Urgent needs list from the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre: 🩲 Underwear & bras 🧦 Socks 🧥 Winter jackets 🌧️ Rain jackets & ponchos 🧶 Sweaters & hoodies ☂️ Umbrellas 🥾 Boots 🧤 Gloves 🧣 Scarves & toques 👖 Pants & warm tights 🛏️ Warm blankets & sleeping bags 💧 Water-resistant coverings

After pausing in 2019, the true crime documentary series has returned to APTN for a 5th season.

Big day! CBC News will add 33 local journalists and create 11 new bureaus this year, adding to last year's expansion of 30 journalists in 22 communities across Canada. Many of the new positions are based in Central and Western Canada. My editor's blog: www.cbc.ca/news/editors...

“Today I am hoping for blue sky. Perhaps the blueness from my heart will fly, To join the colour in the sky. And leave my heart with a different hue, One that’s full of joy and true.” Poem by David Taylor #EastVan #streetart by Paula Carlson #Januaryblues

New year, new edition of Megaphone magazine! This issue contains an innovative media guide for journalists who cover the Downtown Eastside! Created by Megaphone's very-own peer newsroom, The Shift, this necessary tool is essential for reporters covering the Downtown Eastside.

JOB ALERT 🚨 Megaphone is looking for a Layout & Graphic Designer. This is a 15-20 hours a month contract, see more details below! megaphonemagazine.com/about/our-te...

I am honoured to announce I’ve been appointed as a member to the Order of Canada. Thank you to everyone for the support! I dedicate this to my late Mom who taught me so much about history, local independent media & research. I know that she would be, like me, screaming with joy! #orderofcanada

In the wake of Rob and Michele Reiner's deaths, online conversations about their son and substance use have been horrendous.

1/3. The December 2025 @megaphonemagazine.com has hit the streets! 🎄🎅 Don't miss this month's cover story looking back at a year of storytelling to find out who's been naughty + who's been nice in the #DTES! Cover photo of Nic + Julie in their holiday onesies by the amazing Tanya Goehring! Also...

Crackdown on the shelves at #Kerrisdale London Drugs!! @garthmullins.bsky.social … you’ve arrived! 😃🤣

Batmans say: Fight evil in Gotham City by supporting @megaphonemagazine.com vendors with a Hope In Shadows purchase! No tricks, just treats in this awesome product: just $20 for a year’s worth of uplifting #streetphotography! David will be selling at Commercial + Broadway till 6pm Oct. 31 🎃

Nature’s carpet #EastVan 💛✨🍁

Join us on Saturday, November 1st as writers from this year's Voices of the Street read their work at the Heart of the City Festival! This is a free event ✨ 📍Carnegie Theatre - 401 Main St, Vancouver 📆 Saturday, November 1st ⏰ 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Some news! Every Thursday me and Stephen will be doing an extended and separate podcast episode about Metro Vancouver politics. We're hoping to do this each week for the next year until the 2026 local elections. First episode later today! Find it here, or wherever you get your podcast fill.

Community #journalism matters! ✍️ The journalists behind Freshet News @freshetnews.bsky.social have more than 100 years combined experience 👏🏼

The 2026 #HopeInShadows calendar is here!!! ❤️ Get 'em while they're hot + support our low-income photographers + vendors! Cover shot winner by vendor Martin Verna, who sells outside Bean Around the World @ Main + Broadway. Stop by + say hello and congrats! 🥳 megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/

“It was like I had been reborn to the world or the world reborn to me. In death, I found life, peace, happiness and contentment.” Amazing piece by Bob R. Williams Jr. The power of writing transcends prison walls ✍️

💥 Our board member and writer/photographer Colleen Lamothe in @georgiastraight.bsky.social: @megaphonemagazine.com #fundraiser

The City of Vancouver's autumn tree sale is on now 🌳 Purchase trees for $15 (up to 3 per household). Residents can plant trees on private property within the City to support efforts to increase the urban canopy cover.

1/3. I love this photo of Gyuu Tsi'iga Jaad (Head Strong Woman), Angel Gates of Haida Nation. It captures her fierce warrior essence, courage and intelligence. Angel died in 2022 and @megaphonemagazine.com's Angel Gates Memorial Award was created by her dear friends...

📰 Hot off the press! The latest edition of Megaphone is here. ✨ Our cover story dives into the upcoming Hope in Shadows calendar (launching October 9) 📸, sharing the stories behind some of this year’s top 30 powerful images + MORE ⬇️ megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/

Get your tickets for Megaphone’s fundraiser on October 16th 🎟️ Hear a keynote from Am Johal on non-profit sustainability during periods of incredible uncertainty 🎟️ Celebrate recipients of the Catherine Ludgate Vendor of the Year and Angel Gates Memorial Awards @megaphonemagazine.com

Did you know that PJP produces a unique educational magazine, PJP Inside, specifically for incarcerated writers across the nation? Your support helps us deliver the magazine to readers on the inside.

