Redeye

  • Author: Vários
  • Narrator: Vários
  • Publisher: Podcast
  • Duration: 174:40:56
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Synopsis

A progressive take on current events. Produced by an independent media collective at Vancouver Cooperative Radio.

Episodes

  • Municipalities encouraged to do more to support children and youth

    04/10/2022 Duration: 15min

    An organization that advocates for BC’s children and youth says municipal governments need to take more responsibility for supporting the youngest residents of their cities. To this end, First Call has developed a toolkit for voters wanting for raise issues in the upcoming municipal elections taking place across British Columbia on October 15. We speak with Adrienne Montani, executive director of First Call.

  • Canada ignores its own foreign policy experts in UN votes on Palestine

    30/09/2022 Duration: 18min

    In 2019, the Canadian government voted in favour of a resolution on Palestinian self-determination at the United Nations General Assembly. This was a reversal of its vote for the previous 8 years. Despite this symbolic shift, Canada has continued to vote against almost every other resolution which aims to support Palestinian human rights. A report published by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East reveals a stark disjuncture between Canada’s overall stance on Israel and the advice of its foreign affairs experts. We speak with the report author, Michael Buekert.

  • New NFB doc Unarchived reveals what is erased from official records

    28/09/2022 Duration: 21min

    In the new feature film Unarchived, co-directors Hayley Gray and Elad Tzadok highlight community archives across British Columbia. Their film reveals just some of what has been erased from the official record and challenges larger institutions to re-examine narratives that don’t reflect the totality of our shared experience. Unarchived has its world premiere Sept 30 at VIFF. We speak with Hayley Gray and Elad Tzadok.

  • City Beat: A guide to the parties and issues in the 2022 Vancouver election

    26/09/2022 Duration: 18min

    Vancouver municipal voters will go to the polls on October 15. Electors will have to sort through 137 candidates to decide who the mayor will be, as well as city councillors, school trustees and park commissioners. To break it down a bit for us, we talk with Redeye collective member Ian Mass with his City Beat report.

  • Hot Pink Paper Campaign identifies key policy asks in municipal election

    25/09/2022 Duration: 11min

    In the lead-up to Vancouver’s upcoming municipal election on October 15, Women Transforming Cities has launched the Hot Pink Paper Campaign with eight policy asks for candidates in the election. These policy asks are based on months of community input from women, gender-diverse residents, and front-line organizations. Campaign lead Mahtab Laghaei joins us to talk about what they want to see candidates support.

  • Chilean-Canadian author Carmen Rodriguez on her 2021 book, Atacama (encore)

    21/09/2022 Duration: 20min

    Carmen Rodriguez is an internationally acclaimed Chilean-Canadian author, educator and journalist. Her 2021 novel, Atacama, is set against the backdrop of Chile in the first half of the twentieth century and Europe during the Spanish Civil War. It is both a sweeping historical novel and gripping tale of personal drama. Carmen Rodriguez joined us in November last year to talk about the book.

  • Vancouver choir director Earle Peach shares his passion for writing songs (encore)

    14/09/2022 Duration: 18min

    Earle Peach is the director of three Vancouver-based choral groups including the High and Lows Choir and Solidarity Notes Labour Choir. He also plays a bunch of instruments and performs with musical groups. In his 2021 book, Questions to the Moon, Peach says songwriting is his strongest self-identification. The book is a collection of stories and lyrics, published by Lazara Press.

  • New research institute studies the 200 years of slavery in Canada (encore)

    07/09/2022 Duration: 17min

    In June 2021, NSCAD University in Halifax announced that it was going to set up an institute to study Canadian slavery. The initiative was spearheaded by Dr. Charmaine Nelson, the first Black tenured professor of art history in Canada. The Institute for the Study of Canadian Slavery will be a hub for the study of the art, visual cultures, and histories of Canadian slavery and its legacies. We talked with Dr. Charmaine Nelson last year.

  • The Water Defenders tells remarkable story behind El Salvador's ban on metal mining (encore)

    30/08/2022 Duration: 19min

    In 2017, El Salvador became the first country in the world to pass a comprehensive law banning on metals mining nationwide. The vote was the result of a 12-year struggle by small farmers and their allies to protect the waters of the Lempa River from the impact of gold mining. Robin Broad and John Cavanagh tell this incredible story in their 2021 book The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved A Country From Corporate Greed. We spoke with John Cavanagh shortly after the book was published.

  • New book argues for radical transformation of Canadian history in schools (encore)

    24/08/2022 Duration: 19min

    Canadian history, as many of us learned it in high school, leaves out or distorts the histories of many Canadians who do not fit into the prescribed narrative of this country. Students are often left questioning how they can study a past that does not reflect their present. The book “Transforming the Canadian History Classroom: Imagining a New "We", calls for an approach that places students at the centre of the history classroom. We spoke with author Dr. Samantha Cutrara in February 2021.

