Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we ask if the NDP establishment wants a short, rigged leadership race on THE BREACH SHOW, explore how to organize towards an anti-war world on HABIBTI PLEASE, reveal who’s driving talk about a referendum on Alberta independence on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES and explain why economic development in the face of Trump’s tariff's needs loc...
May 27, 2025•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we explore the absence of the role of international law in the context of Israel and Palestine on GREEN PLANET MONITOR , unpack the effect of the Online News Act on pushing Canadian news habits to the right on THE NORTH STATE , make the case for fare-free transit on PULLBACK and look at the working-class and socialist response to ...
May 20, 2025•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we explain why we thought it was so over when we were actually almost so back on SRSLY WRONG , talk about what Canadians need to know about Germany’s AfD and the far-right’s threat to democracy on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES and unpack the federal election results from a provincial perspective on UNMAKING SASKATCHEWAN . The Harbinger M...
May 13, 2025•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we explain why we think Mark Carney will adapt a Conservative agenda on THE BREACH SHOW , talk about the Prime Minister's first press conference on BUBBLE POP , hear about a new documentary investigating the groundbreaking legal proceeding against the Canadian government and Rio Tinto Alcan on REDEYE and sit down with Bryan D. Pal...
May 06, 2025•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we tune in to The Breach's election night coverage for sharp political analysis we wouldn't hear on establishment media with commentary from Luke Savage, Pam Palmater, El Jones, Emma Jackson, Donya Ziyaee, Martin Lukacs, Desmond Cole and others in this special highlight from their 4 hour April 28th livestream. Find more journalism...
Apr 29, 2025•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we analyze week three of the campaign on THE ROVER - ELECTION 2025 , review the english language leaders debate on THE BREACH SHOW , speak with independent, Palestinian-owned press Interlink Publishing on PALESTINE DEBRIEF and explain how emergency management can be reformed to support disaster justice on PULLBACK. The Harbinger M...
Apr 22, 2025•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we analyze week 2 of the 2025 federal election campaign on THE BREACH SHOW , explain why Newfoundlanders are worried about what a Conservative party victory would mean for press freedom on THE INDY BROADCAST, unpack the historical context of conscription in Canada on THE NORTH STATE and discuss why industrial policy is the sexiest...
Apr 15, 2025•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we explain how to vote for values on PALESTINE DEBRIEF , demystify the witchcraft of election polls on Rachel Gilmore ’s BUBBLE POP , report on a public library in Valleyview Alberta under political siege from the far-right on PROGRESS REPORT and unpack all the drama of the campaign trail on The Rover ’s ELECTION 2025 podcast. The...
Apr 08, 2025•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we discuss how Silicon Valley thinking is creeping into Canadian politicson TECH WON’T SAVE US , talk to legendary Vancouver activist Sean Orr about running for office in the April 5th City Council by-election on SRSLY WRONG, bid a bittersweet goodbye to our pals at BIG SHINY TAKES and explore what can be learned from a lifetime o...
Apr 01, 2025•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we explain why increasing wages and capping rent is an investment in sustainable business on The Broadbent Institute 's PERSPECTIVES , unpack how Israel and the US wage war on domestic human rights and the UN-based international legal order on GREEN PLANET MONITOR and make the connection between war abroad and local struggles agai...
Mar 25, 2025•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we discuss Canada’s colonial courts, police violence and land defense on THE BREACH SHOW and review the dark Radio-Canada crime comedy streaming series C'est Comme Ça Que Je T'aime on SWEATER WEATHER and expose ourselves to bad poetry, absurd race science and convenient economic motivations in an episode searching for the intellec...
Mar 18, 2025•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we introduce the BDS Movement’s official boycott app on PALESTINE DEBRIEF , ask what’s the NDP’s purpose with Avi Lewis on THE ORCHARDCAST , explore where reproductive rights and sex work intersect on ABORSH and reveal the business lobby behind the push to remove Canada's internal trade barriers on REDEYE . The Harbinger Media Net...
Mar 11, 2025•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we explore how the Left should respond to Trump's tariffs on VICTOR’S CHILDREN , talk climate change as class war on GREEN MAJORITY , spend a morning in Utopia on SRSLY WRONG and explore the massive 1983 protest against BC's far-right Social Credit government 'Operation Solidarity' on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE. The Harbinger Media Net...
Mar 04, 2025•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we unpack how Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney is rebranding failed ideas as fresh solutions on THE BREACH SHOW , explain why Canada's economy could be facing an apocalyptic scenario with under Trump’s terror tariffs on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES , reveal how Elon Musk’s DOGE is reshaping the US government on TECH WON’T...
Feb 25, 2025•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we look at the lawsuit challenging Canada’s role in the Gaza Genocide on CJPME ’s PALESTINE DEBRIEF , explain why Trump’s tariff threat remains very real on THE ORCHARDCAST, talk about tenants organizing against the encroachment of for-profit interests in housing on the Perspective Journal ’s ACTIVISTS MAKE HISTORY and expl...
