Amy Romer
Writer and Photographer at Freelance
✍️ @indiginewsmedia @thewalrus @thetyee. 📸 nonprofits, @insidenatgeo. Mostly done here and migrating over to @amyromer.bsky.social.
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1 week ago |
thespec.com | Amy Romer
Garth Mullins has spent years telling other people’s stories — amplifying voices of drug users through his award-winning podcast Crackdown and organizing with the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU). Now, he’s turned the lens on himself. His memoir, Crackdown: Surviving and Resisting the War on Drugs, is not a victory lap or redemption tale, it’s something rarer: a grounded, unvarnished account of a life shaped by addiction, criminalization and collective resistance.
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3 weeks ago |
thespec.com | Amy Romer
Laughter echoes through Totem Hall in Sḵwx̱wú7mesh as Charlene Williams weaves between nieces and nephews, delivering ice and buckets for fish guts across a long, plastic-covered table. “Auntie, auntie, look!” a child yells out as she proudly holds up her first cleanly gutted slhawt’ (herring) for Williams to see. On April 10, members of Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and friends leaned in to learn how to clean and prepare slhawt’ — many for the first time.
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1 month ago |
thespec.com | Amy Romer
Editor’s note: Megaphone’s peer newsroom, The Shift, meets monthly with Megaphone Editor Paula Carlson and Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Amy Romer to brainstorm story ideas and take on assignments. As with any vibrant community newsroom, there is conversation — sometimes spirited — about a variety of topics and current events. This dialogue includes valuable insights that may or may not make it into a news story.
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1 month ago |
thespec.com | Amy Romer
When was the last time you saw a picture of yourself and thought, “Is that really what I look like?” Likewise, when was the last time you sat down and really thought about if how you present yourself to the world matches who you truly are?
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1 month ago |
thespec.com | Amy Romer |Lance Lim
Award-winning CBC journalist Cathy Browne began her journalism career at age 65 — just five years ago. But her connection to the CBC runs much deeper. A self-proclaimed “lifelong CBC Radio fan,” Browne has been tuning in for 60 years, keeping the radio on as much as possible. “Radio has my soul,” she told Megaphone magazine, sipping a cup of tea in one of 312 Main’s cozy meeting rooms.
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