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Redeye
A progressive take on current events. Produced by an independent media collective at Vancouver Cooperative Radio.
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Federal strategy fails to address root causes of food insecurity
In June this year, the federal government launched a National Food Security Strategy, with the stated goal of building a more affordable and resilient food…
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Keeping transit on the agenda following municipal elections
With the landslide victory for progressive candidates in Vancouver’s city election, hopes are high for improving mobility and transit in the city. Movement…
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Alberta separatist campaign normalizes anti-migrant racism
The Alberta referendum ended with a resounding defeat for the separatist party. At least, that’s what most of the corporate media coverage has characterized it…
RedeyeGravel operation wrecks salmon streams in Fraser Valley
In 2024, coho and chum salmon were returning to spawn in Worth Creek, a small stream east of Mission, but in December the following year, the creek suddenly…
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Oversized vehicles danger to pedestrians, cyclists
BC is the latest province in Canada where the chief coroner is being asked to look into the growing danger to pedestrians and cyclists from pickup trucks and…
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Bill C-39 threatens right to strike for Canada's biggest unions
The federal government’s major infrastructure legislation, Bill C-39, is in the hands of a special committee, which is planning to finish its work by…
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Canada's policies to counter terrorism financing unfairly driving financial exclusion
The International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group has released a report detailing how financial institutions are penalizing NGOs and individuals they suspect…
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BC's biggest cities must do better if they want to fix the housing crisis
As municipal and provincial elections approach, BC’s biggest, most expensive cities aren’t doing enough to help solve the current housing crisis. So says Alex…
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Women Transforming Cities has their six policy asks for candidates
In the run-up to Vancouver’s municipal election, Women Transforming Cities consulted widely to see what policies people want City Council to focus on. Now WTC…
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Why so many of Alberta's referendum questions are about immigration
On October 19, Albertans will vote on ten referendum questions put forth by Premier Danielle Smith and her UCP government. Five out of the ten questions in the…
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Soran Mardookhi on The Flight, his new documentary premiering at VIFF
In 2020, Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 departed Tehran carrying 176 passengers and crew. Minutes after takeoff, the aircraft was struck by two…
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City Beat for Oct 3: Mayoral races in Richmond, Surrey, Burnaby and New West
Municipal elections on Saturday, October 17 are just 2 weeks away. With us to talk about some of the Metro Vancouver races is Redeye collective member Ian Mass…
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Assessing the effectiveness of the Toronto School Board's cell phone ban
There is growing evidence that phone use and social media are harming youth, and having a negative impact on their learning and their mental health. Concern…
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Toolkit: Resisting data centre development in Canada
In June this year, hundreds of people took to the streets in Vancouver to oppose the construction of two new AI data centres in the city. Vancouver city…
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Truth Before Reconciliation: Confronting Residential School Denialism
In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its Final Report and showed Canadians the evidence of how residential schools constituted…
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What the province needs to do to close BC's racial housing gap
Systemic racism and historical displacement have created profound disparities in housing outcomes across British Columbia. Indigenous and racialized…
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Canada's proposed trade restrictions on illegal Israeli settlements
For years, Independent Jewish Voices Canada alongside the Global Justice Coalition and Palestinian groups have been organizing for meaningful sanctions on…
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City Beat for Sept 19: Who's who in the mayoral race in Vancouver
People across British Columbia will be voting in municipal elections on October 17th. In today’s edition of City Beat, Ian Mass talks about who’s running in…
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Street Medicine 101 with Dr Jill (encore)
If you have never been homeless, you probably have a lot of misconceptions about what it means to live on the street. Street Medicine 101 is a series of short…
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Fossil fuel industry using global conflict to push for more production (encore)
As Israel and the US carry out devastating attacks on Iran, the Canadian oil industry and some politicians are seeing it as an opportunity to expand fossil…
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First Nation challenges chronic underfunding of on-reserve services for kids (encore)
First Nations across the country are reporting a major loss of funding for children’s programs after the federal government changed Jordan’s Principle rules…
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True North: New documentary about 1969 student uprising in Montreal (encore)
True North tells the story of the 1969 protest against racism at Sir George Williams University, now Concordia. Following the occupation of the university, 97…
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Urgent need for context to understand recent debates around DRIPA (encore)
Following recent court decisions around Indigenous rights and Aboriginal title in BC, public discourse is full of conflicting assertions. Premier David Eby has…
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Book: If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight (encore)
In his new book If You Want to Win, You’ve Got to Fight, transportation activist Carter Lavin shares strategies about how to create the change we want to see…
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Shopping when Indigenous: Racial profiling in Canadian stores (encore)
A new report, co-authored by Lorne Foster and Lesley Jacobs, examines consumer racial profiling of Indigenous people in Canada. The report says it is likely…
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Betty Baxter's memoir of her journey from Olympic athlete to activist (encore)
In 2021, Betty Baxter was inducted into the Volleyball BC Hall of Fame. But as a lesbian athlete and coach, the journey to that recognition was far from…
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OneBC's documentary Making A Killing fuels residential school denialism (encore)
On December 2, the OneBC party released its documentary Making a Killing: Reconciliation, genocide and plunder in Canada. Since then, the writer and producer…
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Food insecurity and the Hungry Stories Project (encore)
The Hungry Stories Project is a team of scholars, dietitians and artists who are fighting for the elimination of food insecurity by sharing what it takes to…
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Nakba exhibit at Canadian Museum of Human Rights launches this summer (encore)
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg was built to educate Canadians about stories of global injustice. Yet in the more than 10 years since it…
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Indigenous Rights in One Minute: A guide to advancing reconciliation (encore)