  • English country mansions, colonialism and historic slavery (encore)

    17/08/2022 Duration: 17min

    The National Trust manages historic properties and areas of countryside in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In September 2020, the Trust commissioned a report on connections between their properties and colonialism, including links with historic slavery. The report attracted the attention of a group of Conservative MPs who attempted to discredit the work of the historians who produced it. In January 2021, we spoke with Professor Corinne Fowler of the University of Leicester about the work and the attacks on it.

  • Primary Obsessions: A mystery novel by Charles Demers (encore)

    10/08/2022 Duration: 25min

    A long tradition of the amateur detective exists in the mystery genre. The latest sleuth is Annick Boudreau, a clinical psychologist created by a Vancouver comedian, playwright, and novelist who based the character of Annick Boudreau, in part, on his own therapist. We speak with Charles Demers about the book, Primary Obsessions.

  • A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency (encore)

    04/08/2022 Duration: 29min

    It’s 2022, and Canada is not on track to meet our greenhouse gas emissions targets. To do so, we’ll need radical systemic change to how we live and work—and fast. How can we ever achieve this? Top policy analyst and author Seth Klein reveals we can do it now because did it before during the Second World War. In a conversation recorded in 2020, we speak with Seth Klein about how wartime thinking and community efforts can be repurposed for Canada’s own Green New Deal.

  • Cheryl Foggo on her documentary film about legendary Black cowboy John Ware (encore)

    26/07/2022 Duration: 20min

    John Ware is an iconic figure in the history of southern Alberta. He was a Black pioneer and rancher who settled in the province before the turn of the century. Born in the American South, he was already an accomplished cowboy by the time he arrived in Alberta. John Ware is the subject of a NFB documentary that showed at the Calgary and Vancouver International Film Festival in September 2020.

  • Digital book shares the teachings of Tla'amin elder Elsie Paul (encore)

    19/07/2022 Duration: 28min

    Born in 1931, Tla’amin elder Elsie Paul was raised by her grandparents on their ancestral territory just north of Powell River on the Sunshine Coast of BC. As her adult life unfolded against a backdrop of colonialism, she drew strength from the teachings she had learned. She now passes on those teachings to all who visit a new interactive book published by Ravenspace. We talk with one of the co-creators of the book, Elsie Paul’s grandson, Davis McKenzie in July 2020. The book is still available here: http://publications.ravenspacepublishing.org/as-i-remember-it/index

  • Racism and the Black body (encore)

    12/07/2022 Duration: 26min

    When sociologist Ingrid Waldron started teaching in the School of Nursing at Dalhousie, she says she got a lot of pushback from White student nurses who didn’t understand what race had to do with health. In this wide-ranging conversation recorded in July 2020, Waldron examines the connections between the social determinants of health, environmental racism and police violence.

  • Singer songwriter Eliza Gilkyson on her album 2020 (encore)

    06/07/2022 Duration: 27min

    Eliza Gilkyson describes her album "2020" as a collection of sing-alongs, diatribes, marching songs and love letters to the Earth. We caught up with her in May 2020 at her home in Austin, Texas for an extended conversation about politics, music and the significance of the year 2020 in the United States.

  • Women gain full equality under Indian Act after 143 years of discrimination (encore)

    01/07/2022 Duration: 20min

    Sharon McIvor’s grandmother was a member of the Lower Nicola Band who married a non-Indigenous man. Under Canada’s Indian Act, status was decided on the basis of male lineage and so their daughter was ineligible for registration as an Indian. Sharon McIvor launched a landmark case to gain equality and won a sweeping legal victory in 2007. The Canadian government continued to drag its feet. Sharon McIvor took the case to the United Nations in 2011. Canada finally ended sex-based discrimination in the Act on August 15, 2019

  • A tribute to Canadian economist and leading socialist intellectual Mel Watkins (encore)

    24/06/2022 Duration: 17min

    Mel Watkins died in 2020 at age 87. Mel Watkins was a political economist at the University of Toronto, as well as an activist and writer. In the late 1960s, he was founder and co-leader, with James Laxer, of The Waffle, a left-wing political formation within the NDP that advocated for an “independent, socialist Canada.” Jim Stanford is author of a collection of essays on Mel Watkins’ Staple Theory of Economic Growth. Jim Stanford was formerly an economist with Unifor, and is currently director of the Centre for Future Work. He joined us in April 2020 to pay tribute to his friend and mentor.

  • Potlatch as Pedagogy: Learning Through Ceremony (encore)

    12/06/2022 Duration: 28min

    In 1884, the Canadian government banned the Haida potlatch. But Haida elders kept the knowledge of the ceremony alive until the ban was lifted. In 1969, a potlatch was held to honour the raising of the first totem pole in 80 years, carved by Robert Davidson. Sara Florence Davidson co-wrote Potlatch as Pedagogy with her father to show how Haida traditions can be brought into present-day classrooms. She joins us in our studio to talk about the process of writing the book – and tells the story of how her father came to carve that first pole at the age of 22.

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