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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 that CTV directed journalists not to use the word Palestine and has cultivated a ‘culture of fear’ at the network. We speak with Emma Paling, who investigated the story for the Breach.
Topics: censorship, CTV, coverage, Palestine, Palestinians, Gaza, Israel, network, Breach, war
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Dec 1, 2023
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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 demand a ban on investor ownership of farmland. To find out more, I speak with Rav Singh, youth advisor with the National Farmers Union – Ontario and Hannah Kaya, the NFU’s farm worker organizer.
Topics: farming, agriculture, investor, ownership, speculation, green, belt, NFU, youth
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Dec 1, 2023
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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 Centre for Policy Alternatives of BC. He joins me today to talk about how effective these policies are likely to be and what else needs to be done.
Topics: housing, municipal, provincial, federal, BC, homelessness, policies, economics, initiatives, CCPA
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Nov 26, 2023
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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 over the past weeks, and particularly the unfolding genocide in Gaza. Activists in Canada have responded by blockading weapons facilities in Ontario and Quebec and informing Canadians about the flow of weapons from Canada to Israel. We talk with Rachel Small, an organizer with World Beyond War.
Topics: arms, trade, treaty, Israel, Canada, Palestine, genocide, weapons, Gaza, Scotiabank
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Nov 26, 2023
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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 preserve the planet for human habitation. However, trio of academics say that effective climate action requires us to stop viewing our efforts as a sacrifice. We speak with Daniel Steel, associate professor in the School of Population and Public Health at University of British Columbia.
Topics: climate, crisis, emergency, fossil, fuels, sacrifice, mitigation, action
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Nov 26, 2023
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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 Day of Remembrance on November 20, plans for Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and more.
Topics: Vancouver, budget, police, tax, increase, services, transgender, two-spirit, downtown, eastside
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Nov 26, 2023
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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 Day of Remembrance on November 20, plans for Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and more.
Topics: Vancouver, budget, police, tax, increase, services, transgender, two-spirit, downtown, eastside
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Nov 19, 2023
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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 than all other conflicts since 2019. Despite the fact that the vast majority of Gaza’s population are refugees, they are not included in the United Nations international refugee protection regime. Today we speak with Dr. Maissaa Almustafa, Lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. Her research...
Topics: refugees, Palestinians, Palestine, Gaza, West, Bank, Israel, bombardment, forcibly, displaced,...
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Nov 19, 2023
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Temporary Modular Housing currently provides over 750 units of shelter-rate housing across Vancouver. OneCity councillor Christine Boyle brought forward a motion in July to renew or extend the leases for all these sites. Mayor Sim and his ABC party majority unanimously voted against that motion - and the dismantling or demolition of these units is now underway. We speak with Nathan Crompton, a member of the editorial collective for the Mainlander and an organizer with Our Homes Can’t Wait.
Topics: temporary, modular, housing, Vancouver, lease, demolish, homeless, shelter, SROs, work, camp, city,...
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Nov 19, 2023
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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 Medical Association is sponsoring a cross-country conversation about the role of private – read for-profit – health care. We talk with Dr. Saad Ahmed of Canadian Doctors for Medicare about the truth behind the myths of privatization and what it would mean for health care in Canada.
Topics: health, care, private, privatization, Canada, for-profit, doctors, Medicare, CMC, coalition, BC
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Nov 11, 2023
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Affordable housing is on the agenda this week at Vancouver City Council. Council will hear about four different initiatives designed to make housing cheaper and also more equitable, including a bold proposal to increase density in the city’s richest neighbourhood. Ian Mass joins us with his City Beat report.
Topics: City, Beat, density, affordable, housing, arts, culture, rental, parking, environmental, youth,...
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Nov 11, 2023
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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. The BC government is planning on updating regulations that affect these workers. The Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives-BC made a submission to the government, aimed at extending protections and benefits that other workers receive. We speak with Véronique Sioufi, CCPA Researcher for Racial & Socio-economic Equity.
Topics: gig, work, regulations, laws, ride, hail, food, delivery, Uber, Skip, Dishes, CCPA, labour, code,...
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Nov 11, 2023
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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 suppress rallies and speeches that express solidarity with Palestinians. On November 5, the co-organizer of a large rally in Calgary was arrested and charged with disturbing the peace. We speak about the case with Muhannad Ayyash, sociology professor at Mount Royal University and policy analyst at Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy...
Topics: Palestine, Gaza, Israel, protest, ceasefire, Palestinians, anti-Semitism, hate, speech, war,...
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Nov 5, 2023
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From sexual harassment to online bullying and threats of violence, women politicians face far more challenges in public life than their male counterparts. A new research project took a close look at what women, gender minorities and racialized politicians face when they get elected to councils in BC and Alberta. We talk with Nadine Nakagawa, city councillor in New Westminster and one of the lead researchers in the project.
Topics: women, politician, gender, minorities, racialized, harassment, violence, bullying, online,...
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Nov 5, 2023
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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 each year. City of Vancouver vacancy control bylaws designed to protect SROs were quashed by the BC Supreme Court in 2022. On Nov 7, that ruling is being challenged in the BC Court of Appeal. We speak about the case with Wendy Pedersen, director of the Downtown Eastside SRO Collaborative.
