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Comeuppance

Once Upon a Time

October 15, 2005
| This is Episode 1 introducing what Comeuppance is all about -i.e. featuring oral storytelling. This episode includes the story that I call "Arrow in the Bullseye."

8:00 minutes (7.32 MB)
Archived

Episode 8: Not So Common Sense: The Search Begins

October 22, 2005
| Chris tells a story about common sense; Matt & chris discuss not-so-common sense, TV and the new vivisectionists, we tell a riddle and end with some words of wisdom.
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23:46 minutes (21.77 MB)
Comeuppance
Comeuppance

Episode 2- Two Short Tales

October 23, 2005
| The two stories for this episode are: Stop Eating Sugar and A Horse Came Back

5:25 minutes (4.97 MB)
rabble radio
rabble radio

Special Report from the Podcast Expo!

November 12, 2005
| rpn producer Charlotte Scott sends a special message of love from the first ever Portable Media and Podcasting Expo in Ontario, California.

16:13 minutes (7.43 MB)
rabble radio
rabble radio

Episode 7 - Notes from Abroad

November 13, 2005
| A special interview with Stephen Lewis, avoiding communications evil, why Bush isn't Jean, Charlotte at the Podcast Expo and trips to Haiti and Dufferin Grove Park.

40:39 minutes (37.22 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

People's Summit in Argentina, Canadian prisons and human rights

November 21, 2005
| Steve Stewart attended the 3rd People's Summit of the Americas: he brings a report of what was achieved both at the People's Summit and at the Leaders' Summit; Kim Pate has been working for prisoners'

36:50 minutes (33.72 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Headlines Theatre on gang violence, Toxic Nation report

November 23, 2005
| Headlines Theatre uses the interactive techniques of forum theatre to explore complex social issues - Laura Lamb reviews their latest production "Here and Now" dealing with gang violence in

24:59 minutes (22.87 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Campaign against P3 hospitals, Sanctions on Israel, and more

November 25, 2005
| Natalie Mehra is director of the Ontario Health Coalition and author of a recent report examining 100 public-private partnerships titled "Flawed, Failed and Abandoned"; Erica Lamacraft atten

39:03 minutes (35.75 MB)
Archived

Episode 10: My New Heaven

November 21, 2005
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18:17 minutes (16.75 MB)

#8 - Problem solving, or, at least, thinking

November 28, 2005
| In this episode, Keith makes a pitch for Canadian Citizenship, DVDiva thinks about gangland, Homebrew takes us for a ride in a radio and Jack Santa Barbara shares his ideas about the end of suburbia.

36:11 minutes (33.14 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Norman Solomon on the Iraq debate

November 28, 2005
| Syndicated columnist, author and media critic Norman Solomon talks about the debate on the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq that consumed Washington, D.C. last week. He also discusses his new book

13:28 minutes (12.33 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canada and climate change; Soulless, a play by Aaron Bushkowsky

November 30, 2005
| Dale Marshall of the David Suzuki Foudation says that provincial and territorial governments have dropped the ball on climate change. He's the author of a recent report comparing provincial performanc

23:35 minutes (21.6 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Risks of eating GM foods; how Walmart treats its workers

December 2, 2005
| SFU Communications prof Pat Howard surverys the current scientific research into the health risks posed by eating GM foods; Liza Featherstone is a New York-based journalist who has written extensively

28:36 minutes (26.19 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Sam Gindin on concessionary bargaining in the auto industry

December 4, 2005
| Sam Gindin worked for the Canadian Autoworkers Union for decades. He talks about the concessionary demands being made by corporations in the auto industry and how workers can respond.

15:27 minutes (14.15 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

New book on homophobic violence; Spartacus Books re-opens

December 6, 2005
| Douglas Victor Janoff's book "Pink Blood" is the first comprehensive study of homophobic violence in Canada - he researched police records, court judgments and media reports to get a picture

32:41 minutes (29.93 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Award-winning new doc on anti-war movement of soldiers in Vietnam

December 8, 2005
| An in-depth interview with David Zieger, director of "Sir, No Sir", a remarkable new documentary about the GI movement - the anti-war movement of active-duty soldiers and veterans that helpe

26:10 minutes (23.96 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Opposing the death penalty in the United States

December 11, 2005
| On December 2, the state of North Carolina killed Kenneth Boyd by lethal injection, making him the 1000th person to be executed since the U.S. brought back the death penalty in 1976. In that time, 100

14:15 minutes (13.05 MB)
rabble radio
rabble radio

#9- Take Down Shake Down

December 12, 2005
| This week on rabble radio, Keith looks at how simple it was make the Canadian government collapse. Cathi checks out the way we love to watch the stars take each other out with their fists in the movie

28:25 minutes (26.02 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

A call for reform of the voting system; the Great Bear Rainforest

December 13, 2005
| Canada needs to move towards a more representative voting system - the only way to get there is by electing another minority government, according to Dennis Pilon; the Great Bear Rainforest covers 21

25:00 minutes (22.89 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

An appreciation of James Graff

December 15, 2005
| James Graff died on October 23. He was a tireless worker for human rights, especially those of the Palestinian people. His friend and co-worker Mordecai Briemberg remembers him.

13:26 minutes (12.31 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The Real Meaning of Money

December 26, 2005
| How we feel about money is central to how we live our lives. In this conversation, psychologist Dorothy Rowe explores some of the ideas in her insightful and thought-provoking book "The Real Mean

18:47 minutes (17.2 MB)
Sizzle
Sizzle

Big in Japan

December 15, 2005
| In this inaugural episode we get ambitious: a three course Japanese meal of Miso Soup, Deep-fried Prawn balls and Spinach with Sesame sauce.

46:16 minutes (21.19 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

First council meeting a defeat for Vancouver's new mayor

December 18, 2005
| Sam Sullivan's first initiative as mayor was voted down by all but one of Vancouver's council members in a marathon 16-hour meeting on Thursday. The opposing votes included 4 from Sullivan's own NPA p

14:18 minutes (13.1 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Coca-Cola in trouble in India; Sustainable energy options for B.C

December 20, 2005
| Coca- Cola is facing large protests and plummeting sales in India. Amit Srivastava explains why the company has become so unpopular in one of its principal markets. Also in this show, Guy Dauncey on s

26:04 minutes (23.87 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Anti-immigrant vigilantes in U.S.; Disney's Chronicles of Narnia

December 22, 2005
| The Minutemen Project, a group of U.S. anti-immigrant vigilantes moves north to Washington State. Also in this show, Laura Lamb reviews the first of Walt Disney's Chronicles of Narnia series.

31:29 minutes (28.83 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Madeleine Parent: Activist

December 30, 2005
| Madeleine Parent organized women and children in the cotton mills of Quebec during the war, fought the influence of the church and the Catholic syndicates and helped to establish the independent Canad

30:25 minutes (27.85 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

End of mourning ceremony on Haida Gwaii; harm reduction in B.C.

January 2, 2006
| On June 21, the Haida held a special ceremony to honour the remains of hundreds of ancestors returned from museums across North America. Nika Collison talks about the process of repatriation and what

32:38 minutes (29.88 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

In the Shadow of the Holocaust; oil and gas on First Nations land

January 4, 2006
| At the end of WW2, Zionists dispatched hundreds of trained envoys to Europe to persuade Jews in the displaced persons camps to come to Palestine. Yosef Grodzinsky tells their story in his book "I

30:00 minutes (27.48 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Public solutions to health care waitlists; update on Zapatistas

January 8, 2006
| Dr. Michael Rachlis argues that the public sector can alleviate Canada's waitlist problems and that private for-profit clinics actually tend to make things worse. Also, Chris Arsenault talks about the

29:07 minutes (26.67 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

School board liable for homophobic bullying; predatory lending

January 6, 2006
| In a precedent-setting decision, North Vancouver school district was found liable for the years of homophobic bullying Azmi Jubran experienced in high school. Also, Moneymart and the payday lending in

28:17 minutes (25.9 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Biometric passports, national ID cards and the Smart Border

January 12, 2006
| The Canadian government is quietly bringing the country in line with the new U.S. security climate. Immigration lawyer and activist Zool Suleman explains what's in store. Also in this show, a conversa

29:12 minutes (26.73 MB)
Africafiles: The Pulse
Africafiles: The Pulse

Episode #3: Oil and Africa

January 31, 2006
| The emergence of new oil producers in Africa begs us to ask whether African communities will benefit from this resource. Also a look at various issues such as the African Union, Martin Luther King an
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18:56 minutes (17.33 MB)
Sizzle
Sizzle

Back to Basics

January 11, 2006
| For our second podcast we prepare a classic Sunday dinner: Roast Chicken, Saffron-braised New Potatoes and Caramelized Leeks.

48:17 minutes (22.1 MB)
Africafiles: The Pulse
Africafiles: The Pulse

Episode #2

January 6, 2006
| Interview with Diana Mavhunduse, African journalist based in Toronto plus a look at democracy vs poverty, disease etc.
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14:37 minutes (13.39 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

A Palestinian view of Ariel Sharon

January 15, 2006
| Ali Abunimah is a Palestinian American writer and journalist. He is a founder and frequent contributor to the Electronic Intifada website. In this interview, he talks about the life of Ariel Sharon.

14:12 minutes (13 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Protecting Canada's dwindling oil and gas reserves

January 17, 2006
| Canada's energy resources are running out but, under NAFTA, we are bound to send 70% of what we have south of border. Gordon Laxer of the Parkland Institute in Alberta says Canada needs an energy secu

27:05 minutes (24.79 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Closing the Front Door on Refugees

January 19, 2006
| The Safe Third Country agreement with the United States has been in effect for one year and the number of refugees making claims at the land border has dropped dramatically. Canada is rapidly losing i

16:03 minutes (14.71 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Putting Haiti on the election agenda

January 22, 2006
| Yves Engler was imprisoned for several days for heckling the Prime Minister over Haiti. He talks about how Haiti Action Montreal is raising the issue of Canada's involvement in Haiti during the electi

27:34 minutes (25.24 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Studies in Motion: The Hauntings of Eadweard Muybridge

January 24, 2006
| Laura Lamb reviews the world premiere of a new play by Governor General's Award winning playwright Kevin Kerr. This is an original, multi-media play inspired by the works of the 19th century photograp

30:09 minutes (27.61 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Community homelessness project, plus single-room occupancy hotels

January 26, 2006
| Volunteers at a community centre in Vancouver have met their fears of homeless people head on by participating in a breakfast program. Also in this show, residents of a Downtown Eastside hotel are sui

30:39 minutes (28.07 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Stephen Harper's plans for Canada

January 29, 2006
| Greg Albo of York University says the left should take a very sober reading of the election results, despite the gain in NDP seats. He outlines what kind of social policies he thinks the Conservatives

13:51 minutes (12.68 MB)
Sizzle
Sizzle

Feed a Cold

January 30, 2006
| I'b zick. I need something to clear my head, and that something is a steamy, fragrant bowl of Thai Chicken Coconut Milk soup.

29:03 minutes (13.3 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Iran: the growing crisis

January 31, 2006
| Dr. Ahmad Sadri, an Iranian professor now teaching in Chicago, unravels some of the dynamics driving the intensifying crisis between Iran and the USA.

15:24 minutes (14.1 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

An election in Bolivia; a sham in Nepal

February 2, 2006
| Journalist and activist Adriana Paz talks about her hopes for the new government of Evo Morales and the challenges that it faces. Also in this show, a look at the current situation in Nepal on the ann

27:45 minutes (25.41 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Vancouver at a transportation crossroads

February 5, 2006
| The provincial government announced plans this week to spend $2500 billion on highways in Greater Vancouver. Many fear this will turn Vancouver into a Los Angeles of the north.

16:08 minutes (14.78 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Nike shoes and native masks

February 7, 2006
| Brian Jungen startling simulations of Northwest Coast Aboriginal masks are made from disassembled athletic shoes. Josh Brandon reviews his new show at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Also in this show, a r

29:21 minutes (26.87 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Why Hamas won and what the victory means for Palestinians

February 8, 2006
| Despite all the uproar about fundamentalism, Mordecai Briemberg says that this was not an election about religion.

16:01 minutes (14.67 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Looking beyond the organic label

February 10, 2006
| Organic has become mainstream. Walmart says that it's the fastest-growing food category in its stores. Local brewer Rebecca Kneen says this mass marketing of the organic label is somehow missing the p

26:20 minutes (24.11 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Ethics of Harper's cabinet

February 13, 2006
| David Emerson switched parties, Michael Fortier wasn't elected, Gordon O'Connor went from lobbyist for defence companies to Minister of Defence. Duff Conacher of Democracy Watch discusses the ethics o

31:23 minutes (28.74 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Ralph Klein and the Third Way; report on the World Social Forum

February 15, 2006
| Alberta has a new healthcare plan that will increase private healthcare options in the province. Diana Gibson says it will result in reduced access to care for all but the wealthy. Also in this show,

28:53 minutes (26.45 MB)
Sizzle
Sizzle

Revolutionary Chicken Pie

February 13, 2006
| Actually, it's Cuban Chicken Pie. Get it? Cuban? Revolutionary? Well, it is pretty revolutionary, as chicken pies go!

39:14 minutes (17.96 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

It's not about free speech versus Islamic fundamentalism

February 19, 2006
| An in-depth conversation with essayist and author Rahat Kurd. A feminist and a Muslim, she has thought deeply about the furor over the Danish cartoons and reveals a lot more nuances in the situation t

20:48 minutes (19.05 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Great Bear Rainforest agreement in B.C. will not protect bears

February 21, 2006
| It's been hailed as a landmark achievement by government, First Nations and environmental groups, but Chris Genovali of the Raincoast Conservation Society says it will do little to protect large mamma

14:34 minutes (13.34 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Childcare advocate in B.C. resigns

February 23, 2006
| Heather Northrup has sat on an advisory group to the provinical government for the past seven years. When she found out Gordon Campbell's response to Stephen Harper's plans for child care, she resigne

26:48 minutes (24.54 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

U.S. National Security Agency spying on Americans

February 26, 2006
| In December, a New York Times report identified the existence of a secret domestic surveillance program. Attorneys at the Centre for Constitutional Rights suspect that they are one of the targets of t

13:47 minutes (12.63 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Four years after Gujarat massacre, Hindu nationalism on the rise

February 28, 2006
| Four years ago this week, the state of Gujarat was engulfed in an organized, state-backed massacre of Muslims in which three thousand people died. Dr. Angana Chatterji has visited India many times sin

22:15 minutes (20.38 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Huge port expansion a concern for Vancouver's air quality

March 3, 2006
| A massive port expansion planned for Delta in the Lower Mainland will bring three times as many container vessels to the region. Ned Jacobs says Vancouver can ill afford the pollution that will follow

17:48 minutes (16.3 MB)
Sizzle
Sizzle

Chinese Curry. That's not a typo.

March 1, 2006
| Chinese Chicken Curry with a side of Burmese Pea Fritters and Thai Jasmine Rice. Yes, you read that right.

69:24 minutes (31.78 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety

March 5, 2006
| Immigration lawyer and activist Zool Suleman comments on Day's plans to bring in a national ID card for Canadians, as well as armed border guards and an American-style border patrol.

13:04 minutes (11.97 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

"See Hamas for what it is"

March 8, 2006
| This was the headline of an editorial published by the Globe and Mail on February 15. Samah Sabawi challenged the writer, Marcus Gee, on his sources for the article.

17:03 minutes (15.61 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Water privatization in Whistler

March 6, 2006
| Whistler council just voted to allow operation of their wastewater system to go to a private company. One of the bidders is Vivendi. The Council of Canadians see this as the thin edge of the wedge.

12:11 minutes (11.16 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Munich: a film by Stephen Spielberg

March 10, 2006
| Mordecai Briemberg went to see the film and share his thoughts. Also in this show, a conversation with artist Claudia Bernal about her show "Monument to Ciudad Juarez"

25:01 minutes (22.9 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Editorial autonomy at the Canadian Medical Association Journal

March 12, 2006
| An interview with Kathryn O'Hara, one of 4 people appointed by the board of the CMAJ to review the events that led to the firing of editor Dr. John Hoey and senior deputy editor Anne Marie Todkill.

15:11 minutes (13.9 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Abandoned railroad to become greenway for Vancouver

March 15, 2006
| When Canadian Pacific stopped using their Arbutus railway line, they asked the city of Vancouver to re-zone it for commerical development. When the city refused, CPR took them all the way to the Supre

26:31 minutes (24.28 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canada's role in Afghanistan

March 13, 2006
| Now the federal election is over, some political parties are calling for a debate over Canadian involvement in Afghanistan, an issue all the parties ignored during the campaign.

13:32 minutes (12.39 MB)
Sizzle
Sizzle

Fire Good!

March 15, 2006
| We take advantage of some brief unseasonably warm weather to light the coals and grill up some chicken satays and a side of asparagus.

82:59 minutes (37.99 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

The Future of the Forum

March 15, 2006
| A panel discussion recorded at the World Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuela, featuring Thomas Pinaya, Edgardo Lander, Hena Vargas and Soberto Savio. Recorded by Kim Elliott January 29, 2006.

41:14 minutes (37.75 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

A Palestinian village resists Israel's wall

March 17, 2006
| The village of Bil'in has become the focus of protests against the wall that is separating Palestinian villagers from their fields. Jon Elmer is a Canadian photographer and journalist who has just ret

13:14 minutes (12.11 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Pharmaceutical drugs in our drinking water

March 19, 2006
| Blood pressure medications, birth control pills, antibiotics - residues of all these substances are now being detected in our ground water and municipal water systems.

15:31 minutes (14.2 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Former Haitian minister Patrick Elie on the recent election

March 20, 2006
| Patrick Elie was a minister in the government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide from 1990-1995. He speaks about the election and what lies ahead for Haiti.

11:24 minutes (10.45 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The environmental costs of the Athabaska tar sands

March 22, 2006
| The global energy crisis has been good for Alberta's economy. But extraction of oil from the tar sands brings huge social and environmental costs.

25:21 minutes (23.21 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Blasting a highway through to Whistler

March 24, 2006
| Gordon Campbell promised the most sustainable Olympic games ever. For people fighting to save Eagle Ridge Bluffs in West Vancouver, that promise rings hollow.

14:14 minutes (13.03 MB)
Rabbledocs
Rabbledocs

There's a Glacier in Our Sink

March 20, 2006
| Where does our water come from? Where does it go? Tara Narwani and Paul Steenhuisen trace the path of their drinking water from it's source in the Columbia Icefields, through farmlands, to their sink

23:04 minutes (21.12 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

A Path out of Poverty

March 26, 2006
| People who are poor often stay poor unless they get money to go back to school. At one time, B.C. supported welfare recipients through school. Shauna Butterwick talks about what happened when those pr

13:44 minutes (12.58 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

U.S. military bases and the war on terror

March 30, 2006
| The U.S. military base network is being reconfigured to enforce what Vice-President Dick Cheney calls "the arrangement for the 21st century". We speak with Joseph Gerson of the American Frie

15:27 minutes (14.14 MB)
Archived

Episode 13 - Whining and Dialectics

March 26, 2006
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12:51 minutes (11.77 MB)
Comeuppance
Comeuppance

Episode 4 - The Star

March 26, 2006
| An ascetic climbs a mountain to receive a gift of a star.
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4:49 minutes (4.41 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

New Orleans, 7 months after Katrina

March 28, 2006
| Tens of thousands of people went to New Orleans last month to celebrate Mardi Gras. Yet community groups there are fighting for basic infrastructure like schools and hospitals while streets of margina

13:14 minutes (12.12 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

New zine documents the life of mining families in Bolivia

April 4, 2006
| Mining to Survive is an independent zine that documents the day to day lives and struggles of men and women living in poor mining communities in Bolivia.

14:56 minutes (13.67 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Fighting transphobia and homophobia with theatre

April 3, 2006
| TheatreWorks is a Victoria-based theatre company that uses interactive theatre techniques to create positive change in schools and communities.

14:05 minutes (12.89 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli children speak

April 2, 2006
| Hear a selection of passages from the book that the Canadian Jewish Congress doesn't want Ontario school children to read.

