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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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RedeyeVancouver Folk Music Festival fans challenge decision to cancel event
The 45-year old Vancouver Folk Music Festival is a much-loved event for music fans and an important showcase for musicians. So it came as a shock when the…
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Deregulation of tuition fees sidelines low-income students
There has been a rapid increase in Canadian university tuition fees, creating a barrier for low-income students and widening the gap between privileged…
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Disinformation by pharmaceutical industry undermines drug price reform
Canada’s drug prices are the fourth highest in the developed world. New guidelines aimed at lowering prescription drug prices have been in process for more…
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City Beat: A business-friendly mayor and the end of the Renter Office
Ian Mass joins us with City Beat to talk about Indigenous-led supportive housing, a business-friendly mayor, fires in Downtown Eastside hotels, the demise of…
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How to help BC municipalities implement TRC calls to action
A new report by Women Transforming Cities looks at ways to speed up implementation of TRC calls to action within municipalities. As almost 80% of Indigenous…
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Making sense of Premier Eby's housing plans for BC
British Columbia is awash in housing announcements and plans. A rental protection fund designed to thwart real estate investment trusts, one stop shopping for…
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Canadian government sides with US over removal of Peruvian president
When Pedro Castillo was elected president of Peru in April 2021, he embodied the hopes of millions of rural, Black and Indigenous peoples. Following more than…
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City Beat: Making money from parks, revitalizing Chinatown and more
Vancouver parks board threatens to turbocharge commercialization of parks and city council plans for urgent measures to uplift Chinatown and increased support…
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Biodiversity agreement a critical step despite lack of targets and deadlines
On the final day of the UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal in December, 196 countries reached a new global agreement to stem the stunning loss of…
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Dental care system fails to meet primary goal of Canada Health Act
Millions of Canadians do not have dental coverage, with 1 in 5 children and over half of seniors without access to regular dental care. A forthcoming book by…
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City Beat: A look ahead to the issues in municipal politics in 2023
City Beat reporter Ian Mass joins us with his regular City Beat report to talk about the year ahead in politics for Vancouver City Council and Metro Vancouver…
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CEO pay and compensation packages hit record heights in 2021
By 9:43am on January 3, many of the 100 highest-paid CEOs in Canada had made as much money as the average Canadian worker makes in a year, close to $59,000…
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Gitxaala First Nation challenges BC's Mineral Tenure Act
Late last year, the Gitxaala First Nation filed a judicial review in BC Supreme Court. The First Nation is challenging BC’s Mineral Tenure Act. The act…
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Canadian delegation meets with Palestinians on both sides of Green Line
Michael Bueckert is one of three delegates who just returned from a 2-week trip to the occupied Palestinian Territories and Palestinian communities within…
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Premier Eby commits to protecting 30 per cent of province's land by 2030
The BC government under Premier David Eby has signaled new directions on protecting BC lands. They have committed to protect 30 per cent of the province’s land…
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LNG industry behind BC's failure to meet its climate commitments
On November 23, the BC government released its 2022 Climate Change Accountability Report revealing that the province is on course to miss two near-term climate…
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Building more supply not enough to solve BC's housing crisis
BC Premier David Eby recently introduced new policies to build new homes, reduce rental vacancies and open up strata housing for renters. Dr. Elliot Rossiter…
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House passes motion recognizing residential school system as genocide
When the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was presented in Parliament in June 2015, the Commission said the residential school system…
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Canadian Blood Services sign deal to privatize plasma collection
Canadian Blood Services has signed a 15-year deal with a for-profit plasma corporation to privatize plasma collection in Canada. BloodWatch says the paid…
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They Sigh or They Give You the Look: Discrimination and Status Card Usage
People with Indian Status cards face stigma and discrimination on a daily basis when they show their cards at stores or to officials, according to a landmark…
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City Beat: Budget, police body cameras, fast-track for non-market housing
Ian Mass joins us with his City Beat report, looking ahead to the 2023 budget discussion as council tries to square a 4% increase in the cost of policing with…
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Canadian government considers bill to allow consumers the 'right to repair'
For far too long, manufacturing giants have exploited Canadian consumers by making their products increasingly expensive and challenging to repair through…
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Massive port expansion in Delta threatens biodiversity in region
Roger Emsley has been watching and commenting on a Vancouver Port Authority proposal to expand the Roberts Bank coal and container terminal since 2013…
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Jim Stanford says, Pick your poison: inflation, recession…or both
Jim Stanford is Director of the Centre for Future Work and is one of Canada’s best-known economic commentators. The webinar “Pick your poison: inflation…
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BC needs to step up its game and protect species at risk
The UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal – COP 15 – starts in December. Countries from around the world are expected to agree on a biodiversity framework…
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Living wage calculation reveals big spike in cost of living in BC
The Living Wage is the hourly rate that a family of four needs to live modestly in BC. It has been calculated every year since 2008. This year’s report was…
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Quebec senator aims to stop Canadian banks funding fossil fuels
In March of this year, Québec senator Rosa Galvez tabled Bill S-243, the Climate Aligned Finance Act. Her bill aims to hold governments and financial…
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BC government has enough money to solve many of the challenges ahead
Despite dire predictions that the pandemic would be a big blow to provincial finances, most provinces have enough funds to pay for the important programs and…
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End of random police stops in Quebec a victory against racial profiling
The Superior Court of Quebec has issued a landmark decision, finding that police roadside interceptions are often based on skin colour rather than on road…
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Report on overdose crisis "another disappointment" for people who use drugs
On November 1st, a provincial committee released their report on the toxic drug supply and overdose crisis. The report contains 37 recommendations looking at…
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City Beat: Anti-Semitism, Chinatown, cops, nurses and more
City Beat reporter Ian Mass joins us to talk about the new Vancouver City Council’s first meeting. This includes a motion to adopt the International Holocaust…
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Trans Mountain's full financial picture hidden from Canadians
In February this year, the estimated cost of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project jumped by more than 70%. When the Trans Mountain Corporation…
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City Beat: Vancouver council to discuss IHRA definition of anti-Semitism
One of the first pieces of business the new Vancouver City Council will deal with is a motion from newly re-elected Councillor Sarah Kirby-Yung asking council…
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Ford government uses notwithstanding clause to deny workers rights
Thousands of Ontario education workers hit picket lines on Nov 4 after the Ford government passed Bill 28, using the notwithstanding clause to deny workers the…
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The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World beyond Capitalism
In April 2020, a group of academics in the Netherlands wrote a manifesto for a post-pandemic recovery. It proposed an approach to building economies where…
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Cubans vote in favour of full equality for LGBTQ+ people
In September, Cuban citizens at home and abroad cast their ballots in a referendum on the country’s new Families Code. The Code passed by 67%, expanding legal…
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Vancouver moves forward with UNDRIP strategy
This week Vancouver City Council considered the final report of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Task Force. The report was…
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Kinuavit? What's Your Name?
