On the pod! We speak with Jason Toney, one of the editors of a new book on the Canadian media’s complicity in covering up the unfolding genocide in Gaza. @breachmedia.ca @cjpme.org @unrigged.bsky.social tiny.cc/oeys001

Pod Drop! In City Beat this week, Redeye collective member Ian Mass talks about Stanley Park, port traffic, taxing the rich and lots more. tiny.cc/nqws001. #CityBeat #vanPoli

We kick off our new season in two minutes! Please join us at 100.5 FM or coopradio.org

Saturday | 11:15 PT Dr. Les Jacobs on the individual and collective harms of Indigenous consumer racial profiling. A report was filed with the BC Human Rights Tribunal in advance of hearing on a case of discrimination against 2 Heiltsuk members. @ubcic.bsky.social @bccla.bsky.social

Saturday | 10:30 PT @bcpolicy.bsky.social Racial Equity Researcher @verosioufi.bsky.social joins us to talk about the historic unionizing success for Amazon workers in Delta, and Uber workers in Victoria. What helped and hinders organizing in BC @bcfed.bsky.social @ufcwcanada.bsky.social @unifor.org

Saturday | 10:50 PT In City Beat this week, Redeye collective member Ian Mass talks about Stanley Park, port traffic, taxing the rich and lots more. #CityBeat #vanpoli

Saturday | 10:05 PT We speak with Jason Toney, one of the editors of a new book on the Canadian media’s complicity in covering up the unfolding genocide in Gaza. @breachmedia.ca @cjpme.org @unrigged.bsky.social

There is a petition you can sign to support an east-west electricity. @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social dsfdn.org/PetitionToBu...

ICYMI 24/25 Season Highlights: Following union certification and an impending first contract in Laval, Amazon is shuttering 7 facilities in Quebec and laying off nearly 2000 workers. Adam DK King brings us context and analysis for the worker struggle ahead. <from Feb 2025> tiny.cc/fxps001

We're back in action! Redeye kicks off the 2025-26 season Saturday Sept 20 at 10 AM - 12 PM at coopradio.org 100.5 FM. Please join us!

We're back ON AIR Saturday at 10! Till then 24/25 Season Highlights: We speak with Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood about the case for an east-west electricity grid, not a new oil pipeline. @hadrianmk.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca @stand.earth @sierraclubbc.bsky.social <from Feb 2025> tiny.cc/ixps001

2024/25 Season Highlights: The US & Canada have seen increasing attacks on the rights of transgender people. SFU prof Dr. Travers helps us understand how it’s affecting trans people + families. @drbaseball.bsky.social @momentumcanada.net @pflagcanada.bsky.social <from Feb 2025> tiny.cc/pwps001

We're back live on Saturday at 10 AM! For now... Pod drop 2024/25 Season Highlights: Tim Kenyon joins us to discuss what’s behind Trump’s endless stream of bullshit and how it fits into a pattern of authoritarian political speech. @theconversationca.bsky.social <from Mar 2025> tiny.cc/ewps001

Pod drop 2024/25 Season Highlights: We talk with Darrin Qualman of the NFU about plans to switch global jet fuel to agricultural feedstocks and the risks this poses to soil health and farmland. >from Oct '24 @sierraclubbc.bsky.social @sierraclubcanada.bsky.social @350org.bsky.social tiny.cc/ln8r001

Pod drop 2024/25 Season Highlights: Dr. Danyaal Raza with essential context and insights on long-awaited Canada Health Act interpretation letter regarding coverage of basic healthcare by non-physician providers. from Jan 2025 tiny.cc/yzur001 @danyaalraza.com @cdndrsformedicare.bsky.social

More than ever, independent media needs your support. Here's an easy way to do that. 50/50 raffle! For Vancouver Coop Radio! CFRO 100.5 FM Get your tickets here, and know you are doing good! coopradio.rafflenexus.com

More than ever, independent media needs your support. Here's an easy way to do that. 50/50 raffle! For Vancouver Coop Radio! CFRO 100.5 FM Get your tickets here, and know you are doing good! coopradio.rafflenexus.com

This past week, 4 research school research teams have shared evidence - from historical documents to exhumation - confirming additional deaths of children at residential schools across the country. IRS denialists will no doubt downplay results, but they are truly heartbreaking.

2024/25 Season Highlights: Frank Deer on the final report by Kimberley Murray the Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools <from Nov 2024> @UBCIC.bsky.social ‪@seancarleton.bsky.social‬ tiny.cc/fn8r001

'24-25 highlights: VPD and RCMP want to ramp up the use of body-worn cameras. Chris Schneider, author of "Policing and Social Media: Social Control in an Era of Digital Media" says body-worn cameras are unlikely to increase public trust and police accountability. <from Jan 2025> tiny.cc/rkap001

Pod drop 2024/25 Season Highlights: We speak with Dr. Julia Smith about her new book, “Conscripted to Care” that documents the experiences of women on the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic. <from Oct 2024> podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...

Season Highlights: Rabbi Alissa Wise + Rebecca Vilkomerson in B.C. - Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist organizing @rvilkomerson.bsky.social @alissashira.bsky.social @avilewis.bsky.social @ijvcanada.bsky.social @mivasair.bsky.social from Jan tiny.cc/wfuo001

Season Highlights: James Chamberlain on Expelling Transphobia. A new handbook of strategies to address transphobic attacks in the B.C. school system. Via Lawyers Against Transphobia <from Sept 2024> tiny.cc/4cio001 @momentumcanada.net @arieltroster.com @egalecanada.bsky.social @bctf.bsky.social

Pod drop 2024/25 Season Highlights: Anti-prison and anti-policing activist Meenakshi Mannoe joins us with her take on involuntary treatment for people who use drugs. <from Oct 2024> podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/r...

