fountain Shelter. Bless the courageous and dedicated souls who've managed to brave a freakishly awful day of true Vancouver weather - hopefully the near-freezing temperature, rain, and snow(!)...
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A TREE GROWS IN THE DTES The Grove of Beautiful Trees, an important Coast Salish location for 3,000 years, makes a tentative return to the waterfront ONWARDS AND UPWARDS Olympic Village costs quadruple THAT PROTEST-REGULATION LAW Three experts talk about what a revised law should do HOLD IT JUST A...
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24 Hour Soccer Marathon to Save New Fountain Shelter
This Thursday, April 14th, supporters of the New Fountain Shelter will be hosting a 24 hour soccer marathon at the Vancouver Art Gallery as a launch for their campaign to keep the shelter open. Organizers are getting ready to provide participants with plenty of food, live music, soccer, and a...
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Vendor Voices: Highlights of a Sex Worker
Megaphone vendor Suzanne Kilory. Photo by Leigh Eldrige. I am an Indian Princess, and a smarty-pants who loves to walk down the street and tell people they have dropped their pocket. I am a person with heart, feelings, hopes and goals like anyone else. I am no different than...
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PROTESTS The City consulted the Chinese government over speech-limiting bylaw S1LLY The Province has released a list of rejected vanity plates. There will be no MILFs, WARLOKs, or ANRCHSTs on the road in BC. TWO WHEELS GOOD North Van charity wants your bikes for Uganda A ROOF IS NOT ENOUGH Landlord...
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The Things They Carried: Photographer Brian Howell explores shopping cart culture
Every day they line up, beginning in the earliest morning hours before the doors even open. The line snakes its way down the street, and those in it appear anxious. They are ready to get in and get out as quickly as possible, in order to get back to...
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CITY OF GLASS Happy 125th Birthday, Vancouver And here's 10 trivial bits about the city. UH HUH The Courier's professional troller says that building homes in the DTES is unsafe for teenage girls because of all the pimps HOME RUN A great story on Charlie Metro, the best baseball manager Vancouver...
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Ethical Eats: Feeding change in the Downtown Eastside
Photo by Matthew Zylstra Sawatzky The day I met Amanda Bonella wasn’t her best day, but it certainly wasn’t her worst, either, considering the obstacles she’s had to overcome. Bonella is the owner of Yogiberry, a nook of an ice cream parlor turned soup and sandwich shop that...
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LOOK INTO YOUR HEART Vancouver Police appoint new person to whom ask ethical questions may be asked NEVER FORGET Remember that when the City talks heritage, nothing is more historic to Vancouver than Chinatown DO YOUR PAPERWORK Coop Radio in danger of having its licence cancelled for failing to file...
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Ethical Eats: Yogiberry serves up food for all
Located in a cheerful spot of the Downtown Eastside, with bright pink walls and iridescent glass tile countertops, Yogiberry isn't your typical ice cream parlour. Run by former sex worker Amanda Bonella, the shop has an inclusive business strategy to serve affordable and healthy food to everyone from the neighbourhood—whether...
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ELECTION Allowing broadcasters to choose who is and who is not eligible for TV debates is undemocratic TRANSIT Question: how do you want to get to UBC, bus or SkyTrain? Answer: Bus, because nothing else will ever, ever happen. PASS And the new name for the transit pass is Compass,...
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David Suzuki: What will Gordon Campbell's environmental legacy be?
One of Canada’s longest-serving politicians, Gordon Campbell, recently stepped down as leader of the B.C. Liberal Party and premier of British Columbia. Mr. Campbell’s long tenure as premier was fraught with contradictions when it came to the environment. He brought in an ambitious plan to tackle climate change, including...
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Community Writing Workshop: Bathroom Floor
Once again I find myself alone, contemplating life while sitting on brick red tiles that make the bathroom floor. Since the only thing that I am wearing is a T-shirt and g-string, the cold tiles feel so great pressed against my flushed and hot skin. Thinking, I realize...
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DON'T MAKE WAVES A should-be national historic site is for sale in Point Grey MOVIN' ON UP The United We Can building on East Hastings is getting some excellent redevelopments. But, come on, Globe & Mail, referring to the street market as 'Days of Anarchy' is a little offensive. HOMES...
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TIME FOR A KEGGER Federal Liberal Party promises $1 billion in student aid SPLITTING THE RIGHT? Former-MP John Cummins could be just the man B.C. Tories have been waiting for CHRISTY CRUNCH The BC NDP shows some humour with this attack ad against the new Premier BECAUSE THEY'RE OLD The...
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DISASTER CAPITALISM Japan may drive demand for B.C. forest products. What other tragedies can we make a profit off? SECOND CHANCES The Province profiles redemption with former addict turn their lives around through Operation Phoenix legacy KEEP YOUR MEGA-CASINOS CLOSER Gambling has become so pervasive that "insider lottery advisers" suggest...
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Phoenix Rising: New women’s street soccer team has wordly aspirations
Last September, a local soccer team made up of homeless and previously homeless men played their way to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was the prototypical underdog story: their participation in the 2010 Homeless World Cup was the culmination of many months of work creating a soccer program where...
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Community Writing Workshop: My Way Or The Highway 'Til I Die
I believed in being gangster. My motto even if that meant jail or death. I felt like I had nothing to lose. I loved the thug lifestyle of drug dealing and violence. Wherever I went I did things my way. I was cocky and arrogant. I used drugs,...
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