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The F Word
The F Word

Women's experiences with sexual assault and victim-blaming

January 3, 2012
| Women share their stories of sexual assault and the ways in which their experiences were impacted by community and state response.

45:17 minutes (41.47 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canada and the Kyoto Protocol

January 4, 2012
| The Harper government has been strongly opposed to the Kyoto Protocol since coming to power in 2006. In mid-December, the Canadian government officially pulled out of the accord.

12:51 minutes (11.77 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

U.S.-Pakistan relations strained to breaking point

January 4, 2012
| It's been a troubled year for the alliance between the United States and Pakistan. In the most recent incident, NATO helicopter gunships killed 24 Pakistani border guards near the Afghan border.

14:16 minutes (13.07 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Lesbians and queer women in politics

January 5, 2012
| Five queer women involved in political life in B.C. got together at Rhizome Cafe in Vancouver to talk about their experiences.

29:34 minutes (27.07 MB)
Progressive Voices
Progressive Voices

Professional sports and militarism: Tyler Shipley

January 5, 2012
| We speak with musician, freelance journalist and political activist Tyler Shipley on the militarization of the NHL and other sports leagues in North America.

26:13 minutes (24 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

B.C. trial lawyers start job action

January 11, 2012
| Last week, more than half of the province's 70 courtrooms had no duty counsel, the lawyers who usually represent people for first-time appearances.

17:12 minutes (15.75 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Bruce Power abandons plan for Alberta nuclear plant

January 11, 2012
| The Ontario energy company had been trying for four years to get approval for what would have been Alberta's first nuclear power plant.

10:15 minutes (9.38 MB)
Alert! Radio from Canadian Dimension
Alert! Radio from Canadian Dimension

ALERT! Radio #198: Expectations for 2012 from Judy Rebick, Clayton Thomas Muller, Matthew Brett, Saul Landau, Sam Bahour

January 12, 2012
| Expectations for 2012: Judy Rebick on Canadian politics; Clayton Thomas Muller on Indian Country; Matthew Brett on the Occupation Movement; Saul Landau on US politics; Sam Bahour on the Middle East.

58:49 minutes (26.93 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Opposition forces in Egypt

January 12, 2012
| Despite the departure of Hosni Mubarak 11 months ago, the regime he ruled is still for the most part in place. Yet labour and social forces are still active in opposing the government.

17:30 minutes (16.02 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

MLA on welfare in British Columbia

January 12, 2012
| An anti-poverty group in Vancouver issued a challenge for an MLA in the province to live on the equivalent of welfare for a month. Jagrup Brar of the NDP accepted the challenge.

19:56 minutes (18.26 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr Rights Check-up #3: 2011 human rights review

January 14, 2012
| In the third edition of the jhr Rights Check-up, the Journalists for Human Rights at Concordia University news team reviews some of the important human rights stories of 2011.

58:02 minutes (79.75 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr Rights Radio: Cairo's Tahrir Square

January 16, 2012
| One year since the Arab Spring uprising that toppled former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, protesters are still gathering in Cairo's main square, calling for the military to hand over power.

1:24 minutes (1.96 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

Toronto Stop the Cuts fights to retain city services

January 16, 2012
| A series of rolling actions are beginning at City Hall on Tuesday to stop the proposed $80 million in cuts to city services.

34:19 minutes (31.42 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr Rights Radio: Hip hop and community organizing with Rebel Diaz

January 17, 2012
| jhr U.S. correspondent Joey Grihalva sits down with hip-hop group and community organizers Rebel Diaz in Milwaukee during their #OccupyTheAirwaves tour.

40:48 minutes (56.06 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Eco Update: New year but the world still collapses

January 17, 2012
| Canadian NGOs work for the violent colonial state even as Harper continues to reduce the ability of Environment Canada to protect the environment.

39:54 minutes (36.53 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

G20 Report: Mandyland's vicious truth about the racist and colonial injustice system

January 17, 2012
| On January 13, 2012, Mandy Hiscocks was sentenced to 15 months in jail for her participation in organizing for a better world. Today's AW@L radio presents Mandy's legendary statement to the courts.

58:49 minutes (53.85 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

New private development proposed for Jasper National Park

January 17, 2012
| Brewster Travel Canada has applied to build a huge steel and glass structure on the Icefields Parkway. The company will charge tourists upwards of $15 to use the Glacier Discovery Walk.

7:51 minutes (7.2 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Fighting for access to abortion on Prince Edward Island

January 17, 2012
| If a woman in PEI needs an abortion, she either has to pay her own travel costs to go to a hospital in Halifax or come up with almost $1,000 to get the procedure done privately in Fredricton.

13:19 minutes (12.19 MB)
The F Word
The F Word

Does feminism discriminate against men?

January 17, 2012
| While many see the concept of male privilege and patriarchy as foundational, there are some who disagree. Does feminism erase male victims or the powerlessness of men?

45:06 minutes (41.3 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Palestinian citizens of Israel face systematic discrimination

January 18, 2012
| The 1.4 million Palestinians who are citizens of Israel face discrimination on par with African-Americans prior to the civil rights movement.

14:24 minutes (13.2 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Book: A Hard Man to Beat

January 18, 2012
| Bill White was the head of the Vancouver Labour Council and president of the Marine Workers and Boilermakers Union during the war.

21:23 minutes (19.59 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Use of drones growing dramatically

January 18, 2012
| Drones are robotic aircraft that can carry arms but are also for surveillance. Currently one in every three aircraft in the U.S. is a drone and over 50 countries have some form of unmanned aircraft.

14:42 minutes (13.47 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

Speak for Rights #3: Pearl Eliadis

January 19, 2012
| The third edition of the Speak4Rights lecture series features human rights lawyer Pearl Eliadis.

66:54 minutes (91.93 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr Rights Radio: PIPA and SOPA

January 19, 2012
| jhr social media correspondent @DamianoR reports on the growing opposition to the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), two controversial U.S. government bills before Congress.

2:55 minutes (4.06 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr Rights Report #13: January commemorative episode

January 20, 2012
| The 13th edition of the jhr Rights Report commemorates the sombre anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, 10 years since the opening of Guantanamo Bay prison, and one year of the Egyptian revolution.

18:45 minutes (25.81 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr Rights Radio: Operation Megaupload

January 23, 2012
| jhr social media correspondent @DamianoR reports on the largest-ever online attack by hacker group Anonymous: Operation Megaupload.

3:02 minutes (4.23 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Attack on Naheed Nenshi typical of Sun Media

January 24, 2012
| A recent column by right-wing columnist Ezra Levant accused Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi of being an anti-Christian bigot. David Climenhaga says this kind of journalism is typical of Sun Media Corp.

16:42 minutes (15.29 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Dangers of cyber attack greatly exaggerated

January 24, 2012
| Some commentators in the United States would have us believe that the possibility of cyber attack is imminent. Conn Hallinan believes that there is another agenda behind this fear mongering.

19:24 minutes (17.76 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Musical adaptation of Dostoevsky's The Idiot

January 24, 2012
| A musical adaptation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece The Idiot premiered at the PuSh Festival in Vancouver last week.

19:23 minutes (17.75 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr Rights Radio: Free Bradley Manning!

January 24, 2012
| jhr U.S. correspondent Joey Grihalva reports on the case of Bradley Manning, a U.S. army intelligence analyst accused of leaking sensitive government documents to whistleblower website WikiLeaks.

2:51 minutes (3.95 MB)
rabble.ca/donate: you know what to do!
rabble.ca/donate: you know what to do!

No swag from rabble.ca/donate, just independent media

January 26, 2012
| rabble.ca is holding our donation drive right now, and rpn volunteers have put together some audio to give you some ideas of what you can give. You can listen here.

0:30 minutes (469.84 KB)
rabble.ca/donate: you know what to do!
rabble.ca/donate: you know what to do!

Your couch gives to rabble.ca/donate. Find out how.

January 24, 2012
| rabble.ca is holding our donation drive right now, and rpn volunteers have put together some audio to give you some ideas about easy ways to give. You can listen here.

0:43 minutes (677.59 KB)
rabble.ca/donate: you know what to do!
rabble.ca/donate: you know what to do!

