CiTR -- The City

The BC NDP's David Eby (former executive director of the BC Civil Liberties Association) is running against BC Liberal Premier Christy Clark in the Vancouver-Point Grey riding on Vancouver's wealthy westside in the upcoming provincial election. He discusses regional planning, housing, poverty, jobs, and the importance of progressive provincial-municipal policies.

Transportation planning and policy expert Matti Siemiatycki (University of Toronto) discusses transportation policy and planning within the Vancouver context, lessons from the Canada Line, the politics of transportation planning, and the possible UBC-Broadway rapid transit line and the implications for urban development.

In 2011, to mark Vancouver?s 125th anniversary, the Simon Fraser University Department of History hosted a lecture series, Think You Know Vancouver? Think Again. On January 27th, 2011, local authors Matt Hern and Charlie Demers gave short talks to address the question: Vancouver: The Best Place on Earth? and in turn provided a critical take on Vancouver, its history or perceived lack of history, and why we need to think about Vancouver with a bit more honesty.

We hear from Charlie Demers in the first half of this talk. We?ll be broadcasting the second half, featuring Matt Hern, at a later date. Charlie Demers is an author, comedian, local activist, and a regular performer on CBC?s The Debaters. Thank you to the SFU History Department for permission to broadcast this content.

We listen back to some of the highlights from the past year for CiTR's Annual Fundrive. Please support The City, CiTR Radio, and another year of quality, independent programming. Call 604-822-8648 or donate online at www.citr.ca/fundrive. Thank you for your support.

Vancouver City Councillor Adriane Carr (Green Party) is a vocal critic of the Vision Vancouver-dominated City Council. We discuss her concerns around the creation of city-subsidized market rental housing and attempts to redefine 'affordable' housing, and Vision's plan to centralize funding for community centres (and her run-in with the City Manager and Vision over the issue). Additionally, we discuss the city's development trajectory and transportation.

Vancouver's Chinatown is undergoing rapid transformation. The Carnegie Community Action Project's Jean Swanson discusses why a huge influx of condominiums and retail gentrification are threatening to displace the neighbourhood's low-income residents ? and why the city is approving these major developments before the completion of the Downtown Eastside local area plan.

Independently-owned Festival Cinemas has been sold to Cineplex. The City talks with co-owner Leonard Schein about why he is calling it quits, the challenge to operate cinemas independently, and what the city and province should do to help arts and culture thrive.

Loic Wacquant is professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley and is a researcher with the European Centre of Sociology and Political Science in Paris.

His research focuses on comparative urban marginality with a focus on Chicago?s 'hyper-ghetto' and Paris?s racialized urban periphery. Wacquant?s research also looks at broader issues of urban poverty, ethnoracial domination, the penal state, and social theory. He is the author of many books and articles, including Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality, Prisons of Poverty, and Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity.

On 1 November 2012, Loic Wacquant gave a public lecture organized by the University of British Columbia?s Liu Institute for Global Studies and the Department of Geography. His talk is entitled, ?The Production and Penalization of the Precariat in the Neoliberal Age.? This is the second podcast of a two-part series, focusing on the transformation of the ghetto and the emergence of workfare and prisonfare under neoliberalism.

Loic Wacquant is professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley and is a researcher with the European Centre of Sociology and Political Science in Paris.

His research focuses on comparative urban marginality with a focus on Chicago?s 'hyper-ghetto' and Paris?s racialized urban periphery. Wacquant?s research also looks at broader issues of urban poverty, ethnoracial domination, the penal state, and social theory. He is the author of many books and articles, including Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality, Prisons of Poverty, and Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity.

On 1 November 2012, Loic Wacquant gave a public lecture organized by the University of British Columbia?s Liu Institute for Global Studies and the Department of Geography. His lecture is entitled, ?The Production and Penalization of the Precariat in the Neoliberal Age.? This is the first podcast of a two-part series.

We hear several aboriginal perspectives on the Idle No More movement from a recently convened public forum in Vancouver - Idle? Know more! Speakers provide a background to the movement and situate it within the colonial-capitalist past and present.

We continue the ongoing series, The Working City, by discussing Canada's temporary foreign worker program with Krystle Alarcon, the author of a recent four-part series which documents the many problems with the program and the possibility for reform.