Preserving and popularizing the history of working-class Toronto

Submitted by scott.neigh on Tue, 05/31/2022 - 09:11
Talking Radical Radio

Craig Heron, Holly Kirkconnell, and David Kidd are active with the Toronto Workers’ History Project (TWHP), an initiative devoted to preserving and promoting the history of working people in Toronto. Scott Neigh interviews them about the enthusiasm they have found in the community for working-class history, the many facets of the project’s work, and the importance of history for social movements today.

Pushing Ontario to fix its massive school repair backlog

Submitted by scott.neigh on Tue, 05/24/2022 - 09:21
Talking Radical Radio

Krista Wylie is a mother of one current and one former student in public schools in Toronto, and she is a co-founder of the Fix Our Schools campaign. Scott Neigh interviews her about the $16.8 billion repair backlog in Ontario schools and about her years of campaigning to get the provincial government to take seriously the impact that has on students, teachers, and other education workers, and to invest adequately in school repair and renewal.

Challenging government abandonment of citizens detained abroad

Submitted by scott.neigh on Tue, 05/17/2022 - 10:03
Talking Radical Radio

Sally Lane is the mother of Jack Letts, a Canadian citizen who has been detained for more than five years in northeastern Syria in conditions akin to torture. Matthew Behrens is a long-time activist and a member of Stop Canadian Involvement in Torture. Scott Neigh interviews them about Jack’s case and about the campaign to push the Canadian government to finally take action to bring Jack back to Canada.

Long years of grassroots work for missing and murdered Indigenous women

Submitted by scott.neigh on Tue, 05/10/2022 - 09:17
Talking Radical Radio
Art installation inspired by Métis artist Jaime Black for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

Darlene Okemaysim-Sicotte is part of a grassroots group called Iskwewuk E-wichiwitochik, or Women Walking Together, that has been working for many years in Saskatoon on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Scott Neigh interviews her about what that work has involved.

ANALYSIS: Excited Delirium Shields Cops Who Kill

Submitted by JShantz on Sun, 05/08/2022 - 01:35
Bogus Syndrome Excuses Two More Police Killings in Alberta
Role of excited delirium in excusing cops who kill
Keep Calm poster saying Excited Delirium? Seriously?
Alberta Serious Incident Response Team logo.

Excited delirium has no legitimate, accepted, medical standing. It is a phony copaganda construction deployed to excuse cops when they kill and to justify their killings. Despite its complete lack of medical validity, it is regularly used in the Canadian context when police kill, as I have previously outlined.

Defending the forest in southwest Nova Scotia

Submitted by scott.neigh on Tue, 05/03/2022 - 09:52
Talking Radical Radio

Nina Newington is a long-time activist and an organizer of the Last Hope Camp, whose participants have been living in tents on the land since December to block the logging of an ecologically important forest in southwest Nova Scotia. Scott Neigh interviews her about the practicalities of taking this kind of direct action, about the broader struggle to defend forests in Nova Scotia, and about the Last Hope Camp.

Canadian Police-Involved Deaths in April 2022

Submitted by JShantz on Mon, 05/02/2022 - 03:26
Police killings in April 2022.
Poster saying RCMP Are Killers, on a post in front of an RCMP detachment.
Protest signs in front of BC RCMP HQ in Surrey.

April 2022 was again a very bloody month of policing in so-called Canada, as at least a dozen people were killed by police or died through police actions. This matches September and October 2021 as the deadliest months in Canadian policing over the last year-and-a-third. Half of the deaths in April were at the hands of police in one province—British Columbia.

At least five people were killed by Canadian police or died through police actions in March 2022. This follows at least nine police-involved deaths in February and eight in January.

Non-status migrants and Ukraine; fair regularization needed for all

Submitted by David Gray-Donald on Wed, 04/27/2022 - 09:20
Two racialized people hold up signs outside in winter. One is light green with black text reading "Regularisation = solution to the labour shortage." Photo from a Solidarity Across Borders event in December 2021 in Montreal, Undocumented migrants have a solution to the labor shortage: Status for all. Photo: Solidarity Across Borders.

For more than a month, the whole world has seemingly forgotten about Covid. All eyes are fixed on the war between Russia and Ukraine.

We follow the news of people who try to flee this war by all the means offered. We have seen a number of countries repatriate their respective citizens. Other countries are opening their doors to these people fleeing the war without visas or conditions in order to provide them with the safety and comfort they need.

Union members pushing their pension plan to divest from fossil fuels

Submitted by scott.neigh on Tue, 04/26/2022 - 09:40
Talking Radical Radio

Jillian Maguire and Kim Benson are teachers in British Columbia. As such, they are both members of the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF), and they have recently been organizing to get their pension plan to divest from fossil fuel industries. Scott Neigh interview them about the BCTF Divest Now campaign and about their success in getting the BCTF to pass a motion in favour of divestment.

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