Feb 18, 2025•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we explore the historical and political context of Trump's annexation rhetoric and why the Canadian political system is ill-equipped to fight it on THE NORTH STATE , and hear Jacobin columnist Luke Savage in conversation with the Broadbent Institute , Canadian Dimension and the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives on an ...
Feb 11, 2025•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we explain Trump’s tariff tantrum on THE BREACH SHOW , parody ‘peeping’ Pierre Polievre on SRSLY WRONG , imagine a post neoliberal industrial policy on The Broadbent Institute ’s PERSPECTIVES and discuss Dogged and Destructive: Essays on the Winnipeg Police with author James Wilt on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE . The Harbinger Med...
Feb 04, 2025•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we speak with El Jones about her recent trip to the occupied West Bank on THE BREACH SHOW , talk with the CUPW about the Delivering Community Power campaign on THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA , learn how to openly discuss abortion and share personal experience on ABORSH and explore how an NDP-Green cooperation deal could open the...
Jan 28, 2025•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we look at 70 years of Israel/Palestine history on SRSLY WRONG , explain why immigrants aren’t to blame for the housing crisis on OATS FOR BREAKFAST, break down the state of Canadian journalism in 2025 with Rachel Gilmore on THE NORTH STATE and look back at the 2001 New Politics Initiative campaign to strengthen links betwe...
Jan 21, 2025•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. This week we present a special full-length 55 minute The Breach Show episode featuring Desmond Cole and editor in chief Martin Lukacs reflecting on Justin Trudeau’s near decade in power, from the initial psychic relief of Conservative Stepher Harper’s ousting in 2015 to the Prime Minister's grim accumulation of symbolic posturing and assists to C...
Jan 14, 2025•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani discusses the expanding conflict in Syria and its broader implications for the region on PALESTINE DEBRIEF , Desmond Cole sits down with Mississauga mayor Carolyn Parrish to talk about out of control police budgets on THE BREACH SHOW , Duncan Kinney talks about Edmonton cops targeting Progr...
Dec 17, 2024•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we explore what the US election results could mean for Gaza and the Middle East with Norman Finkelstein on OATS FOR BREAKFAST , respond to Trump’s return with Spectre Magazine and the Democratic Socialists of America on VICTOR’S CHILDREN , exorcize the ghosts of neoliberalism haunting Canadian progressive movements on The B...
Dec 10, 2024•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we explore the parallel lives of Chrystia Freeland's Nazi collaborator grandfather and Holocaust survivor Anne Charney on EXPATS & ALLIES , hear from Progress Report ’s Duncan Kinney about facing ten years in jail for mischief charges over allegedly spraypainting antifash grafitti on an Edmonton Waffen SS memorial on TH...
Dec 03, 2024•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we speak with Canadians who have suffered mentally, emotionally and financially in their attempts to reunite with family under the government's Temporary Resident Visa Program for Gazans on CJPME's PALESTINE DEBRIEF , unpack a report revealing millions of dollars in Canadian charitable donations have been funneled to organi...
Nov 26, 2024•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode Desmond Cole speaks with United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese on THE BREACH SHOW , the panel examine the weather phenomenon of Fire Season and the end of "cheap nature on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE , the Council of Canadians detail the ways grassroots activism plays a role ...
Nov 19, 2024•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we look at Canada's foundational alignment with Israel on THE NORTH STATE , examine Trump’s unholy alliance of Silicon Valley tech billionaires and Christian nationalists on OATS FOR BREAKFAST , lean into the Loblaws boycott on PULLBACK and dig into the history of coal mining and deindustrialization in Nova Scotia on ALBERT...
Nov 12, 2024•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode Dimitri Lascasris reports on Israel’s invasion of Lebanon from Beirut on GREEN PLANET MONITOR , we examine how the rise of private nursing agencies is affecting public healthcare on The Broadbent Institute's PERSPECTIVES, Martin Lukacs and El Jones unpack the election campaign and an America on the edge of the abyss on THE ...
Nov 05, 2024•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we investigate the role Big Tech plays in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza on PALESTINE DEBRIEF , dive into the history of prairie brute Scott Moe on UNMAKING SASKATCHEWAN, explain how the most powerful country in the world came to the apocalyptic crossroads of 2024 election on VICTOR’S CHILDREN and ask what horror tell us ab...
Oct 29, 2024•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we introduce Citizen's Assemblies on PULLBACK , unpack the crackdown on the Palestine solidarity movement in Canada on THE BREACH SHOW, and examine socialism or barbarism with the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives on THE MIDNIGHT CHOIR and discuss if it’s possible to like hockey from the left on the ALBERTA ADVANTAGE ...
Oct 22, 2024•58 min
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we investigate how Canadian news media has distorted coverage of Israel’s crimes in Gaza on THE NORTH STATE , discuss climate change as class war on GREEN MAJORITY , look at two major upcoming non-market housing developments in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside on REDEYE and examine the role of corporate agribusiness in rural A...
Oct 15, 2024•58 min
