After an extremely eventful last few months, the show is back with Marlee Wasser, who talks about the recent "Bubble Zone" bylaw passed in Toronto, how Jewish identity has been weaponized to justify genocide, media coverage of the recent March for Israel and much more. support the show here: http://patreon.com/robrousseau catch TRRS Live: http://www.twitch.tv/robrousseau Marlee's recent article in Briar Patch: Co-Resisting Anti-Palestinian Racism in Toronto Schools...
Jun 01, 2025•1 hr 13 min
Jeremy Appel joins the show to talk about Justin Trudeau stepping down as Liberal leader, his legacy, where this country is headed, the failures of neoliberalism and much more. support this show on Patreon http://patreon.com/robrousseau catch TRRS live at http://www.twitch.tv/robrousseau
Jan 19, 2025•1 hr 32 min
49th Parahell is back again and so is returning guest Duncan Kinney, host of the Progress Report, to discuss Canadian Nazi monuments, our disturbing and mostly-hidden fascist history, and how he himself has become a part of this story after being charged with vandalizing one of these monuments in Edmonton a few years ago. Support the Duncan Kinney legal defense fund Support the work I do on Patreon Catch TRRS live every day from 12-4est...
Dec 03, 2024•54 min
Vijay Prashad, director of the Tricontinental Institute and author of book s such as Washington Bullets and The Darker Nations joins the show for a wide ranging conversation that touches on everything from The Kate Middleton Conspiracy, the absurdity of the coming Biden/Trump rematch, the ongoing atrocities in Gaza, the threat a declining United States poses to the rest of the world... even the latest self-help trend sweeping the nation. Listen to my other interviews with Vijay here: 2022: https...
Mar 15, 2024•1 hr 28 min
Newly-independent Hamilton MPP Sarah Jama joined me to talk about her censure in Ontario Parliament and expulsion from the NDP caucus following the statement she released shortly after Oct 7th, how Canadian political culture stifles free expression, some of the things she's hoping to accomplish as an independent, and the constant bad faith discourse surrounding Israel/Palestine in this country. https://www.sarahjama.ca/ http://patreon.com/robrousseau Listen to our LIVE show about Canadian media ...
Feb 22, 2024•56 min
I talked with Camila Escalante (TeleSUR, Kawsachun News) about Canada and the rest of the Anglo American Empire's ongoing decline, our western values, the global south, with some additional analysis on the Guyana–Venezuela territorial dispute and what it means to be "sovereign." Support the work I do on Patreon http://patreon.com/robrousseau follow Camila here: https://twitter.com/camilapress...
Dec 20, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Jesse Hawken of the Junk Filter podcast joins the show to talk about the latest chapter in the ongoing Two Michaels saga that has captivated the nation. Were the Michaels two good old Canadian lads who were unjustly held captive by a totalitarian, authoritarian regime? Is this latest story a cynical ploy on the part of our media to pit Michael against Michael? Or was the Chinese government acutally being more honest and transparent about this situation than our own government and its media steno...
Nov 28, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Hello. Yes, it's true. The podcast is back. I spoke with Justin Podur of the Anti-Empire Project and Jon Elmer of Electronic Intifada about the unfolding horrific violence in Gaza. support the show on Patreon: www.patreon.com/robrousseau
Nov 20, 2023•1 hr 17 min
Yes, you read that right. It's the last episode of 49th Parahell. Moving forward I am going to be doing all my interviews and commentary on my live show on Twitch, with an audio version coming soon, so this week I brought back several friends of the show to talk about Doug Ford, the pandemic, Quebec's social solidarity, Joe Biden, Canada's relationship to Israel/Palestine and much more. patreon.com/robrousseau twitch.tv/robrousseau join the discord community: https://discord.gg/4Cq2XkWVgm...
