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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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RedeyePrimary Obsessions: A mystery novel by Charles Demers (encore)
A long tradition of the amateur detective exists in the mystery genre. The latest sleuth is Annick Boudreau, a clinical psychologist created by a Vancouver…
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A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency (encore)
It’s 2022, and Canada is not on track to meet our greenhouse gas emissions targets. To do so, we’ll need radical systemic change to how we live and work—and…
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Cheryl Foggo on her documentary film about legendary Black cowboy John Ware (encore)
John Ware is an iconic figure in the history of southern Alberta. He was a Black pioneer and rancher who settled in the province before the turn of the…
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Digital book shares the teachings of Tla'amin elder Elsie Paul (encore)
Born in 1931, Tla’amin elder Elsie Paul was raised by her grandparents on their ancestral territory just north of Powell River on the Sunshine Coast of BC. As…
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Racism and the Black body (encore)
When sociologist Ingrid Waldron started teaching in the School of Nursing at Dalhousie, she says she got a lot of pushback from White student nurses who didn’t…
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Singer songwriter Eliza Gilkyson on her album 2020 (encore)
Eliza Gilkyson describes her album "2020" as a collection of sing-alongs, diatribes, marching songs and love letters to the Earth. We caught up with her in May…
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Women gain full equality under Indian Act after 143 years of discrimination (encore)
Sharon McIvor’s grandmother was a member of the Lower Nicola Band who married a non-Indigenous man. Under Canada’s Indian Act, status was decided on the basis…
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A tribute to Canadian economist and leading socialist intellectual Mel Watkins (encore)
Mel Watkins died in 2020 at age 87. Mel Watkins was a political economist at the University of Toronto, as well as an activist and writer. In the late 1960s…
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Potlatch as Pedagogy: Learning Through Ceremony (encore)
In 1884, the Canadian government banned the Haida potlatch. But Haida elders kept the knowledge of the ceremony alive until the ban was lifted. In 1969, a…
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Precarious and low-paid work a major risk factor during pandemic
Precarious work was a major risk factor during the pandemic, and was implicated in the catastrophe that took place in long-term care. A report released last…
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BC residents in urgent need of public intercity transportation
Northern BC is a territory roughly the size of France, but there is no public transportation system for the 200,000 people who live there. This means each…
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Out-dated traffic laws fail to protect cyclists and pedestrians
Cycling for transportation and recreation is a climate-friendly way to move around your city. It’s affordable and healthy as well as an efficient use of urban…
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New history traces Canada's punitive approach to people who use heroin
Flawed ideas about heroin and people who use it have shaped drug law and policy in Canada for decades. A new illustrated book by Susan Boyd traces the history…
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Major public investment in below-market rental housing could pay for itself
What if BC could massively increase public investment in below-market rental housing and that investment could pay for itself? Alex Hemingway is senior…
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Urgent need to improve access to abortion for women across Canada
The US Supreme Court judge is poised to overturn Roe vs. Wade. In Canada, the landmark abortion rights case is the 1988 Morgentaler ruling, which struck down…
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Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada
Support for the police is grounded in a series of beliefs about our society – that Canadian laws are just, that the police treat everyone equally, and that…
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City Beat: Densification, development and tenant protections
Ian Mass joins us with his final City Beat till council ramps up for the civic election in the fall. On the agenda, densification and the Broadway plan, a…
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San Francisco passes legislation giving tenants right to organize
San Francisco has passed a law that requires landlords to bargain with renters who want to organize. The Veritas Tenants Association, whose members live in…
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Beyond Extinction: Sinixt Resurgence
In 1956, the Canadian government declared the Arrow Lakes Indian Band, people of the Sinixt Nation, to be extinct. This was one in a long line of colonial…
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Committee on Reforming the Police Act fails to address police power
A provincial Special Committee on Reforming the Police Act in BC released its report last week with eleven recommendations that the committee says will lead to…
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Study shows effectiveness of bystander intervention in street harassment
Hollaback! began as a blog to collect stories of street harassment. Now called Right To Be, it has evolved into an organization that fights harassment in all…
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Black Class Action fights systemic racism in Public Service of Canada
In December 2020, a group of Black federal employees filed a proposed class-action lawsuit in the Federal Court of Canada, seeking long-term solutions to…
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Documents confirm Canada's cozy relationship with pharma industry
The pandemic has killed an estimated 18 million people around the world, with many more dying in lower-income countries where vaccination rates remain low…
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Midwest Carbon Express pipeline runs into stiff opposition in Iowa
If it is built, the Midwest Carbon Express will be the world’s largest carbon capture and storage pipeline. It’s being developed by the Iowa-based company…
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City Beat: Apology to Italian community, CCTV cameras, taxes and more
Public safety and violent crime have become hot topics as Vancouver City Council grapples with an ever-expanding police budget. On this week’s council agenda…
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Canada's arms exports to Israel reached new high last year
Earlier this month, Israeli soldiers raided the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, a Muslim holy site in Jerusalem. Soldiers threw teargas and stun grenades as they…
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Physicians raise alarm about classroom materials generated by FortisBC
FortisBC, the largest natural gas distributor in BC, has developed learning resources for schools, marketed as a free K-12 online curriculum developed by…
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No relief for renters in federal budget
While the April 7 budget did include some money for housing coops and non-profit housing, there is little to improve the situation for renters across Canada…
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On hunger strike to save old growth forests in BC
Brent Eichler has been on hunger strike since March 25, calling for a public meeting with Forests Minister Katrine Conroy about the protection of the…
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Hotel workers at Hilton Metrotown mark one year on the picket line
