Is This For Real?
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Is This For Real?
Black ex-journalism from a place calling itself Edmonton. We take a local focus to societal issues like media bias, corruption, racism, class inequality, government failure, and police brutality.
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Very Significant Investments
We ended up taking a bit of an unexpected pause due to the dynamics around police criticism given the officer deaths in March. In this episode we disc...
March On, Sheriffs
We’re unraveling the current situation with policing downtown, where the province has deployed 12 sheriffs to the already heavily policed Chinatown ar...
Can’t Sit With Us
We’re diving into some ways that our system of governance tries to control or eliminate threats to their power. From a deliberately inaccessible publi...
Decorum + Discrimination
The theme of this episode is our society’s comfort with silent racism and covert discrimination. We’re diving into the fourth police budget increase o...
Interview with the Councillor
Edmonton’s city council recently committed to funding the Chinatown Healthy Streets Operation Centre, a $15M hub meant to deploy additional officers i...
Inflated Importance
We're turning our focus to the devastation inflation that we've all be facing throughout this year. We're taking a look at a new study from the Univer...
Working Progress
We interviewed Ashlynn Chand about some great reporting she did on Amazon’s union-busting at the Nisku warehouse. We discuss our government’s alignmen...
Rotten Foundations
Oumar and Nicholas discuss the recent school shooting in Texas and its relevance to Edmonton’s school resource officer program. We also discuss the vi...
Language of the Status Quo
Canadian media is terrible when it comes to holding powerful institutions accountable and challenging the status quo. In this episode we’re talking ab...
RIP BHM
Black History Month has always been more or less a joke, but it was especially terrible this year. We’re looking back on this especially unfortunate F...
Police Funding Industrial Complex
The Edmonton Police Service budget continues to be increased, for the second time in a row since the killing of George Floyd and supposed calls for po...
Empty Elections
With the recent federal election in Canada and local election in Edmonton, we continue the thriving era of neoliberal politics that leaves harmful ins...
Lip Service
The Community Safety and Well-Being Task Force was formed by Edmonton city council last summer in response to protests and hearing on anti-Black racis...
The Crumbs
We’re seeing a lot of performance politics these days, particularly from our elected leaders who fancy themselves progressive. This allows them to eva...
Oversight
Though we are increasingly aware of how carding and street checks disproportionately impact Black and Indigenous communities, we are decreasingly awar...
Making Demands
Our communities have been calling to defund the police for decades. But despite a wealth of research, lived experiences, and successful examples of di...
Close Encounters
It’s plainly obvious that the most vulnerable people are the most heavily policed. Along with a lack of mental health and addiction supports, this cre...
Are You Really Neutral?
Phone cameras and social media have given Black people a way to expose the oppression our communities face at the hands of police. Police violence is...
A Learning Moment
As a podcast that strives to properly communicate the experiences of Black Edmontonians, it’s been difficult to produce content with only one voice. T...
Protect Our Children
After a failed school board motion to suspend Edmonton’s school resource officer (SRO) program, police will remain in schools this September.
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I Can’t Breathe
Sifa Ngeze was involved in a vehicle accident in 2018. When her husband, Jean-Claude Rukundo, arrived to check on her, police pinned him to the ground...
Nyala
Oumar speaks with Moe Tesfay about his experience of police mistreatment as a veteran and local business owner. Tom Engel recounts his 20 years as Cha...
Dickinsfield
Oumar and Bashir meet at Dickinsfield Junior High and discuss how this upbringing shaped their relationship to policing in Edmonton. Avnish explains h...