Dragons know what do when it comes to rabble.ca/donate. Do you?

January 24, 2012
| rabble.ca is holding our donation drive right now, and rpn volunteers have put together some audio to give you some ideas of what you can give. You can listen here.

0:37 minutes (576.78 KB)
radio book lounge
radio book lounge

Episode 34 - Interview with Deb Barndt, editor of ¡VIVA!

January 25, 2012
| Matthew Adams speaks with Deb Barndt, editor of the book ¡VIVA! Community Arts and Popular Education in the Americas, about the history of the project.

21:13 minutes (19.43 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr Rights Report #14: Burma/Myanmar

January 27, 2012
| The 14th edition of the jhr Rights Report focuses on the changing human rights situation in Burma. Myanmar's regime is releasing political prisoners and allowing democracy activists to regroup.

19:00 minutes (8.7 MB)
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!

Organized sports and Gingrich on the moon

January 27, 2012
| The players' association for the NFL in the U.S. comes out swinging against so-called "right to work" anti-union legislation and we talk labour and sports. Gingrich is over the moon for colonization.

33:04 minutes (30.27 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

Protesters celebrate 'marriage' between Minister of Natural Resources and Big Oil

January 28, 2012
| On Friday, protesters offered Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver a reception to celebrate his 'marriage' with Big Oil.

13:46 minutes (12.62 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

Post-secondary students raise awareness of Toronto's affordable housing crisis

January 28, 2012
| Students representing the Habitat Toronto Campus Coalition occupied Gould Street at Bond Street for 24 hours, starting Friday at 7 a.m.

18:45 minutes (17.18 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

Needs No Introduction: Prof. Saskia Sassen on globalization

January 28, 2012
| Columbia University professor Saskia Sassen talks about new barriers between citizen government and private entities.

61:50 minutes (84.92 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr reports: Defending dissent in Canada

January 30, 2012
| jhr hr social media correspondent @DamianoR sits down with Darren Shore, communication co-ordinator for Voices-Voix, a coalition of Canadian organizations defending dissent in Canada.

11:24 minutes (5.27 MB)
rabble radio
rabble radio

#134 - War, love, dissent, education

January 31, 2012
| In this podcast, Thomas Ponniah's first audio column on strategies for building change. Calming cyberattack worries. Creating a dissent-friendly country. Education and art. It's all on rabble radio!

28:55 minutes (26.54 MB)
The F Word
The F Word

How does victim-blaming impact policy, professionals and women?

January 31, 2012
| Victim-blaming is very prevalent in our culture. These messages are reinforced by media, institutions, the law and individuals. How does it happen? What are the impacts?

47:27 minutes (43.44 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Caterpillar lockout critical fight for Canadian labour

February 1, 2012
| The U.S. heavy equipment giant Caterpillar Inc. locked out its 400 workers in London, Ontario in January. Despite record profits, the company's final offer was a 50 per cent pay cut.

11:34 minutes (10.59 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

International Day of Solidarity with American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier

February 1, 2012
| Leonard Peltier has been in jail since 1976, convicted of killing two FBI agents at the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.

12:50 minutes (11.75 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Organic outperforms conventional farming on all counts

February 1, 2012
| A longitudinal study by the Rodale Institute shows that organic farming can produce yields as high as conventional and in fact does better in some conditions.

12:36 minutes (11.53 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Coastal First Nations oppose pipeline and tankers

February 1, 2012
| Art Sterritt is executive director of Coastal First Nations, an alliance of eight First Nations with traditional territories extending from Rivers Inlet up to Prince Rupert and Haida Gwai.

8:14 minutes (7.55 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

MP for Skeena-Bulkley Valley opposes pipeline and tankers

February 1, 2012
| Nathan Cullen is MP for Skeena-Bulkley Valley. His constituency encompasses much of the proposed Enbridge pipeline route.

9:31 minutes (8.72 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Smash the State Report with Julian Ichim

February 2, 2012
| An extended Smash the State Report with guest co-host Julian Ichim, who reports on the SOApaRty committee New Year's Eve prison-noise demos, the continued growth of the security state and more.

67:55 minutes (62.19 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Conspiracy of the Crowns: A G20 fallout update with Julian Ichim

February 2, 2012
| G20 police state target Julain Ichim joins us for an update on G20 legal cases and continuing resistance to capitalist imperial rule. When organizing is a crime, organize!

52:20 minutes (47.91 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Against prisons, against Bill C-10! News from Prison Radio Land

February 3, 2012
| An update about Mumia Abu Jamal, a note from Nyki, wrongfully imprisoned in the Grand Valley Institute for Women, and a discussion about Bill C-10, Harper's #omnibus imprisonment bill.

39:16 minutes (35.95 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr Rights Report #15: The International Criminal Court in Africa

February 3, 2012
| The 15th edition of the jhr Rights Report examines the International Criminal Court and chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo's case against several high-profile politicians in Kenya.

20:41 minutes (28.46 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

Needs No Introduction: The future of Canadian health care

February 3, 2012
| In this edition of Needs No Introduction, Mike Luff, Diana Gibson and Maude Barlow share their thoughts and observations on the current state of health care in Canada and where we might be going.

51:21 minutes (70.52 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

Jane Goodall Institute asks Careerbuilder.com to stop using live chimpanzees in ads

February 4, 2012
| The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada is asking Canadians to sign a letter asking Careerbuilder.com to stop using live chimpanzees in its ads.

16:43 minutes (15.31 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

Concerned citizens condemn alleged violence by Toronto police against homeless, marginalized people

February 4, 2012
| Thursday marked the first anniversary of Christopher William Gardian's death, early on the sixth day after an altercation with police in Toronto's 14 Division.

22:51 minutes (20.93 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

# 188 ~ Installing Love

February 3, 2012
| Pam Edgar shares this dialogue with Lynn Thompson about a techie way to install love on your hard drive.

3:38 minutes (3.34 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

Iranian pro-democracy activist wins the right to remain in Canada

February 5, 2012
| Listen to an interview with Kiomars Soofi, the brother of Kavoos Soofi, an Iranian pro-democracy activist who won a stay on his deportation.

15:32 minutes (14.22 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Slamming KW with poet Janice Lee

February 5, 2012
| We are joined by KW poet and artist extraordinaire Janice Lee for discussion on the local Kitchener-Waterloo slam poetry series and to drop a couple of new poems.

29:43 minutes (27.22 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr reports: Help Burundi journalists!

February 5, 2012
| jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks with journalist Ruby Pratka about her donation campaign to get equipment for Burundi journalists.

11:05 minutes (5.08 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr Rights Report *promo*

February 5, 2012
| Every Friday listen to the jhr Rights Report for all the latest in human rights news around the world.

0:39 minutes (966.76 KB)
Redeye
Redeye

Wikileaks papers confirm U.S. interference in Haiti

February 6, 2012
| In 2011, Wikileaks released secret U.S. government cables to the independent newspaper Haiti Liberte. The cables reveal a long history of interference in the internal politics of Haiti.

16:36 minutes (15.19 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Harsh austerity measures take hold in Greece

February 6, 2012
| Demonstrators in Greece are in the streets protesting wage and pension cuts, higher taxes and a reduction in labour rights.

13:57 minutes (12.77 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

Groups opposed to the increased criminalization of HIV/AIDS

February 7, 2012
| On February 8, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear two landmark cases about HIV, sex and the criminal law. It is time to stop persecuting people living with HIV who have safe and consensual sex.

34:27 minutes (31.54 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Smash the State Report: Bill C-10, CETA and decolonizing Occupy

February 7, 2012
| This week, Smash the State on AW@L Radio includes discussion of the omnibus crime bill, the Canada-EU trade deal, anti-racism, Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, decolonizing the Occupy movement and more.

61:09 minutes (55.98 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

Lack of safe operating procedures at new Toronto jail puts lives at risk, says OPSEU

February 7, 2012
| Correctional officers working at the new Toronto Intermittent Centre are warning that the lack of standard operating procedures at the jail will lead to serious injuries or deaths.

