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Nov 16, 2024
10:05 We speak with Miles Howe, author of the report Under the Guise of Charity, calling on the government to suspend the licenses of five Canadian charities.
10:30 Tim McSorley joins us to talk about the long-overdue review body for the CBSA, and the Mounties, and its strengths and weaknesses.
10:55 Economist Alex Hemingway joins us with a critical look at the tax breaks proposed in the BC NDP election campaign and ideas for a fairer approach to taxation.
11:20 An episode from The Environment in Canada podcast on calls for an emissions cap in Canada from survivors of climate change impacts such as wildfires and floods.
Nov 9, 2024
10:05 Lawyer Joshua Ginsberg on a legal victory for the MI First Nation requiring Quebec government consultation when mining claims are made on its territory.
10:25 Rosel Kim of LEAF on a case coming to the Supreme Court of Canada next week challenging the constitutionality of Canada’s laws governing sex work.
10:45 Teresa Gagné of Vancouver Peace Poppies talks about Let Peace be Their Memorial, the annual Wreath Ceremony to commemorate all victims of war.
11:10 On City Beat, Ian Mass talks about Christine Boyle’s move to provincial politics, the bylaw on gas heating and the VPD getting access to traffic cameras.
11:35 Yves Engler speaks with Shane Martinez, a lawyer bringing a case claiming the recruitment of Canadians to volunteer on Israeli military bases is illegal.
Oct 26, 2024
10:05 Andrew Longhurst joins us to discuss the connection between wait times for surgical procedures and the growth of for-profit health care across Canada.
10:35 We speak with Véronique Sioufi about a new research project to tackle racial inequality in Metro Vancouver's housing crisis.
10:55 Meghan McDermott of the BCCLA on complaints they and Pivot Legal Society are bringing about police violence and surveillance at protests in support of Palestine.
11:20 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.
Oct 19, 2024
10:05 Vancouver digital artist Lorna Boschman joins us to talk about the new self-guided audio tour of Cottonwood Community Garden.
10:25 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.
10:45 City Beat reporter Ian Mass has his eyes on city council – gas heating, corporate lobbying, deals for developers, South Asian discrimination and lots more.
11:10 The Palestine Debrief podcast talks with Corey Balsam and Nicholas Pope about the CRA’s recent revocation of the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund of Canada.
Oct 12, 2024
10:10 Anti-prison and anti-policing activist Meenakshi Mannoe joins us with her take on involuntary treatment for people who use drugs.
10:30 We talk with Adrienne Montani of First Call BC about the election toolkit they produced to help us become effective advocates for children and youth.
10:50 Della Duncan of the UpStream Podcast speaks with Dr. Gerald Horne, author of Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music.
Oct 5, 2024
10:10 Jens Wieting says climate change and logging are pushing BC forests into uncharted territory. He joins us to discuss key forest trends.
10:25 ;Economist Marc Lee on how expensive housing is eroding BC’s economy and possible solutions in Building Equity: Lessons for Affordable Housing in BC.
10:45 Ian Mass joins us for City Beat with a focus this week on non-profit and social housing projects around Vancouver.
11:15 It's been a year since October 7th and the start of Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza. We broadcast the show, Gaza, One Year Later, produced by Making Contact.
Sept 28, 2024
10:05 Award-winning Haida filmmaker Christopher Auchter on his new feature-length documentary, The Stand, about how the Haida shut down logging on Lyell Island in 1985.
10:30 James Chamberlain on Expelling Transphobia, a new handbook of strategies to address transphobic attacks in the B.C. school system.
10:50 A second chance to hear Tiffany Prete and Deanna Starr on the urgent need for safe, affordable transportation for Indigenous women and girls and two-spirit people.
11:25 A report by Montreal activist and radio host Stefan Christoff brings us the voices of local housing justice advocates recorded at Spartacus Books in Vancouver.
Sept 21, 2024
10:05 Environmental reporter Sarah Cox sets out to examine the state of species at risk in Canada in her book, Signs of Life.
10:20 Ian Mass is back with City Beat. This week, Vancouver politicians discss co-ops and social housing, waste to energy, the Jericho pier and lots more.
10:45 Journalist David Geselbracht joins us to talk about his new book Climate Hope: Stories of Action in An Age of Global Crisis.
11:10 Syed Hussan of the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change joins host Martin Lukacs of The Breach Show to talk about the Liberal backtrack on status to undocumented people.
11:35 As BC restricts cell phone use in schools, we revisit a conversation I had with Sachin Maharaj about the risks social media use poses for kids.
May 11, 2024
10:05 A talk by Brian Klaas of University College London, author of Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us, recorded in Copenhagen last year, from Alternative Radio.
11:15 The Breach podcast host Dru Oja Jay interviews Professor Jemima Pierre from UBC about Canada’s participation in 20 years of military occupations and failed elections in Haiti.
May 4, 2024
10:05 Ben Parfitt on a Ministry of Forests map that radically departs from recommendations of a panel appointed to advise the BC government on protecting old growth forests.
10:30 We talk Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee, co-directors of Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, playing closing night May 11 at DOXA 2024 in Vancouver.
11:10 From Don’t Call Me Resilient podcast, The chilling effects of trying to report on the Israel-Gaza war, with journalism profs Sonya Fatah and Asmaa Malik.
April 27, 2024
10:05 Dr. Neil Tangri tells us what will it take to get an international treaty on plastics, the fastest-growing source of greenhouse gases.
10:35 An interview with Maya Wind, Jewish Israeli scholar and author of Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom.
10:55 We speak with Punjabi artist Jag Nagra about her art work in Vancouver commemorating the tragedy of the Komagata Maru in 1914.
11:20 Tiffany Prete and Deanna Starr on a new report about the need for safe, affordable transportation for Indigenous women and girls and two-spirit people.
April 20, 2024
10:10 Ellen Woodsworth joins us to talk about the On to Ottawa Peace Caravan 2024 leaving Vancouver on May 12.
10:35 On City Beat today with Ian Mass, Police Board funding cut, Crab Park decampment, housing initiatives and more.
11:00 Amid continuing attacks on Palestine, parents and teachers are calling for the Nakba of 1947-49 to be included in the BC social studies curriculum.
11:25 Sachin Maharaj on Ontario school board lawsuits over harms to youth caused by social media apps like Instagram and Tiktok.
Apr 6, 2024
10:05 We talk with Andhra Azevedo, one of the lawyers in a court case against FortisBC for misleading the public in its advertising.
10:20 Tamer Abu-Ramadan talks with us about why 40,000 Palestinian flags were planted in a park in Vancouver’s West End.
10:45 In City Beat, Redeye’s Ian Mass talks about the upcoming debates on magic mushrooms, overdose prevention and e-bikes on the seawall.
11:10 We bring you an episode of Don’t Call me Resilient about the historical use of forced famine as a tool to control land, resources and people.
Mar 30, 2024
10:05 We speak with Mark Worthing of the Awi'nakola Foundation about the need for bear dens to be protected in BC’s Wildlife Act.
10:20 Vancouver City Councillor Pete Fry joins us to make the case for regulating mushroom dispensaries rather than criminalizing them.
10:45 Democracy Now speaks with international human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber about Monday’s resolution in the U.N. calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
11:10 An excerpt from our interview last year with Rebecca Solnit about the climate urgency, hope, activism and the book she co-edited: Not Too Late.
11:35 Peter Dietsch of the University of Victoria on NDP MP Charlie Angus’ private members bill seeking to ban fossil fuel advertising.
