The Pulse on CFRO
Vancouver Co-op Radio's independent daily news show — reporting on the front lines in our community on Coast Salish territories, Weekdays starting 7 a.m. on 100.5fm in Vancouver, and podcasting at thepulse.coopradio.org. Our reporters bring you interviews with community leaders and essential updates during Covid-19. Theme song: 'Iodine' is used with permission of Hannah Epperson.
Episodes
December 6, 2021 • 28 mins
The Pulse's John Zee speaks with Maegan Fox and Bobby Nikkhah from Street Saviours Outreach Society. facebook.com/VancouverStreetSaviours
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December 1, 2021 • 59 mins
Today, The Pulse interviews Dallas Arcand. Plus, a recent episode of the CBC Front Burner podcast.
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December 1, 2021 • 26 mins
The Pulse's Gunargie O'Sullivan talks to Dallas Arcand, three-time world champion hoop dancer, musician, and motivational speaker from the Alexander (Kipohtakaw) Plains Cree Nation near Edmonton, Alberta.
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November 29, 2021 • 25 mins
The Pulse's John Zee speaks with Marie Babisky and Carlyle Natrail from the Aboriginal Front Door Society. A culturally safe, peer-designed and non-judgemental meeting place for Aboriginal Peoples and their friends and family in the Downtown Eastside."
Aboriginal Front Door Society
https://abfrontdoor.org/
(604) 697-5662
Aboriginal Front Door Society
https://abfrontdoor.org/
(604) 697-5662
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November 29, 2021 • 59 mins
Today on The Pulse, a look at the Aboriginal Front Door Society. We also play a recent episode of WINGS, the Women's International News gathering Service.
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November 26, 2021 • 59 mins
Today on The Pulse, a look at the Writers' Exchange and a recent episode of Talking Radical Radio.
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November 26, 2021 • 16 mins
The Pulse's Jordan Kawchuk spoke to Jennifer MacLeod, co-founder of the Writers' Exchange, a program giving under-resourced kids a chance to realize their potential through reading and creative writing.
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November 25, 2021 • 23 mins
The Pulse talks with Marika Albert, Policy Director for the BC Non-profit Housing Association, about Canada's new Minister for housing, last week's affordable housing conference, and the recent flooding and landslides in Southern BC.
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November 24, 2021 • 58 mins
Today, The Pulse looks at 'The People's Budget,' presented by the defund 604 Network and we play a recent episode of the CBC Front Burner podcast.
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November 24, 2021 • 24 mins
The Pulse talks to Laurel Albina, from the Defund 604 Network and Meenakshi Mannoe, from PIVOT Legal, about 'The People's Budget,' a movement to defund policing in Vancouver in order to create safe, healthy, and sustainable communities.
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November 23, 2021 • 58 mins
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November 23, 2021 • 16 mins
Andrea Alfred, bodybuilder
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November 22, 2021 • 59 mins
Today on the show, reporter James Mainguy talks with MLA Melanie Mark about issues confronting the DTES, the B.C. floods, and the recent deaths of Lillian Howard and Lee Maracle, two prominent and influential Indigenous women.
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November 22, 2021 • 21 mins
Today on the show, reporter James Mainguy talks with MLA Melanie Mark about issues confronting the DTES, the B.C. floods, and the recent deaths of Lillian Howard and Lee Maracle, two prominent and influential Indigenous women.
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November 18, 2021 • 58 mins
The Pulse talks with Kelsey Timler, a Ph.D. candidate at UBC, and a facilitator at Megaphone Magazine's writer's workshop. A workshop that produced the stories used in Incarcerated: Truth in the Shadows, a shadow play recently featured at the Heart of the City Festival and now archived on the festival's website, heartofthecityfestival.com
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November 18, 2021 • 27 mins
The Pulse talks with Kelsey Timler, a Ph.D. candidate at UBC, and a facilitator at Megaphone Magazine's writer's workshop. A workshop that produced the stories used in Incarcerated: Truth in the Shadows, a shadow play recently featured at the Heart of the City Festival and now archived on the festival's website, heartofthecityfestival.com
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November 17, 2021 • 58 mins
On The Pulse today, Angela Marie MacDougall of Battered Women's Support Services, and a recent episode of the CBC Front Burner podcast.
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November 17, 2021 • 25 mins
The Pulse talks to Angela Marie MacDougall, Executive Director of Battered Women's Support Services (BWSS). She talks about "Colour of Violence," their newly begun, multi-year examination of violence against racialized women in B.C.
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November 16, 2021 • 59 mins
On The Pulse, we'll listen to the 2020 Margaret Laurence Lecture delivered by acclaimed Stó:lō writer, Lee Maracle, who passed away last week. We'll also listen to a recent interview from Redeye, Co-op Radio's long-running public affairs show.
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