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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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Mark Carney fails to condemn Trump's war of aggression against Iran
On February 28, the United States and Israel launched a war of aggression against Iran including attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure in Iran…
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Betty Baxter's memoir of her journey from Olympic athlete to activist
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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What's behind the website Surrey Speak and the false news it published
More and more websites that position themselves as news outlets are serving up what observers call AI slop. Last month, a Surrey-based site published false…
RedeyeSounding the alarm about FIFA and human rights in the Downtown Eastside
An informal coalition of organizations in the Downtown Eastside and Chinatown are sounding the alarm about what they call the massive human rights implications…
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Court affirms federal government's right to regulate plastics pollution
A coalition of health and environmental groups are celebrating a court victory that protects the federal government’s ability to regulate plastic pollution. In…
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Scotiabank completely divests from Israeli weapons maker Elbit
In one of the biggest BDS victories in Canada to date, Scotiabank no longer holds any shares in the Israeli weapons maker Elbit Systems, according to its…
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IWD workshop March 9: The Feminist Killjoy
The Vancouver organization, Women Transforming Cities, aims to reshape who cities are built by and for, so that everyone can participate, and thrive. WTC works…
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City Beat for Mar 7: Mayor Sim's false allegations against Sean Orr
In City Beat today, the fallout from accusations that Vancouver city councillors are dealing drugs, plus yet more money for the FIFA World Cup, a 30-year plan…
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Complaint to International Criminal Court against presidents of FIFA, UEFA
On February 16, a group of Palestinian footballers and Palestinian clubs joined with others to file a complaint with the Office of the Prosecutor of the…
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True North: New documentary about 1969 student uprising in Montreal
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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Police and surveillance not the answer to school shootings
The mass school shooting in Tumbler Ridge has had a devastating impact on Canadians across the country. Amidst the collective grief for those who lost children…
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New series of Hope Dialogue Radio Show on Coop Radio
The Hope Dialogue Radio Show and Podcast is created in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and explores the topics, issues and complex circumstances challenging…
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New Robber Barons: A quarter century of wealth concentration in Canada
Ahead of BC Budget 2026, the provincial government was already laying the groundwork to defend austerity measures by arguing that there is not enough wealth to…
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Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK on Cuba and the oil blockade
For more than six decades, the U.S. has targeted Cuba with economic sanctions, blockades and campaigns to destabilize the Cuban government. Now, Trump’s latest…
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City Beat for Feb 21: Greens and COPE react to OneCity proposal for unity
Redeye’s Ian Mass joins us to talk about calls for unity on the progressive left which heated up this week. Plus he wonders if, after 19 years, a school in…
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BC budget 2026: Hidden austerity, tax increases and service cuts
British Columbia’s Finance Minister Brenda Bailey said that the budget she brought down on Tuesday wasn’t an austerity budget. However, key spending areas have…
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Urgent need for context to understand recent debates around DRIPA
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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City Beat for Feb 14: Controversial public hearings dominate council agenda (updated)
Vancouver City Council will hold public hearings on redevelopment of the 800 block of Granville and the old Army and Navy department store on Hastings, as well…
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Book: If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight
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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No More Loopholes Act goes to critical second reading vote this month
The No More Loopholes Act, Bill C-233, is a private member’s bill put forward by Vancouver-East MP Jenny Kwan. It puts pressure on the Canadian government to…
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Anti-feminist narratives impact housing choices for women
As Canada grapples with a deep housing affordability crisis, women continue to experience some of the most severe housing needs. The Women’s National Housing &…
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Vancouver needs more bus lanes to prevent FIFA gridlock
Vancouver is a host city for the FIFA World Cup this year, co-hosted by Canada, Mexico, and the US. There are going to be seven matches at BC Place Stadium and…
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Time to ban tipping and enact a living wage
The number of businesses inviting us to tip their workers is growing all the time. Tipping used to be restricted to full service restaurants, but now it’s…
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Big oil should pay its share for climate-drive insurance crisis
The Insurance Bureau of Canada said natural disaster claims cost a record 8.5 billion dollars in 2024 due to the increased frequency and severity of…
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City Beat: Council to consider multiple redevelopment and rezoning plans
Vancouver Council has booked themselves a heavy meeting schedule between now and the municipal election in October. Over and above their general council and…
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Food insecurity and the Hungry Stories Project
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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First Nation challenges chronic underfunding of on-reserve services for kids
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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Addressing the lack of BIPOC artists and writers in Wikipedia
The Vancouver organization Rungh has conducted several Wikipedia Edit-a-thon events and, in 2024, they launched Rungh Wikipedia Scholars. The program focuses…
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Gaza, Venezuela and Greenland mark end of world legal order set up in 1945
The American invasion of Venezuela — along with fresh threats to annex Greenland — is seen by many commentators as marking the collapse of the international…
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City Beat: Allowing more childcare in residential neighbourhoods