Topics: Vancouver, single, room, occupancy, hotels, SRO, rent, vacancy, control, DTES, downtown, eastside,...
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Nov 5, 2023
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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 community input from women and gender-diverse residents. A year later, we talk with Clara Prager about how council is doing on fulfilling their campaign commitments to create a more equitable city for all.
Topics: municipal, campaign, pink, paper, women, gender-diverse, ABC, Green, OneCity, transportation,...
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Oct 29, 2023
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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 concerted propaganda campaign and by the repetition of false news stories and misinformation. To help us understand what is happening, and the impact on Muslim people here in Canada and elsewhere, we’re joined by Dr. Jasmin Zine, professor in sociology and religion and culture at Wilfrid Laurier university.
Topics: islamophobia, Palestinians, war, gaza, racism, Muslim, misinformation, false, news, propaganda
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Oct 29, 2023
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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 about these complaints. Also in today’s City Beat report, Ian discussed the campaign to rebuild the Britannia Community Centre complex, Vancouver’s 2023 homeless count and a whole lot more.
Topics: City, Beat, Britannia, homeless, count, Vancouver, OneCity, complaints, Little, Mountain, traffic,...
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Oct 29, 2023
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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, Kelowna and Tofino were enthusiastic about the move. Thorben Wieditz is with the organization Fairbnb. He says this kind of regulation is an essential first step in ending ghost hotels. I spoke with him a few days before David Eby’s announcement.
Topics: airbnb, fairbnb, short-term, rental, commercial, operators, ghost, hotels, housing, municipalities,...
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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 guarantee that another site will be opened to replace it. Vince Tao is a community organizer with VANDU, the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users. He joins us to talk about what led to the decision to close the site.
Topics: toxic, drug, crisis, overdose, prevention, site, Yaletown, Vancouver, users
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Oct 15, 2023
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A recent ruling by the Ontario Superior Court marks an important acknowledgment in the ongoing battle against systemic Islamophobia. In September, Justice Markus Koehnen recognized that the Muslim Association of Canada faced differential and biased treatment faced during a Canada Revenue Agency audit. However the judge stopped short of intervening in the federal examination. We speak with Nabil Sultan, Communications and Community Engagement Director at the Muslim Association of Canada.
Topics: Muslim, Association, Canada, CRA, audit, bias, discrimination, Islamophobia, Revenue, Agency
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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 Fundamental Nature of Everything” and he will be a featured speaker at the Vancouver Writers Fest this year. We spoke with him about his new book and about the threats posed by the unregulated growth of AI.
Topics: AI, artificial, intelligence, quantum, physics, dangers, regulation, Vancouver, Writers, Fest
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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 occupied West Bank, targeting both civilians and militant actors, and killing and wounding thousands of Palestinians. Leaders in the Trudeau government have expressed full support for Israel and remained silent on the devastating airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, which make no distinction between civilians and combatants. We spoke on October 11...
Topics: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, international, law, war, crimes, Canada, Trudeau, civilians,...
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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 Thelma Young Lutunatabua have produced a new book to support and energize us – it’s called Not Too Late. Rebecca Solnit is in Vancouver for the Writers Fest this month. We speak with her about hope, possibility and the book.
Topics: climate, crisis, emergency, hope, possibility, sustainable, energy, warming, science
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Oct 6, 2023
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The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has just released its 24th alternative federal budget. The CCPA describe their budget as an exercise in expanding our collective imagination of what is possible, to instill hope in hard times, and to make crystal clear alternatives to the status quo. We talk with David Macdonald, senior economist for the CCPA.
Topics: alternative, federal, budget, CCPA, housing, healthcare, agriculture, labour. climate, crisis
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Oct 5, 2023
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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 use contributed significantly to these wildfires. Lawyers at West Coast Environmental Law, representing the Sue Big Oil campaign, say the WWA study bolsters the case for a class action lawsuit against global fossil fuel companies by BC communities for their fair share of climate damages. We’re joined by Andrew Gage, staff lawyer at West...
Topics: climate, crisis, Sue, Big, Oil, lawsuit, damages, wildfires, floods, fossil, fuel, companies,...
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Oct 1, 2023
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The 1 Million March 4 Children on September 20 is part of a widespread and growing “parental rights” movement targeting inclusive public education. Calgary academics Corinne Mason and Leah Hamilton point out that this isn’t simply a group of united parents concerned about their children’s education. Mason and Hamilton offer a brief history of the origins of the parental rights movement and some of its key organizers. Corinne Mason is Associate Professor Women's and Gender Studies, Leah...
Topics: trans, right, anti-trans, parental, rights, children, public, education, gender, non-binary, 2SLGBTQ
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For generations, the suffering of residential school Survivors has radiated outward, impacting Indigenous families and communities. In her new documentary Waapake (Tomorrow), filmmaker Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin examines the corrosive impact of residential schools on Survivors, and their children, siblings and parents.
Topics: residential, school, reconciliation, truth, orange, shirt, survivors, intergenerational, trauma
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Ian Mass joins us to talk about several housing-related motions before Council next week, including a proposal for high-end apartment and office buildings in Vancouver’s long-protected view corridors. Plus a return of the cops in schools program and a thumbs-down to the revitalization of Britannia Community Centre in East Vancouver.
