Podcasts about Burnaby Mountain

Wow! Tap in today! Mitch sits down with a young up-and-coming coach, former D2 hooper and huge Lil Wayne fan, Mike Provenzano! Mike and his family have deep roots in the Ontario hoops scene and the sport has been in his blood for a long time. Growing up he would follow his dad to practices and games finding a love for the game that would never go away. At a young age Mike started to realize he could be pretty good at hoops and began to enjoy the daily grind of improving. Once he reached his high school years he decided to transfer to North Carolina and try ball south of the border. This experience let him compete against many future D1 and NBA players, finding himself stacking up against the competition. As high school started to wind down the decision of where to go came up, and Mike had his heart set on being a D1 player, even to the point of dropping the game forever if he couldn't get there! In the end after a redshirt year at a D2 he made the choice to go back to a school that originally recruited him, SFU. Mike had a great career up on Burnaby Mountain which led to a couple years overseas. From there his coaching journey began, with a former AHJ guest taking a chance on hiring him to being a student assistant now at Michigan State the story is great! Lots more to come for Mike and his future, all the best as he continues to work! Tap in! Mike Provenzano - Guest https://www.lightningbasketball.ca/sports/mbkb/coaches/Michael_Provenzano https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-provenzano-05550a292 Aaron Mitchell - Host Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/a_a_mitch/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ahoopsjourney/ Website: https://www.ahoopsjourney.com/

Much of B.C. is bracing for snow, rain and strong winds today and tomorrow. We hear from CBC Reporter Joel Ballard at Simon Fraser University on Burnaby Mountain; check in on winter driving with Mitch Verge, Skaha Ford's service manager in Penticton; and get a weather update from CBC Vancouver's Climate and science specialist Darius Mahdavi. In our second segment we get a different forecast, that of interest rates and mortgages in 2024. We speak with Desjardins's Chief Economist and Strategist Jimmy Jean, and mortgage professional Katy Mackenzie with The Mortgage Group.

The present state of BC politics - where do the BC NDP stand? GUEST: David Coletto, Founder, Chair and CEO of Abacus Data Pushback against the Burnaby Mountain Gondola continues GUEST: Christine Cunningham, member of No Gondola! Group  One-on-one with Premier David Eby GUEST: David Eby, Premier of BC Recapping Jas' one-on-one with Premier David Eby GUEST: Keith Baldrey, Global BC Legislative Reporter The Energy Futures Initiative GUEST: Barry Penner, Former Environment Minister of BC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pushback against the Burnaby Mountain Gondola continues. Guest: Christine Cunningham - member of No Gondola! Group  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For Episode 101 of A Hoops Journey, we have current SFU Women's Assistant Coach Nayo Raincock-Ekunwe! The Toronto-born BC native joins us to chat about her journey from Ontario, to UBC, back to Ontario, then to Vernon and up Burnaby Mountain at SFU! She details her path through the Canada Women's National Team, playing in Switzerland, what it felt like to represent Canada at the Olympics and the FISU games, her time playing for the New York Liberty of the WNBA and so much more; Goonies, Ed Sheeran, Beyonce - all that and more on this episode!

Port of Vancouver truckers vote for job action to protest phaseout of older vehicles Gagan Singh, Spokesperson for the United Truckers Association says the truckers will effectively shut down the Port of Vancouver if the Port goes ahead with the rolling-truck age program. Metro Vancouver Mayors' Council approves 10-year transportation plan which includes Burnaby SFU gondola The Metro Vancouver Mayors' Council recently approved a 10-year transportation plan for the region.  And that plan includes the hotly contested Burnaby Mountain gondola.  For over 10 years, a local group called “No Gondola!” has been campaigning against its creation.  Our show contributor Jawn Jang checked in with their spokesperson Christine Cunningham to get her reaction to this development. Are airlines fulfilling their legal obligations to passengers as more airport horror stories are head? Gabor Lukacs, Founder, airpassengerrights.ca says there is potential for a class-action lawsuit put against Canadian airlines.  How are BC ferry cancellations affecting island tourism? Leonard Krog, Mayor of Nanaimo discusses how B.C. Ferry cancellations have impacted tourism on Vancouver Island. Plus. why he thinks B.C. Ferry ships should be built locally.  Reclaiming Asian Names through Microsoft Word Zoe Si, Ambassador for Elimin8Hate and prominent Asian Canadian artist and entertainer discusses a new way for Microsoft Word to recognize a variety of Asian Names, rather than underlining as an error. 

The Metro Vancouver Mayors' Council recently approved a 10-year transportation plan for the region.  And that plan includes the hotly contested Burnaby Mountain gondola.  For over 10 years, a local group called “No Gondola!” has been campaigning against its creation.  Our show contributor Jawn Jang checked in with their spokesperson Christine Cunningham to get her reaction to this development.

Jean Charest's political platform: plans to permit more private health care services Jean Charest, former Quebec Premier and current federal Conservative party leader hopeful, discusses his political platform. Translink proposes new gondola up Burnaby Mountain to SFU Christine Cunningham of No Gondola! Group discusses the group's concerns over the proposed SFU gondola in Burnaby.  The Jas Johal Show Political Forum On the Political Forum this week:  Mary Polak -  Strategic Advisor at Maple Leaf Strategies and former MLA of British Columbia Sandy Garossino, Public Affairs Columnist for Canada's National Observer and former Crown Prosecutor Angry commuters attempt to physically remove Save Old Growth protestors blocking traffic on Ironworkers Bridge Jas Johal and CKNW Contributor Jawn Jang discuss this morning's protest where Save Old Growth protestors blocked traffic on the Ironworkers Bridge during rush hour. Plus, your calls! - Is shutting down bridge traffic an effective way to protest? Are you more or less supportive of their cause following this week's traffic protests? New low-income housing coming to Kitsilano for people at risk of homelessness Cheryl Grant and Karen Finnan of the Kitsilano Coalition discuss their concerns with the new low-income housing project coming to their neighbourhood  Pierre Poilievre political platform: improving housing markets Federal Conservative party leader hopeful, Pierre Poilievre discusses more making housing more affordable in Canada. 