Gorgeous work over at @iranzye.bsky.social 🙌🏼 ✨

BC nonprofits in crisis: unprecedented funding disaster threatens to cut essential services in communities throughout the province. Over 200 BC nonprofit leaders issue urgent letter to govt, foundation, union, business funders. #bcpoli bcpolicy.ca/funding-...#bcpoli

Early bird tickets for our annual fundraiser are available until this Friday! Tickets include an evening of inspiration with keynote speaker Am Johal, catered canapés, and 2 drink tickets ✨🥂🎈 www.eventbrite.ca/e/megaphones... www.eventbrite.ca/e/megaphones...

Fab cover story/photo essay by @megaphonemagazine.com’s own — visual journalist Mike McNeeley from The Shift peer newsroom! 📸 💥 #DTES #streetart

why build ferries in british columbia when you can threaten legal action against bands who make fun of how long you have to wait to get on a ferry in british columbia

Same, melting bunny. Same. 🥵 🔥 😎

colonial wounds scars of oppression desperately beg for healing but they get infected because this world has no medicine called justice — Karim Wafa Al-Hussaini #DTES #streetphotography by Mike McNeeley for @megaphonemagazine.com Photographed with consent

Wanna find @megaphonemagazine.com’s awesome 🇨🇦 August mag? Hit up longtime vendor Peter Thompson today at West Fourth Avenue + Vine in #Kitsilano! Summer books, #DTES writers, #Indigenous stories and so much more! ☀️❤️

August's @megaphonemagazine.com has hit the streets! From Nova Scotia to the Northwest Territories, our cover story spotlights must-read Canadian authors. 📚🇨🇦 Cover art 🤩 by Nora Kelly (norakellyart. com) + story by Hannah Mondiwa: megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/ #Never51 #ElbowsUp #Canada 🍁

“the two organizations focused on supporting street-based sex workers in Vancouver — PACE and WISH — haven’t had drop-in centres since December 2024, meaning there’s nowhere for women to go at night.” thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...

As Americans suffer with facism, deranged lawlessness and horrifying human rights abuses, Canadians debate the subtleties of the wink 🇨🇦❤️😉 nationalpost.com/news/politic...

Happy #CanadaDay! 🇨🇦 ❤️ Together we are #StrongAndFree 🍁 🦫 🇨🇦

🌿 For #NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay, we hear from Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-Waututh matriarchs on what land acknowledgements should mean — and why it’s time to move from words to action. 🧡 📖 Read the full story: megaphonemagazine.com/2025/06/from... #Reconciliation #IndigenousVoices

A full house for our Community Journalism 101 course for peers! Going over all things media and journalism for those who have experienced barriers to educational resources. In collaboration with SFU CERi and the UBC Learning Exchange 🖊️✨📓

1/3... It's first Friday + another rockin' issue of @megaphonemagazine.com has hit the streets! 💥 We celebrate National #Indigenous History Month with a special themed edition conceived of, reported on and written by Indigenous reporters + photographers in The Shift peer newsroom! 🧡 🙌 FEATURING...

Behold: an absurdly simple trick for choosing between “who” and “whom.”

Lazy daisy lunchtime walk. #DTES #CRABPark

people want a better life of course! but all doors are closed because (read @bethanylindsay.bsky.social's award-winning article) the government's been lying about the capacity of its treatment system now they want to lock up the people their policies have hurt www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...

Ok, folks. Please share or re-post. The more tickets they sell, the more money will go to Filipino BC. Please help if you can. Tickets are $20 at tinyurl.com/5n6zche7 Graham Clark's 24-Hours of Stand-Up May 23 at 8pm to May 24 at 8pm. Little Mountain Gallery vancouversun.com/entertainmen...

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What if we prioritized public toilets & drop-in spaces over costly decampments, sweeps & street flushing? My May 21 resolution asks Council to rethink our approach to street disorder, with drop-ins and public toilets. #VanPoli 🧵 1/6 🔗 council.vancouver.ca/20250521/doc...

Babe, wake up. We can share news on Facebook and Instagram again. Sharethenews.ca

Great model 🙌🏼 Vancouver’s street paper @megaphonemagazine.com is largely written by our peer newsroom: The Shift! ✍️ #DTES #journalism @theinsp.bsky.social

What do you think about this proposal? 🤔 Includes a 100% social housing tower at Abbott and West Hastings gifted to the city #vanre #vanpoli #DTES

It’s launched! 🚀 @megaphonemagazine.com’s 2025 Voices of the Street literary anthology “Gravity: Hope as Resistance in Hard Times” has hit the streets! Vendor Peter Thompson autographed his story, What is Freedom? Read it + pieces by 31 other #DTES writers 👉🏻 megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/

Trey Helten "wanted to create a drop-in community space that centred on recovery rather than substance use, where people could explore what recovery would mean for them and could ask for help." @thetyee.ca's @michellegamage.bsky.social on remembering the "best being" to so many people in the #DTES

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