Topics: schools, police, development, housing, Britannia, Vancouver, municipal
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Indigenous people represent only 5% of the population in Canada, but they make up a third of the prison population. Jennifer Duncan is a Dene lawyer and she was in Geneva last month spearheading efforts to bring international awareness to Canada’s ongoing mass incarceration of Indigenous people.
Topics: prison, poverty, colonization, UN, Indigenous, incarceration, Canada
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Sep 23, 2023
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The UN special rapporteur on slavery paid an official visit to Canada in late August to assess the government’s efforts to prevent and address contemporary forms of slavery. After spending two weeks in Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver and two other Canadian cities, Tomoya Obokata identified a number of groups in Canada as vulnerable to slavery, including migrant workers brought in through the Temporary Foreign Workers Programme. We talk with Syed Hussan of Migrant Workers Alliance for Change.
Topics: migrant, workers, slavery, debt, bondage, regularization, status, undocumented, temporary, foreign
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Sep 23, 2023
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This is a critical moment for forests in British Columbia. Three years have passed since the B.C. government promised to work with First Nations to implement a paradigm-shift in forest stewardship, as laid out in the Old Growth Strategic Review. Yet the B.C. government has made little progress on their promises. On September 28, communities across the province are coming together in a day of action to protect the last remaining old growth in BC. I talk with Jens Wieting, Senior Forest and...
Topics: logging, old, growth, forests, climate, crisis, clearcut, First, Nations, strategic, review, fires,...
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This season, retired teacher and former MLA David Chudnovsky joins our regular City Beat reporter Ian Mass. Today they talk about the 2024 Vancouver budget, Vancouver School Board’s sale of school properties and other major issues that Vancouver Council will face this fall and winter.
Topics: City, Beat, budget, sale, schools, VSB, Vancouver, upzoning, overdose, prevention, site, closure
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A new report published last month by the office of the Representative for Children and Youth seeks to understand why hundreds of children are disappearing from the child welfare system in BC. It was written in response to the hundreds of reports coming into the Office of children missing from care, many of whom go on to experience critical injury or die. We speak with Dr. Jennifer Charlesworth is Representative for Children and Youth.
Topics: children, youth, care, missing, fleeing, injury, death, welfare, system, Indigenous
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A new research review examines how people with long Covid have struggled to get information about their condition. It says patients’ experiences seeking information about their symptoms can be described as frustrating, uncertain, and complex. We speak with the lead researcher of the study, Simran Purewal, who is at the Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics, and Society at Simon Fraser University and senior scientist Kaylee Byers, also from PIPPs.
Topics: long, Covid, patients, sufferers, symptoms, doctors, medical, system, information, care, health,...
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May 1, 2023
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The last Vancouver City Council approved a plan to make Vancouver the most accessible city in the world. The new ABC majority had “best in the world” as one of their campaign promises too and wanted a quick update on the planning early on in their term. That update report was before Council this week. Redeye collective member, Ian Mass joins Lorraine Chisholm with his City Beat report to talk about the accessibility plan, along with safety for pedestrians, ongoing conflict at the School...
Topics: City, Beat, accessibility, pedestrian, safety, port, expansion, school, closures, taxes, business
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Apr 30, 2023
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The rise of the gig economy using platforms like Uber and Skip the Dishes has led to a steep rise in the prevalence of precarious work. Precarious work is not new but we don’t know just how widespread a problem it has become because Stats Canada does not collect data on it. The pilot BC Precarity survey conducted by Iglika Ivanova and Kendra Strauss aims to fill that gap. We speak with Iglika Ivanova to find out what the survey revealed.
Topics: precarious, work, standard, jobs, on-call, benefits, multiple, gig, economy, low-paid, secure,...
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360 Riot Walk is an immersive, self-guided 360 ° video walking tour of the 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver. Now, a book based on the walk adds new dimensions to our understanding of those events. The book will be launched June 30 at the Sun Yat Sen Gardens in Chinatown. We’re joined by Henry Tsang, artistic director of the tour and author of the book.
Topics: White, Riot, Anti-Asian, racism, history, Vancouver, Chinatown, walking, tour, documentary, art,...
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Academics from universities across Canada have issued an open letter calling for an end to the eviction of encampments in Vancouver. The letter is in response to the wholesale removal of tents along Hastings Street that took place in the first week of April. It’s addressed to the mayor and council, union and health officials plus members of the provincial government. We talk with Jeff Masuda, Professor in the School of Public Health and Social Policy at the University of Victoria.
Topics: unhoused, homeless, eviction, decampment, removal, tent, city, shelters, housing, crisis, police,...
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Hassan Diab has been entangled in a 15-year legal battle against claims he is a terrorist. Last week, the Assize Court in Paris found Dr. Diab guilty of perpetrating a 1980 bomb attack outside a synagogue in Paris. In a new trial, the French court sentenced the Ottawa academic to life in prison, despite the fact that both the Canadian and French justice systems have already found a lack of credible evidence. We speak with Alex Neve, senior fellow in the Graduate School of Public and...