Allowing more childcare in residential neighbourhoods, paying city staff and contractors a living wage, safe public washrooms for everybody and lots more…
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Skeenawild challenges environmental certificate of KSM gold-copper mine
Under B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Act, industrial projects must be substantially started within a set period or their environmental certificates expire…
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Narwhal lawsuit against RCMP over arrest of journalist, in court Jan 12
In 2021, Amber Bracken, a freelance photojournalist on assignment for the Narwhal, was arrested by the RCMP on Wet’suwet’en territory and held in jail for 3…
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City Beat: A look back at 2025, plus a preview of 2026
Vancouver politics were busy in 2025 and with an October 2026 municipal election approaching, things won't be quieting down any time soon. Redeye collective…
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How narratives about disability influence government policies
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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Nakba exhibit at Canadian Museum of Human Rights to launch in 2026
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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Parental rights movement and the attack on public education in Alberta
As students across Alberta returned to class this fall, families were met with a slate of changes targeting queer and trans kids, ushered in by the United…
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OneBC's documentary Making A Killing fuels residential school denialism
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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Court rules in favour of First Nations challenge of BC mining regime
The Gitxaała & Ehattesaht First Nations have launched a court challenge to BC's free-entry mining regime. In a precedent-setting decision released last week…
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Dec 11 Solar panels on farm lands can increase crop yields
Solar farm projects in Alberta have stalled because of new provincial regulations. Yet some Canadian researchers are saying photovoltaic systems now produce…
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Legal and historical risks of new pipeline to the Northwest coast
As hundreds of First Nations leaders gathered last week in Ottawa for their annual December meeting, the federal-provincial memorandum of understanding for a…
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City Beat: Controversy over Mayor Sim's Filipino Cultural Centre proposal
Next week Vancouver City Council will consider Mayor Ken Sim’s controversial proposal to fast-track a new Filipino Cultural Centre without community…
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Canada needs a generational investment in non-market and public housing
Forty progressive economists and policy experts gathered in Ottawa in September for an economic summit called Elbows Up: A Practical Program for Canadian…
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Calls for grizzly hunt in wake of attack based on poor science
In the wake of a serious grizzly bear attack on schoolchildren near Bella Coola, there are calls from some quarters for the province to revisit its ban on the…
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Resisting Danielle Smith's attack on trans youth in Alberta
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has introduced Bill 9 - a piece of legislation that aims to infringe on the rights of trans people. Smith has used the…
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Indigenous identity policies a dangerous case of institutional overreach
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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British Columbia charging industry bargain basement rates for water
British Columbia has one of the lowest industrial water rates in Canada. Meanwhile, water advocates say communities across the province are struggling to fund…
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Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear bring War on Cars podcast to Vancouver
On November 8, Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear of The War on Cars podcast were in Vancouver as guests of Vision Zero Vancouver to talk about their new book and…
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Exposing the US loophole: How Canadian arms and explosives reach Israel
Despite the purported ceasefire in Gaza, Israeli airstrikes continue to kill Palestinians. Canada has long downplayed its role in arming Israel, claiming it…
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City Beat: Vancouver mayor Ken Sim's "zero-means-zero" budget
In today’s episode, Ian Mass with City Beat for Nov 22. Vancouver City Council has just gone through a gruelling 4-day public process focused on the 2026 city…
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Closer to the brink: The state of BC forests in 2025
Five years after provincial government commitments to protect old growth, the new report commissioned by Sierra Club BC concludes that the ecological integrity…
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Report exposes racism and genocide denial at Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs
On Oct 21, the Jewish Faculty Network published The CIJA Report documenting what the six authors say is a pattern of anti-Palestinian racism and genocide…
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From Paris to New Delhi, women leaders are making cities more liveable
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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Indigenous Rights in One Minute: A guide to advancing reconciliation
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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Call to recognize Athabaska River Basin as a legal person
The Jackpine Mine is an open-pit tar sands project north of Fort McMurray. Last year, the operator applied for a renewal of its licence to operate the mine for…
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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 joins Ian…
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Cooperative provides safe, equitable, fairly-paid work for cleaners
When you think of a cleaning company, you probably imagine a place where employees work under a manager, decisions are made from the top down, and profits go…
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Tenants need protection from bad-faith evictions, blanket pet bans
British Columbia is in a housing crisis, and 1.6 million renters are bearing the brunt of it. The Residential Tenancy Act and Residential Tenancy Branch policy…
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Anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian racism on the rise in Canada
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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The Nest: New film reveals lost feminist histories in old Winnipeg mansion
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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City Beat: Uplifting the Downtown Eastside to speed gentrification
Plans by Vancouver Mayor Sim and his ABC majority to uplift the Downtown Eastside propose to increase the proportion of market rentals, water down the…