20:33 minutes (18.82 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

G20 report: Continued crackdown on dissent, demanding accountability

February 7, 2012
| Our G20 report includes updates from the May 2010 police slaying of Junior Manon and his family's quest for justice, the call for police accountability and a crackdown on another anti-police blogger.

20:37 minutes (18.89 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr reports: Missing justice for Indigenous women

February 7, 2012
| jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma sits down with Monica van Schaik from Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

7:23 minutes (10.2 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Inside the world of direct-action climate activists

February 7, 2012
| Emily James spent a year filming Climate Camp and Plane Stupid, two direct-action groups in the U.K. Her film Just Do It is a window into the world of climate change activists.

16:02 minutes (14.69 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

Activists call for an end to the use of animals in research and education

February 8, 2012
| On February 8, a vigil will be held on the northwest corner of University and College Streets in Toronto to remember the animals trapped in the "dungeons" of the University of Toronto.

33:00 minutes (30.21 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

New organization of Latin American states leaves out Canada and the U.S.

February 8, 2012
| Last December, Caracas hosted the inaugural meeting of CELAC, a new organization that includes 33 countries in the Americas but notably excludes Canada and the United States.

15:08 minutes (13.86 MB)
Constructing change: the activist toolkit
Constructing change: the activist toolkit

Constructing change: Everything you wanted to know about organizing but were afraid to ask

February 8, 2012
| How can sex workers organize? This episode looks at legal rights, community building and stopping street sweeps, plus an interview from Ottawa sex workers' union POWER.

5:27 minutes (5.05 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Quebec students protest tuition hikes

February 8, 2012
| For decades the provincial government in Quebec kept tuition fees low to encourage people to take advantage of post-secondary education. The Charest government plans to reverse this policy.

13:15 minutes (12.14 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Eco Update: Canadian mining destroying Indigenous communities around the world

February 8, 2012
| This edition of the Eco Update on AW@L Radio jumps into mining operations in Canada and elsewhere undertaken by Canadian corporations on behalf of their capitalist owners.

24:09 minutes (22.12 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Book: Crack Capitalism

February 8, 2012
| John Holloway is a sociologist, philosopher and author. His work has stirred much debate among anti-capitalist activists. His most recent book is Crack Capitalism.

17:02 minutes (15.6 MB)
The F Word
The F Word

Women’s sexuality and female ejaculation

January 23, 2012
| Nicole Deagan and guests discuss social and psychological barriers to women’s sexual exploration – and focus specifically on female ejaculation.

44:03 minutes (50.42 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

People's Commission launches campaign against CSIS

February 9, 2012
| The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has been accused of intimidation and harassment. The People's Commission Network in Montreal is saying that it's time to stop co-operating with CSIS.

15:49 minutes (14.49 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Closing the door on refugees from Mexico

February 9, 2012
| Journalist Karla Garcia Ramirez fled Mexico after getting death threats after blowing the whistle on government corruption. Despite this, she was turned down for refugee status.

13:44 minutes (12.58 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Eco Update: Enbridge's leaky pipelines, Fukushima's radiation, and no frackin' way!

February 9, 2012
| We report on the Enbridge oil spilling company and continued resistance against their pipelines, provide some info on the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and read a protest against hydraulic fracturing.

43:45 minutes (40.06 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Smash the State Report: They ignore, we take action

February 9, 2012
| A quick rundown of the week's news -- ranging from student and labour strife to dishonouring treaties, to occupying everything!

42:25 minutes (38.83 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr Rights Report #16: The price of silence on gender-based violence

February 10, 2012
| The 16th edition of the jhr Rights Report brings attention to gender-based violence faced by women in Canada and around the world.

17:53 minutes (8.2 MB)
Asia Pacific Currents
Asia Pacific Currents

Workers in the Syrian uprising

February 11, 2012
| Labour updates from the Asia Pacific region and an interview with Ms. Rafif Jouejati, from Local Co-ordinating Committee Syria, on workers in the Syrian uprising.

31:19 minutes (14.34 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

Needs No Introduction: The politics of climate change

February 11, 2012
| Pat Mooney is the author of several books on the politics of biotechnology and biodiversity, and the director of the ETC Group. On Feb. 8 he delivered a lecture on the politics of climate change.

42:36 minutes (58.52 MB)
The F Word
The F Word

Occupy Valentine's Day!

February 14, 2012
| Feeling a little less than loving about Valentine's Day? The F Word talks to Samita Mukhopadhyay about the romantic industrial complex and looks at challenging dominant narratives around coupledom.

51:30 minutes (47.16 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Boycotting the Missing Women's Commission of Inquiry

February 15, 2012
| Corinthia Kelly explains why community groups are not participating in the Missing Women's Inquiry, which she says has become a finger-pointing exercise between the Vancouver Police and the RCMP.

14:21 minutes (13.14 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Crunching the numbers on Canada's pension crisis

February 16, 2012
| Stephen Harper says we can't afford to finance our current pension payment. Yet a pension expert that Harper hired a couple of years ago says it's sustainable and sound.

12:56 minutes (11.84 MB)
Alert! Radio from Canadian Dimension
Alert! Radio from Canadian Dimension

Alert! Radio #203: Who will make the best leader of the NDP? Some surprising answers from six left activists.

February 16, 2012
| Who will make the best leader of the NDP and does it matter? Some surprising answers from Murray Dobbin, Corvin Russell, Simon Tremblay Pepin, Josh Brandon, Herman Rosenfeld and Stefan Christoff.

60:32 minutes (27.72 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Development funds used to mitigate impact of Canadian mining companies overseas

February 16, 2012
| A new program of the Canadian International Development Agency is funding Canadian non-governmental organizations to help local populations deal with the impact of Canadian mining companies.

13:00 minutes (11.9 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Funding for hospitals in B.C. based on number of surgeries performed

February 16, 2012
| Premier Christy Clark has introduced activity-based funding to hospitals in B.C. despite evidence from other countries that this kind of model neither saves costs nor reduces waiting lists.

14:01 minutes (12.84 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr Rights Report #17: The new fight for civil and political rights

February 16, 2012
| The 17th edition of the jhr Rights Report speaks to Afghans for Peace, a group of Afghans fighting for the right to self-determination in a country under occupation.

17:50 minutes (8.17 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Understanding the roots of the violence in Mexico

February 16, 2012
| President Calderon launched his war on drugs shortly after he came into office in December 2006. He brought the army out onto the streets and began a campaign of confrontation with drug cartels.

16:33 minutes (15.15 MB)
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!

Does God hate vaginas? The religious right's attack on women's health

February 17, 2012
| Attempts to re-ignite the abortion debate in Canada, an all-male Congressional contraception hearing, the jaw-dropping remarks of Rick Santorum; women's health isn't on the right-wing God's agenda.

37:37 minutes (34.44 MB)
Asia Pacific Currents
Asia Pacific Currents

Repression and resistance in Thailand

February 17, 2012
| Interview with Ji Ungpakorn on the new government in Thailand, Lese Majeste and the left response, plus labour news from the Asia Pacific region.

26:50 minutes (12.29 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr reports: Syria Awareness Day

February 18, 2012
| jhr Montreal correspondent Patricia Vazquez Lopez reports on Syria Awareness Day in Montreal, where Syrians organized an event to condemn the regime and raise awareness.

3:02 minutes (1.44 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr reports: The Cuban five

February 20, 2012
| jhr Halifax correspondent Justin Hartling speaks to writer Stephen Kimber about the case of the Cuban 5, a group of Cuban spies held in U.S. prisons.

13:07 minutes (6.01 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

New campaign aims to make ecocide a crime

February 20, 2012
| In April 2010, international environmental lawyer Polly Higgins proposed to the United Nations a law of ecocide to be classed as an international law.

28:40 minutes (26.24 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr reports: Syria Montreal Collective

February 21, 2012
| jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma sits down with Syria Montreal Collective member Buschra Jalabi to discuss the international community's condemnation of Syrian human rights violations.

12:42 minutes (5.82 MB)
Migrant Matters
Migrant Matters

Guelph hosts vigil to honour 11 victims of migrant worker van tragedy

February 21, 2012
| Year after year, migrants without full status die in Ontario. Speakers at a Guelph vigil talk about the latest news on this -- the 10 people who were killed in a Hampstead, Ont. crash this month.