Mar 23, 2024
10:05 Sussanne Skidmore, president of the BC Federation of Labour, talks with us about a comprehensive plan for investing in public transit to link all of BC.
10:20 Devin O’Leary, co-author of the Carnegie Housing Project’s 2024 report, on the urgent need for governments to build housing that low income people can afford.
10:45 Dr.Joel Lexchin on the need for transparency about how much Big Pharma gives to doctors and medical professionals in Canada.
11:10 Vinita Srivastava, host of Don’t Call Me Resilient, with Hilal Elver, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, on the use of starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza.
Mar 16, 2024
10:05 In an episode from the Sources podcast, Luke LeBrun interviews journalist Luke Savage about Ed Broadbent and his lifetime contributions to social justice and democracy.
11:10 David Barsamian of Alternative Radio interviews Sarah Leah Whitson, ED of DAWN, Democracy for the Arab World Now, about Gaza, international Law & the Biden presidency.
Mar 9, 2024
10:05 Elaine MacDonald of Ecojustice on the environmental racism legislation stalled in the Senate and the fight to get Ontario’s Chemical Valley cleaned up.
10:20 In City Beat, Ian Mass talks about a proposal to redevelop Skeena Terrace, magic mushroom dispensaries, Wi-Fi in the Downtown eastside and lots more.
10:45 Mandi Gray on her book Suing for Silence, exposing the phenomenon of defamation lawsuits whose purpose is to silence those disclosing sexual violence.
11:10 In a critical look at productivity culture, Making Contact host Lucy Kang interviews Jenny Odell, author of Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock.
Mar 2, 2024
10:05 We speak with refugee advocate Matthew Behrens about the barriers facing applicants to Canada’s temporary residency program for Palestinians.
10:25 We speak with Nik Barry-Shaw about the Pharmacare legislation tabled this week in Parliament, and the imperative to expand it.
10:45 Dennis Agar of Movement: Metro Vancouver Transit Riders on what to do about the crisis facing the bus network in Metro Vancouver.
11:10 From the Breach podcast, Emma Paling interviews Alex Cosh on Canada's growing military exports to Israel.
11:40 Former editor of The Guardian Alan Rusbridger talks with Amy Goodman about the significance of Wikileaks and the campaign to extradite Julian Assange.
Feb 24, 2024
10:05 On City Beat with Ian Mass, Vancouver Council’s debate on living wages, the climate emergency plan and major upgrades to West End facilities.
10:25 We speak with Alex Hemingway, senior economist and public policy analyst with the CCPA-BC, for his take on Thursday's provincial budget.
11:25 Israel and Russia Don't Belong in Paris 2024, an episode of The End of Sport podcast with host Johanna Mellis and guests Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff.
10:45 Marusya Bociurkiw on her film Analogue Revolution: How feminist media changed the world, the opener at the 2024 GEMFest in Vancouver.
Feb 17, 2024
10:05 Lawyer Bruce McIvor on the troubling colonial legal principle behind the Supreme Court ruling on the Trudeau government's Indigenous child welfare law.
10:20 We speak with Chandni Desai, one of a group of scholars who say Israel is intentionally destroying education and cultural institutions in Gaza.
10:45 The living wage in Metro Vancouver rises to $25.68 amid soaring costs, according to a new report co-authored by economist Iglika Ivanova.
11:10 Award-winning journalist and filmmaker John Pilger died on Dec 30. We hear a talk he gave on the sad state of mainstream journalism, recorded in Chicago in 2007.
Feb 10, 2024
10:05 Charlotte Dawe of Wilderness Committee tells us about an important court victory to protect migratory birds.
10:25 We speak with lawyer Matthew Bergman about taking social media giants to court on behalf of vulnerable victims.
10:45 Journalist Brandi Morin on her arrest and the charges she faces for covering a decampment in Edmonton.
11:05 We speak with Corinne Mason about the draconian anti-trans laws proposed by Alberta premier Danielle Smith.
11:30 From Democracy Now, the impact of the funding cut to UNRWA and questions about the evidence it was based on.
Feb 3, 2024
10:05 Ian Mass with City Beat brings us an update on the 100 mental health nurses promised by Ken Sim, the living wage policy, Vancouver’s Park Board and more.
10:25 Leah Hamilton comments on the new cap on international students and efforts to scapegoat them for Canada’s housing and health care woes.
10:50 Researchers Manjulika Robertson and Samantha Chu on interference faced by Canadian scientists and the serious consequences for climate policy.
11:15 Former UN Special Rapporteur on Housing Leilani Farha, human rights lawyer Alex Neve and former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Michael Lynk on the ICJ decision last week.
Jan 27, 2024
10:05 We speak with law prof Heidi Matthews about Canada’s hypocrisy in failing to support South Africa in its genocide case at the ICJ.
10:25 OneCity councillor Christine Boyle joins us to look ahead to some of the issues coming before Vancouver City Council in 2024.
11:00 Alice Mũrage on how government subsidies have helped the BC hotel industry bounce back since Covid-19 while the mostly female and racialized workforce is left behind.
11:20 After 17 years of dictatorship, democracy was restored in Guatemala with the election of President Bernardo Arévalo. Democracy Now speaks with activists from Guatemala.
Jan 20, 2024
10:05 Family physician and scientist Tara Kiran talks about a new study comparing Canada with nine other countries in terms of access to primary care.
10:20 Nikki Skuce talks with us about the rush to mine critical minerals and the environmental and social issues at stake in BC’s new critical minerals strategy.
10:45 On City Beat, Ian Mass fills us in on Vancouver’s Budget Task Force report, which recommends big changes to what the city should be prepared to fund.
11:05 From Don’t Call Me Resilient, profs Vershawn Ashanti Young and Anthony Stewart dig deep into stereotypes of Blackness in response to the satirical film, American Fiction.
Jan 13, 2024
10:05 We talk with Ted Rutland of Concordia University about the fact that police budgets are on the increase in Canada and the implications that has for real safety.
10:25 Burnaby City Councillor Sav Dhaliwal joins us to talk about why Burnaby decided to include caste as a ground for discrimination in its equity policy.
10:40 Véronique Sioufi of the CCPA-BC on the good, bad, and ugly of BC’s first stab at extending equitable protections to vulnerable workers in the gig workforce.
11:00 We hear former UN Rapporteur Richard Falk on South Africa's submission to the International Court of Justice that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.
11:20 Democracy Now speaks with Tariq Habash, the first Biden appointee to publicly resign from the government to protest the president’s ongoing support for Israel’s war on Gaza.
Jan 6, 2024
10:05 Lawyer Caitlin Shane from Pivot Legal on the BC Supreme Court injunction suspending the province’s decriminalization rollbacks.
10:20 Jens Wieting of Sierra Club BC talks about COP 28, and what it means for BC and Canada.
10:40 A conversation with professor Adam Hanieh about the political economy of Palestine, courtesy of the Upstream podcast.
Dec 30, 2023
For our final show of the year, we bring you five interviews we recorded between January and April 2023.
10:05 We speak with Nisha Pahuja, director of the award-winning documentary, To Kill A Tiger, just nominated for an Oscar.
10:25 Grace Barakat on how the deregulation of tuition fees can widen the equality gap and leave low-income students on the sidelines.
10:45 Dr. Margaret McGregor talks with us about the growing body of research that links fracking for natural gas with harms to human health.
