Click on Dave for a listen to the West End Phoenix song written, performed and recorded by the amazing Don Kerr.

'YOU'RE CRAZY,
BUT GOOD LUCK'

Slow print, small run, mighty and true, the non-profit West End Phoenix is a community newspaper dreamed up by writer and Rheostatic Dave Bidini, giving voice to the swirl of neighbourhoods that make up one of North America’s fastest evolving catchments. 

Patron-supported and ad-free — and devoted to the magic and power of print — the Phoenix invites you to join the chorus of readers around the city as well as Canada’s best writers, photographers and illustrators as we produce a new monthly broadsheet for our times.

 

You can support the paper and the writers, illustrators and photographers in the catchment a fair and equitable rate, an essential part of the West End Phoenix plan to sustain the voices of artists in our neighbourhoods.

We are a non-profit, patron-supported, ad-free publication supported by the wild minds of devoted readers. Subscribe and receive a year’s worth of West End Phoenix delivered to your door.

 
Reader spotted outside Wallace cafe
Newspaper and sunshine
WEP reader @mscuby
 
 
“Thou shalt not PDF”
— John Moran, West End Offset
 


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We are a non-profit, patron-supported, ad-free publication supported by the wild minds of devoted readers, and we are asking you to help carry the dream across the summer to our first issue in October. To receive a year’s worth of West End Phoenixes, click below.

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Beyond subscription, we are asking readers to support the paper in our attempt to pay writers, illustrators and photographers in the catchment a fair and equitable rate, an essential part of the West End Phoenix plan to sustain the voices of artists in our neighbourhoods.