The blurst of times
Alberta’s corporate media wasteland got a little more bleak this week as the long-time host of 630 CHED’s morning talk radio program, Ryan Jespersen, has been fired.
Read morePOD: So you say you're an anti-racist organization? Prove it
Yodit Tesfamicael, an organizer with Students4Change and Black Women United talks with us about the work she's a part of to help improve black lives at Norquest College. An important starting point has been getting that institution to collect race-based data. Turns out you can't be an anti-racist organization if you have no idea how black people are doing.
Read morePOD: Stranger Danger 2020
We have returning champion Laura Kruse on to discuss her latest Red String column. There is a huge effort going on to whitewash a dangerous and extreme right wing conspiracy theory and tens of thousands of well meaning folks are getting sucked in. And it's using child sex trafficking as the entry point.
Read moreWhite supremacists attack anti-racist rally in Red Deer
There’s video evidence of white supremacists physically attacking demonstrators at an anti-racism rally in Red Deer yesterday, but the RCMP confirmed this morning that they will not pursue any charges.
Read morePOD: No more blank cheques for police
We are joined by Oumar Salifou of the Is This For Real? podcast to talk about Edmonton Police's militarized hardware show and tell, the media's poor coverage of police and the upcoming Police Act review.
Read moreEdmonton Police show off their new armoured vehicle, drone fleet, and other militarized hardware
The Edmonton Police Service held a bizarre “specialized equipment show-and-tell” at an unmarked location on Edmonton’s south side showing off their new armoured vehicle, drones, a new command centre as well as carbines, sniper rifles and their less-lethal weapons.
Read moreThe Red String: #SaveTheChildren, human trafficking hysteria and the expansion of the police state
Wide-spread panic about child sex trafficking is luring well-meaning people into a vast web of extreme right-wing conspiracies. They're looking for the signs of child trafficking everywhere--but missing the slavery and exploitation which exists all around us.
Read moreUCP eyes AISH, but blinks
Albertans struggling with poverty got alarming news on Friday with reports that the UCP were planning cuts to the Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH) program, but after a weekend of public backlash--and the release of some startling poll numbers--Kenney blinked.
Read moreAfter officer receives no punishment for violent knee on neck arrest, Edmonton man seeks justice in civil courts
After brutal treatment from the Edmonton Police Service, one man’s only path to a shred of justice is through the civil courts.
Read moreThe other 9/11
We speak with Ricardo Acuna and Sandra Azocar, two Chilean refugees, to listen to their stories of the CIA-backed coup that installed brutal Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and overthrew a democratically elected socialist government on September 11, 1973. This is a re-run from September 11, 2019.
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