First Lytton, then Jasper: the emotional toll of wildfire destruction weighs heavy for survivors and their families By Eva Takakenew Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Amy Romer, works as a mentor for Megaphone’s peer newsroom called The Shift in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.The Shift is made up of a diverse group of individuals with lived experience of poverty, who are reporting from the DTES instead of being reported on. On the day of the wildfire disaster in Lytton, B.C. — which destroyed the village on June 30, 2021 — Megaphone vendor Peter Thompson, whose hometown is Lytton, was living in Vancouver. Upon hearing the news, his immediate thought was to find a way to help, but being so far away without a vehicle, he felt powerless. “I felt really bad that there…
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