8:11 minutes (7.49 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Making real books with kids

April 20, 2006
| A unique literacy project for children allows them to write and illustrate a story, then bind it into a book that looks as professional as any you might find in the children's section of your local li

14:04 minutes (12.89 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Report on the World Water Forum in Mexico

April 10, 2006
| Privatization of the world's water supplies isn't going quite as smoothly as the big water corporations hoped. Tony Clarke explains why.

17:16 minutes (15.82 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The fight against anti-immigrant legislation in the U.S.

April 12, 2006
| We speak with veteran immigrant rights organizer Monica Hernandez about opposition to Bill 4437 that has brought people out into the streets in their thousands in cities across the U.S. over the past

17:57 minutes (16.44 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Remembering Charles Gagnon

April 14, 2006
| Charles Gagnon died last November. He was often described as the intellectual leader of the FLQ and later founded the revolutionary party En Lutte.

16:23 minutes (15.01 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

New study on the challenges facing gay and lesbian seniors

April 16, 2006
| Gay and lesbian seniors face isolation and invisibility when they access the healthcare and social service system. A new study looks at why this is and what can be done to change it.

16:03 minutes (14.7 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Mexican migrant workers denied health benefits

April 18, 2006
| Agricultural workers from Mexico are working in Canadian fields under the guest worker program. When they get to this country, they discover that working conditions are quite different from what they

16:43 minutes (15.31 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Howard Zinn on memory and history

April 23, 2006
| Henry Kissinger said that history is the memory of the state. Howard Zinn, author of "A People's History of the United States", says people need to assert their collective memory and counter

18:09 minutes (16.63 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Obliterating the past

April 25, 2006
| Dr. Ismail Zayid was born in the village of Beit Nuba, Palestine. His village was bulldozed by Israel in June 1967. The village was erased from the map. <br /> [part 3 of a 6-part series on memory]

13:18 minutes (12.19 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

How we remember and why we forget

April 24, 2006
| Our memory makes us who we are. It's as unique to each person as our fingerprints. Yet we know very little about how it works and why it lets us down. We talk with Rebecca Rupp, author of &quot;Commit

16:11 minutes (14.82 MB)
The Shades Within
The Shades Within

Episode 1 - An introduction to The Shades Within

May 1, 2006
| Welcome to the Shades Within. This episode introduces you to the program, to the main character of the story, Anna, and to the town of Fort Francis, South Africa.

9:28 minutes (8.67 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Nostalgia

April 26, 2006
| Do you ever feel an acute longing for familiar surroundings or the conditions of the past? Karen Mackintosh went out and about in her neighbourhood, asking people what they were nostalgic for. <br />

6:47 minutes (6.21 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Aging and memory loss

April 27, 2006
| Everyone's memory deteriorates with age, but increasing numbers of people are faced with the challenges brought by Alzheimer's and dementia. Dawn Hemingway talks about what people with severe memory l

15:52 minutes (14.52 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Language and collective memory

April 28, 2006
| Adeline Point was the last native speaker of a dialect of Musqueam. She passed away in 2002. Now the Musqueam Band and UBC's First Nations Languages Program are reviving the language through courses o

18:31 minutes (16.95 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canadian troops in Afghanistan

April 30, 2006
| All parties supported the continued presence of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan in the Commons debate earlier this month. John Conway says we need a real debate in the media and in parliament.

13:18 minutes (12.18 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Six Nations land claim

May 1, 2006
| Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux gives some background to the dispute in Calendonia, Ontario. She lives on Chippewa Georgina Island First Nation and teaches political science and history at Laurentian Univers

11:12 minutes (10.26 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Nepali parliament meets for first time in 4 years

May 2, 2006
| Following the pledge of a ceasefire by the Maoist rebels and in response to weeks of protest in the streets of Kathmandu, the Nepalese parliament met this weekend for the first time since 2002.

10:12 minutes (9.34 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

V for Vendetta

May 4, 2006
| A review of the recently released dystopian sci fi film from Britain.

14:03 minutes (12.86 MB)
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Redeye

Stanley Park's secret

May 24, 2006
| Vancouver's largest urban park was home to families who were forcibly evicted to create the well-known seawall path that encircles the park. Jean Barman's latest book uncovers the hidden history of St

12:54 minutes (11.81 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Promoting public health through smart growth

May 28, 2006
| A new report look at how the way that cities grow affects the health of the people who live in them.

17:21 minutes (15.89 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

A conversation with anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan

May 8, 2006
| Cindy Sheehan's son Casey was killed in Iraq, five days after he got there. Last year, she set up camp outside George Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas in an attempt to get the President to tell her why

9:04 minutes (8.3 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Threats to bird migrations

May 7, 2006
| A conversation with renowned author Scott Weidensaul about how human impact on the environment is threatening migrations that have existed for thousands of years.

14:18 minutes (13.09 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Police repression in Atenco, Mexico

May 9, 2006
| Last week, police attacked people in Texcoco and San Salvator Atenco, two towns just outside Mexico City. The violence is related to plans to build a Walmart in one of the towns.

18:20 minutes (16.78 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

A day without immigrants

May 10, 2006
| This Mayday, immigrants in the United States staged a nationwide boycott that shut down stores, transportation and schools. We speak with Javier Rodriguez, spokesperson for the March 25 coalition in L

15:01 minutes (13.74 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Photos of war and resistance in Colombia

May 12, 2006
| Jesus Abad Colorado is a photojournalist from Colombia. An exhibition of his recent photos in on display in Vancouver. Laura Lamb went to see it.

13:15 minutes (12.14 MB)
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Redeye

The music they brought with them

May 26, 2006
| Early immigrants arrived in Canada with few material possessions but a rich cultural heritage, which included music and song. Once here, the music of migrants from all over the world cross-fertilized

11:38 minutes (10.66 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The debate over the census

May 14, 2006
| The Count Me Out Project is calling for minimum cooperation with the census; Murray Dobbin disagrees. We talk to both sides in this debate.

18:43 minutes (17.14 MB)
Africafiles: The Pulse
Africafiles: The Pulse

Episode #5 Apartheid: A writer's Journey

May 7, 2006
| South African-born author Kagiso Molope remembers the apartheid years and relates how these experiences remain central to her writing.
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16:48 minutes (15.39 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Immigration raids on Toronto schools

May 15, 2006
| Bruce Davis is a Toronto District School Board trustee. He is very concerned about the recent actions of immigration authorities in Toronto schools.

11:15 minutes (10.3 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Palestine, Israel and me

May 17, 2006
| Laura Lamb reviews a forum theatre production that grapples with the political fallout in Canada of events in the Middle East.

14:53 minutes (13.63 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The campaign for military intervention in Darfur

May 19, 2006
| Jef Blankfort says that the main push for the military to go into Darfur comes from Jewish pro-Israeli groups.

15:18 minutes (14.01 MB)
Archived

Episode 15: Rest &amp; Renewal

May 16, 2006
| Matt &amp; chris talk about the importance of resting.
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11:17 minutes (10.34 MB)
Archived

Episode 16: Why you should join or form a Co-op

May 19, 2006
| Chris &amp; Matt talk about co-ops
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12:39 minutes (11.58 MB)
Archived

Episode 17: But Can We Laugh About It

May 22, 2006
| Chris &amp; Matt talk about humour.
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12:48 minutes (11.72 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The myth of green nuclear power

May 30, 2006
| The nuclear industry is touting nuclear power as the clean-air solution to the upcoming energy crisis. John Bennett of the Sierra Club of Canada begs to differ.

14:18 minutes (13.1 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Torture of protesters in Atenco

May 31, 2006
| First-hand accounts are slowly surfacing of the treatment of protesters in San Salvador Atenco in Mexico. We speak with Felicitas Treue of the Collective against Torture and Impunity in Mexico City.

12:45 minutes (11.68 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Guatanamo North

June 1, 2006
| Five men are still being held in Canada with no charges laid against them and without the right to see evidence against them. We speak with Matthew Behrens of the Campaign Against Secret Trials.

15:29 minutes (14.17 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Myths about healthcare in Canada and the U.S.

June 26, 2006
| A look behind the media reports of growing waitlists and short-staffed emergency rooms to the real differences between healthcare north and south of the border.

14:56 minutes (13.68 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Leila Khaled Hijacker

June 2, 2006
| A review of a new film by Swedish filmmaker Lina Makboul about Leila Khaled who hijacked two planes in 1969 and 1970.

13:52 minutes (12.7 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The growing democracy movement in Egypt

June 6, 2006
| Since the end of the Sadat regime 25 years ago, popular pressure for democracy has been repressed. But a year and a half ago there was a revival which is shaking up the current regime.

12:51 minutes (11.77 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

New play about Rachel Corrie

June 8, 2006
| Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer while defending a Palestinian home against demolition. A new play explores her writing.

13:49 minutes (12.65 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Art School Confidential

June 10, 2006
| Laura Lamb has spent a lot of time in art schools - both as a student and a teacher. She shares her thoughts on the new satire by Terry Zwigoff.

11:43 minutes (10.74 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Radical punk rock from Sweden

August 22, 2006
| Dennis Lyxzen is the with International Noise Conspiracy. Chris Spannos caught up with him during the sound check for the band's Vancouver show.

32:33 minutes (29.8 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Building a radio station in a weekend

July 14, 2006
| The Prometheus Radio Project works with community groups in small towns across the United States to construct low power FM stations - and it all happens in 3 days.

13:30 minutes (12.37 MB)
Archived

Episode 18 - US &amp; Canadian Blogging Compared

June 12, 2006
| Comparing Us and Canadian Blogging and Podcasting.

11:17 minutes (10.33 MB)
Comeuppance
Comeuppance

Episode 5 - Fill It

June 8, 2006
| A story about a contest of labour and wit.

4:53 minutes (4.48 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Food banks - from emergency service to social fixture

June 29, 2006
| Soup kitchens and food banks are expected to pick up the slack when government policies don't meet the needs of poor people. Charities in Victoria, B.C. are questioning their role.

14:12 minutes (13.01 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

CUPE passes boycott resolution against Israel

June 15, 2006
| 900 delegates at the CUPE Ontario convention passed a resolution supporting an international boycott against Israel for its policies towards Palestinians.

12:28 minutes (11.42 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Access to publicly-funded abortion in jeopardy in New Brunswick

June 13, 2006
| When Dr. Everett Chambers hospital in Fredericton announced it would stop providing abortions, women in New Brunswick are not sure where they can turn if they can't afford to pay a private clinic.

12:41 minutes (11.62 MB)
radio book lounge
radio book lounge

Episode 6 - J. Hillis Miller on &quot;Beloved&quot; politics and Iraq

June 13, 2006
| In this episode Matt chats with J. Hillis Miller during the 2006 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at York University in Toronto, Ontario. Miller talks about how Toni Morrison's Beloved c

15:45 minutes (14.43 MB)
Comeuppance
Comeuppance

Episode 6 - The Old Woman and the Pot

June 13, 2006
| An old woman goes to the market to take her mind off of herself.

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CitizenShift
CitizenShift

Homeless Nation Podcast

June 13, 2006
| <br /> A special presentation of the Homeless Nation podcast. This episode features Haybail Mike Mckerracher, a Vancouver singer-songwriter whose music reflects his life on the street. To learn more,

7:30 minutes (6.87 MB)
Archived

Episode 11 (20): The Smartest Men in (a much smaller) Room

June 18, 2006
| Enron convictions and a new documentary inspire Matt &amp; chris to rant.

11:46 minutes (10.78 MB)
Africafiles: The Pulse
Africafiles: The Pulse

Episode #6: Dreaming of a New Africa

May 28, 2006
| Aids, war and landmines continue to kill many Africans. But some people are determined to make Africa a better place for her citizens
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24:35 minutes (22.51 MB)
Archived

Episode 11 (19): futbol, eh?

June 14, 2006
| Why, is something else happening in the world this month other than the World Cup?

10:22 minutes (9.5 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Guerilla radio for commuters stuck in traffic on Highway 1

June 20, 2006
| Clean Air Radio sent out its first broadcast last week from an on-ramp near the Port Mann bridge in the Lower Mainland.

11:42 minutes (10.72 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Reaction to the arrests of 17 Muslim men in Ontario

June 22, 2006
| Sedef Arat-Koc is one of a group of people alarmed both by the media coverage and by the statements of politicians and pundits following the arrests of alleged terrorists earlier this month.

17:50 minutes (16.34 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Sex workers and the law

July 7, 2006
| Prostitution is illegal but Revenue Canada says sex workers still need to declare their income. When they do, they're told that condoms are not a tax-deductible expense. A new report looks at how Cana

13:56 minutes (12.77 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Raven Travelling: 200 years of Haida art

July 4, 2006
| Raven Travelling opened in June at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The show presents nearly 300 of the finest artworks from the past two centuries. Vince Collison, curatorial intern and member of the Haid

17:27 minutes (15.98 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Psychiatric survivors and the police

August 15, 2006
| Laura Sky's movie &quot;Crisis Call&quot; begins with the story of a young man shot and killed by police after an altercation on a city bus in Toronto.

17:03 minutes (15.61 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Attack on striking teachers in Oaxaca

July 11, 2006
| Teachers are in the forefront of union activism in Mexico, especially in the southern state of Oaxaca. Larry Kuehn of the BCTF talks about what happened when police attempted to crush a recent strike

12:53 minutes (11.8 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Vancouver City Council fires its permit appeal board

July 17, 2006
| The Board of Variance hears permit appeals from homeowners and against local developers. On June 29, city council fired the entire board.

11:32 minutes (10.56 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The Road to Guatanamo

July 25, 2006
| This docu-drama tells the story of 3 British Muslims captured in Afghanistan and held without charge for 2 years in Guatanamo.

13:51 minutes (12.68 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Guaranteed liveable income

August 8, 2006
| Cindy L'Hirondelle says we need a radical idea to tackle the problem of women and poverty. She thinks that a guaranteed liveable income for all is the answer.

15:40 minutes (14.34 MB)
rabble radio
rabble radio

#25 - Cross Canada Tour

July 24, 2006
| In this episode, Keith Gottschalk is one part journalist, one part Canada groupie, as he sets out across the country. Wayne interviews the investigative citizen journalists from eblurbismedia.com, and

28:51 minutes (26.42 MB)
Africafiles: The Pulse
Africafiles: The Pulse

Episode #7: Afrofest - A Vital Connection to Africa

July 11, 2006
| Afrofest is an African music festival held annually in Toronto. With an exciting calabash of music and craft, the festival provides a vital connection to the continent for Africans living in Canada. P
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12:36 minutes (11.54 MB)
Africafiles: The Pulse
Africafiles: The Pulse

Episode #8: South Africa - Preparing children for the future

July 30, 2006
| Poverty, Aids, disease and other socio-economic conditions affect children&rsquo;s capacity to learn. Early Child Development programs&nbsp;are important in addressing the preparedness of children
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15:36 minutes (14.29 MB)
Archived

Episode 4: Military versus Civilian rule in Pakistan

August 1, 2006
| Nasir Aziz and Ethan Casey discuss the merits of military versus civilian rule in Pakistan (in response to an email from a reader of Casey's column in the Pakistani daily <i>The News</i>), the continu

34:01 minutes (31.14 MB)
Archived

Episode 5: Pakistani voices, Sky TV Galloway Interview, etc.

August 8, 2006
| Nasir Aziz and Ethan Casey analyze maverick British MP George Galloway's recent Sky TV interview on Lebanon, respond to an email from a Pakistani reader of Casey's column who advocates Pakistani recog

36:01 minutes (32.98 MB)
Archived

Episode 6: Mid-East Ceasefire, Future of Israel, UK Terror

August 17, 2006
| <p align="left">Nasir Aziz, Ethan Casey and Asad Faizi have a spirited discussion of the Lebanon ceasefire and its implications, the UK airline security alert, and the future of Israel and the United

34:47 minutes (31.86 MB)
Archived

Episode 7: Armitage Op-Ed, PAK-UK Cricket Incident...

August 25, 2006
| &lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;Nasir Aziz does phone interviews on a recent &lt;em&gt;New York Times&lt;/em&gt; op-ed by Richard Armitage and on the Pakistan-England cricket incident. He and Ethan Ca

30:09 minutes (27.6 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The anti-war movement in Israel

September 2, 2006
| Israel's violent attacks on Lebanon are seen by the majority of Israelis as self-defence, rather than as aggression. Michel Warshawsky argues that this highlights the weakness of the Israeli peace mov

19:00 minutes (17.39 MB)
rabble radio
rabble radio

#26 - Home and away

August 27, 2006
| In this episode, Homebrew takes us to a Kentucky prison where messages from distant relatives reach inmates via the airwaves, Keith reflects on his Canadian tour, DVDiva speaks up in praise of the epi

27:15 minutes (24.95 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Hezbollah and the attack on Israel

August 28, 2006
| Sheik Hassan Nasrallah now says that attacking Israel was a mistake. Gilbert Achcar is a Lebanese author and intellectual. He discusses why Hezbollah launched the attack and what the effects have been

18:09 minutes (16.62 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canada's response to Israel's attacks on Lebanon

August 30, 2006
| Canada's position on Lebanon has closely mirrored that of the United States. Daniel Freeman-Maloy looks at the specifics behind the Harper government's support for Israel.

15:01 minutes (13.76 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Remembering Murray Bookchin

September 6, 2006
| Murray Bookchin, the visionary social theorist and activist, died on July 30th at his home in Burlington, Vermont. Chaia Heller has been involved for over 20 years with the Institute for Social Ecolog

20:36 minutes (18.86 MB)
Africafiles: The Pulse
Africafiles: The Pulse

Episode #10: Aids Conference 2006: Churches, Youth and Aids

August 18, 2006
| How is the church helping as Africa struggles with the aids pandemic?How are African youth being affected by Aids? Rev M Mulumo of United Church of Zambia and Abigail Kapasa discuss these issues. Both
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11:00 minutes (10.08 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Vancouver City Council keeps the door open for Walmart

September 8, 2006
| Walmart's application to open a &quot;green&quot; store in Vancouver was turned down a year ago. Then there was an election and the new city council is much friendlier to the American retail giant.

11:28 minutes (10.51 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

North of 9-11

September 11, 2006
| A new novel looks at the impact of September 11 on student politics and activism in Canada. The story is set in Montreal, in and around Concordia University, in the immediate aftermath of the bombings

15:42 minutes (14.37 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Update on worker-controlled enterprises in Argentina

September 9, 2006
| When 30 unemployed auto-parts workers walked into an idle factory in Buenos Aires, rolled out sleeping mats and refused to leave, it was the beginning of the recuperation movement in Argentina. Marie

16:23 minutes (15 MB)
rabble radio
rabble radio

#27 - Turn that frown upside down

September 11, 2006
| In this episode, Homebrew takes a gander at feminist theology, DVDiva gives herself the shivers with a scary movie from the way-back machine, and activist and artist John Steins explains how a communi

31:24 minutes (28.76 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Resort development in BC provincial parks

September 12, 2006
| The BC government is determined to make the province's parks pay their way. They recently announced plans to build luxury lodges and other accomodation in 12 parks.

14:49 minutes (13.57 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Wheat Board under threat

September 13, 2006
| Bill C-300 seeks to amend the Canadian Wheat Board Act to allow producers to sell directly to processors, bypassing the Wheat Board. The National Farmers Union says it will be a disaster for small far

11:43 minutes (10.73 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Diet, energy and global warming

September 15, 2006
| A study by two Chicago biophysicists looks at the connections between diet and greenhouse gas emissions. They say that eating meat is like driving an SUV and eating plants is like riding a bicycle.

13:20 minutes (12.21 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The power of the Zionist lobby in the United States

September 17, 2006
| A new book argues that moral blackmail has shut down open debate and free enquiry on the subject of Israel and that this benefits no-one.

12:51 minutes (11.76 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Live-in caregiver program contributes to family breakdown

September 16, 2006
| While a nanny is looking after your kids, her kids are back in the Philippines being brought up by someone else. When the family is finally reunited, they are often strangers to each other.

