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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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RedeyeBritish Columbia workers still waiting for permanent paid sick days
Non-unionized workers in BC have no paid sick leave rights under the Employment Standards Act. Guaranteed paid sick time for all workers crept a step closer in…
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How the Canadian government supports Israel's apartheid policies
On May 21, the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute hosted a webinar on the ways in which Canada enables Israeli apartheid. Yves Engler gave a presentation on…
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Discovery of the remains of 215 children a national emergency
After the remains of 215 children were found on the grounds of the old Kamloops Indian Residential School, there have been expressions of shock and grief, but…
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Islamophobia industry in Canada normalizes anti-Muslim racism
The killing of four members of a Muslim family in London, Ontario on June 6 has brought white nationalist violence to the forefront yet again. Jasmin Zine is a…
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Urgent need for national public transit system with Greyhound gone
As of May 13, Greyhound suspended all bus service in Canada. The company’s decision leaves many Canadians stranded with no alternative to private car…
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Time to end the patent stranglehold on vaccines and other life-saving drugs
Access to COVID-19 vaccines worldwide shows a stark divide between rich and poor countries. In May, people living in G7 countries were 77 times more likely to…
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City Beat: Modernizing HandyDart, plus permit issues with climate plan
Translink is introducing a modernization plan for HandyDart, which thousands of people living with disabilities depend on for public transportation. Redeye…
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Hasan Alam, speaking at a vigil for the Afzaal family of London, Ontario
Lawyer and activist Hasan Alam was one of the speakers Thursday June 10 in Vancover at a vigil for the Afzaal family in London, Ontario, murdered by a white…
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New research institute studies the 200 years of slavery in Canada
NSCAD University in Halifax is going to set up an institute to study Canadian slavery. The initiative will be spearheaded by Dr. Charmaine Nelson, who was the…
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Neighbourhood Houses: Building Community in Vancouver
In a new book just published by UBC Press, editors Miu Chung Yan and Sean Lauer document how the neighbourhood house model, a century-old type of community…
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Managing without Growth: Slower by Design, not Disaster
In February, Dr Peter Victor gave the 2021 Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture. Peter Victor is a Professor Emeritus at York University and was Gideon…
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Rent control gains broader acceptance despite defeat of Berlin rent cap
In mid-April, Germany’s highest court ruled that a rent cap imposed by the Berlin state government is illegal. German federal court overturned the law, saying…
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New book tells remarkable story behind El Salvador's ban on metal mining
In 2017, El Salvador became the first country in the world to pass a comprehensive law banning on metals mining nationwide. The vote was the result of a…
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Xinka group in Guatemala continue opposition to Canadian silver mine
A group of Xinka people in Guatemala opposes the development of the Escobal mine, owned by Vancouver based Pan American Silver. Members of the Peaceful…
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Tackling the over-representation of Indigenous people in justice system
Over-representation of Indigenous peoples in the criminal justice system is an ongoing crisis in Canada. In B.C., the First Nations Justice Council is…
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Supreme Court overturns 1956 ruling that Sinixt extinct in Canada
On April 23, the Supreme Court of Canada recognized the existence of the Sinixt people in south-eastern BC, 65 years after they were declared extinct by the…
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City Beat: Social housing, pedestrian-friendly Commercial Drive and more
128 speakers have signed up this week to talk to Vancouver city council about upzoning and densifying much of Vancouver for social housing. Council was also…
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Vancouver application for decriminalization of drugs deeply flawed
Later this month the city of Vancouver will submit its application to Health Canada for permission to decriminalize simple possession of illicit drugs. The…
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Israeli seizure of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem led to current crisis
The scale of the Israeli attack on Gaza is the most intense since the 7-week Israeli war on Gaza in 2014. To find out more about the reasons behind the current…
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Feds renege on pledge to establish national standards for long-term care
On April 27, the Council of Canadians and the Canadian Health Coalition held an online day of action calling on the federal government to create national…
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Peace activists stage 14-day fast to oppose Canadian purchase of fighter jets
In April, over 100 Canadians staged a hunger strike to raise awareness of the federal government’s plan to purchase 88 new advanced fighter jets for a total…
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Riley Yesno looks at federal budget from an Indigenous perspective
The 2021 Federal Budget promised to support people living in Indigenous communities, and allocate over $18 billion over the next five years to improve the…
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City Beat: Decriminalizing poverty, social housing update, electric car race
In July 2020, Vancouver City Council passed a motion to decriminalize poverty. Council heard about a variety of impacts, including the intersecting impacts of…
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Activists unhappy with VSB motion to end police liaison program in schools
On April 26, the Vancouver School Board voted to end its school liaison officer program. Meenakshi Mannoe is Criminalization & Policing Campaigner at Pivot…
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Federal government fails to protect threatened southern Mountain Caribou
All Mountain caribou in Canada are at risk of extinction, and none more so than the southern Mountain Caribou of BC and Alberta. Herds have been in decline for…
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Developer behind demolition of social housing fights to keep deal private
Holborn Properties bought 224 Little Mountain social housing units in 2007 with a promise to rebuild. Fourteen years later, the lot still sits empty. Activists…
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Yellow Objects takes inspiration from Hong Kong democracy protests
Yellow Objects is part digital experience and part theatrical installation. The work is inspired by the democracy protests in Hong Kong in 2019 and created by…
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New doc follows parallel journeys of gay refugee and his queer sponsors
Someone Like Me, premiering at Toronto’s Hot Docs this month, documents what happens when a group of strangers from Vancouver’s queer community sponsor Drake…
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Artist Henry Tsang's virtual tour of Vancouver's 1907 Anti-Asian Riots
The 360 Riot Walk is a multilingual interactive tour which invites participants to trace a layered history of labour politics, anti-Asian racism, and community…
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Canada's poor track record on affordable vaccines
