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Patricia Block tells her story of giving birth while serving time at BC's Fraser Valley Institution. Patricia had requested to serve a federal sentence so that she'd be able to keep her baby with her because the prison has a unit specifically built for ...

From the 1950s to the late 1990s, agents of the state spied on, interrogated, and harassed gays and lesbians in Canada. Gary Kinsman, and co-author Patrizia Gentile, show how people who deviated from the so-called norm were seen as threats to society ...

From the 1950s to the late 1990s, agents of the state spied on, interrogated, and harassed gays and lesbians in Canada. Gary Kinsman, and co-author Patrizia Gentile, show how people who deviated from the so-called norm were seen as threats to society ...

Daisy Kler of Rape Relief and Women's Shelter talks about what has and what has not changed in violence against women since Marc Lepine murdered 14 women at the Ecole Polytechnique. To find out more about Redeye, check out our website.  

At last week’s national general meeting of the Canadian Federation of Students, delegates rejected a series of motions put forward by members participating in a coordinated defederation campaign against the student organization.Months ago, I wrote ...

Over the course of his career as Destroyer, Dan Bejar has established himself and his band as one of the most unpredictable success stories in modern popular music. As a songwriter, Bejar is recognized as having few peers. As a musician, he is like the ...

Over the course of his career as Destroyer, Dan Bejar has established himself and his band as one of the most unpredictable success stories in modern popular music. As a songwriter, Bejar is recognized as having few peers. As a musician, he is like the ...

The video documentary Colony by Cinema Suitcase examines a crumbling outpost of the Bata Shoe Company in Batanagar, India. Laura Lamb shares her thoughts about the film, currently showing at the Western Front in Vancouver. To find out more about Redeye, ...

Part two of a two-part story. to read part one. For two years, community activists in Salmon Arm led the fight against a gigantic Smart!Centres development planned for an environmentally sensitive floodplain. In October 2008, after five nights of ...

Thanks for listening to the Ottawa series...here's a cool mixtape to finish it all off. Enjoy, and we'll see you in 2010! 00:00 Intro to the show, with MP Paul Dewar 00:43 Treebeard - The City That Trees Built 04:17 furnaceface - The Ballad of Richard ...

Pull Focus offers film students and community groups the opportunity to work together to create short documentaries about social issues. We speak with Pull Focus founder Steve Rosenberg. To find out more about Redeye, check out our website.  

Sure no one expected some new progressive presidency, but how do we think Obama has performed so far despite our reduced expectations?  Stephen is more of the "watch the zen master" and "better than McCain/Palin" but Matt is surprised by some of ...

On the tenth anniversary of the Battle of Seattle we talk to organizer David Solnit about his new book compiling stories and evaluations of the success of the protest in Seattle. Solnit speaks about the negative messaging in the mainstream media during ...

One of Canada's most famous architects designed a Downtown Eastside hotel for hard-to-house residents. Sean Mullen finds out why in this documentary on housing and homelessness in Vancouver. To find out more about Redeye, check out our website.  

Afghan MP Malalai Joya and rabble.ca editor Derrick O'Keefe recorded in Vancouver during their cross-Canada book tour in November 2009. To find out more about Redeye, check out our website.  

The shopping mall has been with us for about 70 years. The mall's founder was Victor Gruen, a socialist escaping from Nazi-occupied Austria. Gruen wanted to create a Europeanized, pedestrian friendly America. Helene Klodawsky explores the history, growth ...

Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! launched her new book Breaking The Sound Barrier at an event co-hosted by community radio stations CJSF, Co-op Radio and CiTR in Vancouver, B.C. last night. Despite being detained by Canadian border services ...

Yesterday Canada's broadcast regulator, the CRTC, approved Al Jazeera English's application to broadcast in Canada. The introduction of Al Jazeera English global news service will increase the diversity of Canada's media landscape.read more

The Canadian government makes refugees cover their own costs for coming to Canada. Refugee support groups say this puts enormous financial and emotional stress on people already struggling to adapt to a new country. We speak with Janet Dench of the ...