10:59 minutes (10.06 MB)
The F Word
The F Word

Reflecting on violence against women, post-Shafia murder trial

February 22, 2012
| Farrah Khan, a counsellor and advocate at a violence against women legal clinic, explains the spectrum of violence against women and the repercussions of the media coverage of the Shafia trial.

28:17 minutes (25.9 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Seniors in housing complex fight rent hike

February 22, 2012
| When the Mount Pleasant Lions Club decided to raise the rents by 45% at a housing complex for low-income seniors, they probably didn't expect the tenants to fight back. But they did. And they won.

9:23 minutes (8.59 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Vancouver housing activists form renters union

February 22, 2012
| Mayor Gregor Robertson created a Blue Ribbon Affordability Task Force. Housing activist Nathan Crompton says that what renters in the city need to do is form a union.

13:39 minutes (12.5 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr Rights Report #18: Freedom!

February 22, 2012
| With news of Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan's upcoming release, the 18th edition of the jhr Rights Report focuses on people fighting for freedom everywhere.

21:58 minutes (10.06 MB)
Rabbledocs
Rabbledocs

Safety for cyclists

February 22, 2012
| Jenna Morrison was one of two cyclists killed in Toronto. Tomas Urbina is a documentarian who has been covering the issue and he sent us this documentary on cyclist safety. Here's his doc.

5:10 minutes (4.79 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canadian Environmental Assessment Act under attack

February 23, 2012
| Stephen Harper and two key ministers, Peter Kent and Joe Oliver, have said the Environmental Assessment Act allows too much public input and threatens economic development.

15:34 minutes (14.25 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Pentagon priorities for the 21st century

February 23, 2012
| Earlier this year, the Obama administration released a guidance to determine where the Pentagon would put its energy in the foreseeable future.

20:47 minutes (19.04 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

McGuinty's austerity agenda will do nothing to create jobs, says CUPE Ont. president

February 24, 2012
| Listen to an interview with CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn as he talks about the devastating effects cuts to public services and new user fees will have on average Ontarians.

24:40 minutes (22.58 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr reports: Canada's most outspoken anti-bullying advocate

February 24, 2012
| jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to Tolerance Foundation Executive Director Anne Lagacé-Dowson about her anti-bullying organization.

13:57 minutes (6.39 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr reports: Tadamon! on calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions

February 24, 2012
| jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma sits down with Claire Hurtig from Tadamon! -- a Montreal-based collective working in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for self-determination.

12:56 minutes (5.93 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

Winona LaDuke speaking at Growing Local conference in Winnipeg, Man.

February 24, 2012
| Winona LaDuke, the executive director of Honor the Earth and the White Earth Land Recovery Project, was in Winnipeg on Feb. 24, 2012 to talk at the Growing Local conference.

54:49 minutes (75.29 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr reports: Fair-trade flowers

February 27, 2012
| jhr international contributor Kristy Hutter files a report from London, U.K., on the movement to certify flowers as fair trade.

2:21 minutes (1.08 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

Gardeners collective plans network of community gardens to feed Toronto's hungry

February 28, 2012
| Inspired by the Occupy Movement, Occupy Gardens Toronto represents the next step in a stand against inequality, corporate corruption, greed and growing hunger.

12:47 minutes (11.72 MB)
The F Word
The F Word

Men, feminism and the Hugo Schwyzer controversy

February 29, 2012
| Meghan Murphy speaks with Shira Tarrant and Ernesto Aguilar about issues surrounding men's role(s) in feminism, as well as the recent controversy around male feminist Hugo Schwyzer.

65:32 minutes (60 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr Rights Report #19: Boycott, divestment, sanctions

February 29, 2012
| Since the announcement of Grammy-winning jazz singer Cassandra Wilson cancelling her performance in Israel, the jhr Rights Report looks into calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel.

21:03 minutes (9.64 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr Rights Check-up #4: Palestinian human rights panel

March 1, 2012
| While Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper meets with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu this week in Ottawa, jhr talks Israel/Palestine.

76:57 minutes (105.75 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Villagers fight back against naval base on Korea's Jeju Island

March 2, 2012
| The South Korean government is building a naval base designed for ships equipped with technology essential for the U.S. missile defence system.

15:56 minutes (14.59 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Foreign trade zones slated for two B.C. ports

March 2, 2012
| Foreign trade zones have existed in Canada since the 1970s. Now federal and provincial governments are working to develop two more.

11:21 minutes (10.4 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Highrise tower threatens character of Vancouver neighbourhood

March 2, 2012
| Local residents are concerned about a residential tower of over 240 market-rate condos planned to be constructed in the heart of Mount Pleasant in Vancouver.

10:51 minutes (9.94 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Creeping privatization of B.C. prison system

March 2, 2012
| When it's finished, the Surrey Remand Centre will have more than 200 cells. The design and construction of the remand centre has been contracted out to a Canadian property management corporation.

15:54 minutes (14.56 MB)
rabble radio
rabble radio

#135 - Eye (or ay ya ya) on politics, robocalls and environmental assessment

March 2, 2012
| In this podcast we hear a robocall and talk to the guy who recorded it. Thomas Ponniah on Robert LePage, the latest from the activist toolkit, and changes to the Environmental Assessment Act.

34:52 minutes (31.99 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr reports: The Arab Spring, a Canadian perspective

March 3, 2012
| jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to Canadian journalist Ali Mustafa in Cairo, Egypt about the situation post-Arab Spring in the Middle East.

28:22 minutes (12.99 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The policing of poverty

March 3, 2012
| A new study has found that poor and street-involved people are the targets of increased levels of police attention. The authors argue that police are filling the gap left by social services.

16:34 minutes (15.17 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr reports: Documenting Iran's human rights abuses

March 6, 2012
| jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to Dr. Payam Akhavan at McGill University about documenting Iran's human rights abuses.

33:48 minutes (15.48 MB)
The F Word
The F Word

Utopia: Second annual Festival of Women in Digital Culture

March 6, 2012
| The F Word interviews Vicki Moulder, a PhD student at Simon Fraser University, and Jen Pearson, a Vancouver-based electronic artist, about Vancouver's Utopia Festival happening at W2 Media Cafe.

22:16 minutes (20.39 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Why teachers in B.C. are on strike

March 6, 2012
| The B.C. Teachers Federation has been in negotiations for almost a year, but teachers say the government's position hasn't changed at all. Phil Gray has been a teacher for over 20 years.

13:57 minutes (12.78 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Exhibition: A Child's View from Gaza

March 6, 2012
| Barbara Lubin started the Middle East Children's Alliance in 1988. She has just returned from her latest visit to Gaza, a trip she describes as the most difficult she has ever taken.

21:28 minutes (19.66 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Discussing Canadian complicity in torture

March 6, 2012
| Radical historian Luke Stewart joins the show for a discussion on the complicity and the roles of the Canadian government in acts of torture to Canadian citizens and others.

44:51 minutes (41.06 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Smash The State: No CSIS, no justice, no more highways!

March 6, 2012
| A quick run-down of the week's news, including the launch of the No CSIS campaign, and continued worldwide resistance to austerity.

42:10 minutes (38.62 MB)
If you love this planet
If you love this planet

If You Love This Planet: Japan's nuclear policy

March 6, 2012
| In this episode of If You Love This Planet, Dr. Helen Caldicott speaks to Kono Taro, Director General of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party's International Bureau.

59:13 minutes (54.21 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

KI Indigenous Nation tells mining company to stop prospecting for gold on their land

March 7, 2012
| At a rally on Tuesday, KI Indigenous Nation insisted God's Lake Resources Inc. stop prospecting for gold on sacred burial grounds in their homeland.

50:47 minutes (46.5 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Thomas Mulcair backed by Bay Street money

March 7, 2012
| Anthony Munk, a top executive at Barrick's Gold, and Gerry Schwartz, current CEO of Onex Corporation, have recently made donations to NDP leadership candidate Thomas Mulcair.

13:16 minutes (12.15 MB)
The F Word
The F Word

Big Porn Inc: Exposing the harms of the global pornography industry

March 7, 2012
| The F Word speaks with editor Melinda Tankard Reist about the recently released book, Big Porn Inc: Exposing the harms of the global pornography industry.