Bruce McIvor has written a new book that should become essential reading for Canadians who want to advance reconciliation. Indigenous Rights in One Minute…
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The Nest: New film reveals lost feminist histories in old Winnipeg mansion (encore)
At the end of her mother’s life, writer and academic Julietta Singh returns to Winnipeg to say goodbye to her childhood home. As she digs into the history of…
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How narratives about disability influence government policies (encore)
In Canada, the policies affecting disabled people do not always follow a consistent approach. Alfiya Battalova says our narratives around disability shape our…
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Indigenous identity policies a dangerous case of institutional overreach (encore)
The practice of people self-identifying as Indigenous has come into sharp focus after a number of high-profile cases of “pretendians” claiming to be Indigenous…
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From Paris to New Delhi, women leaders are making cities more liveable (encore)
The deputy mayor of Tirana, Albania says she realized one day that her city had been planned with one user in mind - an adult male who needed to get to the…
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Judy Darcy on her new book, Leading from the Heart
Judy Darcy’s memoir, Leading From the Heart, chronicles her battles as a feminist, a union leader and a politician from the 1960’s until today. Judy joined Ian…
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The War on Cars podcast hosts on their new book, Life After Cars (encore)
The War on Cars podcast delivers news and commentary on the latest developments in the worldwide fight to undo the damage caused by cars. Sarah Goodyear is a…
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Anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian racism on the rise in Canada (encore)
In the aftermath of October 7, 2023, Canada saw a rise in anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab and antisemitism that affects many areas of life and work for…
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Karin Wells on her new book Women who Woke up the Law (encore)
Changes in law that bring about more equality have complex roots, but they almost always start with someone who takes a stand. A new book examines ten of the…
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Book: Not Your Cash Cow, Not Your Scapegoat
International students have long been seen as a source of extra income by Canadian universities, who charge them much higher tuition fees for the same…
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Laying out the facts about the SOGI 123 program in BC schools
A program in BC schools that helps kids navigate gender and sexuality has become a prime target of conservative politicians. In an article called SOGI 123…
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Taxing the oil industry's massive profits resulting from the Iran war
One of the consequences of the war on Iran is that it has provided the oil industry with the opportunity to engage in rampant profiteering. In the first month…
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Film: Tla'amin Nation asks Powell River to reconsider its name
Namesake has its West Coast premiere at the Doxa Festival this month. The film documents an ongoing conversation between the Tla’amin Nation and the city…
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City Beat for May 2: Vancouver hoping for major-league baseball team
Last week Mayor Sim and the ABC Council passed a motion to identify a potential ownership group for a major-league baseball team in Vancouver. Details leaked…
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Increased grocery store surveillance amidst worsening food insecurity
Body cameras and increased security in grocery stores are a corporate response to concerns about retail theft. But at the same time, profits in the grocery…
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Min Sook Lee on her new film, There Are No Words
In her latest film, There Are No Words, award-winning documentary filmmaker Min Sook Lee turns the camera towards her family. The film documents Lee’s search…
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City Beat for Apr 25: A step towards unity on the left
This week, Vancouver City Council heard directly from sex trade advocates about service cutbacks, a questionable unity agreement crafted by the three…
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Selma Burke: Carving a Sculptor's Life
African American sculptor Selma Burke chronicled many of the events of the last century in her art: lynchings, the Harlem Renaissance, the Holocaust, and the…
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In It Together: Stories from Paloma Housing Coop
Paloma Housing Co-op was founded in 1983 by a group of people in Vancouver. This year marks the coop’s 40th anniversary and there’s a film to celebrate that…
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Referendum questions fuel anti-immigrant feeling in Alberta
In Alberta, Danielle Smith's government is putting nine questions to a province-wide referendum in October. These include proposals to restrict social services…
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Regional Chief Terry Teegee on David Eby's push to amend DRIPA
In 2019, BC premier John Horgan and his government passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act or DRIPA. Now current premier David Eby says…
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Return to Paueru Gai: 50 Years of the Powell Street Festival
Paueru Gai is the Japanese name for the Powell Street neighbourhood in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. It was a place of early settlement for Japanese Canadians…
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BC government need to take gig worker protections to next level
The BC government is currently reviewing the effectiveness of Bill 48 brought in two years ago. It established precedent-setting protections for platform…
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Street Medicine 101 with Dr Jill
If you have never been homeless, you probably have a lot of misconceptions about what it means to live on the street. Street Medicine 101 is a series of short…
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Cutting the carbon tax spells higher emissions and the end of CleanBC
At the end of March, the BC government quietly eliminated its Climate Action Secretariat. This is the long-running agency that produced and implemented climate…
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City Beat for April 11: Promises of more money for aging rec centres
Next week, Vancouver City Council will be talking about the 2025 homeless count, a big money ask from the Park Board to deal with the poor condition of our…
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Alberta's Bill 11 opens door to private health care via trade agreements
In March, public health care advocates across the country took part in rallies and news conferences in response to Alberta’s new two-tier health care law…
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City Beat: Festival bailouts, two major developments and affordable housing
Oakridge looks like it is getting another massive development, there’s a new affordable mortgage model for the Heather Lands, more festivals are turning to the…
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Old-growth forest identified for deferral continues to be logged
Every member of a former panel the BC government appointed to identify old-growth for potential protection in 2021 says they're concerned about continued…
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Fossil fuel industry using global conflict to push for more production
As Israel and the US carry out devastating attacks on Iran, the Canadian oil industry and some politicians are seeing it as an opportunity to expand fossil…
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BC government rolls back rights of tenants in supportive housing
On March 4, the provincial government announced that it was making amendments to the Residential Tenancy Act to provide new tools to address health and safety…