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) How narratives about disability influence government policies
In Canada, the policies affecting disabled people do not always follow a consistent approach. Alfiya Battalova says our narratives around disability shape our policies – and some key laws reveal a pro...Show More
6) Nakba exhibit at Canadian Museum of Human Rights to launch in 2026
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg was built to educate Canadians about stories of global injustice. Yet in the more than 10 years since it opened, it has not meaningfully acknowledged t...Show More
7) Parental rights movement and the attack on public education in Alberta
As students across Alberta returned to class this fall, families were met with a slate of changes targeting queer and trans kids, ushered in by the United Conservative Party government. These changes ...Show More
8) OneBC's documentary Making A Killing fuels residential school denialism
On December 2, the OneBC party released its documentary Making a Killing: Reconciliation, genocide and plunder in Canada. Since then, the writer and producer of the film Tim Thielmann, has been fired ...Show More
9) Court rules in favour of First Nations challenge of BC mining regime
The Gitxaała & Ehattesaht First Nations have launched a court challenge to BC's free-entry mining regime. In a precedent-setting decision released last week, the BC Court of Appeal has affirmed that B...Show More
10) Dec 11 Solar panels on farm lands can increase crop yields
Solar farm projects in Alberta have stalled because of new provincial regulations. Yet some Canadian researchers are saying photovoltaic systems now produce the lowest-cost electricity in history and ...Show More