Station News

  • The FIFA World Cup is coming to the neighbourhood

    If you intend to come to the station during the Cup, please be aware that navigating the neighbourhood will be complicated. Here’s what the city is saying: What to expect: Street use restrictions will be in place on several arterial streets, transit routes, and within the metro core, particularly around Vancouver match dates. Please visit vancouverfwc26.ca/road-closures for…

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  • Spring Marathon Newsletter – April 10-19

      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…

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  • Newsletter for February, 2026 – Celebrate Radio

    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…

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  • Paul Norton (1951-2026)

    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…

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