Inside this issue: 💊 Why is nasal spray naloxone — a safer, more user-friendly overdose reversal tool — so hard to access?

📰 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

Just over 2 weeks until our annual fundraiser! We’ve added an exciting discounted ticket deal, which includes 2 drink vouchers, catered canapés AND a keynote by Am Johal on non-profit sustainability 💥 come celebrate our dedicated vendors! ✨ ❤️ www.eventbrite.ca/e/megaphones...

Join us on Thursday, October 9th as we unveil our 2026 HOPE IN SHADOWS CALENDAR! 🥳✨📆 🗓️ Thursday, October 9th ⏰ 11am - 1pm 📍312 Main 🎟️ Free entry Join us in celebrating our top 13 photographers and subjects!

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...

Join me for an inspiring evening in support of @megaphonemagazine.com's mission to amplify marginalized voices and build stronger communities. 🎟 Early Bird tickets available now:

The September issue is here! This month’s cover story takes you inside the Downtown Eastside, with limited resources, residents — many living with disabilities — are reworking everyday items to meet their needs and make life a little easier.

Don't miss the CiTR Radio + Discorder Block Party fundraiser at Green Auto in Vancouver on Sunday in support of @megaphonemagazine.com 🎉 Entry by donation. Doors open at 3:00pm. More info: www.instagram.com/p/DNOlU-1S_W...

You’re Invited! We’re wrapping up summer with a night of live music and readings from this year’s Voices of the Street literary anthology at the CiTR/Discorder Block Party + a raffle! 📅 Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025 📍1822 Pandora St., Vancouver 💵By donation at the door.

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! ☀️❤️

Happy 14th anniversary at the Rickshaw, Mo! Here’s a cover story I did about the venue for @megaphonemagazine.com last year @rickshawtheatre.bsky.social @bifnaked.bsky.social ♥️ @backstagerider.bsky.social

The August edition of Megaphone magazine is OUT NOW! 📚🇨🇦 From Nova Scotia to the Northwest Territories our cover story spotlights must-read Canadian authors. megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/

Your July Megaphone magazine is here! This edition features a story about the award-winning Climate Disaster Project and its play, the Eyes of the Beast, which spotlights British Columbians who lived through the deadly North American "heat dome" of 2021 –– including some of our vendors.

📸✨ VOTE NOW for the 2026 Hope in Shadows Calendar! ✨📸 This year’s theme is HUMOUR -- joy, laughter, and the moments that make us smile through it all. The photos are in -- now YOU help choose the ones that will fill next year’s calendar with light and laughter. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Happy Birthday to Nardwuar! @nardwuarserviette.bsky.social 🥳 — ➡️ Watch Nardwuar in action youtube.com/@nardwuar?si... ➡️ Read our @megaphonemagazine.com interview

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who supported Megaphone’s participation in the 5K on June 22nd! 👟 🥇 Special congratulations and thanks to vendor and writer Yvonne Mark, who raised an incredible $4,884.65 towards our Spring Campaign! We had so much fun as a team crossing that finish line with her 🏃🏻‍♀️💗

📆🌸 Join us at these upcoming events ➡️ each event will have a vendor selling product!

🏃‍♀️ Just 2 DAYS left to support Yvonne Mark running the Vancouver Marathon 5K for Megaphone’s Spring Campaign! 🌸 Help us close the $3,800 gap and uplift women vendors. 💪 Donate today and be part of real change! 💜 raceroster.com/events/2025/...

🌿 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 🖊️✨📓

Megaphone vendor + writer Yvonne Mark is walking the Vancouver Marathon 5K with us on June 22! She’s raising funds for fellow women vendors through our Spring Campaign — and needs your help to hit her goal! Make a tax-deductible donation today and make a real impact. shorturl.at/1fY4f

Happy June! 🍃 It’s Megaphone magazine release day and the start of National Indigenous History Month. This issue is packed with powerful stories of tradition, innovation, and Indigenous connection — written largely by Indigenous journalists and peers.

Opening night chat on Centre Stage with @jay.bsky.team "The focus we’ve always kept is that users can have choice over their experience, developers can have the freedom to build, and creators can keep their relationship with their audience." #WebSummit #WebSummitVancouver @megaphonemagazine.com

TODAY IS THE DAY ✨ We've begun handing out 115+ cameras to our community members for the 23rd annual Hope in Shadows Calendar!

Our May Vendor of the Month is Evelyn Baron! Evelyn initially joined Megaphone's Victoria program in 2013. After a brief hiatus during the pandemic Evelyn decided to begin vending again within the community she built at Cook Street Village.

Peter + David + Juliana + Ross are stocked up on new copies of Voices of the Street! megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/

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/

Our 2025 edition of Voices of the Street is on sale NOW! Featuring 39 pieces from writers based primarily in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, this year’s theme explores what keeps us grounded and connected; what tethers us in times of chaos. Attend our launch event! www.eventbrite.ca/e/voices-of-...

