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, […]
Articles by John Zakharia Vancouver
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 […]
The release of a BC Coroner’s report
Connecting the Dots Hello Johnny, The release of a BC Coroner’s report shows no matter how many shelters Vancouver puts up, people without stable housing […]
January 18 Megaphone Magazine issue
Idle No More Hello Johnny, After almost two months of protests, Idle No More shows no sign of slowing down. In the new issue of Megaphone […]
Vancouver to move 100 residents from aging downtown building to newly purchased hotel
Vancouver is about to launch one of its most ambitious social-housing moves in decades – shifting almost 100 people from the crumbling downtown structure they […]
MegaPhone Magazine January
The New Year is here and the new issue of Megaphone out today kicks off 2013 by going inside a housing program that has left its mark […]