11:10 Molly Murphy and Irina Ceric from AbolishCIRG join us to talk about why the the RCMP’s Community-Industry Response Group needs to go.
11:35 A conversation with Mexican-Canadian artist Rocio Graham about her project, Growing Roots from Shared Dreams, in collaboration with migrant farm workers in BC.
Dec 23, 2023
10:05 From the podcast Don't Call Me Resilient, host Vinita Srivastava examines the root causes of the current food bank crisis with Elaine Power of Queens U.
10:50 Excerpts from a Nov 1 discussion between writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and professor Rashid Khalidi, moderated by civil rights attorney Michelle Alexander, from Democracy Now.
Dec 16, 2023
10:05 Barbara Silva of the Institute for Public Education invites British Columbians to share their hopes and dreams for public education.
10:20 On City Beat today, Ian Mass talks about Ken Sim’s move to scrap Vancouver’s Park Board, plus the 2024 city budget with dollars for a climate emergency plan.
10:45 We hear two reactions to this week’s UN vote calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza - both to the US “no” and Canada’s “yes”.
11:00 Andre Goulet of Harbinger Media Network on Unrigged.ca, a news and public affairs site featuring Canadian progressive media.
11:20 Harsha Walia explores the legacies of the displacement and dispossession that have shaped present-day Vancouver, in a talk recorded at the Contemporary Art Gallery.
Dec 9, 2023
10:05 An in-depth interview with writer and analyst Phyllis Bennis about the context for the Hamas attack and the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, produced by Alternative Radio.
11:10 Martin Lukacs of The Breach talks with Dan Freeman-Maloy about the historical roots of Canada’s support for Israel’s ongoing destruction of Gaza.
Dec 2, 2023
10:05 National Farmers Union youth advisor Rav Singh and farm worker organizer Hannah Kaya on why the NFU is calling for a ban on investor ownership of farmland.
10:20 Emma Paling of the Breach joins us to explain how CTV is distorting the truth about Israel’s violence in Gaza, according to its own journalists.
10:45 Alex Hemingway on the raft of housing announcements coming from all levels of government and how effective these policies are likely to be.
11:10 The Intercept's Jeremy Scahill deconstructs Israel's narrative on Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital, from Democracy Now.
11:25 Avril Benoit of Doctors without Borders calls for a ceasefire and says resuming the bombardments in the south of Gaza would be a “horror show”, from Democracy Now.
Nov 25, 2023
10:05 We speak with Rachel Small of World Beyond War about actions across the country to draw attention to Canada’s arms trade with Israel.
10:20 Daniel Steel from the School of Population and Public Health at UBC on why climate action requires us to abandon viewing our efforts as a ‘sacrifice’.
10:45 In City Beat, Ian Mass tells us about Vancouver’s 2024 budget, plus a motion to increase safety and inclusion for trans, gender-diverse and Two Spirit people.
11:05 We broadcast an episode of the podcast, Don’t Call Me Resilient: Palestine was never a ‘land without a people’.
Nov 18, 2023
10:05 Dr Maissaa Almustafa on the urgent need to include Palestinians in the international refugee protection regime as millions face a new displacement.
10:25 We speak with sociology prof Muhannad Ayyash about the Nov 5 arrest of one of the organizers of a pro-Palestinian rally in Calgary.
10:45 Véronique Sioufi of the CCPA-BC on the imperative for BC to extend equitable protections to vulnerable workers in the gig workforce.
11:10 Dr. Saad Ahmed of Canadian Doctors for Medicare on the myths being used to promote for-profit care and how privatization undermines access to health care.
11:35 Organizer and writer Nathan Crompton on the end of temporary modular housing in Vancouver and the lack of permanent housing to replace it.
Nov 11, 2023
Last night's windstorm cut power to thousands of people in the Lower Mainland, including Coop Radio. We will broadcast our interviews with Muhannad Ayyash and Véronique Sioufi on Nov 18.
10:05 We speak with sociology prof Muhannad Ayyash about the arrest this week of one of the organizers of a pro-Palestinian rally in Calgary.
10:20 Véronique Sioufi of the CCPA-BC on the imperative for BC to extend equitable protections to vulnerable workers in the gig workforce.
10:45 In City Beat this week, Ian Mass tells us about a motion to open up Vancouver’s wealthiest neighbourhood, Shaughnessy, for affordable housing, plus a whole lot more.
11:05 Democracy Now speaks Amy Littlefield and John Nichols from The Nation about some solid victories for progressives in Tuesday's US elections.
11:25 Also from Democracy Now, Palestinian American Representative Rashida Tlaib speaks Tuesday in the House, as it votes to censure her.
Nov 4, 2023
10:05 Clara Prager of The Hot Pink Paper Campaign talks about Vancouver city council’s dismal record on fulfilling its equity commitments after one year in office.
10:20 Wendy Pedersen of the DTES SRO Collaborative on a case going to the BC Court of Appeal to reinstate Vancouver's vacancy control bylaws for SROs.
10:55 Naomi Klein recorded at the Socialism 2023 conference in Chicago, on conspiracy theories, capitalism and the tasks of the left.
Oct 28, 2023
10:05 Thorben Wieditz of Fairbnb joins us to explain why BC mayors across the political spectrum are applauding new legislation to set up a provincial registry for Airbnb hosts.
10:25 On City Beat with Ian Mass, two code-of-conduct complaints against Christine Boyle, the campaign to rebuild Britannia Community Centre, plus a whole lot more.
10:45 We’re joined by academic and author Jasmin Zine, who talks with us about how Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism are manufactured through disinformation.
11:10 New Westminster councillor Nadine Nakagawa on the toxic environment faced by women, gender minorities and people of colour on municipal councils.
11:35 Vince Tao of Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users talks with us about the political pressures that led to the closing of Yaletown’s overdose prevention site.
Oct 21, 2023
Our Oct 14 broadcast didn't happen due to a power cut at the station, so we broadcast our interviews with Rebecca Solnit, Nabil Sultan and Jérémie Harris this week instead.
Oct 14, 2023
10:05 Thomas Woodley of CJPME on violations of international law by Hamas and Israel and Canada’s silence about the bombing of Gaza.
10:25 Rebecca Solnit on the climate urgency, hope, activism and the book she co-edited: Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility.
11:05 We talk with Nabil Sultan of the Muslim Association of Canada about a recent Ontario court ruling that recognizes bias in a CRA audit but fails to stop it.
11:25 Jérémie Harris, author of Quantum Physics Made Me Do It, on his book and the potential dangers if we fail to regulate AI.
Oct 7, 2023
10:05 Lawyer Andrew Gage on the campaign to Sue Big Oil amidst mounting evidence that fossil fuel emissions are causing extreme weather.
10:20 The CCPA’s Alternative Federal Budget 2023 tackles affordability and inflation, the climate crisis, inequality, and health care. We talk with economist David Macdonald.
11:00 From Upstream, a conversation about the dark side of microcredit with Dr. Sohini Kar, anthropologist at the London School of Economics and author of Financializing Poverty: Labor and Risk in Indian Microfinance.
Sept 30, 2023
10:05 Waapake: Cree director Jules Koostachin’s deeply personal look at intergenerational trauma.
10:25 Corinne Mason and Leah Hamilton of Mount Royal University in Calgary on the origins of the anti-trans movement in Canada.
10:45 City Beat: Ian Mass looks at how Vancouver's ABC council is pushing through with their pro-developer, pro-police agenda.