In 2001, Dr. Norma Dunning applied to the Nunavut Beneficiary program, seeking legal recognition of her status as an Inuk woman. In the application process…
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Unveiling the Chilly Climate: The Suppression of Speech on Palestine
A new report by Independent Jewish Voices documents in detail the reprisals, harassment and intimidation faced by Canadians who engage in scholarship and…
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City Beat: A roundup of election results from around the Lower Mainland
Municipal elections on October 15 changed the political landscape all over the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island. Redeye collective member Ian Mass joins us…
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How growth through the care economy can benefit people and the climate
On September 14, Marjorie Griffin Cohen gave the 2022 Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture at an event organized by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives…
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UK firm claims using BC wood pellets to generate electricity is green
A massive electricity plant in Northeast England that has transitioned from coal to wood pellets claims it is creating green energy. But a protest movement in…
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Urgent need for ban on use of facial recognition technology by police
On October 4, a parliamentary committee released a new report on facial recognition technology and artificial intelligence. The committee stopped short of…
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Gentrification Is Inevitable, And Other Lies
Of all of the processes that are reshaping cities today, gentrification is probably one of the most misunderstood. In her new book, Gentrification is…
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Criminal charges against group recruiting for Israeli military
Two years ago the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute and others started a campaign to oppose Israeli military recruitment in Canada. A parliamentary petition…
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Coastal Gaslink drilling despite lack of consent from Wet'suwet'en
Coastal Gaslink is poised to drill under Wedzin Kwa – The Morice River on the territory of the Wet’suwet’en. Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and their allies…
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City Beat: 2 mayoral debates in Vancouver, 4 races in Lower Mainland
In his City Beat report, Ian Mass covers the municipal races in the four Lower Mainland cities that could elect progressive councils: Surrey, Burnaby, New…
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BC government subsidizing for-profit medical clinics with public dollars
Private surgeries and medical imaging are big business in BC. A new report says that government policies have created a market for these clinics by signing…
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Tsqelmucwilc: The Kamloops Indian Residential School - Resistance and A Reckoning
Tsqelmucwilc is the story of the children who survived the Kamloops Indian Residential School. It is based on the 1988 book Resistance and Renewal, a…
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Municipalities encouraged to do more to support children and youth
An organization that advocates for BC’s children and youth says municipal governments need to take more responsibility for supporting the youngest residents of…
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Canada ignores its own foreign policy experts in UN votes on Palestine
In 2019, the Canadian government voted in favour of a resolution on Palestinian self-determination at the United Nations General Assembly. This was a reversal…
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New NFB doc Unarchived reveals what is erased from official records
In the new feature film Unarchived, co-directors Hayley Gray and Elad Tzadok highlight community archives across British Columbia. Their film reveals just some…
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City Beat: A guide to the parties and issues in the 2022 Vancouver election
Vancouver municipal voters will go to the polls on October 15. Electors will have to sort through 137 candidates to decide who the mayor will be, as well as…
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Hot Pink Paper Campaign identifies key policy asks in municipal election
In the lead-up to Vancouver’s upcoming municipal election on October 15, Women Transforming Cities has launched the Hot Pink Paper Campaign with eight policy…
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Chilean-Canadian author Carmen Rodriguez on her 2021 book, Atacama (encore)
Carmen Rodriguez is an internationally acclaimed Chilean-Canadian author, educator and journalist. Her 2021 novel, Atacama, is set against the backdrop of…
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Vancouver choir director Earle Peach shares his passion for writing songs (encore)
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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New research institute studies the 200 years of slavery in Canada (encore)
In June 2021, NSCAD University in Halifax announced that it was going to set up an institute to study Canadian slavery. The initiative was spearheaded by Dr…
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The Water Defenders tells remarkable story behind El Salvador's ban on metal mining (encore)
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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New book argues for radical transformation of Canadian history in schools (encore)
Canadian history, as many of us learned it in high school, leaves out or distorts the histories of many Canadians who do not fit into the prescribed narrative…
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English country mansions, colonialism and historic slavery (encore)
The National Trust manages historic properties and areas of countryside in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In September 2020, the Trust commissioned a…