Episodes

  • Green Party calls for four months of free transit

    Green Party calls for four months of free transit
    May 17 2022
    In a bid to ease the pressure of soaring gas prices, BC Green Party leader Sonia Furstenau is calling on the province to making public transit free for the next four months.
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    7 mins
  • Canada not immune to extremism and racism behind Buffalo, N.Y., shooting

    Canada not immune to extremism and racism behind Buffalo, N.Y., shooting
    May 17 2022
    Stephanie Allen of the Hogan's Alley Society says Canadians should avoid the urge to think this country is "above" the kind of racist, extremist views that led to a mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., where authorities say a white man targeted Black people specifically.
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    9 mins
  • Breaking down the charges laid against Fairy Creek protesters

    Breaking down the charges laid against Fairy Creek protesters
    May 17 2022
    Old-growth logging protests in the Fairy Creek watershed have broken records for the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history. The CBC's Kathryn Marlow takes a deep dive into exactly how many arrests have been made, and what for.
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    9 mins
  • Should Vancouver bring back school liaison officers?

    Should Vancouver bring back school liaison officers?
    May 17 2022
    A recent string of bullying incidents caught on film has some calling for the return of school liaison police officers in Vancouver area schools, but Asmal Ishaque of the group Cops Out of Schools says more policing is not the solution.
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    7 mins
  • Kuper Island podcast dives deep into one BC residential school's story

    Kuper Island podcast dives deep into one BC residential school's story
    May 17 2022
    The CBC's Duncan McCue previews his new podcast Kuper Island, an investigation into the dark past of a BC residential school of the same name, and the people who survived it.
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    11 mins
  • Youth and seniors work out together in Vancouver's Chinatown

    Youth and seniors work out together in Vancouver's Chinatown
    May 17 2022
    The Early Edition's Melody Jacobson visits the Yarrow Intergenerational Society's biweekly exercise class at the Sun Wah Centre in Chinatown -- a class for both seniors AND youth.
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    7 mins
  • The BCSPCA wants you to consider adopting something other than a cat or dog

    The BCSPCA wants you to consider adopting something other than a cat or dog
    May 17 2022
    Adrienne McBride of the BCSPCA says their shelters have a surplus of small animals like rats, rabbits, lizards or birds -- and she makes the case for why you might want to adopt one instead of a dog or cat.
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    7 mins
  • Ottawa Report: Canada outlines climate change adaptation plan

    Ottawa Report: Canada outlines climate change adaptation plan
    May 17 2022
    The Globe and Mail's Kristy Kirkup lays out the federal government's newly announced climate change adaptation plan, and the shift it marks from preventing climate change to living with it.
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    10 mins