Aug 13, 2021•1 hr 35 min
I talked to writer and low-key hustle guy Abdul Malik about the Toronto Raptors as an avatar for Canadian nationalism, the climate crisis, how taking a day off is good but celebrating genocide is bad, and much more. www.patreon.com/robrousseau
Jul 01, 2021•1 hr 37 min
The uncovering of a mass grave outside a former "residential school" in Kamloops has made international headlines and once again forced people in what we know as Canada to talk about the brutal violence, cruelty and genocide that this nation is founded on and continues to engage in. Harbinger Media board member Kai Nagata and Kolin Sutherland-Wilson of the Gitxsan Nation join the show to talk about the old-growth logging blockades in BC and how the supposed Dark Chapter in Canadian History never...
Jun 03, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Forced expulsions in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah have led to another cycle of Palestinian opposition and brutal repression by the Israeli government. Why does only one side of this "conflict" have the right to defend itself? How has Canada contributed to this situation? Is there a positive shift happening in the way that people in media and politics discuss this issue? Amy Kishek and Omar Burgan join the show this week to answer some of these questions. http://www.patreon.com/rob...
May 14, 2021•1 hr 13 min
We regret to inform you that Doug Ford is, in fact, "at it again." I've got writer/researcher John Semley and Junk Filter Pod host Jesse Hawken joining me here in riff city to talk about Doug's very bad week and whether or not we're on board with the redemption arc. http://www.patreon.com/robrousseau
Apr 23, 2021•1 hr 9 min
One thing we've tried to do throughout the run of this show is debunk the lies we like to tell ourselves about what Canada is all about. So this week it was a pleasure to talk to Tyler Shipley, author of Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and Colonial Imagination about the genocidal foundation of the country, how our modern foreign policy is not as benign as we've been led to believe, and how learning about all this can keep us informed about the real priorities of our current ruling class....
Mar 31, 2021•1 hr 24 min
It's the one-year anniversary of the pandemic, and there's a whole lot to feel disillusioned by. Fortunately, none other than renowned author & activist Naomi Klein is joining the show to express maybe the most radical idea of all: that, maybe, just maybe, things might be starting to get a bit better. www.patreon.com/robrousseau
Mar 12, 2021•50 min
Jeff Bezos is stepping down as head of Amazon, so obviously that means we won't have to hear from him ever again, right? Unfortunately not. Paris Marx, host of Harbinger podcast Tech Won't Save Us, joins me to talk about Bezos's career, the rotten economic system that allows people like him, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and others to build unfathomable fortunes and essentially write their own hagiographies, and the exploitative Independent Contractor business model that Amazon popularized going interna...
Feb 05, 2021•1 hr 8 min
The Trump era is over. It was simultaneously horrifying and very, very stupid. Lana Polansky & I talk about our favorite Trump moments, what this all means, whether Canada's right wing populist moment has passed, the coming decade of neoliberal technocracy and more. patreon.com/robrousseau patreon.com/TheFreakMuseum
Jan 20, 2021•1 hr 9 min
It's the final 49th Parahell of the year and what a hellish nightmare it has been, huh? Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade & Operators returns to the show to talk about how he and other artists are surviving the pandemic and also how this year was really just a preview of the kind of horrors the coming decade holds. Welcome to the new cold war. http://www.patreon.com/robrousseau https://www.patreon.com/operators...