Topics: Hassan, Diab, conviction, wrongful, Canadian, bomb, attack, Paris, French, court, evidence,...
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Apr 15, 2023
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Eight years ago multidisciplinary artist Mark Timmings and digital media artist Brady Marks joined forces to create the Wetland Project, a soundscape focusing on a marsh beside Mark Timmings’ home on Saturna Island. Since then, Brady and Mark have produced an award-winning book about the project, and, on Earth Day this year, the sounds of the ṮEḴTEḴSEN marsh will be heard as far away as Paris. Brady Marks and Mark Timmings join us today to talk about the project and its ongoing...
Topics: wetland, project, sound, art, soundscape, marsh, Saturna, radio, 24-hour, broadcast, exhibition,...
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Apr 15, 2023
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C-IRG is a specially trained section of the RCMP, established in 2017, who are responsible for intervening in conflicts between local communities and industry in British Columbia. By 2022, the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP had received over 500 complaints in areas where C-IRG is active. Now the CRCC has announced a systemic review of the force, but a new group says C-IRG is not reformable and should be abolished. We speak with front-line activist Molly Murphy and law...
Topics: C-IRG, community, industry, response, group, RCMP, complaints, commission, review, CRCC, police,...
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The Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement came into effect in 2004. Under the agreement, those applying for refugee status in either country at an official border crossing are turned back. On March 24, Justin Trudeau announced that the Safe Third Country Agreement was being expanded to apply to the entire Canada-US border, including unofficial crossings. Immigration lawyer Zool Suleman joins us to talk about the impact of this expansion.
Topics: migrants, refugee, unofficial, border, crossing, STCA, United, States, Canada, immigration,...
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Vancouver City Council met this week to consider the recent clearing of the Downtown Eastside tent city on Hastings Street, the sale of wine in grocery stores, a new climate change initiative and the possible sale of an elementary school on the West Side. Redeye Collective member Ian Mass joins us with his City Beat report.
Topics: tent, city, decampment, poverty, homeless, unhoused, housing, removal, climate, change, school,...
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Apr 1, 2023
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Leading privacy, technology and civil liberties experts are urging Canadian Members of Parliament to vote against the federal government’s proposed Artificial Intelligence and Data Act which would regulate AI. Signatories to an open letter say the proposed legislation is flawed beyond repair. We speak with Tim McSorley, national coordinator of International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group.
Topics: artificial, intelligence, AI, data, privacy, technology, civil, liberties, federal, AIDA,...
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Apr 1, 2023
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Involuntary treatment is currently allowed under B.C.'s Mental Health if a doctor deems it necessary for a person’s health and safety, as well as the safety of others. However, Premier David Eby is proposing to expand the system to cover people who overdose. Last week, Pivot Legal Society released a position paper responding to this move and calling for the elimination of involuntary treatment. Tyson Singh Kelsall is a social worker in the Downtown Eastside and PhD Student at SFU's...
Topics: overdose, drugs, toxic, supply, safe, involuntary, treatment, mental, health, hospital, police,...
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Apr 1, 2023
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Special rapporteur David Johnston has been tasked with assessing the extent and impact of foreign interference in Canada’s electoral processes. On March 21, academics and activists across Canada penned an open letter of caution to Johnson, warning that discussions of foreign interference and national security can quickly become toxic. We speak with John Price , professor emeritus of the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria and member of the Canada-China Focus Advisory Group.
Topics: China, foreign, interference, elections, Canada, rapporteur, special, national, security, racism,...
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Mar 25, 2023
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In the early days of the pandemic, feminist organizations around the world called for a recovery that would respond to immediate needs and advance structural reform, ensuring a gender-just recovery for everyone. A new report takes stock of Canada’s response to the pandemic using a gender lens. A new report compares the response of the federal government with similar governments internationally, and looks at how different provinces addressed the crisis. We speak with author Katherine Scott,...
Topics: pandemic, response, gender, lens, feminist, just, recovery, crisis, violence, poverty, policy,...
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Mar 25, 2023
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Ian Mass joins us with his City Beat report for March 25 to talk about bear spray, ornamental water fountains, parks and farm land becoming industrial lands, the 2022 Vancouver municipal election and the Broadway plan.
Topics: City, Beat, municipal, affairs, politics, Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond, farmland, parks, fountains,...
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Mar 25, 2023
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For most Canadians, information about the world events comes via the corporate media. And while reporters may strive to be objective, the corporations who employ them often have a different agenda. This fact has a huge impact on the news we get about Israel and Palestine. A new initiative by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East aims to hold the media accountable for bias and inaccuracies in reporting on the region. We speak with Thomas Woodley, president of CJPME.
Topics: Palestine, Palestinians, inaccuracy, bias, corporate, media, lies, apartheid, misrepresentations,...
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Mar 18, 2023
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Two media professionals filed a class action lawsuit against the RCMP this month for allegedly breaching their Charter rights, and the constitutional rights of hundreds of other individuals at Fairy Creek. Lawyers for the suit say it’s believed that most of the almost 1200 people arrested at Fairy Creek were released without charge. We speak with lawyer David Wu and film producer Kristy Morgan, one of the plaintiffs.
Topics: Fairy, Creek, old, growth, forests, RCMP, Charter, constitutional, rights, arrests, charges,...
