Pages tagged "vendors"

Sean Condon by
November 18, 2015

Wrap Up Hope this holiday season

We've got a special treat for you in the November and December editions of Megaphone. Inside every issue, you'll find free vendor-designed holiday wrapping paper. 
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Jackie Wong by
December 22, 2014

At long last, Delisle August Doucet finds his way home

“I was homeless in the ‘90s. Back in the ‘80s, there was nobody sleeping in doorways.
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Jackie Wong by
December 22, 2014

A Christmas letter from Bob Dennis

As 2014 draws to a close, I think about the good things and the people who touched my heart this year.
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Jackie Wong by
December 22, 2014

After 13 years, Garvin Snider says goodbye to Vancouver

Since arriving on the West Coast in 2002, Garvin Snider has left no stone unturned in the Downtown Eastside, a neighbourhood he’s called home for over a decade. The time he’s spent living here has changed him, he says. “I’m not the same person I was when I left [Ottawa...
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Megaphone Magazine by
November 23, 2014

"Selling the paper is our livelihood" - Delisle Doucet, Victoria

   “I first started out working as a street paper vendor around 1993—that was when the street paper in Victoria was called The Redzone. I heard about The Redzone through the community and I thought, well, I want to join in.    
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by , 350 Keefer St
November 20, 2014

Where You'll Find Me - for Dan Decoste, a Hot Dog Church on East Hastings

“There’s a church on East Hastings that street people call the hot dog church. I used to work there years ago—in those days, we were serving 200, 300 hot dogs a night.
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Michael Christie by
October 03, 2014

Finding Our Voices, Finding Home

In 2011, I published a collection of linked short stories called The Beggar’s Garden, a book set in contemporary Vancouver and loosely based on my experiences working for many years in a Downtown Eastside homeless shelter.  
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