12:02 minutes (11.02 MB)
Africafiles: The Pulse
Africafiles: The Pulse

Episode #11: Africa and Aids- Part 1

August 25, 2006
| Does the ABC approach work? Beatrice Were of the National Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda were says if abstinence was working, then the number of hiv cases in Africa. <br /> <br /> G

25:38 minutes (23.47 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Justice for Girls

September 20, 2006
| We often think of prisons as places for dangerous criminals. Yet more and more women and girls end up staying behind bars because there is no other place to protect them.

12:21 minutes (11.31 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The legacy of the Exxon Valdez oil spill

September 24, 2006
| 17 years after the Exxon Valdez disaster, communities in Alaska struggle with the lasting impact of the oil.

14:42 minutes (13.45 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Environmental groups pull their punches over Alberta tar sands

September 21, 2006
| Petr Cizec argues that funding from a major American foundation has neutralized the opposition of prominent Canadian environmental groups to the tar sands development.

13:32 minutes (12.4 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Gaza under siege

September 22, 2006
| During the last 3 months, while world attention has been focused on Lebanon, Israel has killed more than 250 Palestinians and injured nearly 1000 civilians. We speak with writer and activist Ali Abuni

13:44 minutes (12.58 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Public space under threat

September 28, 2006
| From airplanes trailing banners to ad-wrapped vehicles on streets, our public space is filing up with corporate messages.

15:05 minutes (13.81 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Homelessness in Vancouver could triple by 2010

September 23, 2006
| Vancouver faces a low-income housing crisis unless all levels of government take urgent action.

13:07 minutes (12.01 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The case against humanitarian war in Sudan

September 27, 2006
| Llyod Axworthy and Michael Ignatieff developed the idea of &quot;responsibility to protect&quot;. There is a call to apply this doctrine in Darfur.

15:32 minutes (14.22 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

A call to ban the export of raw logs

September 29, 2006
| Vancouver Island's old-growth forests are almost gone. The only way to save what's left is to start a wood manufacturing industry.

10:16 minutes (9.4 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Mountain caribou nearing extinction

September 26, 2006
| Valhalla Wilderness Watch says the BC government is not protecting this species from extinction.

12:13 minutes (11.18 MB)
Africafiles: The Pulse
Africafiles: The Pulse

Episode #13- 50 years of Zimbabwean stone

September 22, 2006
| Zimbabwean stone returns to Toronto<br /> Wahu Kaara and Kiama Kaara say International Financial Institutions are bent on undermining state sovereignty of poor countries<br />
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18:03 minutes (16.54 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canada's continued involvement in Afghanistan

September 25, 2006
| The NDP has called for the withdrawal of Canadian troops. Meanwhile, the military is ramping up recruiting efforts.

16:56 minutes (15.51 MB)
rabble radio
rabble radio

#28 - This and that

September 26, 2006
| In this episode, Keith Gottschalk looks back on the September 11th coverage, Wayne MacPhail brings in new online tools, DVDiva uses her movie watching superpowers, and Jen Moore looks at the fight for

25:40 minutes (23.5 MB)
Africafiles: The Pulse
Africafiles: The Pulse

Episode #12: Africa and Aids- Part 2

September 2, 2006
| The last part of our coverage of the Aids Conference featuring Sonny Mokotlane from the South African Broadcasting Corporation and Justin Mucheri, who is based in the breakaway Somaliland.
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Redeye
Redeye

World Health Organization endorses DDT for malaria control

October 10, 2006
| The WHO reverses a 30-year policy and ranks DDT alongside bed nets and drugs to combat malaria.

13:47 minutes (12.63 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

New book on Afghanistan

October 4, 2006
| Sonali Kolhatkar talks about &quot;Bleeding Afghanistan&quot;, the book she co-wrote with James Ingalls.

16:34 minutes (15.17 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Challenging the right on campus

October 8, 2006
| A new report takes an in-depth look at how the Right organizes on university campuses in the U.S.

16:54 minutes (15.48 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Vancouver's Aquarium makes a controversial bid to expand

October 5, 2006
| The Aquarium wants to increase its footprint in one of the city's best-known parks.

12:14 minutes (11.21 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

North Korea's nuclear test

October 16, 2006
| A conversation with Joseph Gerson, author of &quot;Empire and the Bomb&quot;

13:40 minutes (12.52 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canada's aggressive foreign policy

October 17, 2006
| Canadian generals see Afghanistan as a model for our new role in world affairs

13:29 minutes (12.36 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Erasing the border with the United States

October 18, 2006
| Business is pushing for harmonization of Canadian and American laws and policies across the board

13:38 minutes (12.49 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canada votes against UN declaration on indigenous human rights

October 19, 2006
| It's been 20 years in the making, but Canada and Russia tried to stall the declaration at the UN Human Rights Council this summer

14:26 minutes (13.21 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Expo 86 all over again

October 25, 2006
| Vancouver housing activist warns of sharp increase in homelessness in advance of 2010 Olympics

18:59 minutes (17.39 MB)
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Redeye

Canada's first war resister

October 26, 2006
| Francisco Juarez explains why he left the Canadian military this summer

14:26 minutes (13.22 MB)
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Redeye

Food from cloned animals

October 22, 2006
| The US Food and Drug Administration is poised to allow the sale of meat and milk from cattle clones

13:32 minutes (12.39 MB)
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Redeye

Broken windows and crime control

October 27, 2006
| Vancouver mayor Sam Sullivan wants to follow New York's lead and crack down on minor crime

13:42 minutes (12.55 MB)
rabble radio
rabble radio

#30 - Sexy stuff

October 28, 2006
| In this episode, DVDiva feasts her eyes on The Notorious Bettie Page. Keith Gottchalk's talks about sex scandals in American politics. Music comes to us from O Positive, and Homebrew heads to Haiti.

26:05 minutes (23.88 MB)
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Redeye

When the Rivers Run Dry

October 29, 2006
| An interview with renowned British science writer Fred Pearce

19:48 minutes (18.13 MB)
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Redeye

Canada needs a national water policy

October 30, 2006
| A conversation with Maude Barlow about the threats posed by an international trade in water

17:28 minutes (15.99 MB)
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Redeye

Critical time for public water systems

November 2, 2006
| Poorly funded and under-resourced municipal systems are in danger of failing communities. The water multinationals are eager to seize this moment.

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Redeye

Privatization of hydro power in B.C.

November 3, 2006
| The Ashlu River is one of many rivers threatened by the introduction of small hydro projects run by private companies.

9:54 minutes (9.06 MB)
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Redeye

Oaxaca under siege

November 10, 2006
| Federal police launch an assault on striking teachers and their supporters in Oaxaca, Mexico

18:15 minutes (16.71 MB)
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Redeye

Transforming water into water

November 7, 2006
| How bottled water companies have persuaded us that bottled water is better than water from the tap

12:49 minutes (11.74 MB)
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Redeye

Pushing public-private partnerships

November 8, 2006
| Gordon Campbell says any new municipal project over $20 million must be handled by Partnerships BC

12:36 minutes (11.54 MB)
rabble radio
rabble radio

#31 - Walk the talk

November 15, 2006
| Keith, Cathi, Judy, Wayne and Jen take us to the U.S. of A, Tinsletown, the triple-double-U, and the Press Freedom Awards. Stick around, it's a heck of a ride!

30:46 minutes (28.17 MB)
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Redeye

B.C. Conversation on Health

November 20, 2006
| Private sector spending has shown the biggest growth in B.C. healthcare but the government isn't talking about it

17:24 minutes (15.93 MB)
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Redeye

What your car really costs

November 22, 2006
| If we paid the full cost of our cars, we'd all be on the bus.

18:38 minutes (17.06 MB)
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Redeye

Activists occupy empty building in Vancouver

November 24, 2006
| The Anti-Poverty Committee wants to see immediate action to deal with the city's housing crisis.

11:13 minutes (10.28 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canadian farmers fight changes to Wheat Board

November 25, 2006
| The Harper government is determined to reform the Canadian Wheat Board Act. The National Farmers Union is equally determined to stop them.

17:14 minutes (15.78 MB)
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Redeye

Oceans in peril

January 3, 2007
| A study in Science Magazine predicts the total collapse of edible fish populations by the year 2048.

17:43 minutes (16.22 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Ursula Franklin on pacifism

November 27, 2006
| We speak with Ursula Frankin about a new collection of her essays and lectures launched this week.

14:11 minutes (12.99 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The effects of globalization on Chinese workers

November 29, 2006
| 25 years after Deng Xiaoping introduced market reform in China, the country is more divided by income than the United States or India.

13:02 minutes (11.93 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Transit that everyone can use

December 1, 2006
| We need to look further than low-floor buses to make a transit system that is truly accessible.

11:33 minutes (10.58 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canada's first privately-run emergency room set to open Monday

December 3, 2006
| An eleventh-hour agreement between the B.C. government and Vancouver's Urgent Care Centre means that visits to the clinic will be publicly funded.

13:36 minutes (12.45 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

A Christmas Carol

December 6, 2006
| James Fagan Tait directs a stunning new production of an old classic for the Vancouver Playhouse.

15:37 minutes (14.3 MB)
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Redeye

Child poverty in Canada

December 30, 2006
| In 1989, the federal government committed to end child poverty by the year 2000. 16 years later, one in six children are poor.

13:48 minutes (12.64 MB)
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Redeye

B.C. and Alberta sign trade agreement

December 7, 2006
| The agreement has been described as a &quot;licence to kill for big business&quot; and it's got residents of an island community in B.C. up in arms.

11:40 minutes (10.68 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Massive demonstrations in Lebanon

December 12, 2006
| Two milllion people go into the streets in Beirut in opposition to the Siniora government.

15:57 minutes (14.61 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Oil companies big winners in Iraq war

December 11, 2006
| The Iraq Study Group report condemns the war but ensures long-term access to Iraqi oil fields for foreign companies.

13:33 minutes (12.4 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

War crimes charges against Donald Rumsfeld

December 16, 2006
| Vancouver lawyer Gail Davidson on the war crimes case before a German Federal Court.

16:20 minutes (14.96 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Stephane Dion's economic platform

December 13, 2006
| We know quite a bit about what Dion thinks of the environment and Quebec - but much less about how he would spend our money.

12:47 minutes (11.71 MB)
Africafiles: The Pulse
Africafiles: The Pulse

Episode #14: Our Children in the Diaspora

December 7, 2006
| Has the search for peace finally ended for Congo? Plus filmmaker, Tara Milutis joins us to talk about Newsgirl, her new short film.

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Redeye

&quot;Palestine: Peace not Apartheid&quot;

December 21, 2006
| Jimmy Carter's new book attempts to break through what he calls the &quot;severe restraint on fair and balanced discussion of the facts&quot;.

17:03 minutes (15.61 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The O'Connor report and the RCMP

December 20, 2006
| Thomas Walkom comments on the report of the commission of inquiry into the Maher Arar case.

13:00 minutes (11.9 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Sex worker reacts to parliamentary sub-committee report

December 18, 2006
| Valerie Scott says the report of the Subcommittee on Solicitation Laws is a cop out.

12:54 minutes (11.81 MB)
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Redeye

Double standard for indymedia reporters

December 28, 2006
| John Ross comments on mainstream coverage of the death of independent jounalist Brad Will in Oaxaca.

13:57 minutes (12.77 MB)
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Redeye

Canada's secretive free trade agreement

December 23, 2006
| The Conservative government are negotiating the Central America Four Free Trade Agreement behind closed doors.

15:00 minutes (13.74 MB)
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Redeye

Canada Post and the destruction of postal unions in Guatemala

January 7, 2007
| A subsidiary of Canada Post was responsible for the wholesale privatization of the Guatemala postal service.

14:30 minutes (13.27 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Crystal meth ravaging communities

January 5, 2007
| Almost every family on the Skwah Reserve near Vancouver is affected by meth addiction.

8:55 minutes (8.17 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Independent journalist subpoenaed to testify in court martial

January 9, 2007
| Sarah Olson interviewed Lieutenant Ehren Watada a month before he made public his refusal to deploy to Iraq.

18:14 minutes (16.7 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The role of teachers in the uprising in Oaxaca

January 13, 2007
| Educators have been central in the popular struggle in Mexico.

15:42 minutes (14.38 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Can movies really change the world?

January 10, 2007
| Filmmaker Costa Gavras in conversation with Tom Charity

59:31 minutes (54.49 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Last unsettled valley in Southern Canada threatened by mine

January 12, 2007
| The Flathead Valley is the only low-lying valley in Southern Canada that is still undeveloped. Cline Mining of Sudbury is planning an open-pit coal mine for the area.

16:26 minutes (15.05 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

U.S. troop surge aimed at broadening war to Iran

January 15, 2007
| Paul Craig Roberts outlines what he sees as Bush's plans for a wider war in the Middle East

16:29 minutes (15.1 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Vancouver mayor's plans for a &quot;civil&quot; city

January 19, 2007
| Sam Sullivan wants to see Vancouver free of public disorder, crime and homelessness.

13:25 minutes (12.29 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

What was behind the &quot;Quebec as a nation&quot; debate in parliament

January 17, 2007
| A look at why the motion came up and what significance it might have in Quebec and the rest of Canada

12:55 minutes (11.83 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Burned-out SUV at Hornby and Robson

January 23, 2007
| Two Montreal artists bring their &quot;urban intervention&quot; to a street corner in downtown Vancouver

16:57 minutes (15.52 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Keeping drug prices down

January 25, 2007
| The Canadian government needs to take action to stop the spiralling cost of pharmaceutical drugs

18:07 minutes (16.59 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

U.S. interests in Somalia

January 22, 2007
| A conversation with Tom Naylor, author of &quot;Satanic Purses&quot;

16:45 minutes (15.34 MB)
rabble radio
rabble radio

#34 - Robot wars

January 24, 2007
| Keith is predicting the U.S. President's future. It's all sunshine for Cathi and Judy. Meagan watches as robots battle it out. Wayne is able to organize the disorganized, thanks to the internet.

21:31 minutes (19.7 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Economic and social conditions of Muslims in India

January 27, 2007
| A recent commission report finds India's Muslim population subject to widespread discrimination

15:44 minutes (14.4 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Using the Internet to build movements

February 3, 2007
| Aaron Kreider talks about the website he has developed as a resource for activists.

13:28 minutes (12.34 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Radio and TV play big part in popular struggle in Oaxaca

January 30, 2007
| Filmmaker Jill Friedberg is just back from Mexico where she has been documenting how the popular movement is using local media outlets to organize.

15:09 minutes (13.88 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Rumour of the century

February 4, 2007
| Iran's president and his threat to &ldquo;wipe Israel off the map&rdquo;.

12:56 minutes (11.84 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Conservatives planning new copyright law

February 2, 2007
| New legislation in the works in Ottawa puts the rights of corporations in the forefront

15:22 minutes (14.08 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Avant-garde theatre and puppetry

February 1, 2007
| Three productions at the recent PUSH Festival of the Performing Arts in Vancouver use puppets to explore the nature of theatre.

14:47 minutes (13.54 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Tar sands production to increase five-fold

January 31, 2007
| The U.S. drive to reduce dependency on Middle East oil is cranking up the demand for Canadian oil.

14:00 minutes (12.82 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Nuclear industry paints itself green

February 6, 2007
| Environmental activists have asked the Competition Bureau to investigate a series of ads for nuclear power on TV in Ontario

11:45 minutes (10.76 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Mount Pleasant

February 8, 2007
| Laura Lamb reviews Ross Weber's new movie set in the Vancouver neighbourhood where she lives.

13:44 minutes (12.58 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Russian who fought in Afghanistan reflects on Canada's role

February 7, 2007
| Nikolai Lanine was in the Soviet army occupying Afghanistan in the 1980s. He sees many similarities with the current presence of Canadian troops.

15:18 minutes (14.01 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The history of Canada's policies in the Middle East

February 10, 2007
| Daniel Freeman-Maloy argues that Canada has never had an independent foreign policy in the Middle East and it needs one.

14:45 minutes (13.51 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The dangers of synthetic biology

February 9, 2007
| It's a lot more powerful than genetic engineering and it's completely unregulated.

17:28 minutes (15.99 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

A website by and for homeless people

February 12, 2007
| Filmmaker Daniel Cross talks about the website he started for people living on the street

15:28 minutes (14.16 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Step It Up 2007

February 14, 2007
| Putting the pressure on governments to act on climate change.

11:55 minutes (10.91 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Iraq vets at risk

February 13, 2007
| Homelessness, drug abuse and suicide are on the increase for U.S. soldiers returning from the Middle East

16:53 minutes (15.46 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre

February 19, 2007
| Laura Lamb takes issue with the current exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, billed as &quot;the history of staged photography from 1840 to the present&quot;.

15:37 minutes (14.3 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Vancouver Island forests deregulated

February 17, 2007
| An area twice the size of Greater Vancouver has had its environmental protections completely removed.

11:15 minutes (10.31 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Shameless: the ART of disability

February 18, 2007
| Bonnie Klein talks about her first documentary in nearly 20 years.

16:10 minutes (14.8 MB)
radio book lounge
radio book lounge

Episode 9, Part 2 - Sweet Tooth(ache)?

February 15, 2007
| Part 2 of a 2 part episode. An interview with Jeff de Jong, Co-Executive Director of La Siembra Co-operative, manufacturer of Cocoa Camino chocolate.

14:50 minutes (13.58 MB)
radio book lounge
radio book lounge

Episode 9, Part 1 - Sweet Tooth(ache)?

February 14, 2007
| Part 1 of a 2 part episode. An interview with Carol Off about her book, Bitter Chocolate.

19:38 minutes (17.99 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Funding gap for aboriginal homeless programs

February 21, 2007
| A one-month break in funding left 20 organizations scrambling.

14:45 minutes (13.51 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canadian mining company behind violent evictions in Guatemala

February 20, 2007
| Vancouver-based Skye Resources sanctions removal of Mayans from their ancestral lands.

16:51 minutes (15.43 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Taku River watershed under threat

February 23, 2007
| Vancouver-based mining company plans to use Alaska’s largest salmon-producing river as a transportation route.

14:31 minutes (13.29 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Opposing terminator technology for seeds

March 2, 2007
| Gardeners on Vancouver Island are raising awareness about this threat to the world's farmers.

13:51 minutes (12.68 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Ten Dollars Now

March 1, 2007
| The B.C Federation of Labour is campaigning for an increase to the minimum wage.

13:35 minutes (12.44 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Alternative Radio producer visits Iran

February 28, 2007
| David Barsamian spent 10 days in Iran talking with hundreds of people about the collision course their country is on with the United States.

16:24 minutes (15.02 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Security certificates unconstitutional

February 27, 2007
| Matthew Behrens reacts to the Supreme Court decision last week.

14:21 minutes (13.14 MB)
radio book lounge
radio book lounge

Episode 10, Part 1 - Inventory: Writers Tracking Conflict and War

February 28, 2007
| PEN Canada and the Toronto Public Library present an evening of readings by acclaimed writers in celebration of Freedom to Read week, hosted by Carol Off.
Click to play
52:00 minutes (47.62 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Eyewitness account from Gaza

March 4, 2007
| Jon Elmer is an independent photo-journalist who just returned from a visit to Gaza.

13:55 minutes (12.75 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

New arts magazine for Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

March 3, 2007
| &quot;Fearless&quot; appeared on the streets of Vancouver's poorest neighbourhood a couple of weeks ago and it's aiming at everyone who lives there.

13:21 minutes (12.22 MB)
rabble radio
rabble radio

#37 - Writing reality

March 5, 2007
| In this episode Wayne enjoys web composed haiku, Bon Cop Bad Cop is cinematic poetry, and a reading from author and activist Dionne Brand. Music is provided by Vancouver's Mother Mother.

26:52 minutes (24.61 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode One ~ Buddhist Swim Coach

March 5, 2007
| Neil McKinlay is a Buddhist Meditation teacher and swim coach.

19:05 minutes (17.47 MB)
radio book lounge
radio book lounge

Episode 10, Part 2 - Inventory: Writers Tracking Conflict and War

March 1, 2007
| PEN Canada and the Toronto Public Library present an evening of readings by acclaimed writers in celebration of Freedom to Read week, hosted by Carol Off.
Click to play
37:50 minutes (34.65 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

School enrollment dropping in Vancouver's East side

March 5, 2007
| East side children are bussing to the West side, West side children are going private.