One week until our Voices of the Street literary anthology launch event! www.eventbrite.ca/e/voices-of-...

We’re lacing up for the Vancouver 5K on June 22, and we want you on our team. Join Megaphone staff and supporters as we walk, run, and roll for community and equity. ⁠ Sign up using the referral link and $5 from every registration goes to Megaphone's spring campaign! raceroster.com/94630?aff=R7...

The May issue of Megaphone spotlights all the current literary goings-on in our very own city! From the DTES Writers Festival, the recent release of Garth Mullins' new memoir, Crackdown, the latest edition of Voices of the Street and a new poet laureate - we have all of your literary needs covered.

RIP Trey Helten, photographed in 2021 by @megaphonemagazine.com peer photojournalist Mike McNeeley. Memorial service May 10 throughout the day in the Balmoral Parking lot (100 block) #DTES.

Megaphone is highlighting some of the wonderful work by some of our dedicated women vendors + writers! Priscillia Mays Tait has been with Megaphone for over a decade, she is a steadfast member of our peer newsroom, The Shift. Donate to Megaphone today to continue providing low-barrier opportunities!

2/3... Speaking of the fabulous peer newsroom, this month The Shift and @amyromer.bsky.social sit down with amazing + award-winning blind photographer 😮!! @cathybrowne.bsky.social, who writes for @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social + is a badass associate producer at CBC Vancouver! 👉 PLUS...

Grace Chen has led the DTES’s Ovaltine Café through grief, fire, and a pandemic — and she’s still dreaming bigger. Now, she’s talking merch, catering, maybe even a restaurant school. Read this local legend’s story by James Witwicki over at @megaphonemagazine.com.

when a person who has saved so many people's lives (and in many different ways) dies, something in all of us (and in all of you, whether you know or not) dies too love drug users while we're alive beautiful work ↓ by dan fumano vancouversun.com/news/obituar...

On April 5, 2023, Megaphone’s peer newsroom reported from the DTES during the decampment of the Hastings Street tent city. 2 peer newsroom members spoke to residents and investigated concerns surrounding the risks. Read it here: megaphonemagazine.com/2025/04/scen...

The launch of our annual Voices of the Street literary anthology is happening on May 15th at 6:30! Join us at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 West Hastings) for a night of readings, refreshments + celebration! Get your tickets today! www.eventbrite.ca/e/voices-of-...

Did you know that the digital payment system on our website is Google Pay and Apple Pay friendly? If you want to grab a magazine and don't have time to pull out your card or cash, just quickly scan the QR code on the back of the vendors badge for a fast and seamless payment process.

Megaphone's April vendor of the month is Bernie! Bernie is a longtime Downtown Eastside resident who has been a part of the Megaphone family since 2015. Bernie sells outside of the High Point liquor store on East Hastings and Slocan in Vancouver and is a member of our Vendor Advisory Board.

Have you picked up the April issue of @megaphonemagazine.com? My column features the Vancouver Writers' Exchange which offers free, fun literacy programs for under-resourced kids & youth in Vancouver, providing a safe environment and fostering creative expression megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/

It’s been put to bed! @megaphonemagazine.com’s 15th annual 2025 Voices of the Street literary anthology is now on the press! 🥳 Featuring prose + #poetry from talented #DTES writers, stay tuned for its release in early May 🩵 ✍️

Megaphone is looking for compassionate and community-driven board members! More details: drive.google.com/file/d/12v91...

Join our team! Megaphone is hiring a Vendor and Volunteer Coordinator. The Vendor and Volunteer Coordinator positions supports the heart of our organization, Megaphone's vendors and volunteers! drive.google.com/file/d/1zwlQ...

Secure your Early Bird tickets today for our poetry anthology launch event happening on Thursday, May 15th from 6:30 - 8:30! www.eventbrite.ca/e/1318102051...

Our annual Voices of the Street poetry collection will be on sale to readers on Friday, May 9th! To celebrate we'll be hosting our annual launch event on Thursday, May 15th at 6:30. Our early bird tickets are on sale now until April 21st! www.eventbrite.ca/e/1318102051...

The April issue is serving up the dish on Grace Chen, iconic Downtown Eastside restaurateur who has run beloved diners Save on Meats and the Ovaltine Cafe for more than 25 years. Get your copy today! megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/

The April issue of @megaphonemagazine.com is available now around #Vancouver featuring: 🍽️ Grace Chen (Save on Meats and the Ovaltine Cafe) 📸 The incomparable @cathybrowne.bsky.social ✍️ My column on the Writers' Exchange school programs and more! Find a vendor: megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/