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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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RedeyeToolkit for Manitoba educators to counter far-right extremism in schools
Youth radicalization is on the rise in Canada. With increasing online promotion of far right ideas, young people are exposed a lot of politically motivated…
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Federal court says RCMP delays in responding to complaints unacceptable
A federal court has ruled that RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki violated her legal obligations when she took more than 3years to respond to a complaint about…
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How Justin Trudeau became a friend of Big Pharma
There was a time when the relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and Justin Trudeau was described as ‘hostile’. The industry didn’t like the PM’s…
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Compensation agreement for victims of child welfare system on reserve
Last week, the federal government and First Nations leaders announced a $40 billion agreement-in-principle to compensate young people harmed by Canada’s…
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Desmond Tutu: Opponent of apartheid and racism in South Africa and Israel
Archbishop Desmond Tutu passed away on December 26 at the age of 90. For much of the 1970s and 80s, Tutu was one of the foremost critics of apartheid, the…
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City Beat: Funding increase for police, more density, support for drug plan
City councils across the Lower Mainland are waking up from the holidays and gearing up for municipal elections scheduled for this upcoming October. In today’s…
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Divestment campaigns see wins despite corporate influence on boards
Fossil fuel divestment campaigns started a decade ago on U.S. campuses. By 2015, fossil fuel divestment was reportedly the fastest growing divestment movement…
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Urgent need for a made-in-Canada solution to high inflation
After almost two years of the pandemic and in the midst of a massive wave of Omicron infections, we are now also seeing rising inflation rates across the…
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Interactive documentary tells story of opposition to giant cow sculpture
In July 2017, residents of a suburban development in Markham, Ontario awoke to find a giant chrome replica of a cow called Charity facing their homes. The…
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Hayden King with Matthew Norris on Indigenous jurisdiction and land back
The Yellowhead Institute is a First Nation-led research centre based at Ryerson University. They produced a Red Paper in 2019 about land back, the project of…
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The Care We Dream Of re-imagines health care through an LGBTQ+ lens
The pandemic has brought into focus the urgent need for a public health that serves everyone in the community, including those who have traditionally been…
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Indigenous fire management practices ignored in massive 2017 fire
In 2017, the Elephant Hill wildfire in British Columbia burned close to 200,000 hectares throughout Secwepemcu’lecw territory. An Indigenous-led review has…
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City Beat: Vancouver raises taxes and police funding in 2022 budget
The City of Vancouver 2022 budget complete with a 6.35% tax increase and rezoning for rentals dominated the mainstream civic media these last two weeks…
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Border agents detain migrant mother despite sanctuary school policy
In 2017, the New Westminster school board approved a sanctuary schools policy which aims to give every school-aged child in the district access to education…
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Three major US pharmacies found guilty of contributing to the opioid crisis
A U.S. federal jury has said that three major retailers helped flood two Ohio counties with addictive opioids in a first-of-its-kind verdict. The two counties…
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What went wrong with BC's flood warning system in the November storms
The River Forecast Centre operates a provincial system that issues flood warnings yet this fall’s abundant rain and intense storms did not appear to trigger…
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Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It
Judging by the constant stream of news reports of standoffs and confrontations, it’s apparent that Canada’s reconciliation project has gone off the rails…
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BC's plan for five paid sick days falls short of what workers need
It is estimated over half of B.C. workers don’t have sick benefits from their employers. That gap moved into sharp relief at beginning of the Covid-19…
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City Beat: Council faces hard decisions over Vancouver's 2022 budget
Vancouver City Council has worked hard this past year to establish priorities to address climate change, Indigenous reconciliation, and tenant protection for…
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A Zero Waste Agenda for BC
BC has crown corporations for housing, hydro, transit and a number of other key sectors. Now a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and…
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Mission Critical: A just and equitable recovery
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has just released its 26th alternative federal budget aptly named Mission Critical: A just and equitable recovery…
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People's Vaccine Alliance calls for an end to vaccine apartheid
As long as Covid-19 exists anywhere in the world, it is a threat everywhere. But, in spite of our shared risk, the world’s richest countries have exercised a…
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The financialization of everything
Finance has an oversized presence in contemporary mature nations. It has grown enormously in terms of size, relative to the rest of the economy. And…
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Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis
Plastic is everywhere—it’s in our food containers, keyboards, glasses, even our toothbrushes. It’s lightweight, versatile, and so cheap that we often forget…
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Impact of precarious housing on people's personal belongings
In October, the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users conducted a survey asking homeless people about the impact of street sweeps by city workers and police…
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The fight to bring rental homes back to quiet side streets in Vancouver
Over the past two weeks, Vancouver City Council has heard from close to 1000 people about a policy proposal designed to limit new rental apartment buildings to…
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Militant mother Carolyn Jerome on blockading the train tracks in Strathcona
Back in the early 1970s, children from the Raymur housing project in Strathcona were forced to cross train tracks on their way to their elementary school…
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We Stand on Guard for Whom? A People's History of the Canadian Military
Yves Engler is a Montreal-based activist, author and critic of Canadian politics. He just came out with his eleventh book “We Stand on Guard for Whom? A…
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Guatemalan military officials on trial for crimes against humanity
In Guatemala, a trial is underway in the case of 183 civilians who were disappeared or murdered in Guatemala City in the 1980s. A military intelligence…
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The Halifax Proposals aim to make Canada's extradition act more fair
Canada’s extradition act is under scrutiny. The Meng Wanzhou case raised questions about extradition proceedings that have foreign policy implications…