Christine Cunningham of No Gondola! Group discusses the group's concerns over the proposed SFU gondola in Burnaby. 

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: In this episode, host Megan Cole talks to Shaena Lambert, author of Petra. Petra won the 2021 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. In their conversation Shaena talks about how she met Petra Kelly and how growing up in Horseshoe Bay helped her write about Berlin and Germany. ABOUT SHAENA LAMBERT: Shaena Lambert is the author of the novel, Radiance and two books of stories, Oh, My Darling and The Falling Woman – all of which were Globe and Mail best books of the year. Her fiction has been published to critical acclaim in Canada, the UK and Germany and has been nominated for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the Evergreen Award, the Danuta Gleed Award and the Frank O'Connor Award for the Short Story. Her stories have been chosen four times for Best Canadian Stories, and have appeared in many publications, including The Walrus, Zoetrope: All Story, Ploughshares, The Journey Prize Anthology and Toronto Life. A dedicated environmentalist and climate activist, Shaena was arrested twice on Burnaby Mountain for crossing a police barrier, to protest the building of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline from the Alberta tar sands, and continues to actively oppose oil pipelines, logging of old growth, and other policies leading to climate change and environmental destruction. Her most recent novel is PETRA, inspired by the activist and green party founder Petra Kelly who changed history and transformed environmental politics, only to find herself caught up in a triangle of love, jealousy and murder. Lambert lives in Vancouver with her family. ABOUT MEGAN COLE: Megan Cole the Director of Programming and Communications for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes. She is also a writer based on the territory of the Tla'amin Nation. Megan writes creative nonfiction and has had essays published in The Puritan, Untethered, Invisible publishing's invisiblog, This Magazine and more. She has her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of King's College and is working her first book titled Head Over Feet: The Lasting Heartache of First Loves. Find out more about Megan at megancolewriter.com ABOUT THE PODCAST: Writing the Coast is recorded and produced on the traditional territory of the Tla'amin Nation. As a settler on these lands, Megan Cole finds opportunities to learn and listen to the stories from those whose land was stolen. Writing the Coast is a recorded series of conversations, readings, and insights into the work of the writers, illustrators, and creators whose books are nominated for the annual BC and Yukon Book Prizes. We'll also check in on people in the writing community who are supporting books, writers and readers every day. The podcast is produced and hosted by Megan Cole.

In today's program we continue our series on the conservation of humanity, furthering our exploration of the wuhan flu covid-19 scamdemic, focusing on a detailed cost to benefit analysis of the lockdown measures in Canada. Joining us today is Dr Douglas Allen. Dr. Allen is an economics professor at the Burnaby Mountain campus of Simon Fraser University. His research in the field of Institutional Economics spans four main areas: transaction cost theory, agriculture, family, and history. He is the author of two popular undergraduate microeconomic theory textbooks, several other academic books, and over 70 articles. His most recent book, The Institutional Revolution: Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World, won the ISNIE 2014 Douglas C. North Award for the best Institutional Economics book published in the past two years. Since 2004 Prof Allen has been a senior consultant for Delta Economics Group in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he provides consulting on cases related to family law, discrimination, intellectual property, and anti-trust matters He has also lectured internationally at several colleges and universities, including the Giblin lecture at the University of Tasmania, and the Janis Lecture at Brown University. To learn more about Prof Allen's recent report or his work in general, please visit: https://www.sfu.ca/~allen/LockdownReport.pdf http://www.sfu.ca/~allen/

Below the Radar checks in with Simon Fraser University’s recently installed president and vice-chancellor, Joy Johnson. Stepping into her new role in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Joy speaks to how SFU is working to meet the current challenges it is facing, from adapting to online learning and an added strain on mental health, to addressing systemic racism and inequality within the university and beyond. In this episode, Joy shares her vision for a more equitable, inclusive, and connected SFU, centering the student experience and community partnerships. We hear about some of Joy’s hopes for SFU’s future medical school and the proposed Burnaby Mountain gondola. She also speaks about her background as a nurse and public health researcher interested in the social determinants of health.

On today's show: Should certain indoor spaces be closed ahead of schools reopening? Frustrated Point Roberts property owners hold rally at border B.C. government faces backlash over Dr. Bonnie Henry back-to-school ad Consultation starts this week on Burnaby Mountain gondola project Vancouver aquarium announces closure

Roy L Hales/News Update - The internationally recognized novelist Shaena Lambert recently visited Marnie's Books, on Cortes Island. Four of works have been chosen for Best Canadian stories and the Globe and Mail recognised three of her previous novels as books of the year. Lambert is also a dedicated environmentalist, who was arrested twice during the Burnaby Mountain protests, and continues to actively oppose oil pipelines and logging of old growth. In the most recent Folk U Friday radio program,  the Vancouver novelist explained why she chose to to launch her new novel on Cortes Island.

TSN 1040 BC Lions game analyst and SFU alum Giulio Caravatta says that it's time for Simon Fraser to change the schools nickname, and that it's been a topic of discussion going back to his playing days on Burnaby Mountain. Caravatta also wonders how CFL players in the United States are going to be able to get into Canada with how out of control the coronavirus pandemic is down south.