12:20 minutes (11.29 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Hippies and Bolsheviks

March 9, 2007
| Amiel Gladstone's new play is set in the Kitsilano of the 1970s.

11:54 minutes (10.9 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Kutapira - Vancouver's youth marimba ensemble

March 8, 2007
| Eight teenagers get audiences dancing wherever they play with a unique mix of African and Cuban beats.

28:26 minutes (26.03 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Number of Iraqi deaths grossly underestimated

March 7, 2007
| U.S. forces haven't made any attempt to count how many Iraqis have died as a result of the invasion and occupation. Dr. Les Roberts has.

14:35 minutes (13.36 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Examining the 9-11 truth movement

March 6, 2007
| Ten million downloads of the Internet film &quot;Loose Change&quot; testify to the enduring appeal of the theory that Bush planned and executed the attack on the twin towers.

18:40 minutes (17.09 MB)
Africafiles: The Pulse
Africafiles: The Pulse

Episode #15: Is the role of African Women Changing?

March 8, 2007
| &lt;i&gt;Women in Africa have made big strides in their emancipation and are a force to reckon with in decision-making.&lt;/i&gt;

13:29 minutes (12.34 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Finding Dawn

March 14, 2007
| A conversation with filmmaker Christine Welsh about her new film which looks at dark history of violence against aboriginal women in Canada.

18:09 minutes (16.62 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Mother Courage and Her Children

March 13, 2007
| Laura Lamb reviews a new production of Brecht's masterpiece playing in Vancouver until March 17.

14:30 minutes (13.28 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

More miles of highway, fewer greenhouse gases?

March 12, 2007
| The B.C. government is planning to dramatically expand road construction in the Lower Mainland, but stay on target to reduce emissions. Critics say it can't be done.

14:29 minutes (13.26 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Three ~ 95 year old sage ~

March 12, 2007
| Paul Le Baron lives on Denman Island, and shares his wisdom in this rare recording.

22:47 minutes (20.86 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Safe2pee.org

March 15, 2007
| This website allows you to find gender neutral bathrooms across North America.

7:38 minutes (6.99 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

New inquiry into death of Frank Paul

March 16, 2007
| Frank Paul was one of a number of aboriginal men who have died after being dumped outside by the police.

18:15 minutes (16.71 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Four ~ Talking Gossip ~

March 16, 2007
| Gossip is a four letter word when added with two people equals more than a handful of trouble.

51:51 minutes (47.47 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Pine beetle infestation leads to risk of flooding

March 18, 2007
| With a very deep snowpack and millions of hectares devastated by pine beetles, the B.C. government needs to re-think its plans to log out the dead trees.

12:51 minutes (11.77 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Security and Prosperity Partnership

March 17, 2007
| The governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States have been meeting since 2005, discussing how to make North America &quot;the best and most secure place to do business&quot;.

17:14 minutes (15.79 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Shari Graydon on the sexualization of girls

March 24, 2007
| A new report by the American Psychological Association says sexualized images are harming girls' self-image and healthy development.

19:13 minutes (17.6 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

New law to disenfranchise thousands of voters

March 22, 2007
| Bill C-31 amends the Canada Elections Act and makes it more difficult for marginalized citizens to vote.

11:35 minutes (10.6 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Military recruiters target First Nations youth

March 19, 2007
| The Canadian Forces describe Bold Eagle as &quot;a challenging summer job that provides hands-on skills development and outdoor activities that promote physical fitness&quot;.

13:56 minutes (12.75 MB)
rabble radio
rabble radio

#38 - Visits to Africa

March 19, 2007
| In this episode, Judy returns from Kenya, an interview about women and leadership in Africa, and Keith ponders how to make small talk with a war on. Oh...and a bit of &quot;Gaelic&quot; too.

27:00 minutes (24.72 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Five ~ Installing Love ~

March 19, 2007
| Tech support taken to a whole new level.

3:31 minutes (3.22 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Six ~ Talking to Myself

March 23, 2007
| Is talking to one's self socially acceptable?

4:49 minutes (4.41 MB)
CitizenShift
CitizenShift

35 - Community Auto Sharing, by Graham French

March 27, 2007
| Graham French explores Communauto, a community auto sharing initiative in Montreal in this great 15 minute audio documentary.
Click to play
12:05 minutes (5.53 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The Politics of Naming: Darfur and Iraq

March 27, 2007
| Professor Mahmood Mamdani says the similarities between Iraq and Darfur are remarkable, but the violence in the two places is named differently.

24:21 minutes (22.3 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Budget 2007

March 26, 2007
| According to CUPE, the federal government will soon be little more than tax collection and cheque writing agency.

12:59 minutes (11.89 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Klimt

March 31, 2007
| Laura Lamb reviews the film by Raoul Ruiz about the turn of the 20th century painter Gustave Klimt.

14:18 minutes (13.1 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Eight ~ Angel Horses

March 30, 2007
| According to these authors, horses have purpose and destiny too.

34:01 minutes (31.15 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

New interprovincial free trade agreement

March 30, 2007
| The TILMA agreement will tie the hands of school boards, health authorities and local governments in B.C. and Alberta.

13:52 minutes (12.69 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The myth of biofuels

March 28, 2007
| The production of biofuels has human and environmental costs for the global South.

9:47 minutes (8.96 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

New matrix of harm for drugs of abuse

April 3, 2007
| A new study by David Nutt of Bristol University finds that alcohol and cigarettes are more dangerous than cannabis and ecstasy.

19:05 minutes (17.48 MB)
rabble radio
rabble radio

#39 - Make build sell think

April 2, 2007
| We're all about Secondlife. Imagine you're an art dealer. Imagine you're an architect. Imagine your name is Scooter. Imagine that!

33:49 minutes (30.96 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Nine ~ Urban Flute Project

April 2, 2007
| Wandering with flute as a catalyst for change in urban landscape.

33:07 minutes (30.32 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Need for aboriginal housing

April 2, 2007
| Thousands of First Nations families living off-reserve are in desperate need of good, affordable homes.

12:42 minutes (11.64 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Exploitation of Indian workers in U.S.

April 12, 2007
| A group of welders were recruited from India and discovered that the wage and working conditions they were promised didn't materialize.

16:30 minutes (15.11 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Build It Now

April 10, 2007
| A conversation with author Michael Lebowitz about his new book on building socialism in the 21st century.

28:35 minutes (26.17 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Homelessness clock ticking in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

April 7, 2007
| The homelessness clock is counting down to the 2010 Olympics, in tandem with the clock unveiled last month by the B.C. government.

14:01 minutes (12.84 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Rapping for war resisters

April 5, 2007
| Mohammad Ali is a hip-hop artist from Toronto travelling around the country, sharing the stage with the US war resisters.

16:43 minutes (15.3 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Working for justice for Bhopal victims

April 14, 2007
| Satinath Sarangi talks about the continuing effects of the Union Carbide gas leak and efforts to win justice and treatment for the victims.

17:05 minutes (15.64 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Eleven ~ Homelessness Part Two

April 9, 2007
| Second of two Episodes reflecting on Homelessness

26:40 minutes (24.42 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Ten ~ Homelessness Part One

April 6, 2007
| First of two Episodes reflecting on Homelessness

22:48 minutes (20.87 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Thirteen ~ Stumbling on Happiness

April 16, 2007
| Think you know what makes you happy?

43:47 minutes (40.09 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canadian military in arms race with Afghani insurgents

April 16, 2007
| Steve Staples of the Rideau Institute says the new Leopard tanks won't prevent Canadians from dying - they'll just lead to more powerful bombs.

15:25 minutes (14.12 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

How biofuels could starve the poor

April 17, 2007
| The enormous volume of corn required by the ethanol industry is sending shock waves through the food system, according to Benjamin Senauer of the University of Minnesota.

12:05 minutes (11.07 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Global warming and the rights of the Inuit

April 19, 2007
| Nobel Peace prize nominee Sheila Watt-Cloutier talks about the case she brought to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in New York.

14:24 minutes (13.19 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Vandana Shiva on the new green revolution

April 18, 2007
| An interview with Dr. Vandana Shiva on the failures of the first green revolution and the dangers of a second.

14:14 minutes (13.04 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The Passenger Protect program

April 23, 2007
| The Minister of Transport considers that the Aeoronautics Act gives him permission to establish a made-in-Canada no-fly list.

14:51 minutes (13.59 MB)
Comeuppance
Comeuppance

Episode 7: For Earth Day

April 22, 2007
| A few tales about land and resistance

9:49 minutes (8.99 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

War and the environment

April 22, 2007
| Modern warfare is one of the biggest environmental disasters a country can experience - and it's largely fuelled by the addiction to oil.

13:05 minutes (11.98 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Sustainable agriculture in Cuba

April 21, 2007
| Cuba has successfully moved from the large-scale, state-run agriculture practiced in the Soviet era to a newer, more community-based model.

11:09 minutes (10.21 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Fifteen ~ Weather

April 23, 2007
| Weather: you like it or not

4:30 minutes (4.12 MB)
radio book lounge
radio book lounge

Episode 12, Part 1 - Spoken word in focus with Naila Keleta Mae

April 19, 2007
| Naila Keleta Mae in conversation with Lisa Rundle

13:11 minutes (12.07 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Huge landfill located next to black community in Nova Scotia

April 20, 2007
| Lincolnville residents are calling it environmental racism. We speak with James Desmond, one of the people in the Save Lincolnville campaign.

13:55 minutes (12.74 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Vancouver City Council punishes downtown residents' association

April 26, 2007
| The Downtown Eastside Residents Association has seen all its city funding cut because its civil disobedience tactics ran afoul of City Hall.

9:46 minutes (8.94 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Counterfeit drugs in the global South

April 24, 2007
| Up to 70% of all medicines are fake in some countries in Asia and Africa. We talk to two people working to control the damage they cause.

23:38 minutes (21.64 MB)
Comeuppance
Comeuppance

Episode 8: The Wise Little Girl

April 24, 2007
| A russian folk tale and bedtime story

11:11 minutes (10.24 MB)
Pak|Cast Archived

Pak|Cast vol. 3, no. 9: Interview with Indian journalist Siddhart

April 23, 2007
| Pak|Cast vol. 3, no. 9: Interview with Indian journalist Siddharth

34:05 minutes (31.21 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The evolution of Green parties in Europe and North America

April 28, 2007
| For the past 30 years, Green parties have been a part of electoral politics in much of the Western world. Their relationship with the grassroots has evolved considerably since their early days.

14:12 minutes (13 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The Walls of Nablus

April 27, 2007
| A photo exhibition of walls in an ancient Palestinian city has Laura Lamb reflecting on expressionism, photography and the convention of the picturesque.

13:02 minutes (11.94 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Sixteen ~ NCRC Voices

April 27, 2007
| National Campus and Community Radio Conference 2007 is being held in Vancouver.

12:37 minutes (11.56 MB)
Comeuppance
Comeuppance

Episode 9: Tales that Teach (?)

April 27, 2007
| Three tales about teaching

8:20 minutes (7.64 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Working for a temp agency

May 3, 2007
| Permanent employment is a thing of the past for many workers. We find out what problems temporary workers face.

16:48 minutes (15.39 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

New face of slavery in the global economy

May 2, 2007
| 27 million people around the world toil in slave-like conditions. They can found in every region and every kind of economy.

13:56 minutes (12.76 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canadian workplaces becoming more dangerous

May 1, 2007
| In 2005, an average of five Canadian workers were killed every day on the job - and the numbers keep climbing.

14:52 minutes (13.61 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Crisis in the Canadian Auto Workers Union

April 30, 2007
| According to Sam Gindin, the CAW has lost its militancy and is disconnected from broader social movements and this reflects an overall crisis in the union movement.

12:05 minutes (11.07 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Singing the songs of worker struggles

May 4, 2007
| Earle Peach is well-known in Vancouver for conducting the Solidarity Notes choir. Here he talks about his latest project - a musical collaboration on the subject labour history.

11:28 minutes (10.5 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Trade union organizing in Haiti

May 5, 2007
| Jeb Sprague of HaitiAnalysis.com talks about the current labour climate in Haiti.

13:26 minutes (12.3 MB)
Comeuppance
Comeuppance

Episode 12: The Origin of Writing

May 9, 2007
| Plato tells us about how writing was invented.

2:21 minutes (2.15 MB)
Comeuppance
Comeuppance

Episode 11: They Peeked and a Solomon Legend

May 7, 2007
| A story about children and a Solomon tale.

5:37 minutes (5.15 MB)
Comeuppance
Comeuppance

Episode 10: Heaven &amp; Hell

May 5, 2007
| A fellow dies and wants to see what hell looks like first.

3:33 minutes (3.25 MB)
Africafiles: The Pulse
Africafiles: The Pulse

Episode #16: Women helping women

April 26, 2007
| A group of seven women from London, Ontario including jazz vocalist Denise Pelley went to southern Sudan in an effort to help their fellow women.

14:47 minutes (13.55 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Nineteen ~ Jimmy Bowskill ~

May 7, 2007
| 16 year old blues guitarist on tour with trio in B.C.

25:53 minutes (23.7 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Harper's plan on climate change

May 7, 2007
| Al Gore calls it a fraud. Canadian environmentalists call it embarrassing. Louise Comeau analyzes the plan and says it's designed to mislead.

15:15 minutes (13.97 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Dying for a Home

May 14, 2007
| Street nurse Cathy Crowe talks about her new book written in collaboration with 10 homeless activists.

20:39 minutes (18.9 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Twenty ~ Bees, cel phones, community radio

May 11, 2007
| Why should we care about disappearing bees?

21:27 minutes (19.64 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Soviet Canada 1935

May 11, 2007
| Soressa Gardner talks about her new soundscape on her mother's experiences in the communist Young Pioneers in the 1930s.

17:54 minutes (16.39 MB)
Pak|Cast Archived

Pak|Cast vol. 3, no. 11: NGOs and the Media in Pakistan

May 8, 2007
| Asad Faizi updates the judicial crisis; Nasir Aziz, Ethan Casey and Asad Faizi respond to questions from master's candidate Naveed Malik at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, on the...

35:12 minutes (32.22 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

B.C. plans to estabish separate schools for autistic kids

May 9, 2007
| The Minister of Education wants to take special needs kids and aboriginal kids out of the regular school system and set up provincial schools for them.

16:50 minutes (15.41 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The mystery of the disapperaring honey bees

May 16, 2007
| It's called colony collapse disorder and it threatens bees in the U.S. and Europe. Geneticist Joe Cummins talks about some of the reasons scientists think it's happening.

15:34 minutes (14.25 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Twenty One ~ Song of the Queen Bee

May 14, 2007
| E.B. White's poem with accompanying voice and tune.

4:44 minutes (4.33 MB)
rabble radio
rabble radio

#42 - Reduce, reuse, and all the rest

May 14, 2007
| My name is rabble radio and I'm an ecoholic. Flourescence rather than incandescence? There's more to do than that. We've got organic farmers, wild frogs, and Adria Vasil on her new book.

32:55 minutes (30.14 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Health care in Canada as good as in U.S. and much cheaper

May 15, 2007
| A new study compares the outcomes for seriously ill patients in both countries and finds the biggest difference is in cost, not in results.

10:59 minutes (10.07 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Harper government allows foreign tankers to ply B.C. waters

May 17, 2007
| A 35-year moratorium on tankers off B.C.'s coast has been breached in recent months and the federal government is turning a blind eye.

12:46 minutes (11.7 MB)
Rabbledocs
Rabbledocs

Listen to the land 1

May 17, 2007
| From August to December 2006, broadcaster Michael Riordon recorded interviews and on-location sound impressions at eleven organic farms, as vegetables and herbs were harve

15:05 minutes (13.82 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

Vandana Shiva - Water and Women of Action

May 15, 2007
| Vandana Shiva, speaking via video at a presentation on women and water. Co-presenters included Maude Barlowe and Starhawk. Those episodes will follow on needs no introduction.

5:05 minutes (4.65 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Empire and the Bomb

May 25, 2007
| A new book on how the United States uses nuclear weapons to dominate the world.

18:27 minutes (16.9 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Barrick Gold's dirty secrets

May 22, 2007
| A new report by Corpwatch details the impacts this Canadian gold mining company has worldwide.

15:24 minutes (14.1 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

New independent medical journal in Canada

May 18, 2007
| Open Medicine is an open-access medical journal with no ties to professional associations and no advertising from pharmaceutical companies.

11:52 minutes (10.86 MB)
CitizenShift
CitizenShift

44 - Hugh McGuire on Librivox.org

May 23, 2007
| Hugh McGuire talks about Librivox, the online free audiobook community that he founded. The Librivox community is now among the most prolific producers of audiobooks in the world.
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4:12 minutes (1.92 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Twenty-Three ~ Neil McKinlay update

May 21, 2007
| Buddhist swim coach was featured in Episode One ~ here's the latest.

46:11 minutes (42.28 MB)
Pak|Cast Archived

Pak|Cast vol. 3, no. 13: The Streets of Karachi

May 18, 2007
| May 12, 2007, the day over 40 innocent citizens of Karachi lost their lives to political violence, is a date that will live in infamy. In a lively and heated discussion released ahead of Pak|Cast's...

35:52 minutes (32.84 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Twenty-Two ~ Compassion in Action

May 18, 2007
| Breakthrough Celebration ~ Compassion in Action ~ May 15 - 29, 2007

47:39 minutes (43.63 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Twenty-Four ~ Brain Fitness!

May 25, 2007
| Guy Pilch is Canada’s first mental fitness consultant.

65:34 minutes (60.03 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Vancouver elementary schools opt out of testing

June 1, 2007
| 12 schools decided not to put their students through tests that the Fraser Institute is using to rate schools in B.C.

15:34 minutes (14.25 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Illusions of Security

May 31, 2007
| Human rights Lawyer and activist Maureen Webb talks about her new book on global surveillance in the post 9/11 world.

13:51 minutes (12.68 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Twenty-Six ~ Celebrate Peace Tour

June 1, 2007
| Snatam Kaur and GuruGanesha Singh are on a world tour with brief stops in B.C. Canada

25:38 minutes (23.48 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Girl Inside

May 30, 2007
| Filmmaker Maya Gallus follows Madison for three years as she negotiates her transition from male to female, with the full support of her 80-year-old grandmother.

15:19 minutes (14.03 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The corporate climate coup

May 29, 2007
| David Noble says that corporations are feeding the hysteria about global warming to undermine the global justice movement and to create a need for market-based solutions.

16:36 minutes (15.21 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

40 years of occupation

May 28, 2007
| In June 1967, Israel invaded and occupied Palestinian lands in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. We speak with leading Palestinian intellectual Dr. Naseer Aruri.

15:36 minutes (14.29 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

AIDS education in the Kenya's export processing zones

June 5, 2007
| Blacklisted union organizers are putting their energies into informing textile workers about their human and labour rights and the dangers of HIV/AIDS.

13:16 minutes (12.15 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Anti-Poverty Committee discusses tactics

June 4, 2007
| The Anti-Poverty Committee symbolical eviction of VANOC board member Ken Dobell from his office got them a lot of bad press. We ask them how and why they have chosen the tactics they using.

14:41 minutes (13.45 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Vancouver Public Library book bindery to close

June 3, 2007
| For the past 83 years, librarians in Vancouver have been able to use the services of an in-hous book bindery. On May 30, the Board voted to close down operations.

12:57 minutes (11.86 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Residents of one of B.C.'s oldest housing projects re-located

June 2, 2007
| Little Mountain housing project was built in the 1930s to house vets from World War One. Now residents have to move and are unsure of if and when they can return.

12:53 minutes (11.81 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Getting out of your car and on to a bike

June 8, 2007
| This month is Bike Month and the Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition has been encouraging people to try a two wheel commute.

13:53 minutes (12.71 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Major anti-corporate conference held in India

June 9, 2007
| In the first weekend of June, activists from across India met in Mumbai to resist the removal of peasants from their lands.

13:35 minutes (12.43 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Frankensteer

June 7, 2007
| Ted Remerowski talks about his 2005 expos&eacute; of the Canadian beef industry.

