Paula Carlson 🇨🇦
@thepaulacarlson.bsky.social
🦸♀️ Editorial Director @ Megaphone
🖍 Former editor @ The Tyee
👩💻 Former editor/reporter @ Black Press
✍️ Writer at heart
🪑 Unabashed teak freak
🖍 Former editor @ The Tyee
👩💻 Former editor/reporter @ Black Press
✍️ Writer at heart
🪑 Unabashed teak freak
3/3... @miss604.com tells us how buying a #Christmas🎄 at Aunt Leah's helps foster families, and Nlaka’pamux vendor Peter Thompson pens a lovely nostalgic story on the old-fashioned fun he enjoyed as a child in Kahmoose (Boothroyd).
All this and much more! ❤️💚 ➡️ megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/
All this and much more! ❤️💚 ➡️ megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/
December 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
3/3... @miss604.com tells us how buying a #Christmas🎄 at Aunt Leah's helps foster families, and Nlaka’pamux vendor Peter Thompson pens a lovely nostalgic story on the old-fashioned fun he enjoyed as a child in Kahmoose (Boothroyd).
All this and much more! ❤️💚 ➡️ megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/
All this and much more! ❤️💚 ➡️ megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/
2/3... This edition comes with FREE vendor-designed wrapping paper, perfectly sized to fit our Hope in Shadows calendar! Check out "Meowy Christmas" by Mama Rosa and a tribute to our vendors by David Deocera! 😻 ✨
Plus...
Plus...
December 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
2/3... This edition comes with FREE vendor-designed wrapping paper, perfectly sized to fit our Hope in Shadows calendar! Check out "Meowy Christmas" by Mama Rosa and a tribute to our vendors by David Deocera! 😻 ✨
Plus...
Plus...
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...
Cover photo of Nic + Julie in their holiday onesies by the amazing Tanya Goehring!
Also...
December 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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...
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! 😃🤣
@garthmullins.bsky.social … you’ve arrived! 😃🤣
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Crackdown on the shelves at #Kerrisdale London Drugs!!
@garthmullins.bsky.social … you’ve arrived! 😃🤣
@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 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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 🎃
With all the government scrambling to construct purpose-built rentals from scratch, I wonder what a possible solution could be… 🤔
October 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
With all the government scrambling to construct purpose-built rentals from scratch, I wonder what a possible solution could be… 🤔
2/3... Julie Chapman, Eva Takakenew and Nicolas Crier to honour those in the #DTES who exemplify Angel’s resilience and passion for social justice.
October 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
2/3... Julie Chapman, Eva Takakenew and Nicolas Crier to honour those in the #DTES who exemplify Angel’s resilience and passion for social justice.
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...
October 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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...
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
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
August 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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
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! ☀️❤️
Summer books, #DTES writers, #Indigenous stories and so much more! ☀️❤️
August 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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! ☀️❤️
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 🍁
com) + story by Hannah Mondiwa: megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/
#Never51 #ElbowsUp #Canada 🍁
August 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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 🍁
com) + story by Hannah Mondiwa: megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/
#Never51 #ElbowsUp #Canada 🍁
July 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
3/3... Eva Takakenew takes a deep dive into #MartinaPierre's #Women'sWarriorSong; Yvonne Mark embraces #Hoobiyee; @miss604.com spotlights 'Indigitech' leaders at #WebSummitVancouver + Cree writer Cupid reveals the real 'Bigfoot': Mis ta hi ya.
All this + more!
👉 megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/
All this + more!
👉 megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/
June 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
3/3... Eva Takakenew takes a deep dive into #MartinaPierre's #Women'sWarriorSong; Yvonne Mark embraces #Hoobiyee; @miss604.com spotlights 'Indigitech' leaders at #WebSummitVancouver + Cree writer Cupid reveals the real 'Bigfoot': Mis ta hi ya.
All this + more!
👉 megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/
All this + more!