Teeth cleaning, knee surgery, plastic surgery, organ transplants, and a miscellany of other medical services can all be acquired overseas...for a price! Medical tourism is the practice of crossing borders in order to receive medical care. In some ways, it is an ancient practice. But, in an era of deep public investments in health care services in rich and poor countries alike there comes risks, opportunities, and consequences for all involved. In this episode of GDP we are joined by Dr. Valorie Crooks whose research explores the complex dynamics of medical tourism. Recorded on top of Burnaby Mountain at Simon Fraser University, she chats with Dr. Bob about why medical tourism may not be a healthy choice. Dr. Valorie Crooks completed her PhD at McMaster University in 2005. The following year she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at York University. Since 2006 she has been a faculty member in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University. Dr. Crooks currently hold the Canada Research Chair in Health Service Geographies and she also holds a Scholar Award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. Dr. Crooks is a health geographer by training. As such, she is interested in the spatial and place-based dimensions of health and health care. She broadly conceives of herself as a health services researcher, and have an ongoing interest in understanding lived experiences of accessing needed/wanted health and social care services. Because of this experiential focus, she primarily engages in non-hypothesis-testing qualitative research, or lead qualitative components of mixed-methods studies. Her research interests are best characterized by four areas of inquiry: (1) disability and chronic illness; (2) primary health care; (3) palliative health and social care; and (4) medical tourism. She has received funding from numerous agencies, and especially the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, to pursue collaborative projects in each of these areas. Follow Dr. Bob on Twitter: @ProfessorHuish

As part of Spill Response the artist Jay White organized a guided walk on October 18, 2019 with poet Rita Wong, streamkeeper John Preissl, and Jim Leyden along the proposed Kinder Morgan Pipeline, noting the streams and rivers affected by proposed and ongoing construction.Their work is part of the grassroots collective Mountain Protectors that includes elders and volunteers who strive to uphold the natural laws of the land by monitoring the construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. They are based out of and around, Kwekwecnewtxw, the traditional Coast Salish Watch House on Burnaby Mountain, and they constitute a vigilant presence on the Mountain motivated by a decolonial ethos that recognizes our shared responsibility to the lands and waters we live on and around. (Photo: Rachel Topham)

Thanks for joining us for another episode of Varsity Letters — The Podcast!   Basketball season is just around the corner and with it, the start of another season of the NCAA variety atop Burnaby Mountain. Simon Fraser Clan head coach Steve Hanson has orchestrated one of the biggest turnarounds in college basketball over the past few seasons and he joins host Howard Tsumura right off the top to talk about an exciting new season ahead in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.   The VL Pod then heads off to Cloverdale for a chance to talk high school football with Lord Tweedsmuir head coach Kurt Thornton. So many great things have happened for the Panthers’ program over the past few years, and we talk with coach Thornton about it all, from players to coaches to the new setting in place this season for LT home games!   And to close things, Rob Sollero, coach of the senior boys basketball team at Coquitlam’s Centennial Secondary, chats about the momentum built from his program’s return to the B.C. AAAA tournament last March and all the good things in store this season.   Varsity Letters is Canada’s only podcast devoted solely to provincial high school and university sports. You can catch us wherever you listen to podcast, including Apple Music (formerly iTunes) and Spotify.

It's back! With Trans Mountain gearing up for construction again, we're launching season two of our Line in the Sand podcast. This week, we’re talking to the environmental monitors who’ve been keeping a watchful eye on the company’s work at the tank farm on Burnaby Mountain. Join us over the coming weeks and months for more stories from the frontlines of the fight against the Trans Mountain pipeline.

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A disturbing discovery on a Burnaby Mountain trail on Saturday. Jeff Curr was walking his two rescue dogs along the North Road trail at around 4:30pm, when he noticed his husky cross, Murphy, had something in her mouth. A closer look revealed it was a piece of raw beef, with at least 12 sewing needles stuck in it. Fortunately, Murphy dropped the meat after a few moments. Curr put it in a doggie waste bag, noticing the meat was also stuffed with corn, peppercorns, and cranberries. Burnaby RCMP say they were alerted to the situation but aren't saying anything else about an investigation.   Guest: Jeff Curr His dog began eating the baited meat

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It's an idea that's been floated for quite awhile now: a gondola service that would take passengers from the Expo and Millennium lines on the SkyTrain, up to Simon Fraser University on Burnaby Mountain. It would cost around $200 million to build. Support for the project has been growing - and it has a new advocate today in the Burnaby Board of Trade. Their CEO, Paul Holden, has written to Burnaby City Council, asking that the consultation between the city and Translink moves along to the next stage, so that the project can go forward. Just before we came on air, Paul Holden joined me in studio to tell us why he supports the Burnaby Mountain gondola.   Guest: Paul Holden CEO, Burnaby Board of Trade

The snow and icy road conditions have made the morning commute brutal for thousands. Simon Fraser University has cancelled morning classes because the Gaglardi Way hill on Burnaby Mountain has been blocked by police, and there have been a number of crashes that have snarled traffic throughout the region. Guest: Mark Madryga Global BC Chief Meteorologist