17:19 minutes (15.86 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Racial profiling post 9-11

June 15, 2007
| A new study aims to quantify the extent of racial profiling experienced by Muslims and people of Middle Eastern descent in Canada.

12:58 minutes (11.88 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

More pesticide residues to be allowed on food

June 12, 2007
| The Canadian government is preparing to raise the acceptable levels of pesticides on our food to harmonize with weaker U.S. standards.

15:25 minutes (14.12 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Keeping down the cost of riding the bus

June 11, 2007
| Bus fares need to reflect the fact that transit is a public good, not a market commodity.

13:40 minutes (12.51 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Thirty-One ~ Cara Tilston Audio Portrait

June 18, 2007
| Purposeful living leads this inspiring woman through community involvement near and far.

15:15 minutes (13.97 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Thirty ~ Why Raw?

June 15, 2007
| Elyse Nuff talks about raw food diet and it goes on from there!

27:52 minutes (25.52 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Twenty-Nine ~ Cyclist Rally in Nanaimo

June 11, 2007
| For the first time Nanaimo sees 40 cyclists fill a lane normally filled with cars.

10:31 minutes (9.63 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

A 15-storey tower for one of Vancouver's best-known parks

June 21, 2007
| Queen Elizabeth Park boasts the best views of any of the major parks in Vancouver. Now the Parks Board have voted to consider cashing in on those views with an observation tower.

13:03 minutes (11.96 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Guerrero: El Ruta Del Sol

June 17, 2007
| Mexico's southern coastal state of Guerrero is a mecca for tourists - and a very dangerous place for human rights activists.

12:52 minutes (11.78 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Thirty-Five ~ Todd Butler

July 2, 2007
| Storyteller, satirist, songwriter, musician, welcome!

18:17 minutes (16.74 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Thirty-Four ~ Beach side muse-ings

June 29, 2007
| Flora Walton was told she would be on radio, so here she is!

34:41 minutes (31.75 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Thirty-Three ~ Sex and Religion

June 25, 2007
| Author Elizabeth Cunningham explores the content of a possible fifth gospel.

32:55 minutes (30.15 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Thirty-Two ~ Money

June 22, 2007
| Money talk outside the box with financial planner Tracy Piercy.

46:30 minutes (42.57 MB)
rabble radio
rabble radio

#44 - iphone therefor iam

June 11, 2007
| In this episode we have contest winners, Wayne raves about the iphone, Michael Winterbottom's new film gets a good going over, and we talk about the latest big feature at rabbledocs. Check it out too.

26:53 minutes (24.62 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Tearing up health contracts ruled illegal

June 19, 2007
| The Supreme Court of Canada says that Gordon Campbell's government violated charter rights in 2002 in its dealings with the Hospital Employees' Union.

13:13 minutes (12.1 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Critic of Israeli policies denied tenure

June 30, 2007
| Robert Jensen argues that Norman Finkelstein's case puts a chill on academic freedom across the States.

15:52 minutes (14.52 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Algerian refugee claimant sent back to a U.S. jail

July 6, 2007
| Benamar Benatta was held for 5 years with no charge following the World Trade Centre attacks.

11:35 minutes (10.61 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

NAFTA superhighways to criss-cross North America

July 4, 2007
| Plans may be afoot to build transportation corridors several hundreds of metres wide linking Mexico to Canada.

14:23 minutes (13.17 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Independence Daze

July 3, 2007
| Jamie Arde&ntilde;a is a Filipino-American artist whose work examines the colonial period in the history of the Philippines.

14:25 minutes (13.21 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Sicko

July 10, 2007
| A B.C. nurse reviews Michael Moore's latest film.

14:26 minutes (13.22 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Thirty-Seven ~ Michael Kaeshammer

July 9, 2007
| Michael Kaeshammer opened for Holly Cole at the recent Toronto Jazz Festival

13:06 minutes (11.99 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Bird biodiversity or economic growth

August 3, 2007
| Field orthnithologists said that the choice is clear at a recent conference in British Columbia.

10:05 minutes (9.24 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Thirty-Six ~ Toronto Tour

July 6, 2007
| A variety pack of glimpses of recent recordings, more to follow.

18:50 minutes (17.24 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

6,000 municipal workers set to strike in Lower Mainland

July 16, 2007
| BC residents are facing a work stoppage that will halt garbage pick-up and close city-run pools, community centres and golf courses.

14:51 minutes (13.61 MB)
Africafiles: The Pulse
Africafiles: The Pulse

Episode #18: A Lifetime of Telling African Stories

June 30, 2007
| Africa has lost its godfather of film. Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene died in Dakar, Senegal in early June.

14:19 minutes (13.12 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Thirty-Eight ~ Peter Boyd, guitarist

July 13, 2007
| A long time Toronto based musician who opened the Toronto Jazz Festival 2007.

15:03 minutes (13.78 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Izzy Asper's holocaust museum

July 12, 2007
| A coalition has formed to oppose the opening of a museum that commemorates the genocide of only one historical group, the Jews of Europe, with a permanent exhibit.

14:45 minutes (13.51 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Report on the first US Social Forum in Atlanta

July 20, 2007
| Steve Sherman attended the event and he calls it a dramatic success in several important ways.

16:26 minutes (15.05 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Fighting the fare increases in Vancouver

July 18, 2007
| The Bus Riders Union is a grassroots organization that is speaking out against the rising cost of public transit in the Lower Mainland

14:40 minutes (13.43 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Harmonization plan targets refugees and immigrants

August 1, 2007
| The Security and Prosperity Partnership will radically change Canada's immigration, border security and refugees systems.

14:42 minutes (13.47 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Thirty-Nine ~ National Aboriginal Day

July 16, 2007
| 13th Annual included The Buffalo Jump World Prayer and Peace Parade in Toronto, June 21st, 2007.

35:25 minutes (32.42 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

All Our Sisters

July 30, 2007
| Writer and journalist Susan Scott has written a book telling the stories of homeless women in Canada.

20:20 minutes (18.61 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Forty-One ~ Brad Warner

July 23, 2007
| Combine punk rock bass player with Zen practitioner = Brad Warner!

49:55 minutes (45.7 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Resisting the militarization of US ports

July 25, 2007
| Anti-war activists in the Pacific Northwest have been blockading the shipment of Stryker combat vehicles to Iraq.

16:55 minutes (15.49 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Engineering trees for biofuel

July 23, 2007
| Aborgen is one of the companies working on genetically engineering eucalyptus to produce cellulosic biofuel.

12:20 minutes (11.29 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Uranium mining in B.C.

August 9, 2007
| The new green marketing of nuclear energy has led to an upsurge of exploration and mining proposals in British Columbia.

15:25 minutes (14.12 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Fatah collaborating with Israel

August 7, 2007
| Observers say there is much evidence that sections of the Palestinian Fatah movement are now working closely with Israel in the Occupied Territories.

13:19 minutes (12.2 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Forty-Four ~ Tolling's Reflections

August 3, 2007
| The second in a series of glimpses into the life of Tolling Jennings.

11:41 minutes (10.7 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Forty-Two ~ Business Coach on Purpose

July 27, 2007
| Kerry Brown is the Managing Director of eWomenNetwork in Victoria, B.C.

25:00 minutes (22.89 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Forty-Six ~ Remember spring?

August 10, 2007
| One baby robin left in the nest.

9:00 minutes (8.24 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Forty-Five ~ Human Being on Purpose

August 6, 2007
| Dirk Becker is a human being on purpose and a human doing organic farming purposefully.

34:35 minutes (31.67 MB)
Africafiles: The Pulse
Africafiles: The Pulse

Episode #20 Zimbabwe: A Tale of Gloom and Little Light

August 14, 2007
| When Bob Marley penned the song Zimbabwe, he certainly did not envision the crisis-ridden Zimbabwe that we see today. Silence Genti reflects on a nation that has lost its bearings.

17:14 minutes (15.77 MB)
Africafiles: The Pulse
Africafiles: The Pulse

Episode #19 Drug Use and Trafficking Increasing in Africa

July 30, 2007
| There is an increase in both the trafficking and use of drugs across Africa. Dr Thomas Pietschmann discusses why?

9:52 minutes (9.04 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Forty-Seven ~ Debut 2004

August 13, 2007
| It had to start somewhere ~ the first interview for Living on Purpose.

22:07 minutes (20.25 MB)
CitizenShift
CitizenShift

53 - An Interview with Severn Cullis-Suzuki

August 27, 2007
| Severn Cullis-Suzuki has been speaking out on social justice and environmental issues since she was young. She’s an editor of and writer for Notes From Canada’s Young Activists: A Generation Stands Up

32:29 minutes (14.87 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Fifty ~ Flute with Spirit

August 24, 2007
| Terry Mack's inspiration flows through the flute.

11:59 minutes (10.97 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Fifty-Four ~ Host in the Hot Seat

September 7, 2007
| Lynn Thompson is interviewed by a CHLY colleague.

14:02 minutes (12.85 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Massacre at the Red Mosque

September 4, 2007
| Muslim theologian, scholar and social justice activist Farid Esack provides eye-witness insight into last month's government siege and massacre at the Red Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan.

13:02 minutes (11.93 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Academic freedom issues at First Nations University of Canada

August 31, 2007
| We speak with Stephen LaRose, who has been covering problems at FNUC since 2005.

12:27 minutes (11.41 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Crop circle appears in corn field in BC

August 29, 2007
| Greenpeace activists recently created a 61-metre crop circle in a corn field contain in Monsanto’s NK603 genetically engineered corn.

13:01 minutes (11.91 MB)
radio book lounge
radio book lounge

Episode 13 - Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine considered

September 6, 2007
| Lisa Rundle in conversation with Naomi Klein about her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.

23:06 minutes (21.15 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Fifty-Five ~ Shelagh Rogers

September 10, 2007
| CBC meets community campus radio on air.

13:25 minutes (12.29 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

New security certificate legislation to be introduced

September 11, 2007
| Imprisonment without trial was one of the legacies of Sept 11 until the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. Now Harper is planning a new law.

11:08 minutes (10.2 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Municipal strike in Vancouver enters eighth week

September 10, 2007
| CUPE president Paul Faoro blames the city for refusing to bargain.

10:55 minutes (9.99 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Dr. Brian Day takes over as head of Canadian Medical Association

September 7, 2007
| Elected last year in Charlottetown, Dr. Brian Day took over his new position two weeks ago in Vancouver.

17:09 minutes (15.7 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Eyewitness account from Haiti

September 13, 2007
| Roger Annis has just returned from a US-Canadian humanitarian delegation to Haiti.

18:57 minutes (17.36 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Police provocateurs at Montebello

September 12, 2007
| An interview with Paul Manly, who shot the video of 3 QPP officers posing as demonstrators at protests against the SPP.

18:28 minutes (16.91 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Conditions for migrant workers in Canada

September 14, 2007
| A Mexican worker has accused his employer of assaulting him and threatening him with a knife on a B.C. farm.

13:45 minutes (12.59 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Northern Manitoba Cree find allies in Minnesota lawmakers

September 21, 2007
| The Minnesota State Senate has passed a law saying it won't buy power from Manitoba Hydro unless the First Nations affected by the dams are treated fairly.

13:16 minutes (12.15 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Erosion of democratic control over municipal affairs

September 17, 2007
| From housing to transportation, B.C.'s cities are increasingly subject to the dictates of the provincial government.

16:06 minutes (14.74 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Overcoming Zionism

September 19, 2007
| An interview with Professor Joel Kovel on the topic of his latest book.

19:46 minutes (18.09 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

University presidents denounce British faculty union

September 25, 2007
| The University and College Union in Britain is under attack for a motion they passed in May concerning an academic boycott of Israel.

15:14 minutes (13.95 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

BC Supreme Court victory for First Nations women

September 24, 2007
| This summer Sharon McIvor won her case challenging the constitutionality of the Indian Act. Now she faces an appeal by the BC government.

12:33 minutes (11.5 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Mixed-income housing answer to BC's homelessness crisis

September 29, 2007
| A housing activist from Vancouver's downtown eastside says the BC government is about to announce new money for social housing, but it's not the kind that's needed.

10:57 minutes (10.03 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Privatizing the public power system in British Columbia

September 28, 2007
| BC's rivers are increasingly threatened by private power projects. Marjorie Griffin Cohen talks about what run-of-the-river hydro means for the province.

11:53 minutes (10.88 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

What TILMA means for municipal governments

September 27, 2007
| When BC and Alberta signed the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement this year, local democracy took a big hit.

15:47 minutes (14.46 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Stories from the US-Mexico border

September 26, 2007
| Singer songwriter Pablo Peregrina and geographer Juanita Sundberg are part of the grassroots movement to assist migrants crossing the US-Mexico border.

17:35 minutes (16.1 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Expisode Sixty-Four ~ Abundant Island of Artists

October 12, 2007
| The Empty Bowls Project is one of many community events on Gabriola Island.

21:17 minutes (19.5 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Deaths in police custody

October 5, 2007
| Four men died in B.C. in August. We speak with former RCMP complaints commissioner Shirley Heafey.

13:56 minutes (12.76 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Sixty-Five ~ Growth through Cycling

October 15, 2007
| Shannon and James are cycling to regroup and challenge themselves.

10:07 minutes (9.27 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Prescription for a Healthy Canada

October 10, 2007
| A new report says that the federal government's failure to protect the environmental health of Canadians is costing us billions of dollar a year.

18:52 minutes (17.27 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Providing food for people with HIV and AIDS

October 18, 2007
| For almost 20 years, A Loving Spoonful has made sure that people living with AIDS and HIV in Vancouver have enough to eat.

14:02 minutes (12.85 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Why food aid doesn't help the hungry

October 17, 2007
| Much of the aid we send to the global South benefits markets in the North and harms the people who are receiving it.

11:41 minutes (10.7 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The End of Food

October 16, 2007
| We talk with Thomas Pawlick about his bestselling book on how the food industry is destroying our food supply.

17:16 minutes (15.81 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Junk food in schools

October 15, 2007
| Bill Jeffery of the Centre for Science in the Public Interest talks about their report card on provincial standards for food in schools across Canada.

11:46 minutes (10.78 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Sixty-Nine ~ Emotional Pro speaks

October 29, 2007
| Ilene Dillon is a writer and radio show host with a focus on emotions.

50:18 minutes (46.05 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Biofuels and world hunger

October 20, 2007
| Biofuels are being touted as the green solution to the energy crisis and global warming. Eric Holt-Gimenez of Food First disagrees.

16:30 minutes (15.11 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The 100-mile diet

October 19, 2007
| James MacKinnon talks about why he and Alison Smith decided to restrict their diet to food grown within 100-mile radius around their home.

11:16 minutes (10.31 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Bringing torturers to justice in Canada

October 23, 2007
| A court case in Montreal may set a precedent for the prosecution of torturers from other countries now living in Canada.

13:25 minutes (12.28 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Nicaragua's abortion ban endangering women's lives

October 22, 2007
| Helen Dixon, Nicaraguan women's rights activist, discusses the new anti-abortion laws which set back women's rights literally 101 years.

15:11 minutes (13.9 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Homeless people set up tents on a city-owned lot

October 26, 2007
| The Christian social justice organization Streams of Justice and homeless people in Vancouver erected a camp to mark Homelessness Action Week.

13:06 minutes (12 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Writing to Change the World

October 25, 2007
| Mary Pipher is a psychologist and best-selling author of &quot;Reviving Ophelia&quot;. We talk with her about her new book.

17:10 minutes (15.73 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The case of the Jena Six

October 24, 2007
| The trial of 6 black students from Jena, Louisiana has refocused attention on race and justice in the US.

15:14 minutes (13.94 MB)
Africafiles: The Pulse
Africafiles: The Pulse

Episode #21: The American Hand in Congo

October 18, 2007
| The United States has played a destructive role in the past and present of the mineral-rich Democratic Republic of Congo

19:28 minutes (17.83 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

How the media reports on science

October 31, 2007
| Dr. Ben Goldacre writes the &quot;Bad Science&quot; column for the Guardian. He says science reporting is often pointless, simplistic, boring and just plain wrong.

17:41 minutes (16.2 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Blue Covenant

October 30, 2007
| Maude Barlow speaks with us about her latest book on the global water crisis and the coming battle for the right to water.

18:30 minutes (16.94 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

A conversation with Malalai Joya

October 29, 2007
| Malalai Joya was elected to the Afghanistan National Assembly in 2005. She is in Canada speaking out against the occupation of her country.

20:19 minutes (18.6 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Putting the brakes on B.C.'s oil and gas industry

October 28, 2007
| The B.C. government is giving the oil and gas industry tax breaks that are leading to greater environmental damage and faster depletion of the resource.

14:38 minutes (13.4 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canadian involvement in Burma

October 27, 2007
| The military regime in Burma continues to be sustained by foreign investment and trade, a significant amount of which comes from Canada.

15:33 minutes (14.24 MB)
Africafiles: The Pulse
Africafiles: The Pulse

Episode #22: The American Hand in Somalia

October 25, 2007
| The United States has played a prominent role in the past and present of the strife-torn Somalia

14:45 minutes (13.51 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

CAW signs no-strike deal with Magna auto parts

November 5, 2007
| The Framework of Fairness Agreement between the Canadian Auto Workers and Magna International means workers can't strike and they can't have shop stewards.

17:56 minutes (16.43 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

How eating meat harms the environment

November 3, 2007
| John Powles is co-author of a recent study that pinpoints the production of meat as a significant contributor to global warming.

11:35 minutes (10.6 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Commercialization of science research

November 2, 2007
| Daivd Noble says the appointment of a new president at York University will usher in a new era of corporate involvement in higher education.

16:31 minutes (15.13 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Vancouver feels the pressure of large-scale gentrification

November 7, 2007
| The City of Vancouver has embarked on a mass rezoning of single family neighbourhoods to pave the way for a new wave of condos and high-end apartment buildings.

13:12 minutes (12.09 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

Through the looking glass, part I

November 9, 2007
| Dr. Monia Mazigh, Faizal Kutty, and Dr. Carol Tator discuss racial profiling in Canada

45:11 minutes (41.38 MB)
radio book lounge
radio book lounge

Episode 14 - Who to trust in times of crisis?

November 9, 2007
| Charles C. Smith discusses his new book — Conflict, Crisis and Accountability: Racial profiling and law enforcement in Canada.

34:03 minutes (31.19 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Scottish Parliament opposes nuclear subs

November 8, 2007
| When the British government announced it was to extend the life of the Trident submarines at Faslane, Scots united to fight the decision.

11:35 minutes (10.61 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Victory in fight against highway widening in Vancouver

November 10, 2007
| Opponents to the scheme to widen Highway 1 and twin the Port Mann bridge are celebrating the defeat of a plan brought forward by the city's engineering department.

8:50 minutes (8.09 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

My Kid Could Paint That

November 9, 2007
| Laura Lamb reviews Amir Bar-Lev's documentary about a 4-year-old who paints like Jackson Pollock.

12:34 minutes (11.51 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

Through the looking glass, part II

November 8, 2007
| Karl Flecker, Filsan Fadal, and Jana Kooren continue the discussion on racial profiling.

49:40 minutes (45.48 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Building a media reform movement in Canada

December 28, 2007
| Robert McChesney is president of Free Speech, the largest media reform organization in the States. He spoke in Vancouver on Media Democracy Day.

28:02 minutes (25.67 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Liquid Gold

November 12, 2007
| John Calvert's new book documents the dismantling of B.C. Hydro and the end of publicly-owned power in British Columbia.

16:56 minutes (15.5 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

&quot;Let Peace Be Their Memorial&quot;

November 11, 2007
| Two members of Veterans Against Nuclear Arms talk about why they'll be carrying this banner in the Remembrance Day parades today.

13:18 minutes (12.19 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Tideline

November 15, 2007
| Touchstone Theatre is presenting a story of war, exile and individual discovery,written by Lebanese-Quebecois playwright Wadji Mouawad.

13:15 minutes (12.14 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

B.C.'s new Coastal Forest Action Plan

November 14, 2007
| The Western Canada Wilderness Committee says the government's plan is to keep on logging the old growth and to log the second-growth even faster.