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Chilean-Canadian author Carmen Rodriguez on her new book, Atacama
Carmen Rodriguez is an internationally acclaimed Chilean-Canadian author, educator and journalist. Her new novel, Atacama, is set against the backdrop of Chile…
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Learning with Syeyutsus: A reconciliation-focused series for educators
A school district on Vancouver Island has responded to one of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s calls to action with a unique resource called Learning…
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Five things we can learn from the 2021 forest fire season in BC
British Columbians will look back at the summer of 2021 as the one where the climate emergency really hit home. First, there was the heat dome, then months of…
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Artist reimagines teen bedroom filled with resilient South Asian women
Sandeep Johal is a visual artist whose practice includes drawing, collage, textiles, and large-scale murals. ‘What If’ is a major new exhibition of Johal’s…
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US human rights lawyer faces 6 months in jail after standing up to Chevron
Steven Donziger has spent nearly three decades fighting Chevron on behalf of 30,000 people in the Ecuadorian rainforest. On October 1, he was sentenced to six…
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Call for end to daily street sweeps in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
For five days in October, members of community groups, advocates and residents of the Downtown Eastside documented street sweeps and their impact on people’s…
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City Beat: South False Creek slated for major redevelopment
South False Creek has been called one of the best-planned neighbourhoods in the world. Located between the Granville and Cambie bridges and owned by the City…
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Gay and lesbian South Asians from conservative families tell their story
Emergence: Out of the Shadows is a feature length film is about the strengths and struggles of gay and lesbian South Asian people in Metro Vancouver. For…
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The politics behind high case counts and low vaccination rates in Alberta
When you look at Canada as a whole, 71% of Canadians are fully vaccinated. But if you look at individual provinces, the numbers vary quite a bit. Here in BC…
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Harassment and violent threats against journalists on the rise in Canada
In September, leader of the People’s Party of Canada Maxime Bernier publicly urged his Twitter followers to ‘play dirty’ with the press and exposed the contact…
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Convergence of anti-vax movement and far-right political extremism
In mid-September, vaccine protesters entered three schools in Salmon Arm to deliver notices of Vaccine Liability, bogus legal documents based on the ideology…
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Fairy Creek and the path forward for protecting old growth
More than 1,100 people have been arrested this year for breaching a court injunction while protesting logging of old growth at Fairy Creek. On Oct 4…
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Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again
Under Canada’s Indian Act, prior to 1985, a woman who married a non-Indigenous man lost her Indian status, and risked being evicted from her reserve. A new…
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City Beat: LNG expansion in Delta, and a city-wide parking permit program
Vancouver City Council is back at work and one of its first tasks was to hear a motion by Vancouver Councillor Christine Boyle about a massive $3-billion…
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Canada's biggest pension plan increases investments in fossil fuels
Two years ago, Environment and Climate Change Canada came out with a report saying that Canada is warming at more than double the global rate. Despite this…
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French appeals court orders new trial for Canadian academic Hassan Diab
In 2008, Hassan Diab was a sociology professor at Carleton University in Ottawa when he was arrested and accused of involvement in the 1980 bombing of a Paris…
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Canada's exported emissions continue to rise unchecked
The federal government set a tougher target for reducing domestic emissions in 2020 yet the full extent of Canada’s contribution to the climate crisis remains…
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BC Liberals gave Little Mountain developer $211M interest-free loan
After 13 years of appeals and more than three years of corporate stalling, the contract laying out the terms of the sale of the Little Mountain social housing…
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Canadian activists decry US economic sanctions against Cuba
Cuba has faced sixty years of an economic blockade by Washington, including many additional measures brought in by the Trump administration. The Biden…
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Vancouver choir director Earle Peach shares his passion for writing songs
Earle Peach is the director of three Vancouver-based choral groups including the High and Lows Choir and Solidarity Notes Labour Choir. He also plays a bunch…
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Drought brings renewed calls for end to new water bottling licences
As many B.C. regions experience severe drought, municipalities and First Nations are calling for the government to stop issuing groundwater extraction licences…
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Court rules Canada must compensate nation for flooding reserve in 1929
Almost 100 years ago, the Canada, Manitoba and Ontario allowed massive flooding of the Lac Seul First Nation reserve for a hydroelectric project. The Supreme…
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City Beat: Vancouver adopts radical new equity framework
In its last set of meetings before a summer break, Vancouver City Council adopted an equity framework that identifies three sources of systemic inequity in the…
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U.S. economic blockade set the stage for protests in Cuba
Anti-government protests erupted in various Cuban cities the weekend of July 11. People were protesting the dire economic conditions on the island, amid a…
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Federal government includes plastic items in toxic substances list
In May, the federal government added plastic manufactured items to the toxic substances list of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. Campaigners to ban…
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New modes of transportation a critical challenge for city planners
Self-driving cars, scooters and bikes of every description, car-share schemes and air taxis… all these modes of transport may be part of our transportation…
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Paradigm shift needed in BC's forests: Garry Merkl talks with Sarah Cox
On June 17, the digital publication The Narwhal hosted an online event to look at meaningful solutions to the crisis of old-growth logging. Sarah Cox is BC…
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Time for BC to stop using North as a resource colony and invest in region
The Wilderness Committee has released a report reflecting the concerns and priorities of leaders in Northern BC. “Northern Vision and Voices: What the region…
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Supreme Court rules Blueberry River Nations treaty rights breached
On June 29, the BC Supreme Court ruled that the B.C. government had breached the treaty rights of the Blueberry River First Nations. In her ruling, Justice…
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City Beat: Housing co-op leases, a new name for Trutch Street and more
There are more than 100 housing co-ops in Vancouver, the majority located on land leased from the City of Vancouver. Many of these leases are expiring over the…