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Update: Cited is on Break

We would usually be back in the fall for a new season. However, we're not coming back this time. We're taking a break. We're planning to make a bigger version of Cited in fall 2019, but we need to gear up and retool. That means fundraising, hiring, and producing. Thanks for sticking with us. Read More

#64: Site C and High Modernity

In British Columbia, energy experts want to transition off of fossil fuels. We look at B.C.'s indigenous history to ask whether the province can decarbonize and decolonize at the same time. Read More

#63: The Battle of Buxton

The town of Buxton, North Carolina loves their lighthouse. But in the 1970s, the ocean threatened to swallow it up. For the next three decades, they fought an intense political battle over what to do. Fight back against the forces of nature, or retreat? It's a small preview of what's to come in a time of rising seas. We team up with 99% Invisible to tell the story. Read More

#62: The Invisible Climate Migrants

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. Read More

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#61: The Ongoing Cultural Genocide of Indigenous Canadians

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. Read More

#60: The Spotted Owl or: How the Right Won the Working Class

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? Read More

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#59: Why are Vancouver’s Hospitals Getting More Violent?

This week Cited partners with Travis Lupick, reporter and editor with The Georgia Straight, to uncover a worrying trend in Vancouver's health care system. Since 2010, rates of violence and aggression have steadily increased in the city's two largest hospitals. The question is why?

#58: The Patients and the Profit

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. Read More

Introducing Crackdown, plus an update

Podcasts every Thursday. Broadcasts from CiTR 101.9, CJSF 90.1, CKDU 88.1, CIVL 101.7, and WVBR 93.5.