“You don’t hold referendums in small communities on a case-by-case basis—you do what you were elected to do, and make difficult decisions for the greater good.”For anyone following politics in Metro Vancouver these days, this is become the sentiment of some in the planning profession. It’s a message about (and even directed towards, even if not in so many words) the many new, inexperienced members of council in city halls across the region proposing, and making decisions about, the very real housing and development challenges in all of our backyards.It’s also quite possibly parting shots from the Baby Boomer professional class that, by some measures, could be implicated as much of the source of our current housing and transportation problems in the first place. But not Chuck Brook and Gordon Harris — these are the guys walking the talk.Brook, former heritage planner in Winnipeg, and then senior development planner for the City of Vancouver during the tail-end of the Ray Spaxman era, is an ardent supporter of what’s often called “infill projects” — the re-development and, often more efficient, use of existing land in an urban environment, for greater density and mixed use. Brook himself is notorious for the relentless pursuit of greater FSR; his career is marked by consistent efforts to increase the amount of liveable floor space that can be developed on a piece of land, relative to that overall footprint. When you think of changing the scope and character of a neighbourhood to accommodate more people, this is your man.Harris is President and CEO of SFU Community Trust, which oversees UniverCity, the award-winning sustainable community next to the Burnaby Mountain campus. It’s just one of the many projects—some global in nature, many familiar to residents of Metro Vancouver as part of daily life—for which his team has provided planning, market analysis and strategic development consulting work, as part of a similarly persistent approach to sustainable urban development.They’ve both also contributed to their local communities in countless other ways, and they’re almost ready to move along. But not before they spend the better part of the next decade or two trying to solve the now classic problem: who’s going to be living in this place in 2030? In 2050? What will they need? How do we build that society today, in such a way that, beyond not exacerbating current problems, we might actually mitigate or (in some way) resolve some of the very, very bad problems likely coming our way?And does incrementalism mean changing the what we develop, or the way we develop it?In this episode, Gord gets Brook and Harris to unwrap “the pill we have to swallow”, with some pointed words for the District of North Vancouver.**NOTE: Audio quality improves at 13mins** Read more »

Faced with tuition caps and declining government grants, public colleges and universities are becoming more entrepreneurial and seeking alternative revenue streams, often by selling off surplus campus lands to developers, or leasing campus space for retail or residential development. Simon Fraser University, built in a conservation area atop Burnaby Mountain just a 30-minute drive from downtown Vancouver, took its unique geographic opportunity and turned it into an exercise in city-building, literally “moving mountains” to establish a complete, walkable and almost self-sufficient town adjacent to its campus. In previous visits to campus, we learned about SFU’s community engagement strategy (https://youtu.be/EGWvfBqJEGs ) and the many ways in which the University uses its campuses in Vancouver, Surrey and Burnaby to build communities (https://youtu.be/dujezn6_afg ). This week, Ken Steele talks with SFU president Andrew Petter, and SFU Community Trust CEO Gordon Harris, about “UniverCity,” a development that is creating affordable housing for 10,000 people, adding two dozen shops and services for the campus community, generating a $90-million endowment for the institution, and exploring new frontiers in environmental and economic sustainability. Built “in splendid isolation” atop Burnaby Mountain in 1965, SFU wanted to engage with community – but in this case, had to build its own community from scratch. The University negotiated with the municipality to transfer its zoning density from the entire mountain to a much smaller 65-acre parcel adjacent to campus, and built a suburban community with urban density, largely on lands formerly occupied by student parking lots.  When fully complete, UniverCity will be home to almost 10,000 people, in apartment-style condos and stacked townhomes that meet the most ambitious environmental sustainability goals on the continent. UniverCity has won more than 30 national and international sustainability awards, including for its comprehensive stormwater management system. All developers aim to be 45% more energy efficient and 68% more water efficient than a typical code building, in order to quality for additional density. Many buildings have rainwater harvesting systems, solar arrays or geothermal heating. A new district energy system will use biomass to provide heat and hot water to two dozen buildings, in UniverCity and on the SFU campus. UniverCity’s $3 million Childcare Centre is the “greenest childcare on the planet,” and will soon have earned Living Building Challenge certification as a building that generates more energy than it uses, harvests more water than it uses, and is built from recycled and local materials. (It will be the first in Western Canada.) UniverCity also strives for economic sustainability, creating affordable housing to help SFU attract faculty, staff, students and their families. (About half of the residents are affiliated with the University, and almost half have young children.) SFU leased some of the land to developers like VanCity at a 30% discount, so that residential units could be sold at a 20% discount in perpetuity (such as the "Verdant" townhomes). Standalone “green mortgages” amortize the cost of environmental upgrades separately from the purchase price of units. As urban planner Harris explains, “if it isn’t economic, it isn’t sustainable.” UniverCity had to provide more than just housing to its residents: it needed to establish all the infrastructure of a small town, including restaurants, a grocery story, pharmacy, childcare centre, an elementary school, and soon a medical centre.  Residents also have access to campus facilities next door, including fitness and aquatic centres, art gallery, library and bookstore – and in return, the campus community can access shops and services in UniverCity. Someday it may also have an active seniors facility, where alumni and others could move in retirement. The community has added life and vitality to the SFU campus, as well as $15 million worth of new infrastructure, from a town square to the new heating facility and underground pipelines. Ultimately, the UniverCity endowment will support teaching and research at SFU “for the rest of time.” Thanks again to Andrew Petter, Gordon Harris, and the SFU videographers who made this episode possible. To learn more about UniverCity, visit http://univercity.ca, watch this beautiful documentary by France’s EchoLogis https://youtu.be/jDdSaGcQvQw, or read Gordon Harris’ new book, Building Community: Defining, Designing, Developing UniverCityhttps://living-future.org/product/building-community-book/  You can subscribe free to 10K by email or on any of a dozen channels: see http://eduvation.ca/subscribe/ for links. And if you would like to host a 10K Site Visit at your campus, see http://eduvation.ca/twk/site-visits/ for further information!

