Redeye

  • Author: Vários
  • Narrator: Vários
  • Publisher: Podcast
  • Duration: 174:08:27
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Synopsis

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

Episodes

  • Let's Ride: Make Public Transit BC Wide

    20/10/2020 Duration: 10min

    British Columbians relied heavily on a private carrier until Greyhound abandoned its BC routes in 2018, stranding thousands of highway bus users. What’s left is a dysfunctional patchwork of privately-owned bus services, private charters, taxis and local transit. A new campaign is calling for the provincial government to create a unified system that will guarantee all British Columbians essential transit access to the rest of the province. We talk with Maryann Abbs of Let's Ride: Make Public Transit BC Wide.

  • Race, class, and the silent epidemic of pedestrian deaths

    15/10/2020 Duration: 17min

    In the United States, Black and Latino pedestrians more likely to get hit by a car than white pedestrians They are less likely to own cars and more likely to take transit and walk. Plus, Black and Latino neighborhoods are passed over for safety improvements that white communities have the political clout to secure. These are some of the facts in a new book by journalist Angie Schmitt called Right of Way: Race, Class and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America. We spoke with Angie Schmitt in September.

  • A feminist recovery plan for Canada

    12/10/2020 Duration: 18min

    A new report points out that women, Two-Spirit and gender-diverse people are at the forefront of Canada’s pandemic response. More than half of women workers are concentrated in occupations known as the 5Cs: caring, cashiering, catering, cleaning and clerical functions. It says women need to be centred in Canada’s economic recovery efforts going forward. A Feminist Recovery Plan for Canada is co-authored by YWCA Canada. We speak with Anjum Sultana of the YWCA.

  • Non-federal levels of government could act on decriminalization of drugs

    08/10/2020 Duration: 15min

    Municipal and provincial levels of government say that their hands are tied when it comes to bringing about decriminalization of drugs in their jurisdictions. But that’s not true, according to a new report by Pivot Legal. Author Caitlin Shane says there are simple actions that non-federal levels of government can take to reduce the harms of criminal sanctions for drug users.

  • Black Canadians report far worse Covid-related health and social outcomes

    05/10/2020 Duration: 13min

    Black Canadians are more than three times as likely as the general population to know someone who died of Covid-19. This is just one of the findings of a new online survey of several thousand Canadians about their experiences with Covid-19 since the pandemic started. The study was carried out by the Edmonton-based African Canadian Civic Engagement Council and Innovative Research Group. Dunia Nur is president of the ACCEC.

  • Understanding the role of climate change in California's forest fires

    02/10/2020 Duration: 12min

    Research over the past 15 years shows that climate change has drastically amplified the conditions that help wildfires ignite and spread. Simon Donner is a climate scientist and professor of geography at the University of British Columbia. He discusses the factors that led to the catastrophic wildfires in the western United States.

  • BC government releases long-awaited report on old-growth forests

    29/09/2020 Duration: 18min

    The recently released report, A New Future for Old Forests, contains 14 recommendations on how BC can better manage its endangered old-growth forests. Jens Wieting applauds the report but is concerned about the BC government’s response to it. Jens Wieting is senior forest and climate campaigner with the Sierra Club.

  • Cheryl Foggo on her new film about legendary Black cowboy John Ware

    26/09/2020 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 new NFB documentary now showing at the Calgary and Vancouver International Film Festival.

  • City Beat: Housing, homelessness and public health

    24/09/2020 Duration: 17min

    Lower Mainland city councils got back to work this week with no shortage of challenging topics on the agenda. Vancouver City Council discussed a whole raft of motions to tackle homelessness, including tiny houses, RV parking and more. Redeye Collective member Ian Mass joins us with his City Beat report.

  • Analyzing the role of social media in misconceptions about Covid-19

    15/09/2020 Duration: 09min

    The prevalence of misinformation about Covid 19 is much higher on social media than in traditional news sources. A group of Canadian researchers has found that people who consume a lot of social media end up believing conspiracy theories and misinformation, and as a result do not engage in safe behaviours that prevent the spread of COVID-19. We speak with Lisa Teichmann, a member of the research team.

