Jeff Topham, a freelance photographer, filmmaker and writer living in Vancouver, B.C., spent three years of his childhood in the West African country of Liberia. Recently, he and his brother, Andrew, returned to Liberia to make a documentary retracing their life there. While filming, they learned that 14 years of civil war had destroyed the [...]
The timing of the provincial government’s decision not to fund four emergency shelters in Vancouver this winter, just a month before the municipal elections, put effectively yet another housing issue on the ballot. BC Housing, citing the most recent homeless count and a focus on supporting more permanent housing solutions, announced on Oct. 11 that [...]
On a recent sunny Saturday morning, some 35 West End residents in Vancouver donned yellow vests and blue rubber gloves and proceeded to scour their neighbourhood’s streets in search of cigarette butts. They were there at the behest of John Merzetti, who started getting locals to pick up trash as part of his “West End Cleanup” [...]
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