Alysha Osborne was quite content to roll into her second decade as a barber at a swanky downtown shop, though a chance encounter in Gastown changed her life, her profession and her outlook.
Last summer, Osborne exited a cab and overheard an exchange between a homeless person and a random passerby.
“The woman told this homeless person to f*** off and get a job. Then she started laughing,” Osborne recalled. “At what point did we to get this place in society where you can say something like that and then laugh at it and think that’s totally OK when it comes to a stranger?”