11:10 Dene lawyer Jennifer Duncan talks about how Indigenous people are trapped in a poverty-to-prison pipeline.
11:35 Veldon Coburn speaks and professor Frank Deer on revitalizing Indigenous languages, from Don't Call Me Resilient.
Sept 23, 2023
10:05 We speak with Syed Hussan of Migrant Workers Alliance for Change about the recent visit to Canada of UN slavery rapporteur Tomoya Obotaka.
10:25 David Chudnovsky joins Ian Mass for City Beat and they discuss the 2024 Vancouver budget and the Vancouver School Board’s sale of school properties.
10:45 Jens Wieting of Sierra Club BC on the lack of progress on forest protection three years after the BC government promised to stop logging old growth.
11:10 We play an excerpt from the new radio show and podcast Harbinger Showcase which features a look at the current state of East Coast fisheries.
11:30 Democracy Now speaks with human rights lawyer Arjun Singh Sethi Justin Trudeau’s accusation that agents of India assassinated a Canadian Sikh leader in June.
May 13, 2023
10:05 We speak with Jennifer Charlesworth, Representative for Children and Youth, about why so many young people are going missing from care.
10:25 Jeffrey Sachs on the Path to Peace in Ukraine, hosted by Canadian Foreign Policy Institute and introduced by Bianca Mugyenyi.
11:05 We speak with researchers Simran Purewal and Kaylee Byers about the medical gaslighting of long COVID sufferers, and gaps in resources and information.
11:20 Sue Maxwell, a sustainability consultant, on Metro Vancouver plans to provide heat and hot water for Burnaby and Vancouver residents, from 2022.
May 6, 2023
10:05 We hear Professor Mary Wood’s keynote address at this year’s Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene in early March, from Alternative Radio.
11:05 An episode of the podcast, Don’t Call Me Resilient, titled “Why isn’t anyone talking about who gets long COVID?”.
April 29, 2023
10:05 In City Beat. Ian Mass talks about Vancouver’s accessibility plan, taxes, safety for pedestrians, ongoing conflict at the School Board and another setback for the Salish Sea.
10:25 Alex Neve joins us to explain the call for NO to extradition of Dr. Hassan Diab after a French court verdict described as a wrongful conviction.
10:45 We speak with Jeff Masuda, one of 1000 signatories of an open letter calling on the City of Vancouver to stop evicting unhoused people from encampments.
11:10 360 Riot Walk is an interactive walking tour, and now a new book We speak with Henry Tsang about White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver.
11:35 Iglika Ivanova joins us to discuss new survey data which shines light on the extent and impacts of precarious employment in BC.
April 22, 2023
In a special broadcast for Earth Day, the Wetland Project brings the sound of the ṮEḴTEḴSEN marsh to the airwaves. Tune in for a 24-hour soundscape of the frogs, birds, and insects of a Saturna Island wetland.
April 15, 2023
10:05 We speak with immigration lawyer Zool Suleman about the sudden expansion of the Safe Third Country Agreement that closes the entire Canada-US border to refugee claimants.
10:25 Molly Murphy and Irina Ceric from AbolishCIRG join us to talk about why the the RCMP’s Community-Industry Response Group needs to go.
10:45 City Beat with Ian Mass reports on the closing of the DTES encampment, wine in grocery stores, closing the Queen Elizabeth Elementary annex and more.
11:20 We speak with Mark Timmings and Brady Marks about the Wetland Project, to be broadcast on Coop Radio on Earth Day.
April 8, 2023
10:05 BC reporter for Press Progress Rumneek Johal talks with Amazon Labour Union president Chris Smalls on his first trip to Canada.
10:30 Jeff Cohen of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting in a talk from February titled, Can Independent Journalism Survive Corporate Control?
11:30 Lawyers Lisa Fong, Rachel Ariss and Ruben Tillman talk about Gitxaala Nation’s challenge to BC’s outdated mining claims regime in BC Supreme Court this month.
April 1, 2023
10:05 John Price of the University of Victoria is concerned that racism could enter into an upcoming probe of foreign interference in Canada’s electoral processes.
10:25 Pivot Legal Society is raising concerns about the involuntary treatment of people who overdose. We speak with social worker Tyson Singh Kelsall.
10:45 Tim McSorley of the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group joins us to talk about why Canadian MPs should reject new artificial intelligence laws.
11:10 U.S. lawyer, author and activist, Randall Robinson died March 24 at the age of 81. We hear a 2013 interview with Robinson from Democracy Now.
11:35 A second chance to hear an interview with Nova Scotia dentist Brandon Doucet about the urgent need for universal dental care in Canada.
Mar 25, 2023
10:05 City Beat with Ian Mass: Bear spray, ornamental water fountains, parks and farm land, the 2022 Vancouver election and the Broadway plan.
10:25 We speak with CCPA researcher Katherine Scott about Canada’s pandemic response, viewed through gender lens.
10:45 Thomas Woodley of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East joins us to talk about their campaign to hold the media accountable for biased coverage of Palestine.
11:10 Another chance to hear Jeff Leigh of Hub Cycling about what needs to change B.C. laws to make it safe for vulnerable users.
11:35 Paris-based journalist Cole Stangler speaks with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now about what the millions of people on the streets in France are protesting.
Mar 18, 2023
10:05 Lawyer David Wu and plaintiff Kristy Morgan on a class action suit to hold the RCMP to account for infringement of constitutional rights at Fairy Creek.
10:25 Following the bust of a human trafficking ring in Ontario, NFU president Jenn Pfenning talks about why she supports immigration rights for migrant farmworkers.
10:45 From the podcast Don’t Call Me Resilient, Vinita Srivastava explores comedy about race with Faiza Hirji of McMaster University and stand-up comedian Andrea Jin.
11:20 Harmony Johnson, sɛƛakəs, author of “They Sigh or Give You the Look” on her report about discrimination and status card usage, first aired in December.
Mar 11, 2023
10:05 We catch up on saving our threatened wild salmon with Dan Lewis of Clayoquot Action who argues that now is the time to push for total closure of fish farms in our waters.
10:25 Actor and artist Niall McNeil and director Marie Clements join us to talk about their new film Lay Down Your Heart, screening March 18 at the Down Syndrome Film Festival in Burnaby.
10:45 We speak with Dr. Margaret McGregor about the growing body of research that links fracking for natural gas with harms to human health.
11:15 We talk with David Ravensbergen of the Council of Canadians about the campaign to sue Big Oil for the huge costs of the climate crisis.
11:30 Journalist and author Mehdi Hasan comments on Tucker Carlson and the Jan 6 videos, Donald Trump as retribution for the far right and more, on Democracy Now this week.
Mar 4, 2023
10:05 We catch up with economist Alex Hemingway to talk about the spending increases in BC Budget 2023 and what they mean for British Columbians.
10:25 David Eby’s first B.C. budget falls short on climate, forests and the environment. Torrance Coste of The Wilderness Committee helps us unpack the numbers.
10:50 The Vancouver budget, destroying a park in the name of climate change and social housing sites being sold back to developers are all part of City Beat with Ian Mass.
11:15 Andre Goulet of Harbinger Society Presents talks with Nikolas Barry-Shaw of the Council of Canadians about the campaign to pressure the government to bring in universal pharmacare.
Feb 25, 2023
10:05 We talk with Mexican-Canadian artist Rocio Graham about her project, Growing Roots from Shared Dreams, in collaboration with migrant farm workers in the Boundary area of BC.
