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FAIR GAME OVER Sarah McLachlan says the Lillith Fair is now history MONEY & POWER Premier-designate Christy Clark says that medical premiums and possibly electrity prices will be frozen EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN Surrey Councillor wants to bring back the living wage for suppliers. Incidentally, that's $18.17 per hour...
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Fighting The Disease: Vancouver’s Dr. Julio Montaner leads the international movement to stop HIV/AIDS
Photo by John Donne Deep inside the maze of offices in the West End’s St. Paul’s Hospital, Julio Montaner has been leading a global revolution to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS. For the past four decades, the Argentinian-born doctor has been at the forefront of finding treatments for the...
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Paradise in a Parking Lot
In our latest issue of Megaphone, we look at how a public art project in the Downtown Eastside is helping break down stereotypes and using urban space to connect a community. The Intersection fence project showcases Downtown Eastside residents' artwork and finds a common thread in their abiding, often...
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ALL ABOUT PRESENTATION The Cinderella and Cinderfella programmes help underpriviliged teens feel great at graduation SILENCE! Civil Liberties association fights to improve draconian indefinite solitary confinement in prisons YEAH, ABOUT THAT Vancouver is the best place to live in the world? Here's a counter argument. SLEIGHT OF HAND Here's a Vancouver...
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Failure at Fraser Health?: Drug users say authority failing harm reduction policies
The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) claims that Fraser Health Authority, despite being the first health authority in B.C. to adopt harm reduction policies towards addiction and mental health issues, has the most dismal harm reduction practices in the province. “They have this gold medal standard in...
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THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS Benefits of proposed B.C. casino don’t add up JUGHEADS Hey, here's a funny parody of Archie comics done by our neighbours REMEMBER Heritage Vancouver adds four more buildings to the 'must be saved list'—including the 2400 Motel on Kingsway ZOMBIES HAD THE RIGHT IDEA The age of...
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SPACE CBC has a video report on people who hoard and the City's creation of a task force ROOM OF ONE'S OWN Reported sexual assualts in homeless shelters confirm a need for women-only spaces LATEST BUZZ Island farmer wants to bring back native bees, which were displaced by honeybees in the...
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Twitter Campaign Reunites Homeless Man With Estranged Family
A couple of weeks ago, USA Today reported about Underheard in NY, a project that gave four homeless people a prepaid cellphone each loaded with a month's worth of unlimited text messaging and a Twitter account. The idea is pretty intriguing: in hopes to 're-humanize' homelessness by focusing...
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ANGER MANAGEMENT City councillor says he gets threatening phone calls whenever there is a housing protest RAISING A STINK Delta, home of Vancouver's garbage dump, says that smelly gas is ruining the neighbourhood WARMTH Even with 100 cold-weather shelter spaces, some homeless people are being forced to sleep in sub-zero weather...
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POWELL PROJECT Oppenheimer Park gets a well-deserved upgrade—but what about the bathrooms? TEE VEE Those video display advertisements on billboard skirt around sign laws FOOD Except for the toxic wasteland, there's a great new urban farm ready to open SKYSCRAPERS Chinatown residents reject towering condo development EAT UP New Westminister...
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BUH BYE Big fish, no fish; small fish, exploding fish MISSING WOMEN Mounties have released artist's rendition of unknown woman murdered by Robert Pickton. Can you identify her? OLYMPIC VILLAGE Here's a way to make people buy those condos: sue them if they don't. YUM Some bold-faced-named chefs have been...
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BRAVO Members of the Canadian Forces can be vulnerable for unemployment, homelessness, or chronic medical issues after release, so a 'good show' is in order to Defense Minister Peter McKay for setting up five support centres across Canada VIDEO KILLED THE WAR ON THE CAR Journalist Frances Bula challenges people to...
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Dr. Julio Montaner Fights HIV/AIDS
In this latest issue of Megaphone, we sit down with Vancouver's Dr. Julio Montaner, who's pioneering work around HIV research has saved countless lives around the world. In our interview, Dr. Montaner calls out the federal Conservatives for trying to shut down the safe-injection site, explains why governments around...
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Who Loves You, Baby?: Explaining Vancouver’s most ubiquitous graffiti
Photo by TTCopley If you’ve been walking around Vancouver, and it isn’t raining, you’d be able to look up and see all of the visual art our graffiti taggers have created for our viewing pleasure. A couple of months ago, you would delight in finding some positive graffiti tags depicting...
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ANNALS OF ADVERTISING In a shocking story, a man who is selling condominiums says that he is stunned by the demand. Wow! You should buy now...because, you know... the demand. TAKING CIVIL LIBERTIES In the course of investigating missing or murdered women in Prince George, the Mounties collected DNA from...
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Honouring Their Spirits: Missing and murdered women live on through art
Dalannah Gail Bowen. By Jay Black. Dalannah Gail Bowen’s long greying hair is worn in a braid that falls over her left shoulder. Her delicate brown hands are folded in front of her and an understated ring—silver and opal—adorns her ring finger. She wears beaded blue earrings and a brightly...
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The Changing Face of Homelessness: How municipalities are tackling increasing hidden homelessness
Photo by Chris Bevacqua When we talk about poverty, we often turn to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, where the health and housing struggles of its residents are obvious and well documented. But a tendency to focus the discussion on the inner-city, a densely populated area where urban poverty is highly...
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IT'S ALL IN GOOD FUN Former Vancouver Police chief is guilty of 'discreditable conduct.' Because he let it be known that the bus hired by Olympic protestors was being driven by a police officer. NON BELIEVERS Former Vancouver mayor buys ads in The Province and the Sun apologising to former Vancouver...
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OWN THE PODIUM Olympics pushed out homeless youth, says researcher FINDING THE TRUTH IS LIKE PULLING... SOMETHING BC Government is denying inmate dentures after pulling out his teeth against his will FINALLY, SOME SENSE Former councillor, and bike guy, Peter Lader comes out in favour of downtown bike lanes MONEY...
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Memorials to our Missing Women
Memorial for Sereena Abotsway at Hastings and Glen. Photo by Adam Krawesky. Over the past year, synthetic evergreen branches that spell out the names of some of Vancouver's missing women have popped up on the fences of abandoned lots in the Downtown Eastside. These subtle memorials, done by an...
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