Just finished an interview with Ezra and Ray of the Qualicum Nature Preservation Society about a local struggle to preserve ecologically sensitive wetland on Vancouver Island from development. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
A scholarly examination of “told-to” narratives in the Canadian context, with some longer-ago history but mostly between the 1970s and 1990s. The told-to narrative is an old form that is of particular relevance to colonial contexts, in which white settler scholars and writers have produced written texts from oral stories told to them by Indigienous …
Thank-you to long-time trade unionist Derek Blackadder for the Talking Radical Radio interview just now! We talked about labour movement use of online tools from the 1980s to today, and about how it’s changing due to COVID-19. Listen for it in the coming weeks!
Will George is a member of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. Their territory, located in and around what is now called “Vancouver,” will be directly impacted by the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion project. Scott Neigh interviews George about the project and about his ongoing grassroots work to oppose it. The fight against Trans Mountain has been one …
YA contemporary. Co-written by two fairly well known authors in the genre. A white Jewish boy and South Asian Muslim girl, both US American and both seventeen, fall for each other while volunteering on the campaign of a progressive candidate for state senate in a special election (which is what they call by-elections down there, …