thePodcast: When Vancouver unveiled a peace monument

theBreaker.news Podcast

Aug 18 2024 | 00:20:25

00:00 / 00:20:25

Show Notes

For the week of Aug. 18, 2024: War drags on in Ukraine. There is no end in sight to the war between Israel and Iranian proxy Hamas. Xi Jinping threatens to invade and annex self-governing Taiwan. A metaphor for the 21st century world in conflict languishes in a state of disrepair, behind a fence at Seaforth Peace Park in Vancouver’s Kitsilano. The Vancouver Peace Flame Monument’s fountain and eternal flame were unveiled Aug. 13, 1987 to remember the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima. But city crews shut both off in 2018 and the Park Board has done nothing to rescue the […]

Other Episodes

Episode 0

February 23, 2020 • 00:29:48

theBreaker.news Podcast: Another Vancouver Olympics, to solve the problems caused by the first?

Instead of simply celebrating 10 years since the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, the organizing committee’s CEO wants Vancouver to bid for the 2030 Olympics....

Episode 0

June 01, 2025 • 00:32:36

theBreaker.news Podcast at Web Summit in Vancouver

For the week of June 1, 2025: A special edition — the first video edition of theBreaker.news Podcast — from one of the biggest...

Episode 0

October 08, 2023 • 00:23:11

thePodcast: The future is Sphere - U2's "Achtung Baby" rebirth at revolutionary Las Vegas concert venue

For the week of Oct. 8, 2023: It’s no secret, thePodcast host Bob Mackin’s favourite album is 1991’s Achtung Baby by U2 and favourite...