Kathleen Belew says we should understand the Christchurch mosque killings, the attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue and the U.S. Coast Guard officer’s plan to assassinate politicians as originating from the same source, the white power movement. Kathleen Belew is an assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago and author of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America.

Acclaimed author Joy Kogawa collaborated with the Toronto tech studio Jam 3 and the NFB to tell the story of the Japanese-Canadian internment during World War II. East of the Rockies is an augmented reality experience told from the perspective of 17-year-old Yuki. Kogawa’s grandchild, Anne Canute, was creative consultant on the project and voiced the narrative in the interactive. Anne Canute joins us in studio to talk about East of the Rockies.

Desmond Cole is an activist and journalist based in Toronto. In a feature article for Toronto Life magazine several years ago, he shared his experiencing of carding, saying he’s been stopped by police over 50 times. Last month, he was in Vancouver to speak at the annual fundraising gala of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Less than 24 hours after he arrived in Vancouver, he was carded by Vancouver police. In his keynote address at the gala, Desmond Cole talks about the connection between carding and white supremacy and discusses the Black Test for evaluating the value of new policy initiatives in Canada.

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Turkey. Khashoggi was a columnist at the Washington Post and a critic of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. We talk with Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePink and author of Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the US-Saudi Connection.