Feb 28, 2018
Grandpa's universe
Ed Finn
Now in his 90s, writer Ed Finn shares an excerpt from his memoir, a look at his grandfather who died in 1937.
History
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Sep 12, 2017  What's 'natural' about a natural disaster? Not muchCaroline Grego Catastrophic storms and other disasters are not anomalies but signs that systems of environmental exploitation, corporate greed, and laissez-faire government are working exactly as they should be. |
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Aug 1, 2017  Telling histories of struggle through posters and comicsTalking Radical Radio Julia Smith and Sean Carleton talk about the Graphic History Collective and its 'Remember Resist Redraw' poster project. |
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Jul 14, 2017  More than DNA tests, genealogy allows us to trace our roots in historyComing to terms with a personal odyssey to understand a murky family history that's clouded by cinematic imagery and time. |
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Jun 9, 2017  Reconciliation will require reevaluating our assumptions and actions of the pastThe revival of "1837" revealed that our show is (relatively gently) charged with overlooking truer victims: the First Nations. |
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Feb 16, 2017  Occupy Vancouver: The Vets Who Took Hotel VancouverRabbledocs The Vancouver housing crisis is not a recent development. Carrie Swiggum's documentary looks into the situation for returning WWII veterans and their occupation of the Hotel Vancouver. |
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Feb 9, 2017  Songs Upon the Riversradio book lounge The histories of Indigenous communities and European explorers contain stories that have been lost in history. A new book presented by Sébastien Malette seeks out the forgotten stories. |
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Oct 20, 2016  'Indigenous London' re-imagines colonial telling of London's pastMegan Devlin University of British Columbia professor Coll Thrush's work reveals Indigenous history at the centre of an empire. |
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Oct 16, 2016  The history of the Internet: Military anxiety and a hacker's ethicAbigail Curlew The Internet we know today is an unlikely combination of radical philosophy and military surveillance. |
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Sep 28, 2016  Interned Italian Canadians left deep holes in communities they were forced to leave behindWael Haddara Leo Mascioli was an Italian-Canadian architect who lived in North Bay, Ontario for over 50 years -- only to be interned by his own country during the Second World War. |
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Aug 25, 2016  From slave markets to supermarkets: Brazil's complex past and present aren't simply black and whiteRobin Browne Brazil's former colonial capital Salvador reflects the nation's complex past -- and present. |
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Jul 6, 2016  Learning for today from working-class historyTalking Radical Radio Craig Heron talks about his book "Lunch-Bucket Lives: Remaking the Workers' City" and about the relevance of history to movements today. |
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May 18, 2016  Komagata Maru yet another dark chapter in Canada's racist pastRod Mickleburgh At long last, a formal apology is being delivered in the House of Commons for Canada's racist behaviour in its shameful treatment of Sikh passengers aboard the Komagata Maru. |
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Mar 30, 2016  The CTF misreads Alberta history to score cheap political pointsEric Strikwerda CTF Alberta chief Paige Macpherson compares Alberta's current situation with the Alberta that faced the Great Depression of the 1930s. But she gets her history dead wrong. |
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Mar 7, 2016  History of feminism still shows it pays to be radicalLinda M. Ambrose 'It moved me to tears.' That's what one student said when I asked my history class what they thought about 'The Voice of Women: The First 30 Years.' We had just finished watching the film together. |
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Feb 18, 2016  A human history of the Ottawa River WatershedNeeds No Introduction A look at the role of the Ottawa River in the history of the Algonquin Nation, with Peter Di Gangi. |
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Jan 18, 2016  Canada once shut its doors to Syrian refugees for decadesDalia Thamin Syrians were subjected to the same restriction imposed on Chinese, Japanese and South Asian immigrants starting from the early 1900s. |
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Nov 25, 2015  After Paris, a Canadian in Flanders hopes for another 'Christmas Truce'Craig Gibson A personal essay of a Canadian touring the battlegrounds of the Great War while Paris, and the world, recovers from terror. |
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Nov 23, 2015  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: Settler colonialism and genocide in the U.S.Redeye Roxanne Dunbatr-Ortiz is an Indigenous activist and scholar based in San Francisco. Her most recent book is An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States. She spoke in Vancouver on October 27. |
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Oct 23, 2015  Canadian politics goes Back to the FuturePolitics in the modern era has been haunted by a sense that we are travelling on a route: the past is over our shoulder; the future, around the next bend. |
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Sep 18, 2015  Toronto's anti-Black racism rooted in 300-year-old colonial legacyYves Engler While the most obvious source of this racism is the legacy of justifications for enslaving Africans, Toronto has made a distinct contribution as well. |
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Aug 28, 2015  Revisiting 1930s authoritarianism through Donald TrumpGive this to Donald Trump: he helps us picture how the anti-democratic, right-wing, personality-driven movements of the 1930s came to power. |
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Jul 17, 2015  Progress is a slippery notion in politics and historyWhat makes us certain that progress is a thing and that we can keep score of it? As this past week shows, once you start scoring history, others can tote up precisely the opposite results. |
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Jun 8, 2015  It's time to reconcile ourselves to the real history of CanadaGerry Caplan After the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report, Canadians must finally come to grips with the fact that we are not the caring, sharing people we once smugly believed we were. |
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