Posts by Gordon Katic

The Terry Project on CiTR #51: The Hikes (Recorded Live at BARtalk)

Subscribe on iTunes  | RSS UBC’s proposal to increase residence rates and international tuition fees has sparked intense debate and activism on campus. This begins two weeks of programming on student debt,…

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The Terry Project on CiTR #49: Harper, Civil Liberties and the Secret History of Canadian Spying

Ottawa was attacked, and the Prime Minister responded by calling for increased powers of security and surveillance. What is the state of civil liberties in Harper’s Canada?…

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The Terry Project on CiTR #48: Professor Candyman and Dr. Ouija Board

  On this special episode, we nerd out about Halloween. You’ll learn three things: the best and worst candies, according to science; whether you should be…

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The Four Pillars Revisited

  In 2001, after much campaigning by activists, academics and public health officials, Vancouver’s municipal council approved the boldest, most progressive drug policy in North America:…

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The Terry Project on CiTR #46: Neoliberalism and the Teachers’ Strike (Recorded live at BARtalk)

Today, we do a postmortem on the B.C. teachers strike. The strike that lasted all summer, and a couple weeks into the school year. We’re a…

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The Terry Project on CiTR #45: Drug Enforcement (The Four Pillars Revisited, Part 5 of 5)

The authors of Vancouver drug policy always wanted to end the ‘War on Drugs,’ but they made a compromise. While their fight against prohibition has stalled,…

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BARtalk #12: What was that teachers strike all about?

On Thursday, members of the BC Teachers’ Federation voted to approve a new collective agreement with the provincial government and to end the weeks-long teachers’ strike.…

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The Terry Project on CiTR #43: Drug Treatment (the Four Pillars Revisited, part 3 of 5)

When somebody decides that it’s time to kick drugs, who is there to help them? In this explosive expose, we reveal a chronically underfunded drug treatment…

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[Bonus Interviews] The Terry Project on CiTR #42: Should we tell kids that drugs can be fun?

Mark Haden said that drug educators have told three lies: 1) They have exaggerated the harms of drug use. 2) They have hidden the benefits. 3)…

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Katichisms: Where have all the campus radicals gone?

There’s a new leftist media outlet at UBC called The Talon, and it got me thinking about the lack of vocal campus pundits. A few of…

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