10:25 Health researcher Colleen Fuller walks us through the federal provincial agreement on healthcare and where the feds are failing to protect and fortify universal healthcare.
10:50 On the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Democracy Now talks with with Hanna Perekhoda and Nina Khrushcheva.
11:35 In advance of Tuesday’s provincial budget, we replay our November interview with Alex Hemingway about the healthy state of BC’s finances and the need to start spending more.
Feb 18, 2023
10:05 Peter Waldkirch of Abundant Housing Vancouver talks about their “extraordinary disappointment” with the city’s middle missing housing proposals.
10:25 Ben Parfitt joins us to discuss the reasons behind the pending closure of a pulp mill in Prince George and the loss of 300 high-paying jobs there.
10:50 Meenakshi Mannoe from Pivot Legal on the coroner’s inquest into the death by suicide of Const. Nicole Chan in 2019 and institutional sexual abuse in the VPD.
11:25 Democracy Now speaks with Saket Soni about his book, The Great Escape, on forced immigrant labour in the U.S. to clean up after climate disasters.
Feb 11, 2023
10:05 Caitlin Shane of Pivot Legal on BC’s new decriminalization policy and the Know Your Rights card they produced with VANDU.
10:25 Zoe Long of SFU's Sustainable Transportation Action Research Team on how the popularity of SUVs is threatening Canada’s climate goals.
10:45 A carbon budget, a Climate Justice charter, an equity lens review of bylaws and the missing middle of housing - all part of City Beat with Ian Mass.
11:10 Press Progress editor Luke LeBrun interviews Elizabeth Simons of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network about where Canada’s far-right is going in 2023.
Feb 4, 2023
10:05 We talk with Nisha Pahuja, director of the award-winning documentary, To Kill A Tiger, which has its B.C. premiere on February 9.
10:25 Ian Mass reports on the meeting between the Vancouver Folk Music Festival board and festival supporters after the board announced it was closing down the festival.
10:45 Daniella Barreto joins us in a conversation about the new Rights Back At You podcast she's hosting with Amnesty Canada.
11:10 We broadcast the first episode of the Rights Back At You podcast from Amnesty Canada: Facial Recognition and Policing Protesters.
Jan 28, 2023
10:05 We speak with Joel Lexchin about how the pharmaceutical industry uses disinformation to undermine drug price reform.
10:25 Grace Barakat on how the deregulation of tuition fees can widen the equality gap and leave low-income students on the sidelines.
10:45 City Beat with Ian Mass: A business-friendly Mayor, fires in downtown eastside hotels and the demise of the Renter Office.
11:05 We hear a talk from Dr. Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe on Disability, Madness, Liberation: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition.
Jan 21, 2023
10:05 Alex Hemingway talks about the new provincial housing ministry and its promise to build the housing BC needs and can afford.
10:25 Democracy Now interviews Olúfémi O. Táíwò about his new book, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else).
10:45 Clara Prager from Women Transforming Cities on their report about the progress towards and barriers to implementation of TRC calls to action in BC municipalities.
11:10 We speak with Yves Engler about the coup that deposed Pedro Castillo of Peru and Canadian government support for the unelected presidency of Dina Boluarte.
11:35 Another chance to hear our interview with Hayley Gray and Elad Tzadok on their documentary, Unarchived, about the handful of community archives across BC.
Jan 14, 2023
10:05 We’re joined by Charlotte Dawe of the Wilderness Committee with her take on what was achieved at COP15 last month and what still needs to be done.
10:20 Author and journalist Ed Yong talks with Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh about his new book An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us.
10:40 Increased commercialization of Vancouver parks, renewable energy, uplifting Chinatown and improved renter support are all part of City Beat with Ian Mass.
11:00 We broadcast an episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient podcast from The Conversation Canada: Has the meaning behind the Canadian flag changed?
11:35 Mihailo Subotic on What Housing Means to Me, a photo exhibit on the theme of home and belonging by five tenants who live in modular housing in New Westminster.
Jan 7, 2023
10:05 Economist David Macdonald joins us to talk about his report on wealth and income equality and the astronomical rise in CEO pay.
10:25 We speak with Nova Scotia dentist Brandon Doucet about the urgent need for universal dental care in Canada.
10:45 In City Beat, Ian Mass looks ahead to the issues and debates on the agenda for city councils in Metro Vancouver in 2023.
11:20 Rumneek Johal talks with Edmonton city councillor Michael Janz about police-commissioned reports criticizing the social safety net.
Dec 31, 2022
10:05 For our New Year's Eve show, we feature a recent interview with historian and journalist Vijay Prashad. He spoke with Alternative Radio host David Barsamian in Santiago, Chile on November 3, 2022. This, plus lots of great music.
Dec 24, 2022
10:15 A conversation with Leslie Kern, author of Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies, just published by Between the Lines.
10:25 Aaron Vansintjan on The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World beyond Capitalism, and what degrowth could look like as an alternative.
10:45 We talk with Dr Norma Dunning about her new book on the system of numbered discs for Inuit in Canada, titled Kinuavit: What’s Your Name?
11:05 Celia Haig-Brown on her new book Tsqelmucwilc: The Kamloops Indian Residential School - Resistance and a Reckoning.
11:30 Kevin Walby and Jessica Evans join us to discuss the new book, Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada.
Dec 17, 2022
10:05 We talk with Michael Bueckert about his recent trip to Israel and the Occupied Territories to meet with Palestinians.
10:25 Torrance Coste of the Wilderness Committee responds to commitments by the B.C. government to protect 30% of lands by 2030.
10:45 David Barsamian of Alternative Radio interviews Marie Ranjbar about the mass protest movement in Iran.
Dec 10, 2022
10:05 Parliament voted unanimously that the federal government recognize Indian residential schools as genocide. We speak with NDP MP Leah Gazan.
10:25 Peter McCartney of the Wilderness Committee on BC's 2022 Climate Change Accountability Report and why BC is still not on track to meet climate commitments.
10:45 Elliot Rossiter of Douglas College on why simply adding more housing supply isn’t going be enough to solve the housing crisis.
11:10 Chief Matthew Hill and lawyer Ruben Tillman talk about the Gitxaala First Nation's legal challenge to BC's antiquated mining law. >> get tickets to Groundswell: An Indigenous Mining Justice Summit, Dec 15, 7pm
11:40 Following President Macron’s visit to the US and renewed calls for talks with Putin, Democracy Now speaks with Jeffrey Sachs about what a negotiated settlement could look like.
Dec 3, 2022
10:05 We talk with Harmony Johnson, sɛƛakəs, author of “They Sigh or Give You the Look”, a report about discrimination and status card usage.
10:30 In City Beat, Ian Mass previews Vancouver’s 2023 budget debate and motions for non-market housing, body cameras for police and an age-friendly action plan.
11:00 We talk with Michèle Brille-Edwards of the Canadian Health Coalition about a new threat to the Canadian blood system.
11:30 A second chance to hear our conversation with Susan Boyd, author of the just-published book Heroin, looking at the history of heroin regulation in Canada.
Nov 26, 2022
10:10 Jim Stanford from a CCPA webinar on the current inflationary crisis and the damage being done by the Bank of Canada.
10:50 Juliet Schor on her new book, After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back, from Alternative Radio.
Nov 19, 2022
10:05 Matt Hatfield from Open Media talks about Bill C-244, the “right to repair” bill, and why it’s necessary.
