David Suzuki – MRQE

Force of Nature

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

David Suzuki, iconic Canadian scientist, educator, broadcaster and activist delivers a ‘last lecture’ what he describes as “a distillation of my life and thoughts, my legacy, what I want to say before I die”. The film interweaves the lecture with scenes from the places and events in Suzuki’s life creating a biography of ideas forged by the major social, scientific and cultural events of the past 70 years.

Vancouver: No Fixed Address

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

There is no topic that unites all of Vancouver quite like that of housing. At every dinner party, social gathering, or chance meeting in the street, everyone has an opinion, and they want to share it. Charles Wilkinsons new film Vancouver: No Fixed Address tackles the subject from a multiplicity of perspectives. A chorus of voices chime in everyone from David Suzuki, to Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, Seth Klein, Condo King Bob Rennie, Senator Yuen Pau Woo, and lots of regular Vancouver citizens.

The Stand

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:00 +0000

On a misty morning in the fall of 1985, a small group of Haida people blockaded a muddy dirt road on Lyell Island, demanding the government work with Indigenous people to find a way to protect the land and the future. In a riveting new feature documentary drawn from more than a hundred hours of archival footage and audio, award-winning director Christopher Auchter (Now Is the Time) recreates the critical moment when the Haida Nations resolute act of vision and conscience changed the world.

Surviving Progress

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Humanitys ascent is often measured by the speed of progress. But what if progress is actually spiraling us downwards, towards collapse? Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, A Short History Of Progress inspired Surviving Progress, shows how past civilizations were destroyed by progress trapsalluring technologies and belief systems that serve immediate needs, but ransom the future. As pressure on the worlds resources accelerates and financial elites bankrupt nations, can our globally-entwined civilization escape a final, catastrophic progress trap? With potent images and illuminating insights from thinkers who have probed our genes, our brains, and our social behaviour, this requiem to progress-as-usual also poses a challenge: to prove that making apes smarter isnt an evolutionary dead-end.

Nuclear Dynamite

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The enormous destructive power of nuclear explosions can be used, not just in theory, for peaceful purposes. In the second half of the 1950s, scientists from both nuclear superpowers began experimenting with smaller underground nuclear explosions, which were to be used to move large amounts of soil in the construction of canals, canals, and mining.