15:06 minutes (13.83 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Residents oppose giant Canadian Tire in South Vancouver

November 13, 2007
| Two years ago, Vancouver City Council voted against a huge Walmart. Now Canadian Tire has come forward with a similar proposal - and Walmart is close behind.

9:26 minutes (8.63 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Ian Angus on ecosocialism

November 19, 2007
| We speak with the founder of the new Ecosocialist International Network and editor of the website Climate and Capitalism.

13:48 minutes (12.64 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #75 ~ Dr. Tomorrow ~ Introduction

November 19, 2007
| Frank Ogden, also known as Dr. Tomorrow, is a futurist.

26:53 minutes (24.61 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Saskatchewan Party takes power after 16 years of NDP rule

November 21, 2007
| Lorne Brown is professor emeritus at the University of Regina. He discusses why the NDP lost and what we can expect from the new provincial government in Saskatchewan.

9:28 minutes (8.68 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Taser death of Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver Airport

November 27, 2007
| Cameron Ward represented the family of Robert Bagnell who died after being Tasered in 2004. He discusses the response of Taser International and the RCMP to Taser deaths.

17:23 minutes (15.91 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Amending the Venezuelan constitution

November 29, 2007
| Scholar and author James Petras details some of the changes that Venezuelans will be voting on December 2.

15:31 minutes (14.21 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

A blueprint for climate action in British Columbia

November 28, 2007
| The B.C. government says it's going to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 33%. A new report looks at what they'll have to do to achieve that reduction.

12:22 minutes (11.32 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Acting up for the surveillance cameras

November 23, 2007
| A group of people in New York perform theatre in public places for the video camera operators. We speak with co-founder Bill Brown.

15:00 minutes (13.73 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #80 ~ Courage and Craft

December 7, 2007
| Barbara Abercrombie shares her passion for the craft of writing.

65:46 minutes (60.21 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Big box childcare

November 30, 2007
| B.C. may follow Australia's lead and allow multinational corporations to displace community childcare.

15:47 minutes (14.46 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #78 ~ Two Horses

November 30, 2007
| A short reading of comfort and inspiration.

2:43 minutes (2.49 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #84 ~ Echo Bodine

December 21, 2007
| Echo Bodine first discovered she was born with psychic abilities and the gift of healing at age of 17.

33:57 minutes (31.08 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #83 ~ Ron Korb, flutist and composer

December 17, 2007
| As a child, Ron was enchanted by the sound of the flute.

50:31 minutes (46.25 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #82 ~ Amy Madden

December 14, 2007
| Author of &quot;Stolen Beauty ~ Healing the Scars of Child Abuse&quot; shares her story to help others.

36:45 minutes (33.66 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #81 ~ Staying Sober during the Holidays

December 10, 2007
| Dr. Larry Smith and colleagues share tips and wisdom for the gift of sobriety during the holidays.

57:31 minutes (52.66 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #87 ~ A Note from the Universe

December 31, 2007
| Excerpt from Episode #2 during &quot;The Secret&quot; quotes, on the beach!

2:41 minutes (2.45 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #88 ~ Didjeridu Sound Healing

January 4, 2008
| Shine Edgar and Edysha Ee share insights and process following a didjeridu sound healing session.

31:00 minutes (28.39 MB)
Everybody Knows
Everybody Knows

Hoping for freedom in Mae Sot

December 3, 2007
| Mae Sot is a town on the Thai/Burma border that attracts people of all sorts looking for a different life. This is the story of some of those people.

20:04 minutes (18.38 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Mandatory minimums for drug offences

December 6, 2007
| Stephen Harper wants to bring in an amendment to Canadian law that could start a US-style war on drugs in this country.

11:35 minutes (10.6 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Court victory for Tsilhqot'in in B.C. Interior

December 5, 2007
| Last month Justice David Vickers of the B.C. Supreme Court found in favour of the Tsilhqot'in in their claim to aboriginal title of their territory around Williams Lake.

14:25 minutes (13.21 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Beyond the Green Zone

December 4, 2007
| Dahr Jamail talks about his book about his experiences as an unembedded journalist in occupied Iraq

15:45 minutes (14.42 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Homeless to housed in one day

December 24, 2007
| Judy Graves pioneered a unique approach to housing homeless people which has now been adopted by B.C. Housing in 17 municipalitites across the province.

16:40 minutes (15.27 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Mass deportation of Mexican Americans

December 26, 2007
| In 1931, more than a million Mexican Americans were deported back to Mexico in what would be seen now as an attempt to ethnically cleanse many cities in the U.S.

16:03 minutes (14.7 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Toxins in toys

December 7, 2007
| Governments in the U.S. and Canada are allowing phthalates in toys, despite research showing they have serious health effects on children.

10:36 minutes (9.71 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

World Against War conference

December 13, 2007
| Britain's major anti-war coalition recently hosted a conference in London with delegates from over 30 countries, including many from the Middle East.

13:48 minutes (12.63 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Cost of Eating in B.C.

December 12, 2007
| The 2007 report from Dieticians of Canada finds that people living on a low income simply can't afford to eat a healthy diet.

11:42 minutes (10.71 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Safe Third Country Agreement struck down

December 11, 2007
| We talk with Leigh Salsberg, one of the lawyers in the successful court challenge of the agreement that has effectively closed the land border to refugees.

16:31 minutes (15.12 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Two out of every three women not eligible for EI

December 21, 2007
| The rules for claiming Employment Insurance benefits exclude the vast majority of women workers, according to a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

13:21 minutes (12.23 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Commons committee supports war resisters

December 20, 2007
| A standing committee on immigration narrowly passed a motion calling on the government to allow conscientious objectors to stay in Canada.

10:04 minutes (9.22 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Sea lice driving wild salmon runs to extinction

December 18, 2007
| Parasites from farmed fish are threatening salmon runs around the Broughton Archipelago with extinction within the next four years.

11:13 minutes (10.28 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canada's role in Bali climate change talks

December 16, 2007
| Dave Martin of Greenpeace Canada assesses the eleventh-hour compromise agreement and the role the Harper government played in preventing real progress.

13:15 minutes (12.13 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Inside the Bottle

January 8, 2008
| The Polaris Institute says it's time to end our love affair with bottled water. Tap water costs less, tastes just as good and doesn't create any garbage.

16:15 minutes (14.89 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Pakistan in the aftermath of Benazir Bhutto's assassination

January 7, 2008
| We speak with Sameer Dossani, a Pakistan-American and director of 50 Years Is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice

18:01 minutes (16.5 MB)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

A Hard Look at Agriculture, and Strategies for Collapse

December 29, 2007
| Lierre Keith explains how agriculture is at its most basic level a war against life and the earth. We also talk about patriarchy and captivity, mental bonds, and outliving the fossil fuel era.

42:35 minutes (39 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canadian mining companies active in Congo

January 3, 2008
| Canada is the second largest investor in sub-Saharan Africa. Mining companies have continued to extract resources from the Congo, through more than 10 years of warfare.

12:51 minutes (11.77 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canada's asbestos exports

January 2, 2008
| Canada is one of the few industrialised nations that hasn't banned asbestos. It not only allows it to be mined, but also promotes its export to the global South.

15:46 minutes (14.44 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

2007 Falsies Awards for media spin

December 31, 2007
| The Center for Media and Democracy hands out awards each year to the fakest media stories of the year.

14:19 minutes (13.11 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode # 90 ~ Spark Your Dream

January 11, 2008
| The Zapps are living their dream every day at 35 mph.

23:40 minutes (21.66 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Greenbelt proposed for Sea to Sky highway

January 11, 2008
| The highway from Vancouver to Whistler is at risk of urban sprawl in advance of the 2010 Olympics. Smart Growth BC has a plan to preserve wilderness and create sustainable communities.

8:31 minutes (7.81 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #89 ~ New Beginnings

January 7, 2008
| Patricia Diane Cota-Robles from Era of Peace writes...

4:39 minutes (4.26 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Tracking the spin on Wikipedia

January 10, 2008
| Virigil Griffith created the Wikiscanner to find out who's making anonymous edits to their own pages on the world's biggest online encyclopedia.

6:41 minutes (6.12 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canada's Deadly Secret

January 9, 2008
| In his new book, Jim Harding says uranium from Saskatchewan mines is primarily used to fuel the global nuclear weapons system.

41:02 minutes (37.57 MB)
Africafiles: The Pulse
Africafiles: The Pulse

Episode #24: Kenyans in Canada react to sad loss of life

January 8, 2008
| Kenyan Community in Ontario president Ben Ondoro speaks to Pulse about the efforts of Kenyan-Canadians to seek a solution to the sad loss of life in Kenya.

5:14 minutes (4.8 MB)
Africafiles: The Pulse
Africafiles: The Pulse

Episode #23 A Tribute to A Moral Soldier

December 31, 2007
| The late reggqe singer and social commentator will be remembered for his commitment to justice, his unshakeable faith of the power if individual to change the world

11:54 minutes (10.9 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Lord Selkirk Park, Winnipeg

January 17, 2008
| Jim Silver talks about the transformations taking place in a large public housing development in Winnipeg's North End.

17:44 minutes (16.24 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Mwai Kibaki and the Kenyan election crisis

January 14, 2008
| Gerald Lemelle of Africa Action discusses the roots of the current crisis and what the international community should be doing to help Kenyans resolve it.

17:38 minutes (16.15 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Meat and milk from cloned animals ruled safe

January 16, 2008
| The US Food and Drug Administration says there are no risks to humans from eating food from cloned animals.

14:01 minutes (12.83 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

B.C.'s $14 billion transit plan

January 22, 2008
| Paul Richard of the Sierra Club takes a critical look at Gordon Campbell's big announcement.

13:32 minutes (12.39 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Nurturing streetcar values

January 21, 2008
| Ottawa city councillor Clive Doucet says that cities designed around streetcars, pedestrians and local shopping lead to civic-minded residents.

45:17 minutes (41.46 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

New immigrants get a raw deal at work

January 20, 2008
| Many highly educated immigrants to British Columbia are stuck in low-paying jobs with little protection of their rights in the workplace.

16:39 minutes (15.24 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Why we need a public inquiry into the Mulroney-Schreiber affair

January 23, 2008
| Geoffrey Stevens says more people believe Elvis is still alive than believe Brian Mulroney. But he still says we need a public inquiry into his dealings with Karlheinz Schreiber.

14:15 minutes (13.05 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #94 ~ Dr. Laura Schlessinger

January 25, 2008
| Well-known talk show host in conversation, recorded in September 2006.

28:53 minutes (26.45 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Cool farming

January 25, 2008
| Agriculture is a major source of global warming. We talk with the author of a report that says farming could be converted from part of the problem to part of the solution.

16:05 minutes (14.73 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The importance of Internet neutrality

January 24, 2008
| Internet service providers are beginning to chip away at the free exchange of information for the sake of ideology or profit.

13:07 minutes (12.01 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

My Name is Rachel Corrie

January 28, 2008
| Sarah Stanley and Marcus Youseff discuss their production of this controversial play.

12:45 minutes (11.68 MB)
Comeuppance
Comeuppance

Episode 13: Parenting Advice?

January 28, 2008
| Two stories about children that just might help with parenting

6:10 minutes (5.65 MB)
Stark Raven: Prison Justice
Stark Raven: Prison Justice

Wrongful Convictions &amp; the UBC Innocence Project

January 26, 2008
| A look at why people end up being wrongfully convicted and more on new program at the University of British Columbia that is looking into such cases.

26:08 minutes (23.94 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Frank Paul inquiry

February 3, 2008
| It's taken 9 years for the province to agree to hold a public inquiry into the death of a First Nations man dumped by police, drunk and unconscious, in an alley in East Vancouver.

10:17 minutes (9.42 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Media coverage of the Laibar Singh case

January 31, 2008
| Judy Rebick and Naomi Klein are among those who have signed a letter of complaint to the CRTC about media coverage of the case of a paralyzed Indian man seeking refugee status in Canada.

16:02 minutes (14.68 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The Black Rider

January 30, 2008
| Laura Lamb reviews this theatrical collaboration between Tom Waits, William Burroughs and Robert Wilson.

13:32 minutes (12.4 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #98 ~ Dirk Becker returns

February 8, 2008
| First of 6 excerpts from follow-up conversation in September 2007.

13:12 minutes (12.09 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #104 ~ Dirk Becker - Part Seven

February 29, 2008
| The final of 7 segments of conversation with Dirk Becker, passionate organic farmer and social investigator.

14:35 minutes (13.35 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #103 ~ Dirk Becker - Part Six

February 25, 2008
| Dirk Becker made the connection between dyslexia and his life experiences in his mid-40's.

13:20 minutes (12.21 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #102 ~ Dirk Becker - Part Five

February 22, 2008
| Dirk Becker refers to himself as an ardent feminist.

11:42 minutes (10.72 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #101 ~ Dirk Becker - Part Four

February 18, 2008
| Dirk Becker refers to himself as a socio economic environmental political activist.

13:34 minutes (12.42 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #100 ~ Dirk Becker - Part Three

February 15, 2008
| Dirk Becker only received a diagnosis of A.D.D. in his mid-40's.

11:37 minutes (10.63 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The Poverty Olympics

February 6, 2008
| The mascots for these games are Itchy the Bed Bug, Chewy the Rat and Creepy the Cockroach and there are no winners. We talk to one of the organizers.

15:50 minutes (14.49 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The Red Indians

February 5, 2008
| A new book by activist and Native Studies scholar Peter Kulchyski looks at the history of Aboriginal people's struggles in Canada.

13:19 minutes (12.19 MB)
Comeuppance
Comeuppance

Episode 14: Duncan MacKinnon and the Seal

February 3, 2008
| A Scottish folktale learned from Duncan Williamson

13:18 minutes (12.18 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Gaza breakout

February 4, 2008
| Last month hundreds of thousands of Palestinians broke through the wall with Egypt to get the necessities of life. Reverend Robert Assaly explains why.

15:37 minutes (14.31 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Isuma TV

February 9, 2008
| We talk with one of the people behind a new site where you can watch short and feature-length films made by Inuit and other indigenous filmmakers.

15:08 minutes (13.85 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Cafe Justicia

February 13, 2008
| Cafe Justicia is a coffee that supports the political work of an indigenous organization in the highlands of Guatemala.

13:23 minutes (12.26 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

32,000 Barbies

February 12, 2008
| Photographer Chris Jordan creates giant composite images of thousands of individual consumer objects to encourage us to think about our addiction to mass consumption.

16:37 minutes (15.22 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Carbon trading not a fix

February 11, 2008
| Larry Lohmann argues that carbon trading represents a commodification of the atmosphere, it's unjust and it won't combat global warming.

15:08 minutes (13.86 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The Interurban

February 10, 2008
| For much of the twentieth century, the Fraser Valley was connected to Vancouver by a light rail service. Local residents want to see it resurrected.

11:58 minutes (10.96 MB)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

Bear Mountain Tree Sit Under Threat

February 9, 2008
| Since April 10, 2007, a tree sit and forest squat has been in the way of a proposed highway interchange that is designed to serve the massive Bear Mountain Resort development.

19:57 minutes (18.27 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The Manley report on Afghanistan

February 16, 2008
| Anti-war activist Dave Markland comments on what's in and what's missing from John Manley's report on Afghanistan.

15:00 minutes (13.73 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canadian space technology company sold to U.S. arms manufacturer

February 15, 2008
| Canadian aerospace company MDA is being portrayed as a peaceful corporation being taken over by a U.S. arms maker. Richard Sanders says MDA has been involved in weapons technology before.

17:18 minutes (15.85 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Capitalism and addiction

February 14, 2008
| Bruce Alexander argues that the free market is a major factor in the spread of addiction.

14:48 minutes (13.55 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The Rights Blanket

February 25, 2008
| <p>A high-tech rainproof tarp, developed by Pivot Legal Society and Mountain Equipment Co-op, keeps homeless people dry <u>and</u> informs them about their rights.</p>

14:14 minutes (13.03 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canada's new security certificate legislation

February 19, 2008
| The new law is no better than the old law, according to Diana Ralph, an advocate for Hassan Almrei, who has been detained since 2001.

15:50 minutes (14.49 MB)
Comeuppance
Comeuppance

Episode 15: Ti-flor and the Devil

February 14, 2008
| An Acadian folktale about a wee girl who has an encounter with a magic fiddler

16:52 minutes (15.45 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

B.C.'s enhanced driver's licence alarms privacy commissioners

February 27, 2008
| B.C. Privacy Commissioner David Loukidelis outlines some of his concerns about the new driver's licence being tested by the B.C. government.

14:29 minutes (13.26 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Resisting the University

February 23, 2008
| Students for a Democratic Society at UBC are organizing a conference to examine some of the tensions and contradictions of current-day universities.

10:11 minutes (9.32 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canada tries to strong-arm Europe into accepting GMOs

February 21, 2008
| Canada is one of the biggest producers of genetically-engineered crops. It wants the European Union to abide by a 2006 ruling by the World Trade Organization.

12:47 minutes (11.71 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Kuba and Paradise

February 29, 2008
| Laura Lamb reviews two works by the Turkish video artist Kutlug Ataman currently showing at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

15:14 minutes (13.95 MB)
Stark Raven: Prison Justice
Stark Raven: Prison Justice

Racial Profiling in Canada: Part 1

February 25, 2008
| <i>Conflict, Crisis and Accountability: Racial profiling and Law Enforcement in Canada</i> is a new book. Stark Raven speaks to the author Charles C. Smith.

17:41 minutes (16.2 MB)
Stark Raven: Prison Justice
Stark Raven: Prison Justice

Food Behind Bars

February 23, 2008
| A look at the relationships between food, identity, power and resistance in a prison setting.

20:12 minutes (18.49 MB)
Stark Raven: Prison Justice
Stark Raven: Prison Justice

Stark Raven turns 20!

February 4, 2008
| Stark Raven has been on the Co-op Radio airwaves for 20 years. Join us as we take a look back. Hear archival audio from the first show, how it got started &amp; what has changed in 20 years.

61:11 minutes (56.02 MB)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

Pre-Dawn Paramilitary Raid on Bear Mountain Tree Sit

February 22, 2008
| Just one week after our first interview, people at the Bear Mountain tree sit were met with dozens of armed RCMP officers to evict them. Immediately workers began to cut down the forest.

19:22 minutes (17.73 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #109 ~ Arthur Black on the day of Green

March 17, 2008
| Tho' it's an Irish day, I'm also a Scottish lass, and so...

4:27 minutes (4.08 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #108 ~ Liver Health Part Two

March 14, 2008
| How healthy is your liver?

14:20 minutes (13.13 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #106 ~ Liver Health Part One

March 7, 2008
| Part one of four segments on liver health.

13:20 minutes (12.22 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #112 ~ Liver Health Part Four

March 28, 2008
| How the garden grows...

7:58 minutes (7.3 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #111 ~ Song of the Queen Bee

March 24, 2008
| E.B. White's poem was in need of music, so Lynn tackled the project and took flight in 2002!

3:52 minutes (3.55 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #110 ~ Liver Health Part Three

March 21, 2008
| How did Marilyn eat as a teenager?

17:55 minutes (16.41 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #119 ~ The Blues Meister of Nanaimo!

June 6, 2008
| Billie Boy Lucas talks about the Nanaimo Blues Society and more...

12:49 minutes (11.74 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #117 ~ Jim McCarty, drummer of the Yardbirds

May 23, 2008
| In April 2008, your host had the opportunity to record conversation with Jim McCarty and Ron Korb in Toronto.

11:48 minutes (10.8 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #115 ~ The Venus Project in Florida

May 9, 2008
| Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows are present in the future.

29:18 minutes (26.83 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #114 ~ Layla Zoe in Toronto

May 2, 2008
| &quot;Young Blues Siren&quot; emerges from Vancouver Island

19:06 minutes (17.49 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Freezing in the Dark

March 8, 2008
| Gordon Laxer explains why Canada needs strategic petroleum reserves.

14:06 minutes (12.91 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #122 ~ Mirabai Ceiba

June 27, 2008
| Harp and guitar duo, opening act for Celebrate Peace Tour 2008.