10:25 A report released this week has found a major spike in the BC living wage, especially in Metro Vancouver. We speak with Anastasia French of Living Wage for Families BC.
10:45 Bruce Campbell on the Climate Aligned Finance Act, brought by Senator Rosa Galvez to end the widespread backing of fossil fuels by Canadian financial institutions.
11:10 We talk with Jens Wieting of Sierra Club BC about the biodiversity crisis in BC and the upcoming COP 15 conference in Montreal in December.
11:35 Roger Emsley of the Against Port Expansion Community Group talks about a proposed massive port expansion on the Fraser estuary at Deltaport.
Nov 12, 2022
10:05 Lawyer Caitlin Shane of Pivot Legal tells us why the B.C. committee report on toxic drugs was “another disappointment” for people who use drugs and drug policy advocates.
10:25 City Beat with Ian Mass focuses on the new Vancouver City Council, with Chinatown, anti-Semitism, cops, nurses and much more.
10:45 Medea Benjamin talks about the urgent need for the US to press for negotiations in the war in Ukraine, in a Nov 4 webinar organized by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute.
11:10 Lawyer Laura Berger of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association on a huge victory in Quebec Superior Court against police use of racial profiling.
11:35 Economist Alex Hemingway says BC is flush and needs to start spending some of its surplus on programs that will improve life for British Columbians.
Nov 5, 2022
10:10 Ryan Kelpin on Ontario education worker fight back against Bill 28 and the use of the notwithstanding clause of the Charter to deny workers rights.
10:30 City Beat with Ian Mass focuses on a motion before Vancouver City Council to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism.
10:55 We speak with Eugene Kung of West Coast Environmental Law about how the federal government is hiding the real cost of the TMX pipeline.
11:15 A discussion of Lula’s historic election victory in Brazil on Democracy Now, with Michael Fox of the Brazil on Fire podcast on Real News Network and Sabrina Fernandes.
Oct 29, 2022
10:05 We talk with journalist Owen Schalk about the new Families Code in Cuba that protects the human rights of disabled people, children and LGBTQ+ people.
10:25 Vancouver City Councillor Christine Boyle speaks about the first municipal strategy in Canada to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. >> read the report
10:40 Playing Through Fire: Sports In A Time Of Reaction, a talk by Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation magazine at the 2022 Socialism Conference in Chicago, courtesy of Alternative Radio.
11:30 Aaron Vansintjan on The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World beyond Capitalism, and what degrowth could look like as an alternative.
Oct 22, 2022
10:05 We talk with Dr Norma Dunning about her new book on the system of numbered discs for Inuit in Canada, titled Kinuavit: What’s Your Name?
10:30 “Unveiling the Chilly Climate: The Suppression of Speech on Palestine in Canada”. We dive into this report with co-author Sheryl Nestel.
10:55 Redeye City Beat reporter Ian Mass reviews four Lower Mainland election races where progressive candidates were trying to capture City Hall.
11:15 Jeremy Corbyn on Green Industrial Revolution.
; In a highly engaging bonus episode from the podcast series Planet B: Everything Must Change, Dalia Gebrial interviews the former leader of the UK Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn.
; A podcast from Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in collaboration with Novara Media. Planet B: Everything Must Change.
Oct 15, 2022
10:05 We speak with Tim McSorley of the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group about the need for a moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement.
10:25 Lorraine Chisholm speaks with Ben Parfitt about concerns with the export of wood pellets from BC to the UK where they are burned to generate electricity.
10:50 An extended conversation with Brett Scott, author of Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets, from the Upstream podcast.
Oct 8, 2022
10:05 Ian Mass, Redeye’s City Beat reporter, highlights four Lower Mainland races where progressive City Council candidates are trying to capture City Hall.
10:30 We speak with Jennifer Wickham about defending Wet’suwet’en territory as CGL prepares to drill for its fracked gas pipeline.
11:00 Yves Engler joins us to discuss a recent victory in the campaign to end recruiting for the Israeli military in Canada.
11:20 In this year’s Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture, Marjorie Griffin Cohen looks at the blind spots in economic thinking that devalue the care economy.
Oct 1, 2022
10:05 We talk with Celia Haig-Brown about the new book Tsqelmucwilc: The Kamloops Indian Residential School - Resistance and a Reckoning.
10:35 Andrew Longhurst on his report on rise of corporate medicine in British Columbia, published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - BC.
10:50 A conversation with Leslie Kern, author of Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies, just published by Between the Lines.
11:15 Adrienne Montani of First Call discusses a municipal election toolkit to advocate for policies that benefit children and youth.
11:40 Bill McKibben discusses the reversal of U.S Senator Joe Manchin's ‘giveaway’ to the fossil fuel industry, from Democracy Now.
Sept 24, 2022
10:05 We talk with Hayley Gray and Elad Tzadok about their new documentary, Unarchived, about the handful of community archives across British Columbia.
10:25 In this week's City Beat, Ian Mass takes us on a tour of nine of the eleven political parties running candidates in Vancouver's municipal election.
10:45 Michael Bueckert speaks with us about his new report on how Canada votes against the advice of its foreign affairs experts when it comes to Palestinian rights.
11:10 We talk with Mahtab Laghaei of the Hot Pink Paper Campaign about their policy asks on behalf of marginalized communities in Vancouver.
11:35 A Democracy Now interview with UK professor Kehinde Andrews, author of a recent piece in Politico titled I Don’t Mourn the Queen.
Sept 17, 2022
10:05 In the first of two episodes from Below the Radar , host Am Johal speaks with veteran independent filmmaker Lizzy Borden.
11:00 In the second episode from this podcast, Johal sits down with educator, writer, and public scholar Walidah Imarisha.
10:40 In two excerpts from Democracy Now, a look back at the life of Barbara Ehrenreich, who died September 1.
Sept 10, 2022
10:05 To mark the death of Queen Elizabeth II, a Democracy Now roundtable discussion about the legacy of British colonialism.
11:00 The fourth and final episode of The Trip Diary, a podcast series from Below the Radar.
Sept 3, 2022
10:05 A conversation with Samuel Stein, author of Capital City and the Real Estate State, from the National Radio Project's show, Making Contact.
10:50 To celebrate the centenary of radical historian Howard Zinn, we play an Alternative Radio episode featuring a 2002 recording of Zinn speaking with students at the University of New Mexico.
Aug 20, 2022
10:05 A look at bail reform in the state of Texas in an episode from the National Radio Project's show, Making Contact in collaboration with pocast partners, 70 million.
10:50 In the third episode of A Trip Diary from Below the Radar podcast, Steve Tornes speaks with Councillor Tony Valente and Dr. Meghan Winters talks about cycling, advocacy, and street allocations.
Aug 13, 2022
10:05 Planet B: Everything Must Change. Episode 6 Debt.
; In the final episode of Planet B, the program examines the climate debt owed by the most polluting nations in the global north to those who have contributed the least to climate breakdown.
; A podcast from Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in collaboration with Novara Media. Planet B: Everything Must Change.
11:10 Bonus Content from Planet B: Jayati Ghosh on Escaping the Debt Trap.
Aug 6, 2022
Redeye is pre-empted this morning for a special all-day program to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Jamaica’s independence.
July 30, 2022
10:05 Planet B: Everything Must Change. Episode 5 Migration.
; Dalia Gebrial explores the countless ways in which climate breakdown is driving the displacement of people .
; A podcast from Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in collaboration with Novara Media. Planet B: Everything Must Change.
