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Podcast

Jan 11, 2019

'The Good Girls' - film about Mexico, Wealth, Oppression and Power

face2face

Alejandra Marquez Arbella, Ilse Salas and Face2Face host David Peck talk about Mexico, wealth, oppression and power, social inequalities and how the economic and the political affect the everyday.

Blog

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.

Blog

Sep 12, 2017

What's 'natural' about a natural disaster? Not much

Caroline 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.

Podcast

Aug 1, 2017

Telling histories of struggle through posters and comics

Talking Radical Radio

Julia Smith and Sean Carleton talk about the Graphic History Collective and its 'Remember Resist Redraw' poster project.

Columnists

Jul 14, 2017

More than DNA tests, genealogy allows us to trace our roots in history

Rick Salutin

Coming to terms with a personal odyssey to understand a murky family history that's clouded by cinematic imagery and time.

Columnists

Jun 9, 2017

Reconciliation will require reevaluating our assumptions and actions of the past

Rick Salutin

The revival of "1837" revealed that our show is (relatively gently) charged with overlooking truer victims: the First Nations.

Podcast

Feb 16, 2017

Occupy Vancouver: The Vets Who Took Hotel Vancouver

Rabbledocs

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.

Podcast

Feb 9, 2017

Songs Upon the Rivers

radio 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.

News

Oct 20, 2016

'Indigenous London' re-imagines colonial telling of London's past

Megan Devlin

University of British Columbia professor Coll Thrush's work reveals Indigenous history at the centre of an empire.

Blog

Oct 16, 2016

The history of the Internet: Military anxiety and a hacker's ethic

Abigail Curlew

The Internet we know today is an unlikely combination of radical philosophy and military surveillance.

History

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