Faced with tuition caps and declining government grants, public colleges and universities are becoming more entrepreneurial and seeking alternative revenue streams, often by selling off surplus campus lands to developers, or leasing campus space for retail or residential development. Simon Fraser University, built in a conservation area atop Burnaby Mountain just a 30-minute drive from downtown Vancouver, took its unique geographic opportunity and turned it into an exercise in city-building, literally “moving mountains” to establish a complete, walkable and almost self-sufficient town adjacent to its campus. In previous visits to campus, we learned about SFU’s community engagement strategy (https://youtu.be/EGWvfBqJEGs ) and the many ways in which the University uses its campuses in Vancouver, Surrey and Burnaby to build communities (https://youtu.be/dujezn6_afg ). This week, Ken Steele talks with SFU president Andrew Petter, and SFU Community Trust CEO Gordon Harris, about “UniverCity,” a development that is creating affordable housing for 10,000 people, adding two dozen shops and services for the campus community, generating a $90-million endowment for the institution, and exploring new frontiers in environmental and economic sustainability. Built “in splendid isolation” atop Burnaby Mountain in 1965, SFU wanted to engage with community – but in this case, had to build its own community from scratch. The University negotiated with the municipality to transfer its zoning density from the entire mountain to a much smaller 65-acre parcel adjacent to campus, and built a suburban community with urban density, largely on lands formerly occupied by student parking lots.  When fully complete, UniverCity will be home to almost 10,000 people, in apartment-style condos and stacked townhomes that meet the most ambitious environmental sustainability goals on the continent. UniverCity has won more than 30 national and international sustainability awards, including for its comprehensive stormwater management system. All developers aim to be 45% more energy efficient and 68% more water efficient than a typical code building, in order to quality for additional density. Many buildings have rainwater harvesting systems, solar arrays or geothermal heating. A new district energy system will use biomass to provide heat and hot water to two dozen buildings, in UniverCity and on the SFU campus. UniverCity’s $3 million Childcare Centre is the “greenest childcare on the planet,” and will soon have earned Living Building Challenge certification as a building that generates more energy than it uses, harvests more water than it uses, and is built from recycled and local materials. (It will be the first in Western Canada.) UniverCity also strives for economic sustainability, creating affordable housing to help SFU attract faculty, staff, students and their families. (About half of the residents are affiliated with the University, and almost half have young children.) SFU leased some of the land to developers like VanCity at a 30% discount, so that residential units could be sold at a 20% discount in perpetuity (such as the "Verdant" townhomes). Standalone “green mortgages” amortize the cost of environmental upgrades separately from the purchase price of units. As urban planner Harris explains, “if it isn’t economic, it isn’t sustainable.” UniverCity had to provide more than just housing to its residents: it needed to establish all the infrastructure of a small town, including restaurants, a grocery story, pharmacy, childcare centre, an elementary school, and soon a medical centre.  Residents also have access to campus facilities next door, including fitness and aquatic centres, art gallery, library and bookstore – and in return, the campus community can access shops and services in UniverCity. Someday it may also have an active seniors facility, where alumni and others could move in retirement. The community has added life and vitality to the SFU campus, as well as $15 million worth of new infrastructure, from a town square to the new heating facility and underground pipelines. Ultimately, the UniverCity endowment will support teaching and research at SFU “for the rest of time.” Thanks again to Andrew Petter, Gordon Harris, and the SFU videographers who made this episode possible. To learn more about UniverCity, visit http://univercity.ca, watch this beautiful documentary by France’s EchoLogis https://youtu.be/jDdSaGcQvQw, or read Gordon Harris’ new book, Building Community: Defining, Designing, Developing UniverCityhttps://living-future.org/product/building-community-book/  You can subscribe free to 10K by email or on any of a dozen channels: see http://eduvation.ca/subscribe/ for links. And if you would like to host a 10K Site Visit at your campus, see http://eduvation.ca/twk/site-visits/ for further information!

Simon Fraser University is committed to community engagement, so much so that its campus master plan and infrastructure is focused on building communities, in Vancouver, Surrey, and on Burnaby Mountain. SFU is literally setting its vision in stone! Last week 10K looked at how SFU’s Engagement Strategy has been socialized across the institution, reinforcing efforts at community-based research, cultural engagement, public events and even April Fool’s videos. (ICYMI, check out “Embracing Engagement at SFU” - https://youtu.be/EGWvfBqJEGs ). In this episode, we look at SFU’s “concrete” commitment to engagement, manifested in its campus infrastructure: Science Plaza Although SFU has no Astronomy department, it has constructed the Trottier Observatory on its Burnaby Mountain campus. Several times a month, hundreds of people from the community gather for “Starry Nights” stargazing, and the Science Courtyard incorporates architectural elements to convey a love for science. Ken speaks with Howard Trottier, SFU Physics professor, and founder of the Starry Nights program. SFU Surrey SFU opened a major campus in suburban Surrey’s city centre, which is driving the development of a major metropolitan centre from scratch. The main building, designed by Bing Thom, brings together a university, a shopping centre, and an office tower in a mixed-use concept sometimes called “Vancouverism” – and that mixed-use concept is a good metaphor for SFU’s vision of the “Engaged University.” Ken speaks with SFU president Andrew Petter, and VP External Joanne Curry, who for 12 years led the development of the Surrey campus. Downtown Vancouver SFU also has the largest presence in downtown Vancouver, including the Segal Graduate School of Business, the RADIUS social innovation incubator, the Harbour Centre, and the Centre for Dialogue. Ken speaks with Shauna Sylvester, the director of the Centre for Dialogue, about the beautiful purpose-built facility and its unique Asia-Pacific Hall. SFU Woodsworth’s In the heart of Vancouver’s downtown eastside, SFU constructed a new School for Contemporary Arts in a former landmark, Woodsworth’s Department Store. The development was a vision of Michael Stevenson, former SFU president, to revitalize a troubled region of social and political tension, and built community relationships through music, culture and the arts. Ken speaks with Howard Jang, then the director of the SFU Woodsworth’s Cultural Unit, and Am Johal, the director of SFU’s VanCity Office of Community Engagement. SFU UniverCity The most remarkable example of SFU’s community-building is the 65-acre UniverCity development atop Burnaby Mountain, adjacent to its main campus. While the university had a land grant over much of the mountain, they asked the municipality to compress the density of that land grant to a much smaller area. The result is a small town that will ultimately be home to 10,000 people, and some of the world’s most sustainable architecture and community infrastructure. Ken speaks with Gordon Harris, CEO of the SFU Community Trust, which manages the UniverCity development. 10K will revisit SFU’s UniverCity project, the RADIUS incubator, the Science Plaza, the Centre for Dialogue and more in future episodes. To be sure you don’t miss them, please take a moment now to subscribe! http://eduvation.ca/subscribe/ And stay tuned for some bloopers at the end of this episode!