11:10 Bonus Content from Planet B: Harsha Walia says the fight against climate breakdown requires us to imagine a world without borders.
July 23, 2022
10:05 Garth Mullins looks at drug decriminalization in BC in the latest episode of the Crackdown podcast: The Iron Law.
10:50 White Hoax: Racism, Divide-and-Conquer, and Politics; and How To Hold Back The Ocean, two episodes from the National Radio Project's show, Making Contact.
July 16, 2022
10:05 In the first episode of A Trip Diary from Below the Radar podcast, Steve Tornes speaks with Lori Macdonald and Sadia Tabassum about transit-based mobility through an equitable lens.
10:45 In the second episode, A City in Transit, Steve Tornes speaks with Dr. Peter V. Hall about the research project, Employer Transit Subsidy Study.
July 9, 2022
10:05 Planet B: Everything Must Change. Episode 4 Water.
; Harpreet Kaur Paul finds out how capitalism has fundamentally changed our relationship with water, from the commodification of the seas to the race to discover deep-sea oil and gas reserves.
; A podcast from Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in collaboration with Novara Media. Planet B: Everything Must Change.
11:15 Bonus Content from Planet B: Māori activist Tina Ngata explains why the fight against climate breakdown must involve a radical rethink of our relationship with the ocean.
July 2, 2022
10:05 Below the Radar host Am Johal speaks with Genevieve LeBaron, Director of the School of Public Policy at SFU, about Forced Labour, Modern Slavery and the Global Supply Chain.
10:45 A lecture by University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer on the causes and consequences of the Ukraine war, recorded Jun 6.
June 25, 2022
10:05 Planet B: Everything Must Change. Episode 3 Infrastructure.
; In the third episode of Planet B: Everything Must Change, host Dalia Gebrial finds out why infrastructure has become a touchstone for climate movements across the global north.
; A podcast from Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in collaboration with Novara Media. Planet B: Everything Must Change.
11:15 Bonus Content: Planet B: Kate Aronoff on What America's Climate Role Should Be.
June 18, 2022
10:05 From the Below the Radar podcast, David Lester talks about his new graphic history, Prophet Against Slavery: The Story of Benjamin Lay.
10:45 Two episodes from Crackdown with Garth Mullins: Goodbye Greg and You Will Not Destroy Me.
June 11, 2022
10:05 Shauna Sylvester speaks with Below the Radar host Am Johal in their episode From Dialogue to Action.
10:50 The Pseudo-Science of Whiteness, and Escaping The Narcissism of The American Dream, two episodes from the National Radio Project's show, Making Contact.
June 4, 2022
10:05 Planet B: Everything Must Change. Episode 2 Land.
; In the second episode of Planet B: Everything Must Change, Harpreet Kaur Paul finds out how the way we’re using land is both accelerating the climate crisis and violating the rights of local communities.
; A podcast from Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in collaboration with Novara Media. Planet B: Everything Must Change.
11:15 Bonus Content: Planet B: Julian Brave NoiseCat on Apocalypse and Indigenous Resistance
May 28, 2022
10:05 Below the Radar host Am Johal in conversation with Kevin Bruyneel, author of Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States
10:55 From Alternative Radio, Chronicles of Dissent, David Barsamian's latest conversation with Noam Chomsky.
May 21, 2022
10:05 In an episode from the podcast Below the Radar, host Am Johal speaks to David Spaner, author of Remembering BC’s 1983 Solidarity Uprising.
10:55 Commute. Pollute. Repeat. What are we working for? In the first episode of Planet B: Everything Must Change, host Dalia Gebrial tackles the future of work.
; A podcast from Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in collaboration with Novara Media. Planet B: Everything Must Change.
May 14, 2022
10:05 Meghan Doherty of Action Canada on how lack of equal access is the biggest obstacle to a woman’s right to choose in Canada.
10:25 We speak with Dr. Danyaal Raza of the Decent Work and Health Network about a report calling for decent work for all as part of pandemic recovery.
10:45 Ian Mass will join us with his regular City Beat report, looking at the key issues coming up at Vancouver City Council next week.
11:10 From January, an interview with Frances Moore Lappé on the 50th anniversary of her groundbreaking book Diet for a Small Planet.
11:35 Fossil fuel companies have avoided paying for damages caused by the climate crisis, but it’s time for that to change. We spoke with lawyer Andrew Gage in January.
May 7, 2022
10:05 Ali Kazimi joins us to talk about his film Beyond Extinction: Sinixt Resurgence at the DOXA film festival next week.
10:25 We speak with Meenakshi Mannoe of Pivot Legal about the recommendations coming out of the Special Committee on Reforming the Police Act.
10:45 We talk with Susan Boyd, author of the just-published book Heroin on the history of heroin regulation in Canada.
11:10 We speak with Lenea Maibaum of the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco about a significant victory for renters' right to organize in that city.
11:35 We talk with writer, activist and Prince George resident Peter Ewart about the need for a publicly owned, intercity transportation service in northern BC.
April 30, 2022
10:05 Alex Hemingway of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives explains how to build self-financing and sustainable public rental housing.
10:25 Training director Kelly Erickson of Right To Be talks with us about the evolution and successes of their anti-harassment training.
10:45 We talk with Nicholas Marcus Thompson, lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against the federal government for systemic discrimination against Black employees.
11:10 We speak with Jeff Leigh of Hub Cycling about what needs to change in BC laws to make the streets safer for vulnerable users.
11:35 On the eve of the Day of Action for a People’s Vaccine, Nikolas Barry-Shaw on Canada’s role in blocking a patent waiver for Covid-19 vaccines.
April 23, 2022
10:05 Michael Bueckert on the Arming Apartheid report, which raises serious human rights concerns about Canada’s arms exports to Israel.
10:25 We talk with Andy Currier of the Oakland Institute about their report on the Midwest Carbon Express pipeline.
10:45 On City Beat, Vancouver considers radically expanding CCTV cameras, an increased empty homes tax and who really benefits when business taxes go down.
11:10 We speak with Ricardo Tranjan, senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Ontario, about housing and the recent federal budget.
11:35 Dr. Lori Adamson of Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment on the bias in FortisBC created fossil fuel materials in K-12 classrooms.
April 16, 2022
10:05 We speak with Ricardo Tranjan, political economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Ontario, about housing and the recent federal budget.
10:25 Dr. Lori Adamson of Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment on the bias in materials created for K-12 classrooms by FortisBC.
10:45 Hayden King of the Yellowhead Institute talks with Matthew Norris of the Urban Native Youth Association about the Land Back movement, from December.
11:30 Democracy Now speaks with economist Jayati Ghosh about how corporate profits are driving soaring prices that hurt the developing world the most.
April 9, 2022
10:05 Stephanie Fung of UNITE HERE Local 40 talks about one year on the picket line with the locked-out hotel workers at Metrotown Hilton.
10:25 On City Beat, Vancouver Council considers the police budget, an Olympic plebiscite, bike locks, a mansion tax and the Broadway subway plan.
10:45 We speak with Kevin Walby and Jessica Evans about the new book, Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada.
11:10 We talk with Brent Eichler of Save Old Growth, on hunger strike and calling for a public meeting with Forests Minister Katrine Conroy.
11:30 Democracy Now speaks with Joanne Mariner, crisis response director at Amnesty International, about the unlawful killing of civilians in Ukraine.
April 2, 2022
10:05 A second chance to hear Scott Saywell and Ricki Bartlett talk about Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools’ reconciliation-focused series, Learning With Syeyutsus.
