| Canada has a reputation as a peaceful nation, yet the arms industry is alive and well here and providing weapons that fuel wars around the world.

| The provincial government has to find almost 300 million dollars more for public education next year, just to maintain current service. Early signs are that they will not cover the new costs.

| Chris Shaw takes us back to early estimates of the costs, and potential profits, of the Olympics and compares these figures with what we know now will be the total cost of the Games.

| Fo Niemi from The Center for Research-Action on Race Relations

| The Wet'suwet'en is one of 50 First Nations whose territory will be crossed by the Northern Gateway pipeline.

| The internet's newest International Labour Report

| The Canadian Labour Congress' Joel Harden describes the agenda for action on its "Retirement Security for All" campaign.

| We're talking a hundred! A centenarian shares advice, cancelling highway plans, and remembering the birth of the aged rabble radio. You could also win an ipod nano!

| Despite substantial evidence of election fraud and repression of mass mobilization against the coup last June, Canada and the United States recognize the new president.

| Bright red tents will soon be springing up in the streets on Vancouver, each one housing one or two people for a night. The tents are part of a campaign to pressure the federal government.

| Activist and comedian Charles Demers was born and raised in Vancouver. Vancouver Special is a hilarious look at the city's past and present, from its pot industry to its dog mania.

| A U.S senator claims the Constitution only protects citizens, and corporations have new election powers, and people protest due process then you know it is fear of a democratic planet.

| The highway expansion planned for the Lower Mainland was designed for increased truck traffic from a container port in Delta to Highway 1. Opponents say it's no longer needed.

| How hackers set us on the track to be makers.

| George Bisharat details Israel’s campaign to transform international humanitarian law so they have immunity for their human rights violations.

| Vancouver-based author Robert Chaplin discusses his art, books and alternative forms of publishing.

| Alert! Radio #142 - Interviews with Dennis Pilon, and Sid Shniad. Music is the Weapon with Mitch Podolak.

| A BC woman still searches for answers and accountability in the shooting death of her brother by police.

| People's Coop Books has been selling a wide range of progressive books in Vancouver since 1945. We find out some of the history of the store from Ray Viaud.

| SFU Professor David MacAlister is trying to find out how and why people die in police custody

| Author and activist Chris Shaw on defending civil liberties in face of the Olympic security regime.

| Micheal Vonn says it's a well-accepted fact that the security put in place for the Olympics doesn't leave town when the athletes go back home.

| Seventy-six Tamil refugees were immediately taken into custody when they were discovered off the coast of British Columbia in October 2009 under suspicion of membership in the Tamil Tigers.

| Toronto taxi driver shares his geographic philosophy.

| Roger Annis of Haiti Solidarity B.C. says Haitians have reacted to the earthquake with dignity and community spirit. Yet donor countries have insisted on sending in the military along with the aid.

| In 2005, James Long found a suitcase full of photographs in an alley in East Vancouver. That chance find led to this play currently showing at the PUSH International Performing Arts Festival.

| From Ottawa, Whitehorse and Toronto, we hear speeches, statements and songs of protest against the Conservative party's prorogation of Parliament.

| Gail Davidson of Lawyers Against the War says its time Canada repatriated Omar Khadr -- the last Western citizen detained at Guantanamo Bay.

| Since oil was discovered in Nigeria, life expectancy has dropped by 20 years, mangroves have disappeared and fish have been poisoned. Meanwhile the wealth generated by the resource leaves the country.

| Vancouver City Council allows 15-storey buildings in Downtown Eastside. Housing activists say the zoning change will push low-income residents out of the area in favour of more condos.