15:53 minutes (14.54 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Book: Feeling Canadian

March 7, 2012
| A new book by author, filmmaker and media theorist Marusya Bociurkiw takes a close look at Canadian television.

33:08 minutes (30.34 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

OPSEU builds movement to save Ontario Place

March 8, 2012
| On Wednesday, employees and friends of Ontario Place took their campaign to keep the waterfront park open to Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto.

16:57 minutes (15.53 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr Rights Report #20: Palestinian PR at the UN

March 8, 2012
| The 20th edition of the jhr Rights Report sheds light on the Palestinian public relations campaign to gain statehood and full diplomatic recognition at the United Nations.

25:58 minutes (11.9 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The Fukushima nuclear disaster: One year later

March 9, 2012
| A conference on March 10-11 explores the repercussions of the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear reactor. We ask Arnie Gundersen what we know and what we are not being told.

12:04 minutes (11.04 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr reports: United States of Africa

March 9, 2012
| jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to documentary filmmaker Yanick Letourneau about his latest film, United States of Africa.

17:08 minutes (23.62 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

New bill to bar active union members from college boards

March 9, 2012
| The B.C. Minister of Advanced Education has introduced a bill that could bar instructors and staff who are active in their unions from sitting on college boards.

13:04 minutes (11.97 MB)
Asia Pacific Currents
Asia Pacific Currents

The nurses' dispute and the right to strike in Australia

March 10, 2012
| Labour updates on International Women's Day and the Asia Pacific region, and an interview on the ongoing nurses' dispute and how the right to strike in Australia is limited.

30:34 minutes (14 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

Community-based agency releases new documentary video to help keep sex trade workers safe

March 10, 2012
| The Safer Stroll project is based on a community capacity-building approach that addresses violence perpetrated against women who work in the context of "street level" sex work.

50:04 minutes (45.85 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canadian government increasingly pro-Israel

March 13, 2012
| Over the past decade, a number of factors have resulted in deeper levels of support by the Canadian government for the Israeli state.

16:48 minutes (15.38 MB)
The F Word
The F Word

Grounding focus in the midst of the Kony 2012 social media storm

March 13, 2012
| The F Word speaks with Juliane Okot Bitek, a woman who has been close to the conflict in Northern Uganda since 1986 and the president of the Acholi Community of British Columbia society.

22:32 minutes (20.63 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

# 189 - Doctor, Dancer: Susan Biali

March 12, 2012
| In this half hour conversation Lynn Thompson speaks with Dr. Susan Biali, M.D. about Susan's blend of being a doctor, author, speaker, life coach and dancer, and what she is learning now!

31:22 minutes (28.72 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

International Women's Day then and now

March 14, 2012
| IWD is an important day for feminists around the world. We take a look at how it started in the early part of the last century and what it means today. Pat Davitt is a long-time feminist.

12:20 minutes (11.3 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Zionism, anti-Semitism and racism

March 14, 2012
| Jason Kenney says Israeli Apartheid Week promotes intolerance and hatred towards Jews. Event organizers say it's Israeli state policy that is racist.

13:14 minutes (12.12 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

End street harassment with mobile techology

March 14, 2012
| Street harassment is one of the most pervasive forms of gender-based violence. Hollaback! started in New York City as a blog but it's now expanded to include 45 cities.

19:14 minutes (17.61 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr Rights Report #21: Refugees and IDPs

March 14, 2012
| The jhr Rights Report starts off examining the viral phenomenon that has come to be known as Kony 2012 and hears from one of the Vietnamese boat people who came to Canada in the early 1980s.

19:23 minutes (8.88 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr reports: Life Stories Montreal's 'Rencontres'

March 15, 2012
| jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to Life Stories Montreal about the month-long event, Rencontres.

7:04 minutes (9.76 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr reports: Canada's mining watchdog

March 16, 2012
| As civil society actors meet on Parliament Hill in Ottawa today for a human rights conference, jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to Jen Moore from MiningWatch Canada.

10:47 minutes (14.88 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr reports: Reporting in Indigenous Communities

March 16, 2012
| jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to Duncan McCue in Vancouver about Reporting in Indigenous Communities, a new initiative for journalists and students.

9:22 minutes (4.29 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Exploring the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel

March 19, 2012
| The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel started in 2005. Mordecai Briemberg explains why he thinks a boycott campaign is necessary and what the goals of the movement are.

20:31 minutes (18.78 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Girls fight back against media sexualization

March 20, 2012
| SPARK is a new organization that gives girls a place online where they can speak their minds about how they are seeing themselves represented in the media.

17:07 minutes (15.68 MB)
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!

Below the belt: Politics and dirty tricks

March 20, 2012
| The robocall scandal to suppress the vote in Canada still has legs but Canadians aren't quite yet in the pro-league when it comes to vote suppression. Plus, mind-numbing attacks on women's rights.

38:03 minutes (34.84 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr Rights Report #22: Canadian mining atrocities

March 20, 2012
| This edition of the jhr Rights Report examines Canadian mining companies and their operations abroad, and speaks to MiningWatch Canada to learn more about Canadian Bill C-323.

24:13 minutes (33.27 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Smash the State Report: Quebec student strike, feb in review, hacktivisting + (w Adam Lewis)

March 20, 2012
| This show features a Smash the State report featuring the 130,000-plus student strike in Quebec, the #mediacoop's February in review, hacktivisting, and more!

44:35 minutes (40.83 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Conversation with Adam Lewis on prisons and police

March 21, 2012
| An in-depth conversation with recently released AW@Ler Adam Lewis on prison and continuing the struggle. Plus, a full #ACAB report including an update from the Coalition Justice for Levi Schaffer.

59:26 minutes (54.42 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Eco justice and Indigenous resistance updates and report

March 21, 2012
| Adam Lewis joins the conversation looking at acts of indigenous resistance to Canadian mining and continued colonialism, and some updates from eco justice warriors.

29:48 minutes (27.28 MB)
The F Word
The F Word

Abortion and reproductive rights -- still under attack

March 19, 2012
| Laura Wood speaks with Barbara Hestrin about recent political challenges to women's reproductive rights and Nicole Deagan talks with an abortion counsellor about working in an abortion clinic.

36:46 minutes (67.34 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Protesting tuition hikes in Quebec

March 23, 2012
| Student unions representing nearly 200,000 students are on strike across Quebec, protesting a planned tuition increase of 75 per cent. Rushdia Mehreen is a graduate student at Concordia.

16:13 minutes (14.85 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Vancouver's police dog training needs major overhaul

March 23, 2012
| Police dogs in Vancouver injure an average of five people a month badly enough that they have to go to Emergency. Pivot Legal Society is bringing a lawsuit on behalf one of those bite victims.

17:16 minutes (15.82 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

All out against police brutality!

March 23, 2012
| This show features an #ACAB Smash the State report looking at the International Day Against Police Brutality, including actions in Kitchener and Montreal.

52:52 minutes (48.4 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr reports: Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka

March 23, 2012
| jhr Montreal correspondent Adam Bemma speaks to Bashana Abeywardhana from Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka about the United Nations Human Rights Council resolution.

12:41 minutes (17.5 MB)
Asia Pacific Currents
Asia Pacific Currents

Human rights in Sri Lanka

March 24, 2012
| Labour updates in the Asia Pacific region and an interview with activist Lionel Bopage on the human rights situation in Sri Lanka and the upcoming People for Human Rights and Equality forum.

31:17 minutes (14.32 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

NDP Leadership Convention interviews: Ian Capstick, Sid Ryan and Kathleen Monk

March 24, 2012
| Listen to interviews with Ian Capstick, Sid Ryan and Kathleen Monk on Friday at the NDP Leadership Convention in Toronto.

14:10 minutes (12.98 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Health effects of climate change in Canada's North

March 24, 2012
| Canada's polar regions are at the frontline, where the impacts of global warming are felt most acutely. A recent study details some of the health impacts on the people who live in Canada's North.

10:20 minutes (9.47 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Compensation for Gulf oil spill

March 23, 2012
| Earlier this month BP announced that a settlement had been proposed between the company and those affected by the oil spill. Antonia Juhasz says that BP jumped the gun to mollify investors.