Simon Fraser University is committed to community engagement, so much so that its campus master plan and infrastructure is focused on building communities, in Vancouver, Surrey, and on Burnaby Mountain. SFU is literally setting its vision in stone! Last week 10K looked at how SFU’s Engagement Strategy has been socialized across the institution, reinforcing efforts at community-based research, cultural engagement, public events and even April Fool’s videos. (ICYMI, check out “Embracing Engagement at SFU” - https://youtu.be/EGWvfBqJEGs ). In this episode, we look at SFU’s “concrete” commitment to engagement, manifested in its campus infrastructure: Science Plaza Although SFU has no Astronomy department, it has constructed the Trottier Observatory on its Burnaby Mountain campus. Several times a month, hundreds of people from the community gather for “Starry Nights” stargazing, and the Science Courtyard incorporates architectural elements to convey a love for science. Ken speaks with Howard Trottier, SFU Physics professor, and founder of the Starry Nights program. SFU Surrey SFU opened a major campus in suburban Surrey’s city centre, which is driving the development of a major metropolitan centre from scratch. The main building, designed by Bing Thom, brings together a university, a shopping centre, and an office tower in a mixed-use concept sometimes called “Vancouverism” – and that mixed-use concept is a good metaphor for SFU’s vision of the “Engaged University.” Ken speaks with SFU president Andrew Petter, and VP External Joanne Curry, who for 12 years led the development of the Surrey campus. Downtown Vancouver SFU also has the largest presence in downtown Vancouver, including the Segal Graduate School of Business, the RADIUS social innovation incubator, the Harbour Centre, and the Centre for Dialogue. Ken speaks with Shauna Sylvester, the director of the Centre for Dialogue, about the beautiful purpose-built facility and its unique Asia-Pacific Hall. SFU Woodsworth’s In the heart of Vancouver’s downtown eastside, SFU constructed a new School for Contemporary Arts in a former landmark, Woodsworth’s Department Store. The development was a vision of Michael Stevenson, former SFU president, to revitalize a troubled region of social and political tension, and built community relationships through music, culture and the arts. Ken speaks with Howard Jang, then the director of the SFU Woodsworth’s Cultural Unit, and Am Johal, the director of SFU’s VanCity Office of Community Engagement. SFU UniverCity The most remarkable example of SFU’s community-building is the 65-acre UniverCity development atop Burnaby Mountain, adjacent to its main campus. While the university had a land grant over much of the mountain, they asked the municipality to compress the density of that land grant to a much smaller area. The result is a small town that will ultimately be home to 10,000 people, and some of the world’s most sustainable architecture and community infrastructure. Ken speaks with Gordon Harris, CEO of the SFU Community Trust, which manages the UniverCity development. 10K will revisit SFU’s UniverCity project, the RADIUS incubator, the Science Plaza, the Centre for Dialogue and more in future episodes. To be sure you don’t miss them, please take a moment now to subscribe! http://eduvation.ca/subscribe/ And stay tuned for some bloopers at the end of this episode!

An hour-long investigation into efforts in recent years to resist the Trans Mountain Pipeline and its world. Our first interview is with an anarchist who participated in an anti-pipeline camp on Burnaby Mountain in 2014. Our second interview is with Kanahus Manuel, a Secwepemc woman currently involved in the struggle against the pipeline which runs through her territory. Links: Wreck: A Vancouver Anarchist Publication Defend the Territory by Warrior Publications Secwepemcul'ecw Assembly Tiny House Warriors Facebook Page Tiny House Warriors GoFundMe Unsettling Canada by Arthur Manuel

After headlines from Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, Democracy Watch features an original audio documentary on Camp Cloud—the observation and resistance camp outside Kinder Morgan’s Tank Farm Facility on Burnaby Mountain. Reporters Alex de Boer and Zoe Power speak with Indigenous and settler activists at the camp and the nearby Coast Salish Watch House. The documentary observes the ongoing #ProtecttheInlet movement—an Indigenous lead coalition of environmental groups and activists intent on preventing Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion. Democracy Watch then turns to an interview done by CiTR's Accessibility Collective. Collective members Dezy Nair and Deepi Leihl speak with founder and former CEO of Accomable, an online marketplace for people with disabilities and senior citizens. Accomable assists those with mobility issues in finding accessible accommodations when traveling and recently entered into a partnership with Airbnb. The show ends with an impromptu conversation with News Collective comrade Rehmatullah Sheikh about his ongoing reporting on a Heiltsuk language revitalization course.

Episode 36 kicks off with a song from Roy Ayers dedicated to the water protectors and protestors currently up on Burnaby Mountain in opposition to the Kinder Morgan Pipeline expansion. Members of parliament, indigenous elders and hundreds of others are taking bold action to combat this harmful development. Visit http://protecttheinlet.ca to find out what you can do to help. Further in the programming I play some tracks from Charlotte Day Wilson, Khurangbin, Kid Frost, XL MIddleton, 2nd Son, Sven Atterton, Missy Elliott & more!The show finishes off with a word from my homie Chelsea and some of her top picks! Tune in to find out what she chose. Join us next week for another episode of Ninth Wave Radio as I approach 1 year of being on CiTR Radio!

