Bikemaps.org taps into information from cyclists all over the world to make biking safer for everyone. Cyclists enter their local cycling trouble spots and create an interactive map of their city. This local knowledge of cycling safety, hazards, and even bike thefts is then analyzed to identify hot spots for safety, risk, and crime. We speak with Karen Laberee, executive director of Bikemaps.org.

The dispute over access to Wet’suwet’en territory to build the Coastal Gaslink pipeline has resulted in a standoff between the hereditary chiefs and Premier John Horgan. Horgan has invoked “the rule of law”. But lawyer Eugene King says the BC government’s stance ignore much of the previous law in cases establishing rights and title. Eugene Kung is with West Coast Environmental Law.

Five years after the TRC released its executive summary and 94 calls to action for reconciliation, only nine have been completed. Historian Ian Mosby started checking the status of Canada’s progress a year after the TRC report. This year, he was joined by Ryerson colleague Eva Jewell. She is Anishinaabe from the territory of Deshkan Ziibiing in southwestern Ontario. She talks with us about the lack of progress of the TRC calls to action.

Metro Vancouver is planning to accommodate another million people in the next 20 years. City Beat’s Ian Mass runs us through how the region plans to do this. Also, in this episode, pressures on SRO housing from the new St. Paul’s Hospital location and the push to divest the city from fossil fuels.

In November last year, the National Association of Japanese Canadians delivered a report recommending key actions to address the historic wrongs committed against Japanese Canadians. In this episode, elder and human rights campaigner Mary Kitagawa talks about the intangible harms of internment. Following that, Judy Hanazawa, president of the Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens Association, talks about the recommendations for redress.

False Creek South embodies Vancouver’s progressive planning policies of the 1960s and 1970s. Its unique mix of social housing, coops and strata units is now under threat as the majority of housing units are built on City land. Sharon Yandle and Nathan Edelson are with the False Creek South Neighbourhood Association. They join us to discuss the future of this area in a city where densification is the byword of the day.

A United Nations committee working to end racism is urging Canada to immediately stop the construction of three major projects in BC as they do not the free, prior and informed consent of impacted Indigenous groups. The committee on the elimination of racial discrimination monitors a convention to end racial discrimination signed by countries including Canada, and is calling for a suspension of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, Site C dam and Coastal GasLink pipeline. We speak with Kukpi7 Judy Wilson of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs.

A new report by the Canadian Farmers Union says that farm mechanization has driven farm incomes down and greenhouse gas emissions up. NFU president Katie Ward says the only way out of the farm crisis and the climate crisis is a more diversified farm landscape that will lower emissions and produce more local food. In this episode, she explains how those changes could come about.

Canada’s population is increasingly racialized. Unfortunately, the rapid growth in the racialized population is not being matched by a corresponding increase in economic equality, according to a new study released in December. We talk to Sheila Block, one of the authors of Canada’s Colour-Coded Income Inequality, and a senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Ontario office.

Tenants in Burnaby have fought hard against renoviction and demoviction. They saw their campaign rewarded in December when the City of Burnaby enacted some of strongest tenant protection legislation seen in the region. Now housing activists say Vancouver needs to follow suit. We talk with Sara Sagaii of the Vancouver Tenants Union.