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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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RedeyeLabour and policy analysts unite on plan for province-wide public transit
A report released last month by the BC Fed and CCPA-BC says British Columbia’s local transit systems could be united into a province-wide public transit…
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Number of houseless people to rise dramatically without immediate action
Unless governments act to build and save housing that low income people can afford, the number of houseless people in Vancouver is on track to increase by 50%…
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Suing for Silence: Sexual Violence and Defamation
A ground-breaking new book examines and exposes the use of defamation law to silence victims of sexual violence. Author Mandi Gray draws on media reports…
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City Beat: Major social housing project planned for East Vancouver
Next week, Vancouver City Council is going to consider a massive social housing development in East Vancouver. Also, on the agenda, expanding free public Wi-Fi…
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New report shows impact of air pollution on Aamjiwnaang First Nation
Legislation brought in last year will require the government to examine the links between racialization, socio-economic status and environmental risk. That…
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Pharmacare deal a big win for people power over corporate profit
This week Pharmacare legislation was introduced on Parliament Hill. The historic program was announced after months of negotiations with the NDP, who pressed…
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Family stuck in Rafah as father shut out of temporary residency program
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Canada introduced a program to allow Ukrainians to temporarily come to Canada. Two years later, the government has…
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Grassroots transit group takes on crisis in Metro Vancouver bus network
If you live in Metro Vancouver, and get around on transit, you know that the bus network has been seeing unprecedented levels of overcrowding. Even though…
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BC budget stands up to austerity pressures but falls short on big challenges
On Feb 22, the BC government brought in their 2024 budget, the last one before the October provincial election. While Kevin Falcon characterized the projected…
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Analogue Revolution: How feminist media changed the world
We speak with Marusya Bociurkiw, director and writer behind a new documentary tracing the explosion of grassroots feminist media projects from Halifax to…
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City Beat: Council hands lowest-paid contract staff a $4 an hour pay cut
Next week, Vancouver City Council will debate paying a certified living wage to everyone who works for the City, both staff and employees of a contracted…
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Colonial powers intact despite Indigenous child welfare court victory
This month, the Supreme Court dismissed a challenge by Quebec to the Canadian government’s Indigenous child welfare law, reversing a Quebec Court of Appeal…
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Israel's targeted attacks on education, knowledge and culture in Gaza
Since the Israeli bombardment of Gaza began, nearly 400 schools have been damaged or destroyed. Last month, Israel destroyed Gaza’s last standing university…
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Hourly wage needed to live in Metro Vancouver tops $25 amid soaring costs
A new report measures how much a family needed to earn to afford the necessities of life in Metro Vancouver in 2023. It found that the gap between the minimum…
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Danielle Smith launches all-out attack on trans and gender-diverse kids
On February 1, Premier Danielle Smith announced that she plans to implement a slate of policies that target transgender and gender-diverse children and youth…
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Taking social media giants to court over platforms harmful by design
It seems that the more that comes out about the effects of social media on children and youth, the more concerned we should be. Now a law firm that represents…
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Federal court decision an important win in fight to protect migratory birds
In January, the Federal Court agreed with Wilderness Committee and others that the federal government had failed in its duty to protect bird habitat under the…
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City Beat: Vancouver falls far short on goal to hire 100 mental health nurses
Vancouver City Council meets next week to talk about those 100 mental health nurses promised in the last election campaign. It’s also going to look at a…
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Canadian climate scientists continue to face political interference
In the early 2010s, the Harper government’s muzzling of scientists was an issue of urgent concern. Researchers at Dalhousie University have surveyed the…
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International students blamed for Canada's housing and health care woes
A couple of weeks ago, the federal government announced a new cap on the numbers of international students coming to Canada. They’re aiming for a 35% reduction…
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Canada accused of hypocrisy in failing to support South Africa at ICJ
On Friday, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel has to take all measures within its power to prevent acts of genocide. In response, Foreign…
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Vancouver City Council: Issues to watch in 2024
The 2022 Vancouver municipal election brought in new mayor Ken Sim and a majority of ABC councillors to push through Sim’s significant list of campaign…
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Hotel workers left behind as hospitality industry rebounds
BC’s hospitality industry got over a billion dollars in government subsidies during the pandemic. At the same time, the mostly female and racialized workforce…
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Canada falls short in primary care compared to other OECD countries: Study
More and more Canadians are unable to access public primary healthcare, according to a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal at the…
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City Beat: Budget task force suggests radical redefinition of core services
Vancouver mayor Ken Sim’s specially appointed budget task force missed its deadline for the 2024 city budget but - better late than never - the report comes…
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Mining industry sets its sights on BC's critical minerals in new gold rush
British Columbia is preparing a strategy to supply critical used in electric vehicles, solar panels and wind turbines. The Mining Association of BC is…
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Police department budgets rise sharply across Canada despite calls to defund
In 2020, there were widespread calls to defund the police following the police murder of George Floyd. In Canada, a poll from that year found over 50% of…
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BC's new labour standards for gig workers don't go far enough
There are more than 40,000 ride-hail and food-delivery workers in BC. The province brought in new proposed labour standards in November but Véronique Sioufi…
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Calls for inclusion of caste-based discrimination in BC human rights code
Municipalities and the labour movement are among those calling for British Columbia to include caste-based discrimination in its human rights legislation…
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Supreme Court suspends BC's drug decriminalization rollbacks
On December 29, the BC Supreme Court granted a temporary injunction to the Harm Reduction Nurses Association, putting BC’s Bill 34 on hold for 3 months. The…