The Canadian and Ontario governments recently announced they are giving $470 million to Sonofi Pasteur, a French vaccine maker, to build a new plant to…
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City Beat: Bus ridership, social housing and two new community centres
It is clear that the Covid-19 pandemic has drastically reduced transit ridership, and that rebuilding rider confidence will be challenging. Councillor Jean…
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BC needs to double down on its commitment to $10-a-day childcare
A year into the pandemic, it’s clear that any recovery plan has to include public investment in child care. The Canadian child care sector was fragmented and…
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Uber pitches its Flexible Work+ plan to provincial governments in Canada
The ride-hailing giant Uber recently announced its answer to complaints about lack of benefits and labour protections for its workers when it unveiled its…
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Upcoming provincial budget in BC must address systemic inequality
The upcoming provincial and federal budgets are being called the most important in a generation with the opportunity of addressing long standing systemic…
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Province allows clear-cutting of one of last intact old-growth areas in BC
On April 1. BC Supreme Court granted an injunction to logging company Teal-Jones Group to remove Fairy Creek/Ada’itsx forest defenders. This clears the path…
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Eight formerly-enslaved men bring class action lawsuit against chocolate companies
According to a recent study, more than one and a half million child laborers were working in cocoa growing areas of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana in 2019. In a…
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Outbreaks of infectious diseases linked to deforestation and monoculture
According to a recent study, outbreaks of infectious diseases are more likely in areas that have been stripped of their forest cover or land that is used for…
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City Beat: South False Creek, the 2030 Olympics and post-Covid recovery
Vancouver City Council is at risk of slipping into divisive politics which will hinder a solution for South False Creek residents who fear eviction from their…
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Justice at Spotify campaign demands fair payment for musicians
Music streaming services like Spotify are great for people who love to listen to music but have robbed musicians of much of their income. Musicians say the…
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Cuba leads the way on vaccine development in Latin America
If you were asked to name the countries that have produced vaccines against Covid-19, you probably wouldn’t think of Cuba. Yet Cuba is currently the only Latin…
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Urban Indigenous people join City and host Nations to implement UNDRIP
In March, Vancouver City Council unanimously passed a motion to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, UNDRIP, in Vancouver. To find…
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The right to paid sick leave is a feminist issue
Statistics show that the lower your income, the less likely you are to have employer-paid sick days. Given that the jobs where women workers predominate don’t…
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Drive to unionize Amazon workers in Alabama enters last week
Nearly 6,000 workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama are sending in their ballots in a certification drive that will make history if it succeeds…
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Nova Scotia MP's bill to address environmental racism before Parliament
Activists across Canada say that it’s long past time that the federal government addressed environmental racism in this country. Nova Scotia MP Lenore Zann has…
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Need for priority access to Covid-19 vaccines for people with disabilities
Phase 3 of the vaccine rollout in British Columbia is expected to start in April and includes everyone over 60. But neither the province nor the feds have…
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City Beat: Fraserview neighbourhood, Indian farm laws and UNDRIP
Vancouver has been developing a neighbourhood to house 20,000 people in South Vancouver for the last 30 years. Unfortunately, despite promising the best in…
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Tofino Adventure Film Festival goes online to benefit wild salmon
Most of us can’t go to Tofino yet this year, with public health restrictions on non-essential travel. But if you’ve been longing to connect with the spirit of…
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Senate appointment raises concerns about Biden's foreign policy
While President Biden has made positive moves on the domestic front, activists are sounding the alarm about the direction of his foreign policy with the naming…
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Ottawa's bill repealing mandatory minimums doesn't go far enough
The federal government’s new Bill 22 repeals some of the offences that currently carry mandatory minimums, but it leaves quite a number still in place. Meghan…
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Covid-19 vaccine rollout must guarantee equal access for all residents
Migrant rights advocates estimate that 1.6M people in Canada don't have permanent resident status and at least 500,000 people are undocumented. Both groups…
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Choosing Real Safety: A Declaration to Divest from Prisons and Policing
Six months after mass worldwide protests in support of racial justice, support continues to grow for a divestment from policing and prisons. Choosing Real…
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Open letter calls for Canada to stop propping up Moïse dictatorship in Haiti
A letter signed by Naomi Klein, David Suzuki and Noam Chomsky, as well as a hundred other academics, activists and artists was delivered to Foreign Affairs…
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Canada Post network can connect Canadians as part of Covid-19 recovery
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers says we should re-imagine Canada Post and use its existing network to connect Canadians as part of a green and just…
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New study doubles estimate of global mortality from fossil fuel pollution
A new study has found that air pollution from fossil fuels was responsible for more than 8.7 million deaths globally in 2018. This death toll exceeds the…
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City Beat: Rezoning for new social housing passes despite opposition
Vancouver City Council approved rezoning applications for two new housing projects spearheaded by local Indigenous societies, despite neighbourhood opposition…
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BC industries use too much water and don't pay enough for it
Ben Parfitt says the BC government doesn’t have a good handle on how much water the major industries in the province use. He argues that we need to get that…
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BC's support for fracking industry doesn't square with climate plan
The BC government says that fracking and the natural gas industry will not only be economically beneficial for the province but also consistent with the…
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Anti-racist groups concerned about Proud Boys terror designation
Following the unanimous passage of an NDP motion, the Canadian government has designated the Proud Boys as a terrorist entity. The move came swiftly on the…
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French court rules to try Canadian academic Hassan Diab
Hassan Diab’s ordeal began over 12 years ago when France requested his extradition in relation to the bombing of a Paris synagogue in 1980. Hassan was…
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VPD introduces new trespass program targeting homeless people
A new program recently introduced by the Vancouver Police Department authorizes officers to remove people if they have allegedly violated the provincial…