A soft spoken street vendor has become the face of a new promotional campaign by Megaphone, a magazine sold on the streets of Vancouver.

The campaign called "I Work Here" features three videos of vendors on the job. In the first video projected yesterday at the intersection of Robson and Howe Streets in Vancouver's downtown core, we meet Peter Thompson, a 53 year-old former carpenter, who began selling the paper six days a week in 2006, to help make ends meet.

If you knew your neighbours' stories, would you relate to them differently?

That's the question at the core of a new multi-platform web project, Inside Stories, dedicated to Vancouver's South Hill neighbourhood, a diverse community whose residents have lived isolated from each other in part due to the many different languages they speak. The idea for the project came from a group of neighbours dedicated to breaking down barriers between each other.

When documentary film maker Nettie Wild was first approached to do a documentary about South Hill, she wasn't convinced film was the right medium to tell the story.

Best of rabble.ca 3
by Jenn Watt, ed.(rabble.ca, 2010; $12.95)

The latest -- and greatest -- volume of the much loved Best of rabble.ca book series is here, hot off the presses!

In what has become an annual tradition, this third "best of" is a pocket-sized reader featuring the best stories in the last year from rabble's news and features section. Highlights include interviews with rabble rousers and thinkers like Tariq Ali, George Galloway and Denis Rancourt; stories of silenced dissent -- many that were donated by activists doing double-duty to both organize and cover events, protests and struggle underreported or ignored entirely by the mainstream press.

Female news anchors around the world have welcomed two new members to an exclusive primetime club. Diane Sawyer was recently appointed as anchor to ABC's World News in the U.S. Sawyer follows in the footsteps of CBS's Katie Couric, who became the first solo female anchor in the U.S. three years ago. And in Australia, Chris Bath is set to become the first solo female news anchor in that country.