  • New study challenges statistics used to support wolf cull in BC

    11/09/2020 Duration: 12min

    Last year, the BC government expanded its wolf cull program in an attempt to protect endangered mountain caribou in the province. The adoption of this strategy was based on a study by Robert Serrouya and others at the University of Alberta. But when biologist Lee Harding went back into the data Serrouya used, he found that killing wolves had no detectable effect on the caribou populations it was trying to protect. We talk with Lee Harding.

  • Workers in craft and artisanal industries in Vancouver share horror stories

    07/09/2020 Duration: 18min

    Local craft and artisanal businesses are often celebrated as an antidote to the corporatization of everyday life. Yet workers in these local enterprises say they can be toxic places to work, offering low pay and little protection from arbitrary management practices. Benjamin Anderson is a labour studies lecturer and PHD candidate at SFU. He explains what he’s heard from workers at local breweries, cafes and pubs.

  • The costs and challenges of cleaning up the Tulsequah Chief mine

    03/09/2020 Duration: 12min

    The Tulsequah Chief mine is in a remote corner of northwest BC. This mixed-metals mine has been leaching contaminated water into the largest tributary of the salmon-producing Taku River for more than 60 years, and the last owner of the mine is now bankrupt. We talk with journalist Matt Simmons about the delays in getting work started on the cleanup.

  • Pandemic stresses threaten children's future health and development

    30/08/2020 Duration: 12min

    While children are less directly affected by Covid-19, the pandemic may have long-term adverse effects on the health and well-being of children and adolescents. Dr. Michael Kobor is Canada Research Chair in Social Epigenetics and Professor in the UBC Department of Medical Genetics. He talks to us about how social factors can get “under the skin” to influence child health and development.

  • New app designed to support sexual assault survivors during pandemic

    27/08/2020 Duration: 16min

    WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre has introduced a new text and chat app to help support survivors of sexual assault during the Covid-19 pandemic. WAVAW Connect allows survivors to contact support workers confidentially from any device. Dalya Israel and Ashley Teja of WAVAW explain how the new app works.

  • What defunding the police could mean for survivors of sexual violence

    24/08/2020 Duration: 10min

    In a recent blog post, Heather Lawson argues that the assumption that police presence saves those who experience sexual violence contradicts the experiences of many survivors, particularly Indigenous women and girls. Heather Lawson is the McInturff Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. She spoke with us on August 10.

  • New federal regularization program excludes majority of migrants

    22/08/2020 Duration: 08min

    Undocumented workers and asylum seekers in Canada say the federal government’s new regularization program is deeply unfair to the hundreds of thousands of non-status workers who have being doing essential work during the Covid-19 pandemic. We speak with Mohamed Barry, an organizer with Solidarity Across Borders in Montreal.

  • Site C dam likely to miss fall deadline for river diversion

    20/08/2020 Duration: 16min

    BC Hydro has classified the health of the project as ‘red’ meaning that it’s in deep trouble. The dam is facing unknown cost overruns, schedule delays and serious geotechnical problems. Sarah Cox is author of a prize-winning book about opposition to the Site C dam called Breaching the Peace and she continues to follow the project closely for The Narwhal. We spoke with Sarah Cox on August 11.

  • Masks if necessary but not necessarily mask laws

    17/08/2020 Duration: 14min

    Businesses and governments are increasingly making the use of non-medical masks mandatory in indoor public spaces. But, according to the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, new laws mandating masks are exactly the type of government action that tends to overshoot the mark, to the unreasonable and unjustified detriment of our freedoms. We speak with Cara Zwibel of the CCLA.

  • Legal challenges to deployment of federal agents to US cities

    13/08/2020 Duration: 17min

    Shortly after President Donald Trump sent federal agents to Portland, a federal judge in Portland issued a restraining order against the agents barring them from attacking journalists and legal observers. Black Lives Matter Chicago and other organizations have filed lawsuits to prevent a similar occupation of their cities. We speak with Marjorie Cohn, former president of the National Lawyers Guild in the United States.

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