- REAL ESTATE 4 - City of Glass
Wednesday, June 9th 2021
Real estate mania is at an all time high in this country. And in no place is this more true than in Vancouver. But nobody can even agree on what went wrong.
Have snooty property owners, overreaching bureaucrats, and gutless politicians allowed the housing supply to dwindle to nothing?
Or has a network of transnational criminals turned Vancouver into a narco-capital built on dirty money?
Featured in this episode: Frances Bula, Sam Cooper, Lindsey Murphy, Jesse Donaldson
To learn more:
“Vancouver's affordable housing announcements remain unfulfilled years later” by Frances Bula in The Globe and Mail
Wilful Blindness: How a Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West by Sam Cooper
“Inside Vancouver City Hall's Housing Wars” by Doug Ward in The Tyee
Additional music from Audio Network
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- REAL ESTATE 3 - Terminal City
Wednesday, May 26th 2021
Vancouver is obsessed with real estate. But what most people don't realize, is that it's been this way from the beginning.
Three stories of the swindlers, segregationists and profiteers that made Terminal City what it is.
Featured in this episode: Jesse Donaldson, Jordan Stanger-Ross, Michael Abe, Stephen Learey
To learn more:
Land of Destiny: A History of Vancouver Real Estate by Jesse Donaldson
Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians edited by Jordan Stanger-Ross
“Expo 86 evictions: remembering the fair's dark side” by Rafferty Baker in CBC News
Additional music from Audio Network
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- REAL ESTATE 2 - The Last Man in Africville
Wednesday, May 12th 2021
Africville was one of Canada's oldest Black settlements, a proud community of more than 400 people. And then the City of Halifax decided to utterly obliterate it.
There was one man who simply refused to leave. Eddie Carvery may not have been the best man for the job. But for half a century, he has never stopped fighting for his home.
Featured in this episode: Eddie Carvery, Jon Tattrie
To learn more:
The Hermit of Africville: The Life of Eddie Carvery by Jon Tattrie
Remember Africville by Shelagh Mackenzie
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- REAL ESTATE 1 - The Bridle Path
Wednesday, April 28th 2021
The Bridle Path is one of the most exclusive neighbourhoods in Canada, home to the ultra-wealthy and the famous. But behind their locked gates, some of Canada's elite try to scheme their way into even greater wealth on the property market — not always legally. And their ambitions have a way of becoming problems for the rest of us.
Featured in this episode: Kozeta Izeti, Norma Walton
NOTE: The original version of this episode contained an additional story, which we will publish separately.
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- Introducing our new season… Real Estate!
Thursday, April 22nd 2021
Stories about Canada's real estate obsession.
The first episode drops on April 28, 2021.
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