Stephanie Allen of the Hogan's Alley Society says Canadians should avoid the urge to think this country is "above" the kind of racist, extremist views that led to a mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., where authorities say a white man targeted Black people specifically.
Old-growth logging protests in the Fairy Creek watershed have broken records for the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history. The CBC's Kathryn Marlow takes a deep dive into exactly how many arrests have been made, and what for.
A recent string of bullying incidents caught on film has some calling for the return of school liaison police officers in Vancouver area schools, but Asmal Ishaque of the group Cops Out of Schools says more policing is not the solution.
The CBC's Duncan McCue previews his new podcast Kuper Island, an investigation into the dark past of a BC residential school of the same name, and the people who survived it.
The Early Edition's Melody Jacobson visits the Yarrow Intergenerational Society's biweekly exercise class at the Sun Wah Centre in Chinatown -- a class for both seniors AND youth.
In a bid to ease the pressure of soaring gas prices, BC Green Party leader Sonia Furstenau is calling on the province to making public transit free for the next four months.
Adrienne McBride of the BCSPCA says their shelters have a surplus of small animals like rats, rabbits, lizards or birds -- and she makes the case for why you might want to adopt one instead of a dog or cat.
The Globe and Mail's Kristy Kirkup lays out the federal government's newly announced climate change adaptation plan, and the shift it marks from preventing climate change to living with it.
Vancouver police say the death of 24-year-old Chelsea Poorman was "not suspicious," but Union of BC Indian Chiefs president Grand Chief Stewart Phillip says their "callous" handling of the case -- in which Poorman's body was found 15 months after she first went missing -- is another illustration of the VPD's "dismissive" attitude toward Indigenous people.
What do singer-songwriter Suzie Ungerleider and technical death metal singer Oli Peters of Archspire have in common? They're both from BC, they're both nominated for Junos this weekend -- and they both love Colter Wall.
The Early Edition's Vivian Luk gets a sneak peak inside this weekend's sold out Vancouver Hong Kong Fair from organizers Heiky Kwan and Esther Yuen.
Parenting is hard enough as it is, but the ongoing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic has many moms feeling their anger and frustration spill over. The Early Edition's Vivian Luk -- a new mom herself -- explores "mom rage" and some of the stigma associated with moms expressing those feelings.
The Globe and Mail's Justine Hunter and the CBC's Belle Puri discuss the week in BC politics, including premier John Horgan's first visit to the controversial Site C dam construction site, and the lengthy rebuilding process in the town of Lytton after it was destroyed by fire last summer.
After an unprecedented "heat dome" killed almost 600 people in BC last summer, the City of Burnaby is already preparing its cooling centres for the possibility of more extreme heat this summer.
It has been an unseasonable cool and wet spring on the South Coast -- a trend that Environment and Climate Change Canada senior climatologist David Phillips predicts may continue well into the summer months.
Urban Native Youth Association president Matthew Norris says a recently approved Indigenous centre to be built at East Hastings Street and Commercial Drive will provide space for education support, training, traditional ceremonies and more.
A new exhibit at UBC's Museum of Anthropology, gives an inside look at the contributions of Latin Americans to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and beyond. Curator Greta de León takes us inside "Xicanx: Dreamers and Changemakers."
Annette Henry, a professor in UBC's Department of Language and Literacy Education, explains the findings of her new study into the alienation Black people face in Canadian academic institutions -- including issues that start as early as high school.
After stumbling across a box of free CDs, Early Edition reporter Lisa Christiansen started wondering: as vinyl sales continue to surge, could the compact disc ever see a similar resurgence?
The CBC's Jason Proctor explains the legal gymnastics that allowed an $18-million mansion -- once rented by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, and associated with Russian billionaire Yuri Milner -- to be sold without paying property transfer tax, or the foreign buyers' tax.
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Great interviews. Stephen asks hard, but fair questions. Wai Young is shown to be untrustworthy when she won't say where she gets her "facts" (alternative facts) from.