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Mar 18, 2023
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In March, police announced the bust of a major international labour trafficking ring in Ontario. Earlier this year, some of the workers had contacted the Toronto-based Workers’ Action Centre for help. The organization has been providing support since, alongside the Migrant Workers’ Alliance for Change. Some of the workers had been sent to work on farms, something that concerns the National Farmers Union. The NFU passed a resolution at their convention in November 2022, pledging to support...
Topics: migrant, workers, farm, undocumented, trafficking, status, farmers, NFU, immigration, labour
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Mar 11, 2023
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At the beginning of March, the annual wild salmon juvenile out-migration begins. At this moment in Clayoquot Sound, as the young fish head out to sea, they are under threat from a fish farm operated in their waters by the global corporation, Cermaq. There has been a long fight to close down offshore fish farms in BC, and recently there has been some success in closing them down. But the fight is not over, and the continued existence of wild salmon is at stake. We speak with Dan Lewis of...
Topics: fish, farms, offshore, ocean, salmon, wild, Cermaq, pollution, migration, industry, sea, lice
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Mar 11, 2023
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Niall McNeil is an accomplished artist, a lifelong performer and a person with Down syndrome. Marie Clements is a renowned Canadian writer, director and producer. Niall and Marie collaborated on the new NFB documentary Lay Down Your Heart. The film is about Niall McNeil and his family and friends. Lay Down Your Heart airs at the inaugural Down Syndrome Film Festival on March 18 in Burnaby, BC. We spoke with Niall and Marie in early March.
Topics: artist, performer, family, chosen, theatre, actor, creativity, NFB, Down, Syndrome, documentary,...
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Mar 11, 2023
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The polluters must pay. That’s the message of a new campaign to hold the fossil fuel industry to account for the mounting costs of the climate crisis. Sue Big Oil was started by West Coast Environmental Law last year, and has since been taken up by a broad coalition of advocacy groups and British Columbians. We speak with David Ravensbergen of the Council of Canadians.
Topics: Sue, Big, Oil, fossil, fuel, industry, climate, costs, crisis, flooding, fires, polluters, class,...
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Mar 11, 2023
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As B.C. continues to ramp up fracking for natural gas, we are seeing an increasing number of studies describing human health harms to those living close to this industry. Dr. Margaret McGregor is a family physician, health policy researcher and clinical associate professor with the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia. She joins us today to talk about fracking and health.
Topics: fracking, health, research, mortality, birth, defects, preterm, pregnancy, gas, oil, industry,...
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Mar 4, 2023
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Mar 4, 2023
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Ian Mass joins us with his City Beat report to talk about Vancouver city council debating a staff report proposing a 9.7% tax increase, an announcement that Vancouver is selling non-market housing sites back to a developer and how Burnaby wants to convert part of a park for industrial use.
Topics: property, tax, budget, non-market, housing, developers, park, Burnaby, industrial, ABC, council,...
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Mar 4, 2023
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BC’s first budget under Premier David Eby included substantial funding increases in a number of areas that will benefit British Columbians. But following a series of announcements on biodiversity, old growth, and the environment in Eby’s first months, all eyes were on the budget to match talk with money. The result was mixed, but fell short in many areas for changing course on fossil fuels and the environment, and in protecting lands, waters, and species. We speak with Torrance Coste,...
Topics: BC, budget, biodiversity, old, growth, environment, species, risk, fossil, fuels, water,...
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Mar 4, 2023
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BC’s first budget under Premier David Eby was released on Tuesday. It includes funding increases in housing, health care, income supports and cost of living tax credits, and allocates a record level of investment towards capital infrastructure. To discuss both the new spending and what’s missing from the budget, I’m joined by Alex Hemingway, senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives BC Office.
Topics: BC, budget, housing, health, care, tax, credits, income, supports, toxic, drug, emergency, rent,...
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Feb 25, 2023
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An art exhibition in Grand Forks last summer showed gallery visitors images of Mexican temporary farm workers that don’t fit the stereotype. The men were in blue jeans, with bare torsos and holding and wearing objects that can best be described as regalia. The objects are the work of Rocio Graham, a Mexican-Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Sinixt and Syilx territory, also known as Christina Lake, BC. Rocio Graham joins me to talk about how the exhibition came about and what she...
Topics: art, temporary, farm, workers, Mexican, regalia, spiritual, sacred, ritual, multidisciplinary,...
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Feb 25, 2023
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Feb 25, 2023
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Most people have the sense that health care in Canada is in crisis. Health care funding and responsibility is kicked around like a political football. Most recently, the federal-provincial health care deal put 48 billion dollars worth of new money on the table over the next 10 years. Yet the deal requires provinces to spend just 58 cents out of every new dollar on actual new health care programs while leaving the rest with no strings attached. We speak about the new deal and the crisis in...
Topics: health, care, policy, federal, provincial, funding, bilateral, deal, primary, mental, national,...
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Feb 17, 2023
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Ben Parfitt says that the pending closure of a pulp mill in Prince George and the loss of 300 high-paying jobs in the community is just the beginning of what promises to be a new and painful chapter in the province’s beleaguered forest industry. Ben Parfitt is a resource policy analyst with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Topics: forest, industry, pulp, paper, mill, closures, wood, pellet, subsidies, jobs, logging, timber,...