16:27 minutes (15.06 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Indigenous Resistance to Tar Sands, Solidarity in Gaza, and Hip-Hop for health!

March 23, 2012
| This show pulls content from the media co-ops on indigenous resistance and solidarity and looks to a Hip Hop album focused on eliminating diabetes

34:25 minutes (31.52 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr reports: Committee to Protect Journalists

March 24, 2012
| Since the United Nations human rights council resolution on Sri Lanka, journalists supporting this resolution are being labelled "traitors" by state-run media.

13:46 minutes (18.99 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr Rights Report #23: #RightsMedia

March 26, 2012
| The final edition of the jhr Rights Report focuses on human rights and social media. Host @AdamBemma speaks to social media correspondent @DamianoR about everything #RightsMedia.

25:09 minutes (34.61 MB)
The F Word
The F Word

Bedford v. Canada decision: An interview with Hilla Kerner

March 26, 2012
| Meghan Murphy speaks with Hilla Kerner of Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter about the Bedford v. Canada decision and what it means.

4:47 minutes (4.38 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canadian farmland going for bargain basement prices

March 27, 2012
| There's a land rush going on in the Prairie provinces. Investment companies are buying up large areas of farmland and making a profit from appreciation in the value of land.

15:29 minutes (14.18 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Evaluating the pressures on Iran

March 27, 2012
| News reports about a potential Israeli attack on Iran are no longer in the headlines. But that doesn't mean it's not on the agenda. Conn Hallinan is a columnist for Foreign Policy in Focus.

16:17 minutes (14.92 MB)
The Dispatch
The Dispatch

Fair trade and empire: An anti-capitalist critique of the fair-trade movement

March 27, 2012
| While fair trade channels more income into agricultural communities, it ultimately fails to address the colonial capitalist structures that produce the impoverishment of farmers on an ongoing basis.

13:02 minutes (11.94 MB)
The Dispatch
The Dispatch

Linguicide: Submersion education and the killing of languages in Canada

March 27, 2012
| While it is assumed that linguicide died with the closure of the last residential school in 1996, in truth it continues as a covert policy into the present.

17:38 minutes (16.16 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Shutting down Canada's asbestos industry for good

March 28, 2012
| The two remaining asbestos mines in Quebec have been shut down since last fall. A Canadian investor is trying to raise $25 million to re-open it.

18:11 minutes (16.66 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Civic election financing

March 28, 2012
| One of Vancouver's major political parties got two-thirds of its money from corporations and developers. The other big civic party got almost a million from one single developer.

13:38 minutes (12.49 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Smash the State Report: Dick is Scared, Quebec Students Strike, and Resistencia

March 28, 2012
| 10 (more) reasons to support the quebec student strike (#strikeeverywhere), followed by Dick Cheney's announcement that he is afraid of Canada because he is a war criminal, and some upcoming doc-talk.

22:47 minutes (20.86 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Bored But Not Broken: Mandy's update from prison

March 29, 2012
| An interview and a blog post from G20 political prisoner Mandy Hiscocks about her experiences and organizing in jail.

34:06 minutes (31.23 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Gondola proposed for Squamish park

March 30, 2012
| Stawamus Chief Provincial Park protects the world-famous granite cliffs just outside Squamish, B.C. Sea to Sky Corporation is applying to remove land from this Class A park to build a gondola.

15:19 minutes (14.03 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

Needs No Introduction: Aboriginal law conference

April 2, 2012
| The aboriginal law conference brought together three experts on aboriginal culture and law to discuss how to go about respecting aboriginal culture in the courtroom.

60:48 minutes (83.49 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Smash the State Report: Police murders, mega-prisons, Irish resistance, ongoing Egypt

April 3, 2012
| A wrap-up of news from around the world -- police murders, mega-prisons, Irish resistance, nine years of Shock and Awe in Iraq and the ongoing revolution in Egypt.

55:23 minutes (50.71 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Resisting austerity, resisting CAS, resisting police, 'robbing' the bank!

April 3, 2012
| We look at resistance to the neo-liberal austerity in Quebec, resistance to the children's aid society in Kitchener, and a doc on how to "rob" a bank.

27:41 minutes (25.36 MB)
The F Word
The F Word

Breaking barriers since 1938: Interview with Barbara Howard

April 4, 2012
| The F Word speaks with Barbara Howard, soon to be 92-year-old former sprinter and B.C. Sports Hall of Fame inductee.

28:16 minutes (25.88 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

B.C. teachers adopt plan to fight Bill 22

April 4, 2012
| The B.C. government passed Bill 22 on March 15. It bans further strikes and sets the conditions for mediation. The B.C. Teachers Federation met for its annual convention two days later.

16:25 minutes (15.03 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Uranium production for the tar sands

April 4, 2012
| Uranium has been mined in Saskatchewan since the 1930s. Provincial premiers from Tommy Douglas to Brad Wall have exploited its use as a raw material for nuclear power and nuclear weapons.

18:14 minutes (16.7 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Resistance to Canadian Mining in Oaxaca, Australian Nuclear Waste, NZ Colonialism, and the Honduran Coup government.

April 4, 2012
| An update on the murder of a community organizer in Oaxaca who had been spearheading anti-mining activities at a Canada-owned mine, Indigenous resistance in Australia and NZ, and Occupy Honduras.

54:36 minutes (49.99 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

Refugee and immigrant rights activists occupy Conservative MP constituency offices

April 5, 2012
| On Wednesday afternoon, refugee and immigrant rights activists occupied five Conservative MP constituency offices to oppose Bill C-31.

9:37 minutes (8.81 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Wilderness Committee faces defamation suit

April 5, 2012
| Taseko Mines has proposed to drain Fish Lake to hold waste rock for their Prosperity Mine. When the Wilderness Committee commented on this plan, Taseko brought a defamation suit against them.

12:39 minutes (11.59 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Fighting racism across Turtle Island

April 6, 2012
| Fighting Boneheads in London and Edmonton and Walking for Peace in Vancouver and Caledonia. Cons attack NOII, and Musquem block Condos.

58:35 minutes (53.64 MB)
Street Cred
Street Cred

Montreal's threatened heritage

April 6, 2012
| A weekly urban issue/affairs update for Montreal's CKUT 90.3 FM Friday Morning After.

22:29 minutes (30.89 MB)
The F Word
The F Word

The F Word: Familial Sexual Abuse

March 26, 2012
| Ariana Barer and Nicole Deagan, along with guest Leigh Malone, discuss the social climate around sexual abuse, silence and shame, the phenomenon of mother-blaming, and the role of feminism in healing.

36:43 minutes (50.42 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

G20 Report: Ongoing trials, jailhouse and pre-jail interviews

April 9, 2012
| In the G20 Report we give an update on the trial of Byron Sonne, talk about ongoing operations against activists and play the first of Carmelle Wolfson's G20 interviews.

47:20 minutes (43.34 MB)
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!

Austerity fever

April 9, 2012
| Austerity fever is catching, and it isn't a pleasant disease. Symptoms include unemployment, growing wealth gaps, crumbling infrastructure and more. We diagnose it and give some health tips.

38:26 minutes (35.19 MB)
The F Word
The F Word

The invisible man: Reflections on the Bedford case

April 10, 2012
| Janine Benedet, associate professor with the UBC Faculty of Law, reflects on the Bedford case and looks at what has been left out of the conversation around prostitution in Canada.

50:03 minutes (45.83 MB)
People's Health Radio
People's Health Radio

A plague of prisons

April 12, 2012
| People's Health Radio looks again at the health and social impacts of prisons and the mass incarceration agenda in Canada.

60:45 minutes (55.63 MB)
Journalists for Human Rights
Journalists for Human Rights

jhr Rights Check-up #5: Human rights roundtable

April 12, 2012
| The @jhrConU human rights roundtable on CJLO New Media and Politics with Karl Knox. In the final jhr Rights Check-up of the season, jhr Concordia takes over the airwaves.