10:50 We listen to economists Dean Baker and Richard Wolff on the misrepresentation of inflation in the media, courtesy of Upstream.
March 26, 2022
10:05 To examine disinformation following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we talk with Anatoliy Gruzd about the ConflictMisinfo Dashboard.
10:25 Zena Sharman joins us to talk about her new book about LGBTQ+ health titled The Care We Dream Of, from December.
10:45 We speak with Jerome Phelps of Jubilee Debt Campaign about the urgent need to cancel Ukraine’s debt as it fights the Russian invasion.
11:10 Bill Yuen of Heritage Vancouver talks about the importance of retaining intangible cultural heritage in city neighbourhoods.
11:35 Public safety, the winter Olympics, housing and the increasingly crowded race for Mayor are all part of this week's City Beat report with Ian Mass.
March 19, 2022
10:05 Ariel Gold of CODEPINK on Saudi Arabia's mass execution of 81 people in a single day and its war on Yemen.
10:25 Professor Christopher Vials, author of “Haunted by Hitler”, on Donald Trump and the rise of a xenophobic right-wing populism, from January.
10:45 We speak with Gordon Laxer on his recent report ‘Posing As Canadian’ about foreign ownership of the Alberta oil patch.
11:10 Wendy Mendez on the ongoing trial of high level military officers in Guatemala for crimes against humanity in the case of the Military Diary, from November.
11:35 Tamara Lorincz talks about the new report, Soaring: The Harms and Risks of Fighter Jets and Why Canada Must Not Buy a New Fleet.
March 12, 2022
10:05 Jens Wieting of Sierra Club BC on the critical role Canada and BC can play in preventing climate catastrophe.
10:25 Lawyer Zool Suleman on Canada’s expedited visa program for Ukrainians, and the questions it raises about our responses to people fleeing war.
10:45 On City Beat, Vancouver Council considers diesel truck pollution, the public infrastructure deficit, and the Broadway subway plan.
11:10 Nikolas Barry-Shaw talks with us about Justin Trudeau’s about-face on vaccine equity and his support for Big Pharma at the WTO, first aired in January.
11:35 Antonia Juhasz on the links between fossil fuels, global conflict & US domestic policy in the context of Russia’s war on Ukraine, from Democracy Now.
Mar 5, 2022
10:05 Dan Lewis of Clayoquot Action on open pen fish farms and what we must do to protect wild salmon.
10:25 Ed Yong talks with Democracy Now about the people left behind as countries start to remove public health measures and open up.
10:40 Poet, academic and activist El Jones talks about a recent report on defunding the Halifax police.
11:10 Building a Stronger Democracy, an webinar organized by the Council of Canadians, featuring Zexi Li and Alex Silas of Ottawa, nurse Jackie Walker and journalist Linda Mcquaig.
Feb 19, 2022
10:05 Criminologist Temitope Oriola on what the truckers’ convoy reveals about the links between politics, police and the law.
10:30 Ian Mass talks with historian Daniel Francis about the evolution of Vancouver documented in his new book, Becoming Vancouver: A History.
10:50 Eugene Kung of West Coast Environmental Law on the campaign to get an update on what TMX will cost Canadians.
11:10 Noam Chomsky recorded at a webinar Feb 4 on why diplomacy and working with China are the only options to meet the global challenges ahead.
Feb 12, 2022
10:05 Owen Schalk joins us to talk about the recent election of Xiomara Castro in Honduras and Canada’s complicity in the human rights abuses of the last decade.
10:25 Peter McCartney on a government report that finds 77% of respondents to a consultation on oil and gas royalties want B.C. to prioritize fighting climate change.
10:45 On City Beat: a tiny shelter pilot project, maintenance in SRO hotels, Quebec’s Bill 21 and climate change infrastructure.
11:05 A talk by Yves Engler at the launch of his latest book, We Stand on Guard for Whom? A People's History of the Canadian Military.
Feb 5, 2022
10:05 Sustainability consultant Sue Maxwell calls plans by Metro Vancouver to provide heat and hot water for South Vancouver residents a terrible idea.
10:25 We speak with John Calvert about the campaign to improve working conditions and benefits for food service and cleaning workers at SFU.
10:45 A new report has come out on how First Nations exercise sovereignty over mining projects on their land. We talk with Tahltan elder Allen Edzerza. >> read the report
11:05 Two peace activists from Germany and Belgium discuss the threat of war in Ukraine between NATO and Russia, from Democracy Now.
11:35 We speak with economics professor Randall Wray about Wall Street banks and the financialization of everything, from November.
Jan 29, 2022
10:05 Christopher Vials, author of “Haunted by Hitler”, on Donald Trump and the rise of a xenophobic right-wing populism.
10:25 Fossil fuel companies have thus far avoided paying for damages caused by the climate crisis, but it’s time for that to change, according to lawyer Andrew Gage.
10:45 Elaine Brière on her film, Haiti Betrayed, which follows the Haitian dream of democracy, repeatedly thwarted by Canada and other countries.
11:10 On City Beat, densifying Vancouver neighbourhoods, Indigenous co-management of Vancouver parks, efforts to create an age-friendly city and more.
11:35 We hear reaction from supporters of Hassan Diab after a French court set a new trial date, 5 years after Dr Diab was released due to lack of evidence.
Jan 22, 2022
10:05 BCCLA lawyer Jessica Magonet tells us about the recent Federal Court ruling that gives the RCMP a strict timeline to respond to complaints.
10:30 Journalist and activist Molly Murphy joins us to talk about the RCMP's special detachment in BC designed to fight activists and indigenous groups.
10:55 Frances Moore Lappé on the 50th anniversary of Diet for a Small Planet! “Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food, but by a scarcity of democracy.”
11:20 Below The Radar podcast talks with Nick Montgomery, co-founder of Solidarity Housing, a way for homeowners to create affordable housing.
Jan 15, 2022
10:05 Nikolas Barry-Shaw talks with us about Justin Trudeau’s about-face on vaccine equity and his support for Big Pharma at the WTO.
10:25 On City Beat: defunding the police, affordable housing, drug toxicity crisis, Indigenous Nations and the upcoming 2022 municipal election.
10:45 Lawyer Sarah Clarke on the $40B agreement-in-principal to compensate Indigenous children harmed by Canada's discriminatory welfare system.
11:05 Dr. Kawser Ahmed talks with us about developing a toolkit for educators to counter radicalization and extremism in youth in Manitoba schools.
11:30 We are joined by Bill Fletcher, past president of TransAfrica Forum, to talk about the life and legacy of Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Jan 8, 2022
10:05 Emily Lowan joins us to talk about the future of university divestment campaigns and their transformative potential.
10:25 We speak with economist Sheila Block about the need to come up with a made-in-Canada solution to high inflation.
10:45 US scientists have developed a low-cost vaccine to inoculate the global South. Democracy Now speaks with one of the scientists, Dr. Peter Hotez.
11:05 Author Ivan Coyote joined us to talk about their book, Care of: Letters, Connections, and Cures.
11:30 Carmen Rodriguez joined us in October to talk about her new novel Atacama, published in September by Fernwood.
Jan 1, 2022
10:05 We hear economist and author Jason Hickel on solutions to global inequity, from the Upstream podcast.
10:50 Jeff Chester and Kate Montgomery of the Center for Digital Democracy discuss commercial surveillance culture, from Alternative Radio.