👉 megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/
2/3... Priscillia Mays Tait interviews matriarchs from Vancouver's 3 host nations: xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) on the significance of land acknowledgments... Many thanks 🙏 to Cecilia Point, Wendy Nahanee + Carleen Thomas. 👉 PLUS...
June 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
2/3... Priscillia Mays Tait interviews matriarchs from Vancouver's 3 host nations: xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) on the significance of land acknowledgments... Many thanks 🙏 to Cecilia Point, Wendy Nahanee + Carleen Thomas. 👉 PLUS...
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...
June 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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...
June 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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/
@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/
May 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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/
@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/
3/3... As the #DTES deeply grieves the loss of Trey Helten,💔The Shift's James Witwicki pens a tribute + @megaphonemagazine.com executive director Lisa Curry outlines the lifesaving work he did + frontline workers continue to do every day.
All this and more 👉 megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/
🙏
All this and more 👉 megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/
🙏
May 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
3/3... As the #DTES deeply grieves the loss of Trey Helten,💔The Shift's James Witwicki pens a tribute + @megaphonemagazine.com executive director Lisa Curry outlines the lifesaving work he did + frontline workers continue to do every day.
All this and more 👉 megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/
🙏
All this and more 👉 megaphonemagazine.com/find-a-vendor/
🙏
2/3... @megaphonemagazine.com reporter + peer mentor @amyromer.bsky.social checks in with podcaster @garthmullins.bsky.social, who's not only celebrating the arrival of a new baby 👶 (yay!), but the birth of his first book, Crackdown: Surviving and Resisting the War on Drugs 👉 AND...
May 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
2/3... @megaphonemagazine.com reporter + peer mentor @amyromer.bsky.social checks in with podcaster @garthmullins.bsky.social, who's not only celebrating the arrival of a new baby 👶 (yay!), but the birth of his first book, Crackdown: Surviving and Resisting the War on Drugs 👉 AND...
1/3. It's first Friday + that means the new @megaphonemagazine.com has hit the streets!💥 Featuring a kickass cover illustration by the fabulous Nora Kelly www.norakellyart.com spotlighting all the amazing writing originating in the #DTES 👉 PLUS...
May 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
1/3. It's first Friday + that means the new @megaphonemagazine.com has hit the streets!💥 Featuring a kickass cover illustration by the fabulous Nora Kelly www.norakellyart.com spotlighting all the amazing writing originating in the #DTES 👉 PLUS...
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.
Memorial service May 10 throughout the day in the Balmoral Parking lot (100 block) #DTES.
April 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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.
Memorial service May 10 throughout the day in the Balmoral Parking lot (100 block) #DTES.
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 🩵 ✍️
@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 🩵 ✍️
April 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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 🩵 ✍️
@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 🩵 ✍️
Hamburger, hamburger
What a wondrous meat
Hamburger, hamburger
A delectable treat
Its cost is efficient
Its use versatile
It can help stretch a buck,
Or a meal, for a mile
From Ode To Hamburger, by Vicki Aldrich
#DTES #StreetArt by Luis Suárez for
@megaphonemagazine.com
What a wondrous meat
Hamburger, hamburger
A delectable treat
Its cost is efficient
Its use versatile
It can help stretch a buck,
Or a meal, for a mile
From Ode To Hamburger, by Vicki Aldrich
#DTES #StreetArt by Luis Suárez for
@megaphonemagazine.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Hamburger, hamburger
What a wondrous meat
Hamburger, hamburger
A delectable treat
Its cost is efficient
Its use versatile
It can help stretch a buck,
Or a meal, for a mile
From Ode To Hamburger, by Vicki Aldrich
#DTES #StreetArt by Luis Suárez for
@megaphonemagazine.com
What a wondrous meat
Hamburger, hamburger
A delectable treat
Its cost is efficient
Its use versatile
It can help stretch a buck,
Or a meal, for a mile
From Ode To Hamburger, by Vicki Aldrich
#DTES #StreetArt by Luis Suárez for
@megaphonemagazine.com