Jan 01, 2021•1 hr 24 min
U of T poli-sci professor and Harbinger Media board of directors member Jessica Green returns to the show to break down how Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party are failing on climate, how "net zero emissions" is nothing more than a meaningless catchphrase, what's in Joe Biden's trillion dollar climate plan (and whether any of it will actually get enacted) and much more. patreon.com/robrousseau harbingermedianetwork.com
Dec 10, 2020•1 hr 13 min
The NDP's Niki Ashton joins the show for a wide-ranging conversation on Justin Trudeau's inadequate Covid response, whether New Democrats have done enough to reach out to young voters, the rise of the far right, Donald Trump, the disappointing Democratic Party primary, foreign policy, Progressive International and much more www.harbingermedianetwork.com www.patreon.com/robrousseau
Nov 23, 2020•1 hr 23 min
This week I'm joined by Jay Watts, central organizer of the Communist Party of Canada, to talk about why the Canadian Leftist Podcaster Community needs to move on from incessant magical thinking about how to make the NDP good. We also talk about why electoralism is important, the 50th Anniversary of the October Crisis and more. Also there's an election in the US tomorrow? http://patreon.com/robrousseau
Nov 02, 2020•55 min
The one and only Nashwa of Muslim Rumspringa and Habibti Please joins the show for a great conversation about why Canadian media sucks, how we are planning on changing that, the problem with Liberals, establishment journalist gatekeepers learning nothing from the last 6 months, Green Party entryism, whether I should run for Prime Minister and a whole lot more. Don't miss this one. patreon.com/robrousseau www.harbingermedianetwork.com
Oct 08, 2020•1 hr 19 min
Returning champion Martin Lukacs joins me to break down Justin Trudeau's low-on-substance, high-on-vague-platitudes throne speech, the escalating conflict between the Mi'kmaw people and white settler fishermen in NS, and the plan to do Green Party entryism and push them to the left. Also, some exciting news about a new project and the future of the show. http://www.patreon.com/49thParahell
Sep 25, 2020•1 hr 28 min
Progress Alberta's Duncan Kinney joins the show to talk about "Black Ribbon Day" and why talking about Chrystia Freeland's Nazi grandfather is important, new Conservative Party leader Erin O'Toole and where the conservative movement is headed, the NBA wildcat strike and more. support the show on Patreon: http"//patreon.com/49thParahell merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/official49thparahell?ref_id=12242
Aug 28, 2020•1 hr 8 min
This week I'm joined by Green Party leadership candidate Meryam Haddad to talk about her vision for the Party, how capitalism and sustainability are diametrically opposed, overcoming the political generational divide, why we need stand up for Palestinian human rights no matter how controversial it might be and more. support the show on Patreon: http://patreon/com/49thParahell merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/official49thparahell?ref_id=12242...
Aug 21, 2020•59 min
This week I take a few minutes to strike a balance between laughing at the state of the canadian far right and being alarmed by what they're up to and where they could be going, then artist, writer and activist Susan Blight joins the show to talk about our summer of upheaval, abolition, Indigenous solidarity, keeping the protest momentum going, Landback, disingenuous Liberals and much more. support the show on Patreon: http://patreon.com/49thParahell
Jul 30, 2020•1 hr 4 min
Karen Geier makes her long-awaited return to the show to break down Trudeau's latest corruption scandal and explain a little about the bizarre cult-like WE charity at the centre of it. I also ask the question that was on a lot of people's minds yesterday: Why do we have monuments to Nazi war criminals in Canada? support the show on patreon: http://patreon.com/49thParahell merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/official49thparahell?ref_id=12242...
Jul 18, 2020•1 hr 30 min
After a few words on the RCMP's potential involvement in last month's brutal mass killing in Nova Scotia, NDP MP Matthew Green joins the show and holds nothing back during a conversation on his career from activist to city councillor to member of parliament, his skepticism of party politics, COVID, Justin Trudeau's hollow performative progressivism, systemic racism in Canada, abolishing the police and much more. support the show on patreon: http://patreon.com/49thParahell find merch here: https:...
Jun 23, 2020•1 hr 9 min
I'm back from a brief pandemic-related hiatus with none other than Jay Baruchel -- we talk about how our current reality relates to various 80s dystopia movies, Trump as a groteseque symbol of america, how canadians pathologically avoid confronting structural racism at home and much more. Support the show on patreon: http://patreon.com/49thParahell find 49th Parahell merch here: https://www.teepublic.com/?ref_id=12242
Jun 13, 2020•1 hr 10 min
Friend of the show Nora Loreto returns to talk about COVID-19, Trudeau's inadequate response getting worldwide praise, Francois Legault's ludicrous plan to re-open Quebec schools in two weeks, the horrific mass shooting in Nova Scotia and the RCMP trying to spin the tragedy into copaganda, and much more. support the show on patreon: http://patreon.com/49thParahell
May 01, 2020•1 hr 12 min