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Feb 17, 2023
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Vancouver City planners see their missing middle housing proposals as an important opportunity to fulfil ABC Vancouver’s housing promises. Abundant Housing Vancouver calls the proposals “an extraordinary disappointment … the smallest possible increment of change…”. We speak with Peter Waldkirch of Abundant Housing Vancouver, a non-partisan group of housing advocates.
Topics: housing, Vancouver, rental, density, single, family, missing, middle, apartment, building,...
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Feb 17, 2023
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Nicole Chan was a police officer employed by the Vancouver Police Department. She was 30 years old when she died by suicide in 2019. At the time of her death she had been on leave, awaiting the conclusion of an investigation into her complaint about fellow officers. Meenakshi Mannoe of Pivot Legal Society says the coroner’s inquest into Chan’s death puts a spotlight on the VPD, emergency psychiatric services in the city and the inadequate services available to survivors of sexualized...
Topics: BC, VPD, policing, sexual, violence, abuse, sexualized, survivors, culture, institutional,...
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Feb 11, 2023
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Starting January 31, the province of BC decriminalized the personal possession of certain types and amounts of drugs. But the policy does not cover some commonly used controlled substances and the amounts permitted are too small to have an impact, according to advocates and drug users. Pivot Legal and VANDU have collaborated on a Know Your Rights card to help people figure out if they are protected by the policy. I speak with Caitlin Shane, staff lawyer at Pivot Legal Society.
Topics: BC, controlled, substances, drugs, opioids, cocaine, decriminalization, possession
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Feb 11, 2023
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Despite the climate crisis, 80% of new vehicles sold in Canada in the last two years were SUVs and pickup trucks, up from 55% a decade ago. A research team at SFU says the Canadian obsession with SUVs is seriously disrupting our climate goals. We speak with Zoe Long from the Sustainable Transportation Action Research Team.
Topics: SUV, pickup, truck, climate, goals, sustainable, transportation, vehicles, gas, Canada, minivans,...
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Feb 11, 2023
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Colonialism and systemic racism are embedded in Vancouver’s bylaws. A motion before Vancouver Council wants to take a deep dive into these bylaws using an equity lens. Council will also consider a climate justice charter written by people with lived experiences of systemic inequities. Ian Mass joins us with this week’s episode of City Beat.
Topics: systemic, racism, colonialism, bylaws, equity, lens, climate, justice, housing, missing, middle
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Feb 5, 2023
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We are probably all familiar with the letter-writing campaigns of Amnesty International. Now Amnesty Canada has a new podcast: Rights Back at You. The podcast aims to unravel the Canada you think you know and challenge the systems that hold back human rights. The podcast launched February 1 with an episode on facial recognition and policing protest. We talk with the host of Rights Back at You, Daniella Barreto.
Topics: Amnesty, Canada, Rights, human, podcast, facial, recognition, surveillance, police, protest,...
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Feb 5, 2023
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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 festival’s board announced two weeks ago that the 2023 festival had been cancelled and they wanted members to vote to dissolve the society. Following a groundswell of support, the board postponed the AGM and held an open meeting to discuss the festival’s future. Ian Mass was at the meeting and brings us a report.
Topics: Vancouver, Folk, Music, Festival, musicians, event, sponsorship, members, Jericho, supporters,...
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Feb 5, 2023
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In a small Indian village, Ranjit wakes up to find that his 13-year-old daughter has not returned home from a family wedding. A few hours later, she’s found stumbling home. She had been dragged into the woods and raped by three men, all known to the family. Ranjit and his wife go to the police, and the men are arrested. The new documentary, To Kill a Tiger, follows Ranjit’s uphill battle to find justice for his child.
Topics: India, masculinity, violence, women, justice, equality, gender, rights, documentary, NFB, film
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Jan 28, 2023
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There has been a rapid increase in Canadian university tuition fees, creating a barrier for low-income students and widening the gap between privileged students and those who struggle to pay for their studies. Grace Barakat is a sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto. She talks with us about how changes in the cost of tuition are having an impact on Canadian students and their futures.
Topics: tuition, fees, university, college, post-secondary, gap, costs, privilege, students, professional,...
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Jan 28, 2023
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There has been a rapid increase in Canadian university tuition fees, creating a barrier for low-income students and widening the gap between privileged students and those who struggle to pay for their studies. Grace Barakat is a sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto. She talks with us about how changes in the cost of tuition are having an impact on Canadian students and their futures.
Topics: tuition, fees, university, college, post-secondary, gap, costs, privilege, students, professional,...
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Jan 28, 2023
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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 than 2 years, and have met with intense pressure by the industry lobby group, Innovative Medicines Canada. Dr. Joel Lexchin examines the lies and half-truths put out by IMC. Lexchin is Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management at York University.
Topics: IMC, lobby, group, drug, policy, Canada, prices, guidelines, Big, Pharma, pharmaceutical, industry,...
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Jan 28, 2023
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Jan 28, 2023
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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 Vancouver’s Renter Office and increasing the supply of renewable energy.