11:34 minutes (10.59 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #120 ~ creatively inspired Soperkh Singh

June 13, 2008
| Road manager for the Celebrate Peace Tour, and blessed husband of Snatam Kaur.

9:04 minutes (8.3 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Ontario band sued for 10 billion dollars

March 11, 2008
| The K.I. Band is facing a huge lawsuit after they opposed a proposed open-pit mine on Crown land near their community.

12:22 minutes (11.32 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

B.C. provincial park threatened by power transmission lines

March 9, 2008
| A private power company wants the B.C. government to remove part of Pinecone Burke Provincial Park for a tranmission line.

14:38 minutes (13.4 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Streetcorner &quot;stands&quot; for housing

March 13, 2008
| Groups of citizens are standing on streetcorners across Vancouver to mark their concern about the dire lack of affordable housing in the city.

12:20 minutes (11.3 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Broken Promises

March 12, 2008
| B.C. is in the middle of a child welfare crisis with nearly ten thousand children in care, half of whom are Aboriginal.

12:48 minutes (11.72 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Israeli attacks on Gaza

March 10, 2008
| Israeli raids on Gaza have left over a hundred people dead in the past 2 weeks. Alu Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada comments.

12:19 minutes (11.28 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The Oral History of Terrorism Against Cuba

March 24, 2008
| Keith Bolender says more than 3,000 Cuban people have died at the hands of terrorism, much of it fuelled by U.S. hostility.

13:42 minutes (12.54 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Suzuki Foundation and Vanoc collaborate on plan for 2010 Games

March 16, 2008
| The David Suzuki Foundation believes that the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver can be carbon-neutral. Conrad Schmidt disagrees.

11:23 minutes (10.43 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Quebec filmmaker resigns from Quebec film festival jury

March 15, 2008
| Malcolm Guy pulled out of a jury to select a film that represents tolerance when he discovered who was sponsoring the award.

11:56 minutes (10.93 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Women's Court of Canada

March 19, 2008
| A group of lawyers, academics and activists have re-written six Supreme Court of Canada equality judgments in order to challenge conventional thinking about equality.
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Percy Schmeiser settles out of court with Monsanto

April 2, 2008
| The world-famous Saskatchewan farmer who took on Monsanto has won the final round of his decade-long battle over GMO contamination of his fields.

14:00 minutes (12.82 MB)
Stark Raven: Prison Justice
Stark Raven: Prison Justice

Mothers and Babies In Prison

March 29, 2008
| Two women talk about their experiences as mothers behind bars, and the importance of mother-baby programs on the inside.

23:56 minutes (21.92 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

End Canadian involvement in torture

April 10, 2008
| When Abdullah Almalki was in jail in Syria, the Canadian consul hand-delivered questions from the RCMP to his Syrian torturers.

12:25 minutes (11.37 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Winter Soldier

April 9, 2008
| There is tradition in the U.S. of soldiers returning home from war and speaking honestly about what they saw and did while they were fighting.

12:16 minutes (11.23 MB)
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Redeye

Unborn Victims of Crime Act

April 8, 2008
| This private member's bill aims to make it a crime to injure or cause the death of a fetus. Pro-choice activists think this may lead to the re-criminlization of abortion.

11:17 minutes (10.33 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Dangerous assumptions about climate change

April 7, 2008
| Tom Wigley is one of three scientists arguing last week that the IPCC is using outdated figures to judge the scope of the cuts needed to stabilize greenhouses gases.

9:12 minutes (8.42 MB)
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Redeye

Cycling training for teachers

April 4, 2008
| The Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition is running training programs to help teachers gain the skills and confidence to ride to school.

13:28 minutes (12.33 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Pinecone Burke Provincial Park to be preserved

April 3, 2008
| B.C.'s Environment Minister announced a week ago that a run-of-the-river hydro project would not be allowed to go through part of a provincial park.

11:50 minutes (10.84 MB)
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Redeye

Renowned historian leaves Israel

April 12, 2008
| Israeli historian Ilan Pappe has decided to leave his homeland and live in England. He explains why he made this decision.

11:45 minutes (10.77 MB)
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Redeye

K.I. band members prisoners of conscience

April 11, 2008
| Rachel Ariss says the six leaders of the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation felt they were obligated under traditional law to halt mining on their territory.

14:10 minutes (12.97 MB)
The Dominion
The Dominion

Episode 7 - Police Brutality in Canada

April 12, 2008
| Police violence in Vancouver, a look at community policing in Halifax, the criminalization of women with mental health issues and an interview wth the wife of Gary Freeman.

53:33 minutes (12.26 MB)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

Courage, Culture, and Sacrifice

April 12, 2008
| Healing the Earth hosts Matt Silburn's interview with Mohawk Warrior Shawn Brant, who is currently facing a multi-million dollar lawsuit and 12 years in prison.

35:46 minutes (32.75 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Grassroots national newspaper

April 13, 2008
| The Dominion newspaper is on tour across Canada talking to activists about the need for an independent national news source.

14:15 minutes (13.05 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The Pan Am Clinic: a hybrid model of healthcare

April 16, 2008
| Dr. Wayne Hildahl used to be the owner of a private sports medicine clinic. Now he's running the same clinic for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.

13:41 minutes (12.54 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

CanWest vs. Mordecai Briemberg

April 17, 2008
| Mordecai Briemberg is being sued by CanWest Media Conglomerate. CanWest wants damages for a spoof of the Vancouver Sun that they allege he was involved in producing.

12:39 minutes (11.58 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canadian mining companies in Central America

April 15, 2008
| Sipakapa is home to the first modern gold mine in Guatemala, a mine operated by the Vancouver-based company Goldcorp.

13:29 minutes (12.35 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Changes to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act

April 14, 2008
| The Conservative government wants to give sweeping new powers to immigration officials that could result in applications being rejected even if all the criteria are met.

13:12 minutes (12.08 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Orientalism and Ephemera

April 20, 2008
| Artist Jamelie Hassan describes an exhibit she curated at Vancouver Centre A gallery.

14:57 minutes (13.7 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Lentils aren't the only thing

April 21, 2008
| Rhizome Caf&eacute; has become known for its pay-as-you-feel lentils dish, Lentils are Everything. But there's a lot more to this local eatery than food on a sliding scale.

11:47 minutes (10.79 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

One Nation Under Google

April 19, 2008
| Darin Barney says technology is, at once, irretrievably political and consistently depoliticizing. We talk with him about this contradiction.

18:09 minutes (16.63 MB)
Tikkun Toronto
Tikkun Toronto

Harvey's Story

May 3, 2008
| Harvey's Israel story
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13:11 minutes (7.55 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Art in the community

April 23, 2008
| January Wolodarsky talks about how community artists engage and motivate people to transform public spaces in their neighbourhoods.

17:26 minutes (15.96 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Public-private partnerships in healthcare

April 22, 2008
| The British government pioneered P3s. They are now thoroughly discredited in the UK but the idea is being aggressively marketed in many countries around the world, including Canada.

31:20 minutes (28.69 MB)
Tikkun Toronto
Tikkun Toronto

Lois' Israel story

May 10, 2008
| Lois tells her story about Israel
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5:42 minutes (3.26 MB)
Tikkun Toronto
Tikkun Toronto

Peter's Israel Story

June 14, 2008
| Peter talks about his relationship to Israel
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8:12 minutes (4.69 MB)
Tikkun Toronto
Tikkun Toronto

Joan's Israel story

June 21, 2008
| Joan talks about her relationship to Israel
Click to play
12:45 minutes (7.3 MB)
Tikkun Toronto
Tikkun Toronto

Esther's Israel story

June 7, 2008
| Esther talks about her relationship to Israel
Click to play
4:43 minutes (2.7 MB)
Tikkun Toronto
Tikkun Toronto

Dorothy's Israel Story

May 31, 2008
| Dorothy talks about her relationship to Israel
Click to play
7:47 minutes (4.46 MB)
Tikkun Toronto
Tikkun Toronto

Avi's Israel Story

May 24, 2008
| Avi talks about his relationship to Israel
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8:29 minutes (4.86 MB)
Tikkun Toronto
Tikkun Toronto

Anne's Israel Story

May 17, 2008
| Anne talks about her relationship to Israel
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12:40 minutes (7.25 MB)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

Tyendinaga Mohawks Successfully Stop Another Illegal Developement

April 25, 2008
| I spoke with Dan Doreen, from the community of Tyendinaga, about an illegal residential development that was stopped from occurring.

8:43 minutes (11.98 MB)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

Native Bumblebees are Going Extinct

April 24, 2008
| I spoke with Sheila Colla from York University about the extinction of several species of bumblebees in Southern Ontario. This collapse poses serious threats to the ecosystem and our food supply.

15:02 minutes (20.64 MB)
Tikkun Toronto
Tikkun Toronto

Anita's Israel Story

July 5, 2008
| Anita talks about her relationship to Israel
Click to play
15:11 minutes (8.69 MB)
Tikkun Toronto
Tikkun Toronto

Terry's Israel Story

June 28, 2008
| Terry talks about his relationship to Israel
Click to play
10:40 minutes (6.11 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Megaphone Magazine

April 26, 2008
| Vancouver's street newspaper has been re-launched with a new format and a new name.

10:20 minutes (9.46 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Understanding the world food crisis

April 28, 2008
| We speak with Anuradha Mittal of the Oakland Institute about the roots of the global food crisis.

16:07 minutes (14.75 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Improving inner-city banking

April 27, 2008
| Mainstream banks give accounts to clients with money. Low-income people are forced to deal with unregulated short-term loan companies.

17:48 minutes (16.31 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

No Peace, No Work on May Day

May 1, 2008
| Longshore workers in every U.S. West Coast port are stopping work for 8 hours to call for an end to the war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.

17:10 minutes (15.73 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Keeping the community in community radio

April 30, 2008
| Coop Radio's program coordinator Leela Chinniah talks about how community radio is different from any other media.

13:52 minutes (12.71 MB)
Stark Raven: Prison Justice
Stark Raven: Prison Justice

Sentenced to Science: Medical Experimentation on Prisoners

April 28, 2008
| The history and current situation on the issue of medical experimentation on prisoners.

35:29 minutes (32.48 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

60 years of Nakba

May 8, 2008
| May marks 60 years since Palestinians were driven from their homes and the state of Israel was formed.

12:07 minutes (11.1 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Stage-managed military analysts

May 7, 2008
| Loretta Alper, director of &quot;War Made Easy&quot;, talks about the Pentagon-briefed military analysts used by the major networks during the Iraq war.

14:48 minutes (13.55 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Jane's Walks

May 2, 2008
| In early May, Vancouver is celebrating the legacy of urban activist and writer Jane Jacobs with a series of free walking tours of different neighbourhoods.

13:38 minutes (12.49 MB)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

Two Six Nations Men Facing Extraordinary Imprisonment in the US

May 11, 2008
| Two Six Nations men, Albert Douglas and Trevor Miller, are being indicted to a US federal grand jury for incidents stemming from the 2006 Six Nations land reclamation outside the town of Caledonia.

19:35 minutes (26.9 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Hope in Shadows

May 10, 2008
| A hugely successful annual calendar features the photographs of residents of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Now we can also hear their voices in a new book.

12:56 minutes (11.85 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Toronto 18 and Presumption of Innocence Project

May 20, 2008
| A group of concerned citizens in Toronto want to ensure that people accused of terrorism are given a fair trial.

14:13 minutes (13.02 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

After the burst of the housing bubble

May 17, 2008
| John Bellamy Foster argues that the housing bubble was one of the main factors keeping the U.S. economy out of recession.

33:13 minutes (30.42 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Cuts to B.C.'s community colleges

May 15, 2008
| The provincial government is destroying one of the best college systems in the country, according to Frank Cosco on the Vancouver Community College Faculty Association.

12:55 minutes (11.82 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Bevel Up: Drugs, Users and Outreach Nursing

May 13, 2008
| Nettie Wild's new documentary follows street nurses around the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.

17:44 minutes (16.23 MB)
Pivot Legal Society
Pivot Legal Society

#15: Frank Paul Inquiry and new restrictions on voting in B.C.

May 15, 2008
| BC Civil Liberties executive director talks about the Frank Paul Inquiry and changes to the B.C. Elections Act which will disenfranchise up to 100,000 people.

29:11 minutes (26.72 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Policy Baby: The Journey of Rita/Bev

May 24, 2008
| We speak with Michael Glassbourg, co-director of a film about a woman who was bounced back and forth between her Native birth family and her non-Native foster parents.

10:44 minutes (9.83 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Counting the homeless in Greater Vancouver

May 22, 2008
| The 1547 people recorded in the homeless count in March are just the tip of the iceberg, according to SFU researcher Michelle Patterson.

15:45 minutes (14.43 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Dirt

May 28, 2008
| A new documentary by award-winning filmmaker Meghna Haldar explores our fascination with dirt and cleanliness.

15:30 minutes (14.2 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

CanWest: Media Bully - pt 2

May 27, 2008
| Brian Campbell, Murray Dobbin and Martha Roth speak about some of the issues raised by the lawsuit CanWest has brought against Mordecai Briemberg.

19:53 minutes (18.2 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

CanWest: Media Bully - pt 1

May 26, 2008
| Mordecai Briemberg is being sued by CanWest. He and his lawyer were two of the speakers at a recent forum organized by the Seriously Free Speech Committee.

35:16 minutes (32.29 MB)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

What Does Decolonization Look Like?

May 21, 2008
| In May 2008, Minnesota turned 150 years old. But in the celebration of this anniversary, the organizers neglected to include in their accounts of history the genocide against the Dakota nation.

44:36 minutes (61.25 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

B.C. adopts new healthcare principle

May 29, 2008
| The Liberal government of Gordon Campbell is enshrining the five principles of the federal Canada Health with the addition of a sixth principal - sustainability.

8:35 minutes (7.87 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Damming the Flood: Haiti and the Politics of Containment

June 3, 2008
| An interview with Peter Hallward about his book on Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

17:28 minutes (16 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Dispelling myths about social assistance

May 30, 2008
| A new report challenges the idea that welfare benefits in B.C. are too generous and that it's easy to get on welfare.

18:46 minutes (17.18 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canada set to sign trade agreement with Colombia

June 6, 2008
| Despite Colombia's abysmal human rights record, the Harper government is determined to sign a free trade agreement with the government of President Uribe.

14:20 minutes (13.12 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Privacy violations on Facebook

June 9, 2008
| A group of students at the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic are asking the Privacy Commissioner to investigate Facebook

14:51 minutes (13.61 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Removing Barriers to Work

June 5, 2008
| A new report says the B.C. government is making it too difficult for disabled people to work and that's why the majority don't have jobs.

13:51 minutes (12.69 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Anti-SLAPP legislation in Quebec

June 4, 2008
| Human rights activists are pushing for Quebec to adopt legislation against SLAPPS - Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation.

13:04 minutes (11.96 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Asper Nation

June 11, 2008
| Marc Edge talks about his book about CanWest, which he calls Canada's most dangerous media company.

11:34 minutes (10.59 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Bill C-51 and prescription drugs

June 10, 2008
| Much of the focus with the Harper government's changes to the Food and Drugs Act has been on the effect on natural health products. But there are also serious concerns about prescription drugs.

14:11 minutes (12.99 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Challenging impunity in Guatemala

June 13, 2008
| Sons and daughters of the disappeared are among those fighting to hold former paramilitaries and government officials accountable for the torture and death of thousands of Guatemalans.

15:55 minutes (14.58 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Reflecting on the Korean War

June 12, 2008
| The traditional view of the conflict in Korea is that it was an international police action against the communist takeover of a country. Historian John Price brings that picture up to date.

18:26 minutes (16.87 MB)
Labour Show
Labour Show

Episode #1: Canada Steel

June 20, 2008
| Interview with playwright J. Karol Korczynski, creator of Canada Steel

15:00 minutes (13.74 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Lu's, a pharmacy for women

June 20, 2008
| Vancouver Women's Health Collective is to open a pharmacy in the Downtown Eastside to provide primary health services for women in the area.

12:46 minutes (11.69 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Fair trade coffee at Walmart

June 19, 2008
| Monika Firl of Cooperative Coffees talks about what happens when big corporations enter the market for fair trade coffee.

13:37 minutes (12.47 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Ending the occupation of Iraq

June 18, 2008
| Dr. Dahlia Wasfi is a U.S. doctor whose family lives in Basra, Iraq. She returned from her last visit to see them determined to do all she can to end the occupation of Iraq.

15:20 minutes (14.05 MB)
Labour Show
Labour Show

Episode #2: Billy Bragg

June 27, 2008
| Billy Bragg chats about politics, labour and music --- Rebel Girl's new release

18:30 minutes (16.94 MB)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

Government of Newfoundland Labrador Seeks to Evict Innu

June 26, 2008
| More than 100 Innu families now occupying and using their traditional homeland in Newfoundland Labrador recently received eviction notices from the provincial government of Newfoundland Labrador.

32:20 minutes (44.4 MB)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

The Story of Eric McDavid, Trapped by a Paid FBI Informant

June 25, 2008
| Eric McDavid had the misfortune of falling in love with an FBI informant, a young woman he knew as Anna. She was paid by the FBI to fish for people at protests for various reasons.

41:29 minutes (56.97 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Vancouver's Eco-Density Charter

June 25, 2008
| Critics say that the city's plan to increase density has merits, but that it has one key shortcoming - it doesn't address the loss of affordable housing in Vancouver.

15:16 minutes (13.98 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Stephen Harper's apology

June 23, 2008
| Dr. Roland Chrisjohn, director of the Department of Native Studies at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, tells us where Harper's apology fell short.

20:29 minutes (18.76 MB)
Africafiles: The Pulse
Africafiles: The Pulse

Episode #25: Students advocate on HIV/AIDS causes

June 21, 2008
| The Regional Secretary of the World Student Christian Federation–Africa talks about progress in HIV/AIDS projects.

10:55 minutes (10 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Oil companies sign contracts with government of Iraq

July 2, 2008
| Shell, Exxon, BP and Total have negotiated contracts to give them access to Iraqi oil.

16:03 minutes (14.7 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Loophole in mining regulations allows lakes to be destroyed

July 1, 2008
| A lengthy multi-stakeholder process to update the mining regulations didn't save two pristine lakes in Newfoundland from being used as tailings pond for mines. At least 14 other lakes are threatened.

17:28 minutes (16 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Illustrated Journey

June 30, 2008
| A unique project taught new immigrant kids to tell their stories through comics.

16:43 minutes (15.31 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

U.S. election campaign spending

July 5, 2008
| All the candidates in the U.S. primaries have one thing in common - the massive amounts of money they have raised to run their campaigns.

12:31 minutes (11.46 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Pipeline through Afghanistan

July 4, 2008
| India and Pakistan are negotiating to get natural gas from Turkmenistan in a pipeline that will run right through Kandahar.

16:38 minutes (15.24 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Naomi Klein on disaster capitalism

July 7, 2008
| Naomi Klein was in Vancouver in June speaking to activists about the theme of her most recent book, The Shock Doctrine.

33:54 minutes (31.04 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

June 2008 - “Saving the Land that Feeds Us”

July 7, 2008
| This inaugural episode of the AJ Podcast explores in more depth several of the feature articles from the June 2008 “Saving the Land that Feeds Us” issue.

71:14 minutes (65.23 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #124 ~ Numerology highlights

July 11, 2008
| Touching base with numerologist Vikki MacKinnon of Calgary.

5:34 minutes (5.11 MB)
Labour Show
Labour Show

Episode #3: Jack Layton

July 9, 2008
| Jack Layton visits Guelph where a federal by-election is imminent - Smokey Dymny sings about the &quot;Axis of Evil&quot;

15:00 minutes (13.74 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Immigrant communities fight for redress

July 11, 2008
| People who escape atrocities in their countries and come to Canada as refugees sometimes end up living in the same communities as the people who victimized them.

9:07 minutes (8.35 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Czechs opposed to missile shields

July 9, 2008
| U.S. plans to install missiles in the Czech Republic as part of its Star Wars strategy have been met with protests and hunger strikes.

12:57 minutes (11.85 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #125 ~ Welcome to Hornby Island!

