On today’s show we meet two Bangladeshi Canadians whose stories speak to the unequal way climate change is felt around the world. UPenn Sociologist Daniel Aldana Cohen talks about his hopes and fears for a warming planet.

This episode is produced in partnership with Dissent Magazine, the podcast Hot and Bothered, and the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions.

Cited is a podcast and radio show funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and produced out of the world class Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Many indigenous leaders say Canada’s foster care system is a continuation of cultural genocide against their people. We tell the story of one BC community’s struggle to wrest control from the government, and reinstall indigenous child welfare.

This week’s episode of Cited is part of Discourse Media’s BC Child Welfare Media Day: a multi-organization collaboration with media outlets across the province telling stories about the child welfare system. For our contribution Cited is telling a story about the Sixties Scoop – a two-decades long push to remove aboriginal children from their homes and place them in adopted white families.

First we talk with Splatsin Chief Wayne Christian, who tells the story of his apprehension during the Sixties Scoop. In 1980, Chief Christian led the Indian Child Caravan, an historic struggle to win indigenous autonomy for child welfare decisions in his Shuswap community – a struggle that the provincial government continues to oppose even today.

Judi Bari’s effort to ally forest workers and environmentalists could have changed the course of climate activism forever. Could her parable help us today?

Cited teams up with Dissent’s Hot and Bothered podcast and the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions to tell the story of tree spiking, a Texas millionaire, and the Northern Spotted Owl.

In this hour we look at the jobs vs. environment problem and explore how forest management might be able to mitigate climate change on a massive scale. with documentary filmmaker Mary Liz Thomson, University of Oregon sociology professor John Bellamy Foster, and independent forester Herb Hammond.

Statistics obtained by The Georgia Straight with freedom of information requests indicate rates of violence and aggression at St. Paul’s Hospital (SPH) and Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) have been rising steadily in recent years. To see the raw data, click here.

Read Travis’s story in The Georgia Straight, “Rising violence against staff in Vancouver hospitals leaves stakeholders searching for explanations”.

More and more, Canada is outsourcing its elder care to for-profit companies. On this week’s episode, Sam goes to Stanford Seniors Village to investigate what that means for some of the country’s most vulnerable citizens.

An Austrian philosopher wants to change the scientific method, removing the need for experimental evidence in certain cases. Not everyone is a fan of his ideas.

Finn Slough is on the front lines of climate change. Nestled on the banks of the Fraser River, this community will eventually be overcome by flooding as sea levels rise. But the people of Finn Slough are doing what they can to stay put, despite the writing on the wall.

On this episode we talk to Gus Jacobson, who’s helping to protect Finn Slough from the rising tides. We talk to other members from the homesteader settlement, as well as UBC Prof. Stephen Sheppard about the big decision that the community faces. Then we talk to Sally Cox, who works on climate change mitigation with the Alaskan State Government, and about the work she does helping indigenous communities who choose to relocate when the consequences of climate change becomes too much to bear.

This episode had editing help from CBC’s The Doc Project, and had support from our partners at the Pacific institute for Climate Solutions. Read the extended article here.

In the late 1960s, criminologists like Todd Clear predicted America would soon start closing its prisons. They couldn’t have been more wrong.

Jill Tarter has spent her career on a question she may never solve: are we alone in the universe? We talk to Dr. Tarter as well as the science journalist Sarah Scoles, author of the new book Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.