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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Burn or freeze?
January Cover Story: Fire inspections of tent cities often mean homeless people must choose
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Victoria homeless program faces closure
Out Front: Victoria’s Woodwynn Farms is fighting the district’s order to shut down their program which could send participants back to the streets
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Vancouver to Montreal: vendors share their experiences selling on the streets
Megaphone News: In honour of #VendorWeek this month, Megaphone vendor James Witwicki had a ‘face-to-face’ interview with Montreal paper vendor, Yvon Massicotte from L’Itineraire
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You’re not alone when you’re part of our community
Director’s Corner: At Megaphone, we’re connected with a community much bigger than just one corner. Celebrating #VendorWeek
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High-profile Vancouverites sell Megaphone to support homeless vendors
This morning, celebrity guest vendors met up with Megaphone staff and vendors to sell magazines and raise the profile of poverty and homelessness in our communities.
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Death City
Vendor Voices: Vancouver vendor and poet The Bear Whisperer writes a poem about the people he has lost to the overdose crisis
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