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A progressive take on current events. Produced by an independent media collective at Vancouver Cooperative Radio.

  1. 12/29/2025

    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 profound tension in Canada’s approach to disability rights and social responsibility. Alfiya Battalova is Assistant Professor in Justice Studies at Royal Roads University.

    18 min

  2. 12/27/2025

    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 the dispossession of Palestinians in 1948 that resulted from the founding of Israel. But now the CMHR has announced an exhibit titled Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present to launch next year. Jonah Corne is an associate professor in the department of English, Theatre, Film and Media at the University of Manitoba. He joins us to talk about the significance of this move.

    15 min

  3. 12/23/2025

    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 were largely driven by the movement for parental rights. Heather Ganshorn is research director for Support Our Students Alberta and author of the report, Challenging Parental Rights. She talks with us about links between the parental rights movement and the push to privatize education in Alberta.

    17 min

  4. 12/21/2025

    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 along with two other senior staff.  MLA Dallas Brodie has herself been removed as interim party leader.  But the documentary lives on, with Dallas Brodie voicing Thielmann’s script and interviewing all the guests. We talk about the film with Sean Carleton, professor of history and Indigenous studies at the University of Manitoba.

    19 min
  5. Court rules in favour of First Nations challenge of BC mining regime

    12/19/2025

    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 BC’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act creates legally enforceable obligations on the province to reform the mining permit process. We talk with Jamie Kneen of MiningWatch.

    19 min

  6. 12/11/2025

    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 using them in agriculture increases crop yields. We speak with Joshua Pearce, co-author of a new study on agrivoltaics.

    16 min

  7. 12/09/2025

    Legal and historical risks of new pipeline to the Northwest coast

    As hundreds of First Nations leaders gathered last week in Ottawa for their annual December meeting, the federal-provincial memorandum of understanding for a new pipeline to Asian markets was high on the agenda. The Assembly of First Nations chiefs voted unanimously on Tuesday to demand the withdrawal of the deal and expressed full support for First Nations on the British Columbia coast strongly opposing the initiative. Anna Johnston is a lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law and author of a brief on the legal and historical risk of a Northwest coast pipeline. management. We speak with her about the MOU and the risks of pursuing a new pipeline from Alberta to the BC coast.

    15 min

  8. 12/07/2025

    City Beat: Controversy over Mayor Sim's Filipino Cultural Centre proposal

    Next week Vancouver City Council will consider Mayor Ken Sim’s controversial proposal to fast-track a new Filipino Cultural Centre without community consultation. Also on the agenda, Vancouver’s Social Housing Initiative, plans to radically change the current plan for the Downtown Eastside and much more. We speak with Redeye’s Ian Mass.

    17 min
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A progressive take on current events. Produced by an independent media collective at Vancouver Cooperative Radio.

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    Redeye Collective
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2025
  • Episodes
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