Topics: City, Beat, Indigenous-led, supportive, housing, Renter, Office, business-friendly, fires, DTES,...
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Jan 22, 2023
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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 people in BC live, work, and study in urban and off-reserve areas, municipalities play a big role in fostering Indigenous relations. Yet, researchers found that almost half of municipalities identified a lack of knowledge and understanding about the calls to action and saw it as a substantial challenge to implement them. Clara Prager is one...
Topics: Truth, Reconciliation, Commission, TRC, calls, action, implementation, municipalities, Indigenous,...
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Jan 22, 2023
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British Columbia is awash in housing announcements and plans. A rental protection fund designed to thwart real estate investment trusts, one stop shopping for provincial housing permits, a refreshed 10-year housing supply plan, a promised BC Builds plan and a brand new housing ministry. Economist Alex Hemingway joins us to help us figure out if all these plans will change the game on housing in BC.
Topics: housing, British, Columbia, Eby, supply, BC, builds, rental, protection, REITs, permits,...
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Jan 22, 2023
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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 18 months of opposition from Congress and the Peruvian elite, Castillo was impeached and jailed after he attempted to rule by emergency poweres. Protests against the arrest have been met with lethal force by the police and the army. As many as 50 people have been killed and over 600 wounded. Meanwhile the Canadian government has sided...
Topics: Peru, Castillo, Boluarte, coup, US, foreign, mining, interests, Canada, Lima, protests, massacre
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Jan 17, 2023
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Vancouver parks board threatens to turbocharge commercialization of parks and city council plans for urgent measures to uplift Chinatown and increased support for renters. Ian Mass has these stories and more in this week’s City Beat.
Topics: Parks, revenue, commercialization, Chinatown, revitalization, City, Beat, renters, climate, energy,...
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Jan 17, 2023
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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 biodiversity worldwide. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework promises key commitments to halt extinction while recognizing Indigenous People’s rights and title. Charlotte Dawe is Conservation and Policy Campaigner with the Wilderness Committee. She was in Montreal and joins us to share her perspective on what was achieved and what...
Topics: biodiversity, Montreal, UN, global. framework, nature, Indigenous, extinction, corporations,...
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Jan 10, 2023
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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 Nova Scotia dentist Brandon Doucet highlights how Canada’s current dental care system is inconsistent with the primary purpose of the Canada Health Act. Doucet is founder of Coalition for Dentalcare. He joins us to talk about the urgent need for full universal dental care.
Topics: dental, care, dentistry, health, universal, children, seniors, disease, prevention, mental, coverage
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Jan 10, 2023
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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, from police and public safety to affordable housing and budget shortfalls.
Topics: City, Beat, Vancouver, municipal, politics, affordable, housing, budget, shortfalls, school,...
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Jan 10, 2023
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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. New data from 2021 shows that top CEOs broke every compensation record on the books that year. We speak with David Macdonald, author of Breakfast of Champions, a new report on CEO pay.
Topics: income, wealth, inequality, CEO, pay, gap, tax, corporate, Canada, stock, option, marginal, rate,...
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Dec 23, 2022
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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 currently allows anyone to get mineral rights just about anywhere in the province. Redeye’s James Mainguy spoke recently with Chief Matthew Hill, hereditary Chief of the Gitxaala First Nation, along with Ruben Tillman, one of the legal team representing the First Nation in BC Supreme Court.
Topics: mineral, tenure, act, BC, British, Columbia, mining, court, challenge, judicial, review, Gitxaala,...
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Dec 23, 2022
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Michael Bueckert is one of three delegates who just returned from a 2-week trip to the occupied Palestinian Territories and Palestinian communities within Israel. The three are all members of different Canadian organizations working to support Palestinian human rights in Israel and the Occupied Territories. Michael Bueckert is Vice-President of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East and author of a report on the trip.
Topics: Occupied, Palestinians, Territories, Israel, human, rights, Canadians, justice, peace, middle,...
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Dec 22, 2022
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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 by 2030. This includes a mandate to work with Indigenous communities to create Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas. We talk about the new commitment with Torrance Coste, National Campaign Director for the Wilderness Committee.
Topics: BC, Eby, protection, Indigenous, Conserved, conservation, biodiversity, ecological, mandate,...
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Dec 13, 2022
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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 targets in 2025 and 2030. The government projects that it will miss the first target by 15% and the second one by at least 35%. Peter McCartney of the Wilderness Committee joins me to talk about the report and the role of LNG in preventing the province from meeting its climate commitments.
Topics: LNG, Liquified, Natural, Gas, climate, commitments, targets, crisis, change, BC, industry,...
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Dec 13, 2022
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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 says these actions alone won’t solve the housing crisis and that what’s needed is a truly progressive approach to the problem. Elliot Rossiter is a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at Douglas College, where he is working on a multi-year project on housing justice supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research...
Topics: housing, crisis, supply, filtering, displacement, renoviction, homelessness, under-housed,...
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Dec 13, 2022
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When the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was presented in Parliament in June 2015, the Commission said the residential school system was a form of cultural genocide. The Canadian government did not take that recognition any further. However, on October 27 this year, a motion calling on the government to recognize Canada's Indian residential schools as genocide passed unanimously in the House of Commons. We speak with Leah Gazan, NDP MP for Winnipeg Centre, who...