Hotel workers at the Hilton Metrotown in Burnaby are involved in the longest hotel lockout in British Columbia’s history. We speak with Stephanie Fung…
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City Beat: Vancouver's new draft city plan, capital budget and more
It has been 100 years since Vancouver developed a city-wide plan. That plan reserved over 70% of the city for single family residences. A century later…
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Foreign-owned corporations behind Canadian energy and climate policy
The Alberta government’s recent public inquiry into “anti-Alberta energy campaigns” was set up to find out how much money was flowing from US foundations to…
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Urgent need to cancel Ukraine's debt
Ukraine’s total external government debt amounts to $54B. The country is set to pay more than $7B in debt repayments this year alone. Lenders have responded to…
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Ukraine-Russia conflict misinformation dashboard
At the end of February, the Social Media Lab at Ryerson University launched the Ukraine-Russia conflict misinformation dashboard. The dashboard is a website…
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City Beat: Public safety, 2030 Winter Olympics and cultural heritage
Although the municipal elections are not until October 15, Vancouver candidates are positioning themselves in advance of debates on public safety, the 2030…
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Small grocery stores preserve cultural heritage in neighbourhoods
The rapid pace of growth in Vancouver means many of the city’s small restaurants, grocery stores and other neighbourhood spaces are being lost to…
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Why Canada should not buy a new fleet of fighter jets
As the war in the Ukraine rages on, Canada is under increased pressure to re-arm. The Trudeau government response is a plan to buy 88 new fighter jets for an…
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UN condemns mass killing in Saudi Arabia and questions fairness of trials
On March 12, Saudi Arabia executed 81 people, the largest mass execution in the recent history of the country. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human…
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City Beat: Broadway Skytrain to transform Vancouver neighbourhoods
Anyone travelling on West Broadway between Main and Arbutus knows the area is a huge construction zone. The new Broadway Skytrain development, set to be…
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Canada one of few regions in world able to rapidly reduce emissions
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its latest report on Feb 28. The report says that human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and…
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New visa program for Ukrainians welcomed, but raises questions
As the Russian war on Ukraine rages on, Canadian immigration minister Sean Fraser has responded with a new visa program for people fleeing that war. The…
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Halifax releases report on how to defund, disarm, and dismantle the police
In January, a subcommittee of the Halifax Board of the Police Commissioners released a report, which is Canada’s most detailed blueprint to defund, disarm, and…
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Open-pen fish farms continue to threaten wild salmon on BC coast
This will be a critical year for wild salmon as all BC federal licenses for fish farms expiring this June. British Columbia is now the only jurisdiction on the…
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Groundbreaking cookbook Diet for a Small Planet turns 50
Diet for a Small Planet was the first major cookbook to address the environmental impact of meat production. Author Frances Moore Lappé advocated for a…
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Mining and the recognition of Indigenous sovereignty in British Columbia
First Nations in BC are working proactively towards re-establishing sovereignty over their territories in British Columbia. Asserting sovereignty over mining…
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Becoming Vancouver: A History
In his newly released book Becoming Vancouver, Daniel Francis follows the evolution of the city, tracing decades of transformation, immigration and economic…
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Chomsky on China, Canada and the US: Work together or perish together
Noam Chomsky has been an anti-war, anti-capitalist activist for over 60 years and continues to call liberal elites to account for propping up unjust systems…
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TMX to cost more than $21 billion
Tens of thousands of Canadians are asking the federal government to pause any further construction on the TMX pipeline. The Canadian government bought the…
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Ottawa convoy draws on political capital most protests don't have
Criminology Temitope Oriola says that the truckers convoy is a fascinating study in the sociology of law enforcement. Oriola is Associate Professor of…
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Xiomara Castro wins Honduran presidency after 13 years of neoliberalism
At the end of November last year, people in Honduras voted overwhelmingly for the platform of democratic socialism put forward by Xiomara Castro. Her Libre…
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Majority of BCers want oil and gas companies to pay higher royalties
The BC government has released a report on oil and gas royalties from a public consultation in November. The report showed that 77% of survey respondents…
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Haiti Betrayed: How Canada helped to subvert democracy in Haiti
After emerging from years of brutal dictatorship, the Haitian people dreamed of a democracy that would serve the poor and bring an end to impunity. Between…
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City Beat: Tiny homes, Quebec's Bill 21 and more
Eighteen months ago, Vancouver City Council was enthusiastic about the idea of 100 tiny homes for the homeless. This week they heard that 10 shelter beds is…
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Plans to expand garbage incineration in Metro Vancouver a bad idea
British Columbia is ahead of most North American jurisdictions with its composting and recycling programs. However, the Lower Mainland still burns at least 25%…
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Coalition demands justice for cleaning and food service workers at SFU
Cleaning and food service workers at Simon Fraser University say their working conditions are difficult and their pay lags behind counterparts elsewhere…
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Beyond Trump: Threats to U.S. democracy
The storming of the Capitol last year was an unprecedented moment and raised questions about the fragility of democracy in the United States. Christopher Vials…
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Big Oil should help pay to protect Vancouver from climate change
In 2021, communities across the province have found themselves facing unprecedented costs from forest fires, flooding and storm damage. Meanwhile, the…
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French court sets new trial date for Ottawa academic Dr Hassan Diab
Ottawa academic Hassan Diab was extradited to France 8 years ago to face terrorism charges. He spent 3 years in solitary confinement before French magistrates…
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City Beat: First Nations co-management of parks, densification and more
Vancouver City Council had its first meeting of the year this week and started off with a motion that got the attention of affordable housing advocates…
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RCMP special detachment focuses on enforcement of injunctions
In British Columbia, the RCMP has a special detachment called the Community-Industry Response Group, set up to enforce injunctions and arrest land defenders…