July 18, 2008
| Chances are you will meet the endearing Gary Law this summer.

6:52 minutes (6.3 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #127 ~ Lester Grinspoon, M.D.

August 1, 2008
| Lester's first book, &quot;Marihuana Reconsidered&quot; originally published in 1971 by Harvard University Press, was recently republished as a classic.

60:35 minutes (55.48 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Five Ring Circus

July 26, 2008
| Chris Shaw argues in his recent book that the Olympics are less about sport and more about real-estate development.

13:24 minutes (12.27 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

U.S. war resisters in Canada

July 24, 2008
| Parliament voted in favour of allowing war resisters to stay, but it wasn't enough to stop the deportation of Robert Long.

14:21 minutes (13.14 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

New copyright act to restrict free flow of information

July 23, 2008
| We can expect to see huge changes to how we can use digital media if the Conservative government succeeds in passing its proposed amendments to the Copyright Act.

15:38 minutes (14.32 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #128 ~ now is 08-08-08 is now

August 8, 2008
| Once in a lifetime.

3:47 minutes (3.47 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Palestinian village sues Canadian companies

August 6, 2008
| The village of Bil'in has launched a lawsuit against two Montreal-based companies who are building and selling houses in the occupied territories.

13:14 minutes (12.12 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Lower Mainland road expansion to be built as a P3

August 4, 2008
| Gordon Campbell aims to build B.C.'s high-profile new highway project in partnership with the private sector.

16:44 minutes (15.33 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Palestinian solidarity activists take responsibility for spoof

August 1, 2008
| Carel Moiseiwitsch and Gordon Murray have taken responsibility for a broadsheet satirizing CanWest's coverage of the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank.

13:06 minutes (12 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Free Geek wants your old computer

August 2, 2008
| Free Geek is a non-profit computer re-use and recyling centre. We talk with co-founder Ifny Lachance about how they operate and what they do.

16:02 minutes (14.69 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Lydia Cacho

August 28, 2008
| In July, a prominent activist against gender-based violence spoke in Vancouver about her work with women and children in Cancun, Mexico.

42:39 minutes (39.05 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

An Australian perspective on trafficking

September 5, 2008
| Louise Cleary is a Brigidine Sister from Melbourne, Australia. She spoke at a recent forum in Vancouver about the situation for women who are trafficked into Australia.

15:49 minutes (14.48 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Stopping human trafficking

September 1, 2008
| Immigration lawyer Naomi Minwalla spoke at a recent forum, Valuing Human Dignity: Challenging the Trafficking of Women.

16:06 minutes (14.75 MB)
Labour Show
Labour Show

Episode #5: War Resisters Support Campaign

August 18, 2008
| War resister Dale Landry speaks with Maria Olaya about the situation facing the 200+ war resisters in Canada. Sara Marlowe sings &quot;Let Them Stay&quot;.

16:00 minutes (14.65 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Cycling for Everyone

August 26, 2008
| John Pucher of Rutgers University was in Vancouver this summer talking about the renaissance of cycling in European cities.

71:27 minutes (65.41 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

British Columbia and the Alberta tar sands

August 24, 2008
| Gordon Campbell talks green, but he's a big supporter of the tar sands which will have a huge environmental impact on B.C.

15:18 minutes (14.01 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Boycotting the police complaints process

August 15, 2008
| Pivot Legal and the B.C. Civil Liberties Association are advising their clients to take complaints to Small Claims Court.

14:04 minutes (12.88 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity

August 20, 2008
| An extended conversation with Robert Jensen about his new book on pornography.

28:37 minutes (26.2 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Outlaw Social

August 12, 2008
| Sean Mullen spoke with some of members of the band Outlaw Social between performances at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival in July.

8:54 minutes (8.16 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #130 ~ Masaru Emoto

August 22, 2008
| Author of &quot;The Hidden Messages in Water&quot; makes an appearance in Courtenay, August 17, 2008.

19:17 minutes (17.65 MB)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

The Revolution Will Not be Microwaved: Speaking with Sandor Katz

August 19, 2008
| Sandor's work has become enormously popular, bringing the ancient rituals of fermentation to new generations. He also speaks to myriad food movements seeking to revive local culture and real health.

43:47 minutes (60.12 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #135 ~ The Art of Asking

September 19, 2008
| &quot;The Aladdin Factor&quot; by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen explores the magic of asking for what you want.

25:54 minutes (23.71 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #132 ~ Jane Riley, fitness coach

September 5, 2008
| Nutritional and health coach Jane Riley shares insights regarding human health under current planetary conditions.

38:27 minutes (35.2 MB)
Prosecast
Prosecast

The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry

August 25, 2008
| Hot New Author Brunonia Barry talks about her Explosive Psychological Thriller &quot;The Lace Reader&quot;

18:42 minutes (17.12 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Afghanistan and the federal election

September 16, 2008
| Dave Markland of Stopwar.ca talks about public opinion on the war in Canada and in Afghanistan in the lead-up to the federal election.

11:54 minutes (10.9 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Arundhati Roy on Kashmir

September 15, 2008
| We speak with Arundhati Roy live from New Delhi about why a massive popular uprising has erupted against the Indian occupation of Kashmir.

22:05 minutes (20.22 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Ottawa to host military trade show

September 17, 2008
| Activists succeeded in getting Ottawa City Council to ban arms shows in 1989. Now Ottawa is planning to host Secure Canada 2008 on city property.

14:12 minutes (13 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Climate change and the federal election

September 22, 2008
| Ian Angus says the policies of major parties on global warming range from &quot;Dont' do anything&quot; to &quot;Don't do much&quot;.

16:05 minutes (14.72 MB)
Prosecast
Prosecast

Coventry by Helen Humphreys

September 20, 2008
| Acclaimed author Helen Humphreys talks to Cathi Bond about her latest novel - Coventry

18:03 minutes (16.53 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Farming in the heart of the city

September 19, 2008
| An urban farm in the Victoria district of Oak Bay stretches across 18 suburban yards producing food both for the owners of the yards and for sale to other local residents.

12:43 minutes (11.64 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Urban sprawl threatens Vancouver Island's coastline

September 18, 2008
| Western Forest Products and two other companies are selling off tens of thousands of hectares of private forest lands for real estate development.

14:05 minutes (12.89 MB)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

Industry and Military vs. Marine Life: Seems They Can't Coexist

September 17, 2008
| I spoke with Kim Elmslie, a campaign coordinator for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, about a recently-published report by IFAW, about the threat to marine life from noise pollution.

21:48 minutes (29.94 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Crisis in Bolivia

September 23, 2008
| Two-thirds of voters in the recall referendum held in August want Evo Morales to stay but an elite minority are fighting to remove him from power.

16:46 minutes (15.35 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Palestinian prisoners

September 24, 2008
| The majority of people in Israeli prisons are Palestinian. We speak about these prisoners with Adam Hanieh, co-author of a book on Palestinian children in jail.

14:55 minutes (13.66 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Blood and Capital

September 25, 2008
| A new book by Jasmin Hristov looks at the historical alliance between paramilitary gangs, local elites and the state in Colombia.

17:15 minutes (15.8 MB)
Prosecast
Prosecast

The Inside Out Girl by Tish Cohen

October 6, 2008
| Cathi Bond interviews Tish Cohen about her latest novel - The Inside Out Girl

17:32 minutes (16.05 MB)
Prosecast
Prosecast

The Inside Out Girl by Tish Cohen

October 6, 2008
| Cathi Bond interviews Tish Cohen about her latest novel - The Inside Out Girl

17:32 minutes (16.05 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Strategic voting

September 29, 2008
| A new website provides comprehensive information, riding by riding, for those who want to make sure that their vote doesn't hand Stephen Harper a majority government.

11:53 minutes (10.88 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Censoring the Internet

October 2, 2008
| More and more countries are blocking access to websites on a broad range of topics, according to a study by the OpenNet Initiative.

9:55 minutes (9.08 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Understanding the financial meltdown

October 1, 2008
| Greg Albo explains how the crisis came about and what effect it will have on both the Canadian economy and the balance of power worldwide.

19:47 minutes (18.11 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The Lolita Effect

September 30, 2008
| Pole-dancing kits for girls and beauty pageants for six-year-olds are part of a trend towards the increasing sexualization of young girls, according to author Gigi Durham.

16:51 minutes (15.43 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Foreign policy absent from election campaign

October 7, 2008
| There is silence rather than discussion about Canada's foreign policy heading into the election. Justin Podur looks at what's not being talked about.

15:59 minutes (14.64 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Out in the Cold

October 5, 2008
| This new Canadian short was inspired by the freezing deaths of several First Nations men in Saskatoon. Based on a story by Cheryl Jack, it tackles its grim subject with gentle humour.

16:48 minutes (15.38 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Addicted to Plastic

October 6, 2008
| Sixty years into the plastic revolution, we can't live with it and we can't live without it. Director Ian Connacher looks at people trying to revolutionize how we deal with plastic.

10:19 minutes (9.44 MB)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

Ending Industrial Culture, Building Cultures of Resistance

October 3, 2008
| Lierre Keith and Aric McBay are small farmers, authors, activists, and organizers of weekend-long conferences titled Deep Green Resistance.

50:17 minutes (69.05 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The Harper Record

October 8, 2008
| A new book looks at what Stephen Harper has said and done in the nearly 3 years since he was elected with a minority government in January 2006.

14:42 minutes (13.46 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode # 138 ~ Who Are You?

October 10, 2008
| Statistics show listeners' hits to &quot;Living on Purpose&quot; here on the RPN is growing by 11,000 a month.

10:10 minutes (9.32 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Illegal People

October 10, 2008
| David Bacon is a long-time labur activist and photographer. In his new book &lt;i&gt;Illegal People&lt;/i&gt;, he suggests that U.S. trade and immigration policies are inextricably linked.

17:37 minutes (16.13 MB)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

Speaking About Land Reclamations with 'Boots' from Six Nations

October 9, 2008
| Boots has lived in a teepee on a construction site in Brantford Ontario since July. He's from Six Nations, and they've been shutting down development sites due to concerns of land rights and ecology.

16:01 minutes (21.99 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Neighbours Organic Weekly Buying Clubs

October 14, 2008
| NOWBC is a food distribution system that aims to help its members reduce their carbon footprint, eat better and meet their neighbours.

10:38 minutes (9.73 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Olympic Industry Resistance

October 19, 2008
| Helen Jefferson Lenskyj is an outspoken critic of what she calls the Olympic industry. We speak with her about her new book challenging Olympic propaganda.

13:35 minutes (12.43 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

VANOC monopolizes public ad space

October 21, 2008
| The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympics has bought up all local advertising space for the 10-week period surrounding the Winter Games.

15:04 minutes (13.8 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Paying for the 2010 Olympics

October 20, 2008
| It took Montreal thirty years to pay off its debts after the 1976 Olympics. Michael Shapcott of Bread Not Circuses explains why host cities end up millions of dollars in the hole.

18:06 minutes (16.58 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Low-cost housing under threat

October 23, 2008
| The 2010 Olympics represents a potential bonanza for hotel owners and developers, pushing low-income people out of the city centre.

13:52 minutes (12.7 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The business of the Olympics

October 24, 2008
| Sporting goods corporations, real estate companies and major media outlets all stand to make huge profits from the Olympic Games.

14:40 minutes (13.44 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #140 ~ Drummer in the moment

October 24, 2008
| Damien Graham reflects on timelessness and purpose.

4:07 minutes (3.77 MB)
CitizenShift
CitizenShift

Episode 75 - Grandmas Raising Grandchildren

October 30, 2008
| Maggie Hughes looks at the impact of funding cuts on grandparents raising their own grandchildren

20:43 minutes (28.44 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode #133 ~ "Unbought and Unbossed" radio show

September 11, 2008
| Community campus radio host and producer speaks for 9/11 truth.

47:37 minutes (43.6 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode Forty-Nine ~ Brian Blain

August 20, 2007
| "The Buddha of the Blues" speaks!

42:32 minutes (38.95 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

Episode # 154 ~ Alan Gerber, an enigma!

February 23, 2009
| A songwriter, vocalist, musician, producer, and comic Alan Gerber is quite the enigma...... certainly not to be missed.

16:22 minutes (14.99 MB)
radio book lounge
radio book lounge

Episode 19, Part 2 - Getting back into nature

April 16, 2009
| <p>Richard Louv, author of <em>Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder</em>, speaks at a conference held by Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

26:27 minutes (24.23 MB)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

Ramona Africa on the 24th Anniversary of the Police Bombing of MOVE Headquarters

May 14, 2009
| On May 13, 1985, the Philadelphia police bombed the home of MOVE members and murdered 11 people. Ramona Africa is the sole adult survivor, and has been organizing on behalf of the dead and imprisoned.

36:40 minutes (50.35 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Garbage in the water - stop dump site 41

June 20, 2009
| Interviews from Dump Site 41 with protest camp spokesperson Vickie Monague from Beausoleil First Nation and with local farmer Steve Ogden from Tiny Township, in Simcoe County

32:38 minutes (29.89 MB)
Healing the Earth
Healing the Earth

The struggle to protect Guelph's Old Growth Forest and thwart Guelph's newest and largest industrial development

July 19, 2009
| Guelph's Old Growth forest is under threat of being surrounded by a 675-acre corporate industrial development. Community efforts to protect this land continue, and time is running out.

39:46 minutes (54.63 MB)
Pivot Legal Society
Pivot Legal Society

New actions planned for Red Tent housing campaign

February 24, 2010
| Pivot Legal Society executive director John Richardson talks about Red Tent actions in Vancouver.

7:30 minutes (6.87 MB)
The Ruckus
The Ruckus

#8 - Interview with Carole Pope

January 30, 2009
| Kevin McGowan chats with Carole Pope about music, the Anti Diva film, and her performance at Pride Iceland. Also tracks from Brenda Earle and The Free Press.

28:42 minutes (52.56 MB)
The Ruckus
The Ruckus

#10 - Catching Up With The Gruesomes

February 27, 2009
| We talk to three former Gruesomes about the old days, and about their new bands

37:56 minutes (69.48 MB)
The Ruckus
The Ruckus

#18 - Winter Gloves bring the groovy synth pop

May 8, 2009
| Interview with Charles from Winter Gloves, plus tracks from Jay Clark and the Jones, Troy Sinister, and WHY

33:56 minutes (62.15 MB)
The Ruckus
The Ruckus

#19 - Nista's Quirky Swede-esque indietronica

May 16, 2009
| Montreal correspondent Julia Vyse chats with Stina from Nista, and we also hear tracks from Washboard Hank and Once Just

25:46 minutes (47.2 MB)
The Ruckus
The Ruckus

#20 - Montreal Jazz, with Ben Henriques and the Responsibility Club

May 16, 2009
| Montreal correspondent Julia Vyse takes the mic again, to interview Ben Henriques. Also tracks from Deerfoot and Brad Sucks

25:46 minutes (47.19 MB)
The Ruckus
The Ruckus

#21 - Crickets and Echoes with Jenn Grant

May 23, 2009
| Guest host Natalie Salat chats with Jenn Grant about life as an up-and-coming singer-songwriter. You'll also hear a song by Priya Thomas.

22:48 minutes (20.89 MB)
The Ruckus
The Ruckus

#22 - In Conversation with Bif Naked

June 4, 2009
| Kevin brings you his feature interview with Bif Naked, and we talk about her new record, surviving breast cancer, and her love of Celine.

30:29 minutes (55.82 MB)
The Ruckus
The Ruckus

#23 - Revisiting Rough Trade with Kevan Staples

June 6, 2009
| We find out what Kevan Staples has been doing since split-up of Canadian pop legends, Rough Trade

32:52 minutes (60.19 MB)
The Ruckus
The Ruckus

#28 - Moe Berg: From TPOH to Master Tracks

August 10, 2009
| We interview Moe Berg, and hear about his new AUX TV show, Master Tracks. We hear two tracks from TPOH, as well as tracks from The North and Shortwave.

30:22 minutes (48.66 MB)
The Ruckus
The Ruckus

#29 - Going Wilde in Atikokan

August 12, 2009
| Sunday Wilde: one of the greatest new voices in Canadian blues and roots music

33:59 minutes (54.46 MB)
The Ruckus
The Ruckus

#43 - Canadian women rule!

February 13, 2010
| First episode of 2010! We hear tunes from some of Canada's finest female vocalists.

31:45 minutes (50.89 MB)
The Ruckus
The Ruckus

#44 - Raoul Santodomingo dumbs it down

March 16, 2010
| This month, we hand over The Ruckus to Raoul's biggest fan: Raoul.

30:18 minutes (55.48 MB)
The Ruckus
The Ruckus

#45 - 35 years on, Helix is still rocking

April 6, 2010
| We sit with Brian Vollmer from Helix, one of the best known hard rock bands Canada has ever produced.

26:10 minutes (41.94 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

Rhythm is healing: Kinnie Starr on identities and the future of feminism

June 4, 2011
| The talented Alida Kinnie Starr speaks candidly about her music, the future of feminism and the upcoming Women's World conference in Ottawa-Gatineau.

29:24 minutes (40.39 MB)
The Ruckus
The Ruckus

#67 - Canadian Adventures!

June 15, 2011
| In honour of Canada's upcoming birthday, I'm offering up the first of two "found LPs" that were developed by Canadian educational institutions as teaching aids.

52:35 minutes (96.29 MB)
Alternatives Podcast
Alternatives Podcast

Rocking the Environment (Issue 37.4)

June 21, 2011
| The Alternatives Podcast returns with issue 37.4, featuring exclusive interviews with Sarah Harmer, Greg Brown, as well as the story of Greenpeace's Amchitka CD from producer John Timmins.

56:19 minutes (51.56 MB)
The Ruckus
The Ruckus

#68 - Confederation Stories!

June 27, 2011
| Another great LP of Canadian history! This album, brought to you by the Ontario Department of Education (circa 1967), will take you on a roller coaster ride of anecdotes.

48:07 minutes (88.09 MB)
The Ruckus
The Ruckus

#69 - Canada, O Canada (Francais)

June 27, 2011
| In honour of Canada Day, en francais! Happy Canada Day to our Francophone friends!

3:50 minutes (7.02 MB)
The Ruckus
The Ruckus

#70 - Canada, O Canada (English)

June 27, 2011
| Happy Canada Day!

3:50 minutes (7.02 MB)
People's Health Radio
People's Health Radio

Social and structural determinants of health in the Philippines

September 1, 2011
| Martha and Aiyanas, recently returned from 6 weeks in the Philippines, reflect on how the people's movement is addressing both the social and structural determinants of health.

59:33 minutes (54.52 MB)
People's Health Radio
People's Health Radio

Social and structural determinants of health: A global perspective

September 15, 2011
| The inadequacies of the WHO approach to social determinants of health and the need to look to socialist models of health care are discussed.

57:12 minutes (52.38 MB)
The Ruckus
The Ruckus

#71 - The Found Tapes (by popular request, the second-last episode)

September 27, 2011
| The second-to-last final episode... four new songs by Cowboy Junkies, Harlan Pepper, The Pack AD and Violent Kin.

15:33 minutes (28.47 MB)
The Ruckus
The Ruckus

#72 - And in conclusion, The Ruckus presents some crazy cover songs

September 27, 2011
| The final episode... with some really awful cover songs! RAWK!

16:40 minutes (30.53 MB)
The F Word
The F Word

Filipino women speak out about the Live-in Caregiver Program in Canada

November 9, 2011
| Ellie Gordon-Moershel speaks with Joy Sioson of the Philippine Women Centre of Ontario about the legacy of the Live-in Caregiver Program.

38:06 minutes (69.77 MB)
People's Health Radio
People's Health Radio

Housing, homelessness and health

January 20, 2012
| People's Health Radio takes a look at the health impacts of inadequate housing with a particular focus on people in extremely marginalized housing such as shelters and hotels.

60:55 minutes (55.77 MB)
People's Health Radio
People's Health Radio

Drug prohibition and health

February 3, 2012
| People's Health Radio looks at the current prohibition of illicit drugs, its impact on health and alternative approaches to drugs and drug use.

62:05 minutes (56.84 MB)