The 4 Best Redeye Podcast Episodes
1) Transforming Chinatown after Vancouver's apology for 150 years of racism
Seven years ago, the City of Vancouver allowed a comprehensive upzoning of Chinatown that brought in rapid condo development and accelerated the demise of this historic cultural site. Activists and lo...Show More
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Community organizing is not for the faint of heart. Unsung heroes these folks.
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) Cutting through the rhetoric on reconciliation
Martin Lukacs credits the late Arthur Manuel with many of the insights he shares in this brilliant exposé of the “reconciliation industry” in Canada. Arthur Manuel was a Secwepemc activist and intelle...Show More
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"The lessons that Art learned, that many of us learned from him, showed us that truth on its own is not that useful. Power doesn't really ca...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3) Artist Henry Tsang's virtual tour of Vancouver's 1907 Anti-Asian Riots
The 360 Riot Walk is a multilingual interactive tour which invites participants to trace a layered history of labour politics, anti-Asian racism, and community resistance in Vancouver’s Downtown Easts...Show More
4) Great Anarchists: Short biographies of ten founders of modern anarchist thought
The newly released book Great Anarchists aims to bring radical ideas to a wider, non-academic audience. The book presents a series of vignettes on ten individuals who helped to lay the foundations of ...Show More
5) Vancouver mayor to close door on provincial funding for supportive housing (encore)
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim chose a day-long summit last month organized by the pro-business coalition Save Our Streets to make a major announcement about housing. He said that he intends to reject any ne...Show More
6) Dr. Danyaal Raza on non-physician professionals billing the public system (encore)
A new interpretive letter on the Canada Health Act says primary health care services provided by qualified non-physician practitioners must be covered by provincial and territorial plans. However, the...Show More
7) Supreme Court to hear challenge to Quebec's secularism law (encore)
In January, the Supreme Court of Canada announced that it would hear a challenge to Quebec's secularism law that prohibits certain public sector workers from wearing religious symbols while performing...Show More
8) Amazon lays off nearly 2000 workers in Quebec following unionizing drive (encore)
Last week, Amazon announced that it will lay off all its workers at seven warehouses, fulfillment centres and sorting stations in Quebec. Almost 2000 workers will lose their jobs, 1,700 of which are p...Show More
9) Israeli youth on tour in Canada speak about their refusal to serve with IDF (encore)
On March 22, Independent Jewish Voices Vancouver hosted two Israeli war resisters as part of a nationwide Refuseniks tour. , Einat Gerlitz and Tal Mitnick have been sharing their stories across Canad...Show More
10) Court challenge to Vancouver's daytime ban on outdoor sheltering (encore)
The BC Civil Liberties Association along with three individual plaintiffs have filed a lawsuit against the City of Vancouver to challenge the city's daytime ban on outdoor sheltering. They say this ba...Show More