Cited

This week Cited partners with Travis Lupick, reporter and editor with The Georgia Straight, to uncover a worrying trend in Vancouver’s health care system. Since 2010, rates of violence and aggression have steadily increased in the city’s two largest hospitals. The question is why? Statistics obtained by The Georgia Straight with freedom of information requests indicate rates of violence and aggression at St. Paul’s Hospital (SPH) and Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) have been rising steadily in recent years. To see the raw data, click here. Read Travis’s story in The Georgia Straight, “Rising violence against staff in Vancouver hospitals leaves stakeholders searching for explanations”.

This week Cited partners with Travis Lupick, reporter and editor with The Georgia Straight, to uncover a worrying trend in Vancouver's health care system. Since 2010, rates of violence and aggression have steadily increased in the city's two largest hospitals. The question is why? Cited is a podcast and radio show funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and produced out of the world class Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Follow us on iTunes (apple.co/2hW3B4c), Twitter (twitter.com/citedpodcast), Facebook (www.facebook.com/citedpodcast/), and email feedback to cited.podcast@ubc.ca.

Canada is outsourcing a lot of its elder care to for-profit companies. On this week's episode, Sam goes to Stanford Seniors Village to talk with residents, staff, and--maybe--the managers. Cited is a podcast and radio show funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and produced out of the world class Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Follow us on iTunes (apple.co/2hW3B4c), Twitter (twitter.com/citedpodcast), Facebook (www.facebook.com/citedpodcast/), and email feedback to cited.podcast@ubc.ca.

More and more, Canada is outsourcing its elder care to for-profit companies. On this week’s episode, Sam goes to Stanford Seniors Village to investigate what that means for some of the country’s most vulnerable citizens.

An Austrian philosopher wants to change the scientific method, removing the need for experimental evidence in certain cases. Not everyone is a fan. This episode was made possible with funding from Westcoast Women in Engineering Science and Technology.   Cited is a podcast and radio show funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and produced out of the produced out of the world class Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.   Follow us on iTunes (http://apple.co/2hW3B4c), Twitter (https://twitter.com/citedpodcast), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/citedpodcast/), and email feedback to cited.podcast@ubc.ca.

An Austrian philosopher wants to change the scientific method, removing the need for experimental evidence in certain cases. Not everyone is a fan of his ideas.

Finn Slough is on the front lines of climate change. Nestled on the banks of the Fraser River, this community will eventually be overcome by flooding as sea levels rise. But the people of Finn Slough are doing what they can to stay put, despite the writing on the wall. Cited is a podcast and radio show funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and produced out of the world class Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Follow us on iTunes (apple.co/2hW3B4c), Twitter (twitter.com/citedpodcast), Facebook (www.facebook.com/citedpodcast/), and email feedback to cited.podcast@ubc.ca.

Finn Slough is on the front lines of climate change. Nestled on the banks of the Fraser River, this community will eventually be overcome by flooding as sea levels rise. But the people of Finn Slough are doing what they can to stay put, despite the writing on the wall. On this episode we talk to Gus Jacobson, who’s helping to protect Finn Slough from the rising tides. We talk to other members from the homesteader settlement, as well as UBC Prof. Stephen Sheppard about the big decision that the community faces. Then we talk to Sally Cox, who works on climate change mitigation with the Alaskan State Government, and about the work she does helping indigenous communities who choose to relocate when the consequences of climate change becomes too much to bear. This episode had editing help from CBC’s The Doc Project, and had support from our partners at the Pacific institute for Climate Solutions. Read the extended article here.

In the late 1960s, criminologists like Todd Clear predicted America would soon start closing its prisons. They couldn't have been more wrong. Today on the show, Dan Denvir (@DanielDenvir) from The Dig and Katherine Beckett from the University of Washington Center for Human Rights join Sam to tell the story of mass incarceration in America. Today's show was made in partnership with The University of Washington Centre for Human Rights, The Dig and Harvard Law School’s Fair Punishment Project. Cited is a podcast and radio show funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and produced out of the world class Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.   Follow us on iTunes (http://apple.co/2hW3B4c), Twitter (https://twitter.com/citedpodcast), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/citedpodcast/), and email feedback to cited.podcast@ubc.ca.

In the late 1960s, criminologists like Todd Clear predicted America would soon start closing its prisons. They couldn’t have been more wrong. Today on the show, Dan Denvir (@DanielDenvir) from The Dig and Katherine Beckett from the University of Washington Center for Human Rights join Sam to tell the story of mass incarceration in America. We talk to Rutgers criminologist Todd Clear on what we’ve learned from this “grand social experiment,” poet Reginald Dwayne Betts about redemption and violent crime, and Larry Krasner, a progressive lawyer who has shaken up a DA’s race in Philadelphia. Today’s show was made in partnership with The University of Washington Centre for Human Rights, The Dig and Harvard Law School’s Fair Punishment Project.

Sex offenders are the most reviled and abused criminals in prison. But eventually, most of them will get out. So, what happens next? This is a rebroadcast from last season. It is part one of a two-part documentary series we produced in partnership with the CBC Doc Project and the University of Washington Center For Human Rights. Follow us on iTunes (http://apple.co/2hW3B4c), Twitter (https://twitter.com/citedpodcast), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/citedpodcast/), and email feedback to cited.podcast@ubc.ca.

Jill Tarter has spent her career on a question she may never solve: are we alone in the universe? We talk to Dr. Tarter as well as the science journalist Sarah Scole, author of the new book Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. This episode was made possible with funding from Westcoast Women in Engineering Science and Technology. Cited is a podcast and radio show funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and produced out of the produced out of the world class Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Follow us on iTunes (http://apple.co/2hW3B4c), Twitter (https://twitter.com/citedpodcast), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/citedpodcast/), and email feedback to cited.podcast@ubc.ca.

Jill Tarter has spent her career on a question she may never solve: are we alone in the universe? We talk to Dr. Tarter as well as the science journalist Sarah Scoles, author of the new book Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

[REBROADCAST] Alex interviews Duke University law professor Jedediah Purdy about the political history of nature and its uncertain future. Anywhere you look on the planet, you will find evidence of human behaviour: metalloids in the soil, greenhouse gases in the air, a vortex of trash in the oceans. That is why some scientists have proposed that we are now living in a new geologic epoch. It's called the Anthropocene: the age of humans. Now that we are a literal force of nature, what world will we make? Jedediah Purdy wrestles with that question in his book, After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene (Harvard University Press). Cited is a podcast and radio show produced out the world class Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. It is written, edited, produced and hosted by Sam Fenn, Gordon Katic and Alexander Kim. Follow us on iTunes (apple.co/2hW3B4c), Twitter (twitter.com/citedpodcast), Facebook (www.facebook.com/citedpodcast/), and email feedback to cited.podcast@ubc.ca. Cited is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. We thank them for their support.

[REBROADCAST] Kaye Koichi Kaminishi is the last surviving member of the Vancouver Asahi, a Japanese Canadian baseball club. The team was disbanded in 1942, when the Canadian government interned 21,000 Japanese Canadians during the Second World War, including every member of the Asahi. A Proud Benchwarmer is Kaye’s story. This story was originally broadcast December 7, 2016. Cited is a podcast and radio show funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and produced out of the produced out of the world class Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Follow us on iTunes (apple.co/2hW3B4c), Twitter (twitter.com/citedpodcast), Facebook (www.facebook.com/citedpodcast/), and email feedback to cited.podcast@ubc.ca.