Topics: genocide, Indian, residential, schools, truth, reconciliation, commission, cultural, federal,...
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Dec 5, 2022
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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 plasma scheme goes against recommendations from the Krever Commission and would negatively affect voluntary collection efforts. We speak with Dr. Michèle Brill-Edwards, a former senior Health Canada regulator and whistle-blower on drug and blood safety. Dr. Brill-Edwards is a long-time board member of the Canadian Health Coalition.
Topics: blood, safety, services, Canada, Krever, Commission, collection, donors, plasma, privatization,...
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Dec 5, 2022
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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 study commissioned by the Union of BC Indian Chiefs. The report is titled They Sigh or They Give You the Look: Discrimination and Status Card Usage. We speak with Harmony Johnson, sɛƛakəs, from the Tla’amin Nation, who is the lead author of the report.
Topics: discrimination, racism. Indian, status, card, usage, study, survey, BC, media, identity, federal,...
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Dec 5, 2022
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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 just a 5% increase in property taxes. He also talks about the Vancouver School Board vote on bringing back cops in schools, a motion to fast-track non-market housing and a plan to make Vancouver a more age-friendly city.
Topics: City, Beat, budget, 2023, cops, school, body, worn, cameras, taxes, VSB, VPD, police, liaison,...
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Nov 21, 2022
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For far too long, manufacturing giants have exploited Canadian consumers by making their products increasingly expensive and challenging to repair through restrictive warranties, software locks, and restrictions on access to spare parts and manuals, forcing people to replace their products more often. Now there’s a private member’s bill before Parliament to give consumers the ‘right to repair’. We talk about the issue and the bill with Matt Hatfield of Open Media.
Topics: electronics, repair, right, consumer, protection, devices, cell, phones, e-waste, costs, inflation,...
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Nov 20, 2022
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Roger Emsley has been watching and commenting on a Vancouver Port Authority proposal to expand the Roberts Bank coal and container terminal since 2013. Finally, after almost 10 years, the public may have the answer next month. Roger Emsley joins me to talk about the major threats to biodiversity that the project represents and the pending announcement.
Topics: Deltaport, biodiversity, port, Vancouver, expansion, biofilm, orcas, birds, coal, container,...
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Nov 20, 2022
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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, recession…or both” was organized by The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Stanford breaks down the factors that have led to current inflationary crisis and how the Bank of Canada is risking an avoidable and painful recession by just raising interest rates and not looking at the factors that got us here. We bring you his...
Topics: inflation, recession, workers, labour, wages, Bank, Canada, interest, rates, economy, crisis
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Nov 20, 2022
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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 released two days ago and it shows that, for the first time in a decade and a half, the living wage has significantly increased, driven by a spike in the cost of food and shelter. The rate was calculated in 22 communities across BC this year. We talk with Anastasia French, Provincial Manager of Living Wage for Families BC.
Topics: living, wage, minimum, families, rent, food, shelter, inflation, renoviction, BC, Victoria,...
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Nov 20, 2022
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The UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal – COP 15 – starts in December. Countries from around the world are expected to agree on a biodiversity framework. The federal government has called on the provinces and territories to help meet the key goal of the biodiversity conference: to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 and achieve its full recovery by 2050. However, a new independent audit by biologist Jared Hobbs highlights huge legal gaps driving species extinction in B.C. We...
Topics: biodiversity, habitat, destruction, mapping, loss, species, risk, resource, extraction, COP15,...
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Nov 20, 2022
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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 institutions to account for their actions, and halt the widespread financial backing of fossil fuels. We speak about the bill with Bruce Campbell, Senior Fellow at Toronto Metropolitan University's Centre for Free Expression.
Topics: banks, financial, institutions, climate, crisis, fossil, fuels, carbon, targets, COP27
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Nov 13, 2022
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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 investments that Canadians need, according to a recent report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives national office. Here in BC, the extent of the province’s fiscal and economic latitude goes well beyond what is discussed in the national report. We speak with economist Alex Hemingway.
Topics: budget, surplus, deficit, debt, social, programs, climate, crisis, health, child, care, pandemic,...
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Nov 12, 2022
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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 safety objectives. Judge Michel Yergeau ruled that the law allowing for such arbitrary detention can no longer stand. The case was brought by Joseph-Christopher Luamba, a 22 year old black Montrealer, who told the court he prepares to pull over whenever he sees a police cruiser. We speak with Laura Berger, staff lawyer with the Canadian Civil...
Topics: racial, profiling, Quebec, police, racism, prejudice, driving, CCLA, Superior, Court, roadside,...
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Nov 12, 2022
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On November 1st, a provincial committee released their report on the toxic drug supply and overdose crisis. The report contains 37 recommendations looking at everything from BC's proposed decriminalization to treatment beds. In response, nearly 60 organizations and individuals released an open letter saying the report obscures the issue of a poisoned drug supply, and recommends nothing outside of the status quo. We speak with Caitlin Shane of Pivot Legal.
Topics: poisoned, drug, supply, toxic, overdose, crisis, decriminalization, BC, government, provincial,...
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