Hundreds of thousands of high school students defy adult authority and walkout against mass shootings; anti-pipeline camps hold strong from Virginia to West Virginia to so-called British Columbia; we interview an anarchist in Brazil as protests erupt there after an anti-police brutality politician was assassinated; the annual march against police brutality in Montreal beats cops back; Russian anarchists explain in an interview why it's not just Putin that's the problem, or Trump for that matter, but the systems of power they inhabit; plus a repression round up, announcements for Saturday's international day of action to #DefendAfrin, and calls for exciting upcoming anarchist bookfairs and speaking tours. {March 21, 2018}   -------SHOW NOTES------   Table of Contents: Introduction {0:00} Headlines {1:50} Interview: anti-police brutality protests erupt in Brazil {6:47} Interview: anarchists stand up to elections and repression in Russia {15:05} Historic student walkouts roundup {21:02} Repression Roundup {26:55} Next Week's News {32:27} Download 29:30 minutes long version Youth liberation texts, possibly to be used by anti-authoritarian youth looking to connect with others at March For Our Lives events on March 24: Gun Control? No, Youth Liberation! Mass Shootings—School Walkouts—Getting Free No! Against Adult Supremacy The Child and its Enemies Youth Liberation Anarchism and Youth Liberation The Teenage Liberation Handbook Make sure to check out the new blog Cutting Class, counterinfo for the ungovernable generation. Saturday, March 24 is also the international day of solidarity to defend Afrin. Find an event near you. J20 support resources: J20 Legal Defense Fund Twitter Fed book An Open Letter to Former J20 Defendants, with useful “do”s and “don't”s Teen Vogue: The J20 Arrests and Trials, Explained Other anarchist shows mentioned in this Hotwire: Check out this video report from the March 15 demonstrations against police brutality in Montreal This video report documents some of the anti-pipeline resistance from Camp Cloud up in Burnaby Mountain, British Columbia. Check out episode 30 of The Ex-Worker to listen to an interview with Tortuga, an anarchist in Chile who openly admits to attempting to bomb a closed bank and who faced anti-terrorism charges for it. Watch this documentary about the 2010 Caso Bombas repression case in Chile. In Hotwire #21 we report on the opposition Richard Spencer and the alt-right faced in Michigan In Hotwire #19 we explain why radical social movements are better equipped to solve the problem of mass shootings than the state is In Hotwire #16 we announced Herman Bell's parole efforts Trouble #9: Learning to Resist Trouble #10: School's Out IGDcast: Mutual Aid Disaster Relief on Building Dual Power & Upcoming Tour You can read The Coming Insurrection here, we particularly enjoyed the sixth circle. We also recommend watching Glenn Beck's hilarious review of the book. Fundraising: Donate to the anti-Mountain Valley Pipeline treesitters in West Virginia. Donate here to support Alejandra Pablos, an undocumented activist in the clutches of ICE as a result of her outspokenness. You can PayPal money to support anarchists and anti-fascists facing repression in Russia through abc-msk@riseup.net. We recommend to send euros or dollars, as other currencies are automatically converted to euro according to PayPal rates.In case you need another option for money transfer, including digital crypto currencies, please contact the Anarchist Black Cross of Moscow: abc-msk@riseup.net Author Mark Bray speaking tour on his book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook Thursday, March 22: The Civic Theatre, Nelson, British Columbia, Canada Monday, March 26: Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY Tuesday, March 27: Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY Thursday, March 29: Appalachian State University, NC, 7 PM in Belk Library, Room 114 Mutual Aid Disaster Relief tour March 21 @ 3:00 PM at Friends Meeting House 1104 Forest St. Charlottesville, VA 22903: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness March 23 @ 7 PM at The Base 1286 Myrtle Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11221: Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism March 24 @ 12 PM at The Base 1286 Myrtle Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11221: Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness March 27 @ 5:30 PM at St. Mark's Episcopal Church 42 N Eagleville Rd., Storrs, CT 06268 : Protectors v. Profiteers: Communities in Resistance to Disaster Capitalism March 28 @ 1 PM at St. Mark's Episcopal Church 42 N Eagleville Rd., Storrs, CT 06268 : Giving Our Best, Ready For The Worst: Community Organizing as Disaster Preparedness Use this straightforward guide to writing prisoners from New York City Anarchist Black Cross to write to political prisoner Jaan Laaman of the United Freedom Front: Jaan Karl Laaman #10372–016 USP McCreary Post Office Box 3000 Pine Knot, Kentucky 42635 {Birthday: March 21, 2018} You can support Alejandra Pablos, an outspoken undocumented activist in the clutches of ICE, by signing this petition and donating here. Show valve turner Michael Foster some love as he has been transferred to a new prison. Write a letter or send a book to: Michael Eric Foster #51974 Missouri River Correctional Center P.O. Box 5521 Bismarck, ND 58506 You can help Mexican anarchist political prisoner Luis Fernando Sotelo, who has been imprisoned in Mexico since 2014, by e-mailing the supreme court at contacto@scjn.gob.mx or by tweeting them at @SCJN on Twitter about Luis and the unconstitutionality of Article 362, under which he was imprisoned. Herman Bell was released on parole after over four decades in prison—hurrah! But now New York City's mayor, the governor, and the police unions are trying to fuck with him—FUCK THAT! Here's what you can do to support Herman: 1) CALL New York State Governor Cuomo's Office NOW 518–474–8390 2) EMAIL New York State Governor Cuomo's Office 3) TWEET at Governor Cuomo: use the following sample tweet: “@NYGovCuomo: stand by the Parole Board's lawful & just decision to release Herman Bell. At 70 years old and after more than 40 years of incarceration, his release is overdue. #BringHermanHome.” Use this script for phone calls and emails: “Governor Cuomo, my name is ________and I am a resident of [New York State/other state/other country]. I support the Parole Board's decision to release Herman Bell and urge you and the Board to stand by the decision. I also support the recent appointment of new Parole Board Commissioners, and the direction of the new parole regulations, which base release decisions more on who a person is today than on the nature of their crime committed years ago. Returning Herman to his friends and family will help heal the many harms caused by crime and decades of incarceration. The Board's decision was just, merciful and lawful, and it will benefit our communities and New York State as a whole.”  