80:18 minutes (110.33 MB)
Street Cred
Street Cred

Saving Montreal's Main

April 13, 2012
| As bulldozers move in to demolish a remaining strip of the city's once notorious red light district, further up Montreal's Main, the Plateau borough council has forced a building to be restored.

16:25 minutes (22.57 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

Michael Moore on the six-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street

April 20, 2012
| On the six-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, Michael Moore spoke to the Left Forum about his thoughts on the future of the Occupy movements.

70:02 minutes (96.18 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

Community rallies to keep harm reduction focused men's shelter open in Toronto

April 14, 2012
| The City of Toronto is planning to close the School House shelter before the end of the year.

35:58 minutes (32.93 MB)
Living On Purpose
Living On Purpose

# 190 - Toronto Island Airport

April 15, 2012
| Concerned parents and community members are organizing for safety in Toronto Island Airport expansion

14:16 minutes (13.07 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

CAW outlines new proposals to revitalize Canadian auto industry

April 17, 2012
| At a press conference Monday morning, the CAW called on federal and provincial governments to implement new policies that would support and strengthen the Canadian auto industry.

52:46 minutes (48.31 MB)
radio book lounge
radio book lounge

Episode 35: Committing Theatre! From caterpillar bouquets to flash mobs

April 17, 2012
| From caterpillar bouquets, to war reenactments, to "state produced agitprop" at the G20, to flash mobs, author Alan Filewod discusses the history and practice of political intervention theatre.

21:02 minutes (19.26 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Psychopaths Inc

April 18, 2012
| In 2010, a U.S. Supreme Court decision rolled back legal restrictions on corporate spending on the grounds that political speech by a business could receive the same protections that people do.

15:10 minutes (13.88 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Canada's record on legislating strikers back to work

April 19, 2012
| Canada's governments are among the worst offenders when it comes to legislating striking workers back to work. Since 1982 more complaints have been made against Canada than any other country.

12:04 minutes (11.05 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Survivors of violence face complex legal issues

April 19, 2012
| Over half the women in Canada are survivors of violence. The vast majority of women who seek support services will also have to face legal battles.

11:29 minutes (10.52 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Book: The Will of Many

April 19, 2012
| Democracy usually refers to a form of governance for a nation state. However many modern social movements have grown in explicit rejection of this kind of democracy.

13:25 minutes (12.29 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

B.C. criminal justice system in crisis

April 19, 2012
| Christy Clark launched a comprehensive review of the province’s justice system two months. A new report prepared for the B.C. Civil Liberties Association says this review won't fix what's broken.

12:04 minutes (11.06 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The promise and failures of international law

April 19, 2012
| One important impetus for the creation of international law was the two world wars of the 20th century. The United Nations was born with the intention of preventing war and promoting peace.

17:40 minutes (16.18 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

G20 Report: Crown theatrics in #FreeByron show trial, Mandy resists in jail and more!

April 20, 2012
| The G20 Report looks into the circus around the Byron Sonne trial as it wraps up, a report from the first trial by jury for an accused G20 rioter as it starts up and an update from Mandy and from Dan!

33:17 minutes (30.48 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Smash the State March in Review: Police brutality, pipelines and watching CSIS

April 20, 2012
| The Smash the State Report features from the #mediacoop -- which looked at #policebrutality against the ongoing #occupytoronto efforts, resistance to the federal budget and much more!

56:50 minutes (52.04 MB)
Street Cred
Street Cred

Citizen Lambert goes to city hall

April 20, 2012
| Montreal heritage preservation advocate Phyllis Lambert, the "Joan of architecture," takes her fight to save Griffintown and the Lower Main to Montreal city hall.

31:47 minutes (43.68 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Respecting historic agreements with the Haudenosaunee and walking to Kanonhstaton for peace: A discussion with Luke Stewart

April 20, 2012
| The feature of today's show is our discussion with radical historian Luke Stewart on the upcoming Rally, Walk and Community BBQ taking place on April 28 in Grand River Territory of the Six Nations.

37:24 minutes (34.25 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

CAW demands severance pay for laid off workers

April 23, 2012
| On Monday morning, over 100 CAW members rallied outside the offices of Catalyst Capital in Toronto, demanding severance pay for 40 laid off Snowbear workers.

24:51 minutes (22.76 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

Egyptian refugee Mohammad Mahjoub seeks an end to proceedings against him

April 25, 2012
| Mr. Mahjoub has been detained without charge under a "security certificate" since June 2000. He wants his case thrown out after government officials seized documents belonging to his lawyers.

14:08 minutes (12.95 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

Angela Bischoff: Dangers of nuclear power generation and nuclear weapons proliferation

April 25, 2012
| Angela Bischoff from the Ontario Clean Air Alliance speaks about the connection between nuclear power generation and nuclear weapons proliferation and Ontario's plans to build new nuclear projects.

51:40 minutes (47.3 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Bill C-31 and the federal budget's migrant worker commodification

April 25, 2012
| Two pieces from No One is Illegal --- one on Bill C-31 and one on the impact of the federal budget on migrant workers.

31:12 minutes (28.58 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Indigenous resistance across Ontario

April 25, 2012
| This show features updates on Indigenous resistance from Grassy Narrows, #Attawapiskat, KI's fight against God's Lake Resources, plus more actions from Six Nations land defenders.

25:17 minutes (23.15 MB)
Rabbledocs
Rabbledocs

For peat's sake: Peat and resource development in provincial parks

April 26, 2012
| In this documentary, Leif Larsen and Eric Reder talk about the value of peat, and why the Wilderness Committee are so opposed to any kind of resource development in provincial parks.

13:11 minutes (12.11 MB)
Street Cred
Street Cred

Vanishing Montreal

April 27, 2012
| A southwest Montreal blogger's website called Vanishing Montreal is documenting a recent string of building demolitions, posting photographs of what he calls "the changing face of St-Henri."

19:53 minutes (27.35 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Smash the State Report: Extradition news, G20 court theatrics, Quebec student strike

April 27, 2012
| The Smash the State Report features updates on Nyki Kish's struggle for justice, extradition news from No One is Illegal, G20 court theatrics, the Quebec student strike and the Trayvon Martin case.

32:35 minutes (29.84 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Eco Update: Charities attacked, Peter Kent rebuffed

April 27, 2012
| On AW@L Radio's eco update: charities attacked, MIT mostly right on collapse, Peter Kent rebuffed, honeybees, Wiebo Ludwig, noise pollution and more!

29:13 minutes (26.76 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

National Day of Mourning honours fallen workers

April 28, 2012
| Over 100 people gathered Friday afternoon at the Chinese Railway Workers Monument in Toronto to pay tribute to workers killed, suffered disease or injury on the job.

53:02 minutes (48.57 MB)
People's Health Radio
People's Health Radio

Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to Occupied Palestine: Encroachment, resistance and criminalization

April 30, 2012
| PHR checks in with the anti-gentrification struggle in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and examines the health consequences of mass incarceration and political imprisonment of peoples in struggle.

53:25 minutes (48.91 MB)
Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

The future of the Occupy movement

May 1, 2012
| Celebrated professors and authors Cornel West and Frances Fox talk about the future of the Occupy movement, and their opinions on a changing America during the 2012 Left Forum, at Pace University.

43:33 minutes (59.81 MB)
rabble radio
rabble radio

#136 - This May Day: Art and activism from Sarah Boothroyd

May 1, 2012
| For May Day -- audio art from Sarah Boothroyd that touches on ethics, justice, democracy, protest and global citizenship. It's wonderful.

30:13 minutes (27.72 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Research on Enviropig halted

May 2, 2012
| The University of Guelph has been doing research into a genetically modified pig since the mid-1990s. The Enviropig would have produced waste lower in phosphorus than a regular pig.

10:31 minutes (9.63 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Vancouver neighbourhood fights condo development

May 2, 2012
| Long-time residents of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside say new condo owners moving into their neighbourhood don't want them around.

11:52 minutes (10.88 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Film: Bear 71

May 2, 2012
| An innovative multimedia projects documents the life of a female grizzly bear in Banff National Park. The story of Bear 71's life is illustrated with web cam images of wildlife in the park.