Pod drop 2024/25 Season Highlights: Tim McSorley of the @iclmg-csilc.bsky.social joins us to talk about the long-overdue review body for the CBSA, and the Mounties and its strengths and weaknesses. <from Nov 2024> @bccla.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/r...

Pod drop 2024/25 Season Highlights: We speak with Miles Howe, author of the report Under the Guise of Charity, calling for the Canadian government to immediately suspend the licenses of five Canadian charities. <from Nov 2024> @ijvcanada.bsky.social @cjpme.org tiny.cc/24jn001

2024/25 Season Highlights on the pod: Environmental reporter Sarah Cox sets out to examine the state of species at risk in Canada in her book, Signs of Life. She talks about her observations. <from Sept '24> @sarahkcox.bsky.social @globalhome.bsky.social tiny.cc/43jn001

Pod drop 2024/25 Season Highlights: We speak with Newfoundland filmmaker Justin Simms about his new documentary Sons, exploring how we can teach our boys to become better men. <from Jan 2025> @katjadebock.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/r...

Pod drop 2024/25 Season Highlights: Lawyer Joshua Ginsberg on a legal victory for the Mitchikanibikok Inik First Nation. The court recognized that the Quebec government has failed for decades in its duty to consult them when mining claims were made on its territory.<from Nov 2024> tiny.cc/om0m001

Pod drop 2024/25 Season Highlights: We speak with lawyer Randall Cohn who represents families trying to bring relatives into Canada under the Gaza Family Reunification Program. <from Nov 2024> podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/r... @matthewbehrens.bsky.social @cjpme.org @ijvcanada.bsky.social

POD DROP 2024/25 Season Highlights: Julie Macfarlane of Can’t Buy My Silence on how NDAs are used to silence victims of harassment, discrimination and other abuses, and the need for legislation protecting victims in B.C. <from Dec 2024> tiny.cc/0mhl001 @bccla.bsky.social @cbms-canada.bsky.social

On the pod! ICYMI Cornel Grey raises the alarm on whether Canadian universities will follow through to hire and support Black academics in the current political climate. @capableheart.bsky.social @ca.theconversation.com tiny.cc/skhl001

On a new 👁‍🗨 @redeyeradio.bsky.social 👁‍🗨 Pace Society's Jennie Pearson explains why closures and service reductions at organizations serving sex workers and other marginalized women are happening and what’s needed to support women in the Downtown Eastside. www.listennotes.com/podcasts/red... 🔶

UP ON THE POD: tiny.cc/a92k001 Canada needs a new approach to economic development focused on local communities, says Heather Hachigian of @royalroads.ca in @ca.theconversation.com

Now on the podcast: tiny.cc/ifjj001 We speak with UBC grad student and PACE volunteer Jennie Pearson about the precarious situation for peer-driven sex worker organizations in the Downtown Eastside. @sexworkhistorian.bsky.social @bccla.bsky.social

And ICYMI, watch for it on our podcast next week.

Saturday | 11:20 PT Cornel Grey raises the alarm on whether Canadian universities will follow through to hire and support Black academics in the current political climate. @capableheart.bsky.social @ca.theconversation.com

Saturday | 10:55 PT From December, Nathan Hawkins of Vision Zero Vancouver on their campaign to ban right turn on red and create a safer city for pedestrians and cyclists. @visionzeroyvr.bsky.social @hubvancouverubc.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social @pjnewwest.bsky.social

Saturday | 10:30 PT We speak with UBC grad student and PACE volunteer Jennie Pearson about the precarious situation for peer-driven sex worker organizations in the Downtown Eastside. @sexworkhistorian.bsky.social @bccla.bsky.social

Saturday | 10:05 PT Canada needs a new approach to economic development focused on local communities, says Heather Hachigian of @royalroads.ca in @ca.theconversation.com

Examining the dimensions of the recent rise in patriotism in Canada.

NEW PODCAST Drop: tiny.cc/s35j001 Musicologist Rosheeka Parahoo talks with us about how we need to equitably fund and support a much wider range of music to protect Canadian identity. @westernu.bsky.social @rosheeka.bsky.social @ca.theconversation.com

Listen now on our PODCAST! tiny.cc/uqzi001 Professor Alpha Abebe of McMaster University on who and what is being obscured in the current version of Canadian patriotism. @theconversation.com @mcmasterhum.bsky.social @dentremy.bsky.social

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This is a great listen. Watch for the film streaming live on THE NFB site upcoming. @katjadebock.bsky.social

Saturday | 10:50 PT Musicologist Rosheeka Parahoo talks with us about how we need to equitably fund and support a much wider range of music to protect Canadian identity.

Saturday | 11:20 PT Coop Radio programmer and harm reduction hero Trey Helten died last month. We play an episode of the Crackdown Podcast about Trey and his experiences in the DTES.

Saturday | 10:25 PT Vancouver digital artist Lorna Boschman joins us to talk about the self-guided audio tour of Cottonwood Community Garden, from November.

Saturday | 10:05 PT Professor Alpha Abebe of McMaster University on who and what is being obscured in the current version of Canadian patriotism. @theconversationca.bsky.social @mcmasterhum.bsky.social @dentremy.bsky.social

PODCAST up! Listen now: tiny.cc/1yhi001 We talk with Stellat’en director and scholar Lyana Patrick about her new documentary Nechako: It Will Be A Big River Again. @katjadebock.bsky.social @viffest.bsky.social @lyanap.bsky.social @lanternfilms.bsky.social #indigenous