Dozens of activists have descended on Kinder Morgan's facility on Burnaby Mountain to continue their protest against the Trans Mountain pipeline. Last Thursday, Kinder Morgan was granted a permanent injunction against work stoppage protests at the Burnaby Mountain and Westbridge Marine terminals. Guest: John Daly, host of “Back on the Beat” on Global News Radio 980 CKNW in Vancouver (Photo: Kyle Benning/980 CKNW) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There are protests and rallies behind held in support of – and against – the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline on Burnaby Mountain and in Vancouver today. Guests: Kyle Benning, reporter with News Talk 980 CKNW in Vancouver (Photo: Alex Panetta/The Canadian Press) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Roy Green Show Brenda Lucki has been appointed as the new commissioner of the RCMP. She's the first woman to be selected for the position.   Is this move long overdue considering the RCMP's history of complaints of sexual discrimination and workplace bullying?   Guest: Catherine Galliford, former RCMP Corporal who accused male officers of sexual harassment and sexual assault - The Conference Board of Canada estimates that about 85,000 jobs will be lost within a year if NAFTA is terminated.   Meanwhile, Canada is one of only two countries receiving a provisional exemption from U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs … for now.   How will these developments affect Canada's small businesses?   Guest: Corinne Pohlmann, senior vice president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business - Why did the prime minister's office continue to support the conspiracy theory that Jaspal Atwal had been invited to the official government event in India by members of that country's government?   Guest: Scott Newark, former Alberta Crown Attorney, executive officer of the Canadian Police association, security adviser to the governments of Canada and Ontario, adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University​ - There are protests and rallies behind held in support of – and against – the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline on Burnaby Mountain and in Vancouver today.   Guests: Kyle Benning, reporter with News Talk 980 CKNW in Vancouver - For the time being, Canada is exempt from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum. However, one of Canada's most successful business leaders learned that Americans have very specific expectations when conducting business.   What are these expectations and is it possible for Canada to meet them?   Guest: Ron Foxcroft, chairman of Fox 40 International and CEO & chairman of Fluke Transportation Group - Holly K. Dunn and her boyfriend Chris Maier were attacked by Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, the notorious "Railroad Killer." Resendiz murdered Maier and left Holly for dead after violently physically and sexually assaulting her. She survived, however, and has gone on to share her story and work with other victims of violence.   Guest: Holly Dunn, author of ‘Sole Survivor' and founder of Holly's House, a child and adult advocacy center for victims of intimate crimes See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In episode #226 of Talking Radical Radio (July 4, 2017), Scott Neigh speaks with Holly Andersen and Rudy Reimer. They live on Burnaby Mountain in British Columbia and are part of a growing group of residents opposing the expansion of the nearby storage facility, or "tank farm," that marks the BC terminus of the widely opposed Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2017/07/04/trr-burnaby_mountain_residents/

The long and winding road. The one where the end never gets closer but the billboards and neon signs along the way keep telling you how spectacular the final destination is. The destination that keeps getting moved further and further into the future. Just keep going, just keep trusting, it's coming. No, really. Every newspaper you open, every TV channel you watch tells you it's just around the corner, that incredible result that the world will be envious of. All brought to you by your intrepid BC Liberals and Princess Christy Flim-flam, who are only interested in the best for British Columbians of course. LNG, which once meant Liquid Natural Gas now means Logic Never Given. Pacific Northwest and Woodfibre are nothing but elaborate public relations campaigns that will almost certainly never be built. Rich Coleman can continue his Sham-Wow impression but when the corporate interests that will have to spend those billions fall silent, the writing is on the wall. Site C, the mega-project which never made sense, now tries to justify an estimated 70 year deficit period for BC taxpayers while producing a product with no demand at a staggering loss. BC Hydro has all but abandoned trying to justify the madness. Now they just release estimates and data as quietly as possible. But the Clark government keeps spending on it. Kinder Morgan continues to misrepresent, misinform, misguide and outright lie regarding the Burnaby Mountain expansion, which is actually a tripling of pipeline capacity. Municipal authorities continue to vow refusal of the project. The Second Narrows of Burrard Inlet are woefully ill equipped for a 3 fold increase in tanker traffic. But the band plays on. Grant G (@Realmediavoices) returns to deliver The Straight Goods once more on these pipe dreams and more, no pun intended. Visit his work at http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.ca/

Kevin Farmer and myself take on the full show this week as we try out a more free form format this week (OK I just didn't have time to book a guest) but it turned out great! The primary difference was that we had topics and no guest, but also that we were taking live twitter comments and questions, interactive woo! Let us know what you think and if there's enough demand we will do more shows like this. We do this all this and more for basically nothing, learn more and support us here: www.patreon.com/greenmajority For full listings and more info visit: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2014/11/28/428-burnaby-mountain-confidential/

(July 28, 2012) Dr. Doug Allen, microeconomics textbook author and Burnaby Mountain professor of economics at Simon Fraser University, spoke at our ITAF conference--his first talk is entitled "The Marriage Institution and the Impact of Divorce." "It Takes a Family to Raise a Village" is a scholarship-based three-day event in San Diego where students and people of all ages gather for seminars and inspiration on the meaning and value of marriage. It's held every year at the end of July--for information on past and future conferences, check out www.ruthinstitute.org.