It may be April 1st, but we’re not fooling when we say it’s time for the Vancouver Co-op Radio’s Spring Marathon, April 10th –19th. Our goal this year is to raise $50,000, about one-eighth of our annual operating budget. That’s no prank—it’s the real support we need to keep our facilities running and your favourite local voices on
Build Culture! It is one of the best things about community radio. We do not simply broadcast culture. We build it together, through the music we share, the stories we trust each other with, and the conversations that do not always have room elsewhere. Today, on World Radio Day, I want to say a heartfelt
On Wednesday January 21st, 2026, we lost Paul Norton, a community-radio legend and one of the heroes of Vancouver Cooperative Radio. Paul died suddenly at the age of 74. He moved to Vancouver from Toronto in the late 1960’s and started working at COOP Radio in 1976 just after the station opened. In his almost
