April 19 2013 at Cafe Deux Soleils
VOICES OF THE STREET Literary issue launch Megaphone invites you to the launch of our third annual literary issue, Voices of the Street, at Cafe Deux Soleils […]
Articles by John Zakharia Vancouver
Lost in Chinatown: Vancouver’s quiet, growing housing crisis among Chinese seniors
Lost in Chinatown: Vancouver’s quiet, growing housing crisis among Chinese seniors Poverty doesn’t stop at the imaginary line between Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and Chinatown neighbourhoods. But […]
Homeless Dave on hunger strike against gentrification and displacement
Photo credit: Murray Bush (Flux Photo) At noon on Friday March, 22nd, Homeless Dave began a hunger strike in support of housing rights and social justice in […]
Judy Graves, who’s been a homeless advocate for over 20 years, says there needs to be an even bigger push for permanent housing.
While homelessness still exists in Vancouver, there is hopeful news fewer people are on the street. The city of Vancouver’s annual homeless count is underway, […]
Homeless Magazine March 1st 2013
Heavy Measures What’s that they say about March? Well, in thelatest issue of Megaphone out today, we go in like a lion by talking with ex-criminals, […]
30 Victoria homeless deaths in 4 months draw inquest calls
Causes of death range from pneumonia to overdose to suicide Thirty homeless people in Victoria have died over the past four months. (CBC)An anti-poverty group in […]
Johnny Zakharia Vancouver
John Zakharia Vancouver is the founder of BChomeless.com. He has been helping the poor and homeless for over 20 years. He has also been seeking justice […]
Mapping the Future Hello Johnny, The Downtown Eastside is rapidly changing. But a city-appointed committee tasked with making a plan for the neighbourhood has been […]
B.C. high court to hear voter ID laws could prevent homeless, from say
VANCOUVER – The contention that federal voting laws requiring all people to present identification at the ballot box could deny society’s most vulnerable people from […]
Homeless Hub provides valuable and problem solving solutions
Building on the success of the Canadian Conference on Homelessness (2005), the Homeless Hub was created to address the need for a single place to […]