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What the COP 28 agreement means for BC and Canada
On December 12, COP 28 closed with an agreement that the UN heralded as the “beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era. At the meeting in Dubai, world…
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City Beat: Mayor Ken Sim moves to scrap Vancouver's Parks Board
In City Beat this week, Ian Mass tells us about the stunning move to abolish Vancouver’s Parks Board, Vancouver’s 2024 budget which includes a climate…
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British Columbians invited to share hopes and dreams for public education
Education and public schools are often a hot button issue. Parents, teachers and governments sometimes have criticisms about our schools. But most people agree…
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Brand-new independent media platform features 20 Canadian publishers
It’s gotten a lot harder to find solid, progressive journalism in the face of social media bans on Canadian news. But there is some good news! A brand-new…
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CTV distorts the truth about Israel's violence in Gaza, say journalists
The independent Canadian media outlet The Breach published a story last week about the suppression of critical coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza. They report…
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National Farmers Union calls for ban on investor ownership of farmland
The National Farmers Union’s held their annual conference in Ottawa last month. The day before the conference began, NFU members gathered on Parliament Hill to…
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So many housing initiatives, so little progress on affordable housing
Recently, there has been a raft of affordable housing initiatives coming from all levels of government. Alex Hemingway is a senior economist from the Canadian…
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Blockades highlight Canada's $20 million arms trade with Israel
More than 30 Palestinian trade unions have issued a united call to stop arming Israel. This call comes in light of Israel’s intensified assault on Palestinians…
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Sacrifice is the wrong framing to encourage action on climate
As the climate emergency deepens, we hear repeatedly that the solution involves sacrifice. Fossil fuels, travel, meat - all things we need to give up to…
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City Beat: Record increase in funding for police in Vancouver's 2024 budget
On City Beat with Ian Mass this week, a draft of Vancouver’s 2024 budget with a recommended property tax increase of 7.6%, a motion supporting the Transgender…
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Palestinian refugees urgently need to be included in UN protection regime
The Gaza Strip is now a graveyard for thousands of children. UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, says that more children have now been killed in Gaza…
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Vancouver City Council votes to dismantle temporary modular housing
Temporary Modular Housing currently provides over 750 units of shelter-rate housing across Vancouver. OneCity councillor Christine Boyle brought forward a…
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Debunking the myths about for-profit health care
This week, the BC Health Coalition is in Vancouver talking about the urgent need for reform and innovation in public health care. Meanwhile the Canadian…
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City Beat: Opening up Vancouver's wealthiest neighbourhood to affordable housing
Affordable housing is on the agenda this week at Vancouver City Council. Council will hear about four different initiatives designed to make housing cheaper…
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BC must extend full labour code protections to workers in the gig economy
Over a quarter of a million Canadian workers now participate to varying degrees in app-based gig work. Most of these are ride hail and food delivery workers…
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Police arrest organizer of large pro-Palestinian rally in Calgary
As the bombardment of Gaza continues, thousands of Canadians are calling for a ceasefire. These protests are being met with a concerted international effort to…
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Municipal councils not safe workplace for women and gender minorities
From sexual harassment to online bullying and threats of violence, women politicians face far more challenges in public life than their male counterparts. A…
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Appeal to protect tenants in SROs goes to court Nov 7
In Vancouver, single room occupancy hotels are often a last resort before homelessness, but rising rents mean that many low-income residents lose their housing…
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Tracking Vancouver City Council's record on equity promises
In the lead-up to last year’s municipal election, Women Transforming Cities launched the Hot Pink Paper Campaign with eight policy asks based on months of…
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How disinformation foments anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia
As attacks continue on Palestinian people in Gaza, Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism is on the rise. This hatred of Muslim people is fomented by a…
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City Beat: Campaign to rebuild Britannia, 2023 homeless count and more
Mayor Ken Sim has targeted OneCity councillor Christine Boyle with two code-of-conduct complaints and investigations in the last six months. Ian Mass talks…
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Municipalities across BC applaud new registry for Airbnb owners
On Oct 26, BC brought in new legislation to help municipalities regulate short-term rentals on sites like Airbnb. The mayors of cities as diverse as Victoria…
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Yaletown to lose overdose prevention site in midst of toxic drug crisis
Despite record high drug-poisoning deaths in Yaletown, the city of Vancouver is closing an overdose prevention site on Seymour Street. So far, there is no…
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Rebecca Solnit on her new book: It's Not Too Late
Whether you’ve been in the fight against climate change for decades, or are a newcomer, the struggle can feel overwhelming in so many ways. Rebecca Solnit and…
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Judge rules CRA audit of Muslim charity biased but fails to stop it
A recent ruling by the Ontario Superior Court marks an important acknowledgment in the ongoing battle against systemic Islamophobia. In September, Justice…
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Jérémie Harris on quantum physics and the need to regulate AI
Jérémie Harris is a former physicist, an AI safety expert and a startup founder. He’s the author of “Quantum Physics Made Me Do It: A Simple Guide to the…
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Canada silent on Israeli bombing of civilian targets in Gaza
Following a brutal attack on Israeli citizens by Hamas for forces, Israel has retaliated with a total siege of Gaza and a bombing campaign of Gaza and the…
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Alternative budget aims to instill hope, provide new vision to status quo
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has just released its 24th alternative federal budget. The CCPA describe their budget as an exercise in expanding…
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New weather study bolsters case for class action lawsuit against Big Oil
This past spring, wildfires burned over 13 million hectares in Quebec. A new study by World Weather Attribution confirms that climate change and fossil fuel…
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Unpacking the origins of the anti-trans movement in Canada
The 1 Million March 4 Children on September 20 is part of a widespread and growing “parental rights” movement targeting inclusive public education. Calgary…