Job Opening: Megaphone advertising rep
Megaphone, Vancouver's street paper, is looking for a part-time advertising rep to join our award-winning magazine. Megaphone is published bi-weekly and is sold on the streets by homeless and low-income vendors. Our mission is to provide a voice and an opportunity to homeless and low-income people while building grassroots...
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Base Logic: Hanging Out with DTES Drug Dealers
Photo: Liam Hanham/The Dependent Over the course of three months last year, journalist Matt Chambers with Vancouver magazine The Dependent formed a (relatively) trusting relationship with a small group of drug dealers working the alleys of the Downtown Eastside. The result of this is Base Logic, a four-part feature series...
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HOMES DTES campaigners protest against low-income people being pushed out of the community ANOTHER HOME Downtown South Granviile apartment owner sues City for $10 million because new social housing building next door allegedly has damaged his building SERVING PAPERS Newsy who was beaten by off-duty cops launches civil suit, alleging...
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THANKS, PARK BOARD Community Centres throughout Vancouver—but not all of them, so check—have opened their showers for homeless persons OH YEAH, PEOPLE LIVE THERE You know who really like the Olympic Village? People who live there THANKS, SCHOOL BOARD The VSB looks into opening a mini-school with an aboriginal focus...
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MOBILE HOMES The Salvation Army in Chilliwack has created homeless shelters from shipping containers WORLD CLASS The Economist weighs in on the Olympic Village woes. And it's not pretty. SECRET CODES The City has now decided to be in the slum eradication business. Publicly, at least. SHOWBIZ Some photos of the...
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HOSPICE VS CONDO Funny, because most people think condo owners are dead inside: B.C. luxury condo owners oppose hospice CHICKEN RUN This could get strange: Few people have registered their chicken coops in Vancouver GRAND SLAM LABOUR Is it that hard to find underpaid Canadian workers to cook over-salted fat to seniors?: B.C. Denny's...
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Balmoral Blues: Renting from Vancouver’s notorious slumlords
Two years ago, Megaphone published a story on the destitute conditions residents of the Sahota-owned Balmoral Hotel were living in. Now, one the hotel’s longtime residents provides an update on what’s changed, and what hasn’t, inside one of Vancouver’s most notorious SROs. I have lived in the Downtown Eastside...
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WE GOT A SITUATION HERE Quick, someone grab the kids from Jersey Shore: tanning bed ban would be first in Canada DEATH THREATS AND TAXES B.C. electoral officer Craig James getting death threats from anti-HST activists PARALYMPIC SOCIAL HOUSING BC Housing adapts Olympic Village social housing to accommodate the disabled VERTICAL...
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FEAR MONGERING Kevin Falcon does the politically predictable by saying he will target crime as B.C. Liberal leader CHEER MONGERING Christy Clark does the politically popular by promising a B.C. Family Day. SOME KIDS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS Victoria school kids get $200, Surrey's only $58 BET ON THIS As...
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LEFT WING MEDIA BIAS? Former news anchor Pamela Martin comes out to support Christy Clark in BC Liberal leadership race NOT SO SOLITARY CONFINEMENT Overcrowding blamed after inmate held hostage by cellmate in Port Coquitlam SENSELESS LOSS Vancouver activists call for inquiry into the death of three homeless men GASTOWN GENTRIFICATION How...
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Homeless Man with Golden Radio Voice Becomes Internet Sensation
On Monday, a video was posted on Youtube of a Columbus Dispatch news story covering a local homeless man named Ted Williams with an astounding talent: http://www.youtube.com/v/-k2i0VC6Jj0?fs=1&hl=en_US Understandably, the internet has fallen in love with this guy. In a matter of hours, the video has amassed over 8.5 million hits...
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View From the Street: A day in the life of the Downtown Eastside
Jim Dewar lives in the Downtown Eastside and is a regular contributor to the Carnegie Newsletter.
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LOTTO 2011 When you are living on the street, the choice can be take a chance in the snow or lose all your belonging and be bit by bedbugs NDP LEADERSHIP Tommy Chong endorses Dana Larsen for NDP leader. This is how politics works now. EQUALITY By the way, everyone...
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Bringing Harm Reduction Out of the Shadows: Canada and the U.S. are making significant strides toward mainstreaming harm reduction, but there are still walls to knock down
The North American Street Newspaper Association (NASNA) features 33 members, including Megaphone. This is our third collaborative article. With the War on Drugs widely seen as a failure, Megaphone’s Katie Hyslop investigates how activists and governments are beginning to use harm reduction policies in order to help keep addicts alive....
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Megaphone's Night of Joyful Voices in Photos
The lovely Leigh Eldridge offered her photography talents to Megaphone at our Night of Joyful Voices fundraiser last month: Limited edition Megaphone Christmas pins designed by Jo Lee and produced by Lauren Bercovitch of Pins and Needs Graham Clark killing it with his opening stand-up comedy set Julia...
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HERE'S A SURPRISE BC Government extends the subsidy to people who own homes even higher. Renters, of course, get nothing. SOMEONE CALL ADBUSTERS Translink doesn't just force advertising to riders on busses and Skytrain any longer, they are now defiling the transit pass. For a measly $84,000 per year. READING RAILROADED...
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Happy New Year
In Megaphone #69 we ring in the New Year by looking back at the year that was, why The Walrus magazine is tarred by Big Oil; how we can create a guaranteed work plan; and whether there are enough toilets in the Downtown Eastside. Buy yours from a Megaphone...
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Help give someone their voice
A few months ago, Suzanne Kilroy was working the streets of Vancouver, struggling to leave the sex trade. But once she had her story published in Megaphone, a new world opened up for her. Suzanne felt a great sense of pride knowing people were reading about how she had overcome...
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FRANK PAUL INQUIRY Prejudice against aboriginals caused dismissal of criminal charges, says lawyer SHAKING ALL OVER The prevalence of wooden utility poles, especially in the DTES, could cause the city to burn down again in the event of an earthquake WRITE YOUR OWN DENSITY JOKE Downtown South is the the densest part of Vancouver....
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