13:29 minutes (12.35 MB)
Street Cred
Street Cred

Montreal's mega-projects and mega-mistakes

May 2, 2012
| Montreal urban planner Jason Prince talks about highway mega-projects, super-hospitals and his upcoming Jane's Walk.

16:11 minutes (22.28 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

Protesters rally outside Barrick Gold shareholders' meeting

May 3, 2012
| Protesters gathered in Simcoe Park across from the Metro Convention Centre in Toronto to oppose Barrick's mining activities in foreign countries.

56:25 minutes (51.66 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Lester Pearson's Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt

May 3, 2012
| A new book by activist Yves Engler says that far from being a peacekeeper, former prime minister Lester Pearson was a dedicated cold warrior and an ardent supporter of NATO.

17:37 minutes (16.13 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Reimagine the CBC

May 3, 2012
| One of the casualties of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's 2012 budget was the CBC. The network faces a 10 percent cut in funding over the next 3 years.

12:51 minutes (11.76 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Harper budget a disaster for environment

May 3, 2012
| The Conservative budget for 2012 will weaken environmental standards across the board. This is especially concerning when it comes to corporations seeking approval for major industrial projects.

15:36 minutes (14.28 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Kinder Morgan pipeline would increase tanker traffic into Vancouver

May 3, 2012
| In April, Kinder Morgan announced that they were planning to expand an existing pipeline that carries crude oil from Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C.

9:23 minutes (8.59 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Smash The State Report: Walks, evictions, occupations and Wente

May 4, 2012
| On the Smash the State Report: the Walk for Peace, Respect and Friendship, a piece from Julian Ichim on legitimacy in movements, ripping apart Margaret Wente's attack on David Suzuki, and more!

51:49 minutes (47.45 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Quebec student strike rages on and branches out: No Plan Nord and solidarity actions

May 3, 2012
| Update of actions against austerity as the Quebec student strike rages on, with street battles, mass arrests and bad faith negotiating. Also a piece on a Kitchener solidarity action and Plan Nord.

22:55 minutes (20.99 MB)
Progressive Voices
Progressive Voices

Tony Black: Imperialism, a coup d'etat, and the Rwandan genocide narrative

May 4, 2012
| Independent journalist Tony Black dissects the mainstream narrative on the Rwandan genocide, highlighting past and current massacres by the Western-backed Rwandan Patriotic Front, and more.

21:24 minutes (19.6 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Why May Day: Organize, resist and win!

May 5, 2012
| On this episode, a short history of May Day, organizing labour and resisting austerity -- including a reading from Libcom - A Short History of Mayday and a what's next from Occupy Belfast.

61:12 minutes (56.04 MB)
The F Word
The F Word

Cop watch: Community activism to end police brutality

May 5, 2012
| The F Word discusses community resistance to police brutality, featuring footage from the International Day Against Police Brutality rally and interviews with Cop Watch organizers.

48:58 minutes (44.84 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Smash the State Report: Indigenous resistance and Quebec student strike

May 7, 2012
| This Smash the State Report starts off with the re-opening of the abortion debate in Canada, then jumps into the Quebec student strike, the Yinka-Dene Freedom Train and much more!

62:06 minutes (56.85 MB)
The F Word
The F Word

Is nude protest revolutionary?

May 8, 2012
| Some women claim that going nude is a revolutionary act while feminists argue that it merely perpetuates ideas as women as sex objects

36:47 minutes (33.68 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

Yinka Dene Alliance Freedom Train arrives in Toronto

May 10, 2012
| Several hundred protesters marched from Metro Hall to Le Meridien King Edward Hotel on King Street where Enbridge was holding its Annual Shareholders Meeting on Wednesday afternoon.

89:03 minutes (81.54 MB)
radio book lounge
radio book lounge

Episode 36 - Drawn to change: Comics, graphic novels and politics

May 10, 2012
| A conversation on comics and social change with Jeet Heer, Sean Carleton, and Franke James with Chris Cavanagh.

44:18 minutes (40.57 MB)

Pivot Points Radio

May 11, 2012
| Carolyn Wong interviews community researchers Surita Parashar and Valerie Nicholson on Pivot Points radio.

10:01 minutes (13.75 MB)
Street Cred
Street Cred

Jane's Walks: Retracing Stop Spadina to the Turcot interchange

May 11, 2012
| Celebrating the legacy of Jane Jacobs at the Jane's Walks in Toronto and Montreal.

24:55 minutes (34.3 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The false paradigm of peace: Revisiting the Palestine question

May 12, 2012
| Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and activist currently teaching at the University of Exeter in Britain. In May 2012, he toured Canada speaking about his current research.

22:30 minutes (20.61 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Movie: A Separation

May 12, 2012
| Asghar Farhadi directs this award-winning drama about a woman who wants a divorce from her husband so she can leave Iran with the couple's child.

13:49 minutes (12.65 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

The big banks' big secret

May 12, 2012
| In 2008 Stephen Harper said that Canada has the only banks in the western world that were not looking at bailouts. But a new report says that several banks did need extra money.

15:53 minutes (14.55 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Smash the State Report: April in review and resistance!

May 13, 2012
| Dominion's April in review, G20 report, creeping police state in North America, save the bees, protest barrick and watch the Coconut Revolution.

64:03 minutes (58.65 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

A peaceful walk for friendship and a Freedom Train against tar sands pipelines

May 13, 2012
| Reports from the April 28 Two Row Wampum Walk, a call-out for an Oshkimaadizig peace camp in Coldwater, and the Yinka-Dena alliance resists tar sands developments -- and so does Scott Neidermeyer!

23:13 minutes (21.25 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Mayday: A Graphic History of Protest

May 14, 2012
| Mayday: A Graphic History of Protest is a new comic produced by the Graphic History collective. It traces the history of Mayday from its beginning in the late 1800s to its expression in Canada today.

15:06 minutes (13.84 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Movie: Big Boys Gone Bananas!

May 14, 2012
| Big Boys Gone Bananas! documents the campaign Dole waged against Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten to try to prevent him from showing his film Bananas! from being distributed in the United States.

13:55 minutes (12.75 MB)
John Bonnar Audio Blog
John Bonnar Audio Blog

Refugee and Immigrant rights groups demand Bill C-31 be scrapped

May 17, 2012
| Members of No One is Illegal Toronto and Occupy Toronto protested outside Conservative MP Joe Oliver’s office on Wednesday morning, demanding that the Conservatives cancel Bill C-31.

16:07 minutes (14.76 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

May Day report-backs and raging red squares against austerity!

May 17, 2012
| In this podcast we highlight the ongoing Quebec student strike and the growing social movement in la bélle province, before reporting back on May Day protests from across Ontario.

52:18 minutes (47.9 MB)
Street Cred
Street Cred

#CityTalk: Downtown Projects

May 18, 2012
| #CityTalk on social housing and downtown projects.

21:56 minutes (30.19 MB)
The F Word
The F Word

Redefining beauty by putting health first

May 23, 2012
| Lindsay Kite of Beauty Redefined speaks with The F Word about misleading women's fitness advertising, body-shaming, and whether being fit is entirely about how you look.

25:17 minutes (23.14 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Smash The State Report - May 11 - Black Blocks, Red Squares, Chilean Students, + Antifa WorldWide!

May 23, 2012
| Draconian legislation is facing the quebec social movement, as police continue a repressive crackdown. We also look to resistance to austerity -in ontario, chile, + antifa action in europe

51:28 minutes (47.13 MB)
Migrant Matters
Migrant Matters

Escalating migrant and refugee repression in Canada - Panel

May 24, 2012
| The wide impact that migration and Canada has on low-income racialized people going to work and/or seeking refuge here.

63:26 minutes (145.19 MB)
Africafiles: The Pulse
Africafiles: The Pulse

Azawad: Can this breakaway African state work?

May 24, 2012
| A Tuareg group declared the independence of northern Mali in April. Africafiles explores the implications and future of an independent Azawad.

19:50 minutes (18.17 MB)
Aw@l
Aw@l

Smash the State Report - May 18

May 24, 2012
| draconian anti-protest and racist anti-immigrant laws in canada, new tactics and weapons for the US's NATO, Canada's hidden wars, anti-mining/bling is dead, + harper's fascist gov't

61:26 minutes (56.25 MB)