Award-winning non-profit news org Press Progress is taking ethical, confrontational journalism to the mainstream. In this conversation publisher Jen Hassum and BC editor Alex Cosh join host Andre Goulet to talk about the organization's journalistic mission, it's relationship with the Broadbent Institute, the myth of objectivity and how to cover the upcoming federal election. And: Emma Austin and Eva Espenshade introduce 'Gender Troubles', their new show demystifying and debunking feminism by exa...
Aug 12, 2021•56 min
On a new Progress Alberta guest host Jim Storrie wonders why (since nobody's actually getting elected to the Senate this year) Jason Kenney's United Conservative Party are holding a Senate "election". And why's Progress Report host Duncan Kinney running for "office"? If you like the show please support it! Go to https://www.theprogressreport.ca/patrons and become a monthly patron.
Aug 10, 2021•50 min
Have you ever considered using nuclear explosions for fun and profit? On this May, 2021 episode Team Advantage explore the strange collision of two worlds: children’s movie Bigfoot Family (recent target of Jason Kenney’s War Room) and a 1950’s plot to use nuclear explosions to mine Alberta’s oil sands. (note: this is a real thing that almost happened lol)
Aug 06, 2021•39 min
On an early episode of Sweater Weather host Aaron Giovannone speaks with Sam Gindin, co-author of modern classic The Making of Global Capitalism (2012), as well as the more recent but no less essential The Socialist Challenge Today (2020) both co-written with his long-time friend and colleague Leo Panitch. From 1974-2000, Sam was the director of research at the Canadian Auto Workers union, now Unifor, the largest private sector union in Canada. Sam is an internationally recognized authority on p...
Jul 24, 2021•1 hr 10 min
On this episode: Host Andre Goulet makes the risky decision to look for answers regarding a suspicious and baffling death in Canada's political community on the mean streets of Gatineau with Inspector Abdul Malik & Israeli International Peace Operations Trainee Eytan Tobin (OFFCOURT). Then: the Harbinger Special Victims Unit elite squad (Superintendent Marino Greco, Sergeant Jeremy Appel & Community Liaison Eric Wickham of BIG SHINY TAKES) convenes at Ottawa PD headquarters to examine th...
Jul 20, 2021•1 hr 22 min
On ep36 of Habibti Please Nashwa Khan and Geneviève Nevin host Jeremy Corbyn and Paul Rogers in advance of Selling Death: Why the International Arms Trade Must be Controlled, an upcoming event hosted by Egypt Watch and Jeremy Corbyn’s Peace and Justice Project. Join Jeremy Corbyn, Paul Rogers, and Geneviève at the event on Saturday, July 17th, 2021, at 11 a.m. Eastern Standard Time and 4 p.m. London time here. This episode explores the arms trade and why we must move towards disarmament. The int...
Jul 17, 2021•45 min
This is a public excerpt from ep32 of Habibti Please. Get access to the full conversation with Vincent Bevins at habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe The austerity measures that were first implemented during the pandemic will not ease post-pandemic. Global vaccine apartheid continues to exist and it seems that only those in North America with relations outside of North America or to communities. It feels eerily familiar for people who straddle worlds to be aware that “back to normal” means back ...
Jul 02, 2021•9 min
A new reader-supported digital media outlet is making a major push to bring back progressive, hard-hitting news coverage to the Toronto region. On Harbinger Society Presents ep15 The Hoser co-editors-in-chief Shannon Carranco and Kevin Taghabon join host Andre Goulet to talk about the future of their incredibly exciting new project and explain why it's crucial to support independent alternative media in the GTA. Plus: Progress Report host Duncan Kinney reveals why he's filed papers with Election...
Jun 30, 2021•54 min
What went into starting the CCF— the precursor to today's NDP? What was the working-class and socialist response to the deep depression and government inaction of the 1930s? How did prior struggles and experiences contribute to the formation of this new party, and how did they envision changing the world? Nashwa Khan of Habibti Please joins Team Advantage to discuss this fascinating historical moment. For more AA episodes and to find out how to support the show go to https://albertaadvantagepod....
Jun 12, 2021•58 min
“Do your research!” We’re hearing it more and more these days. On S1 of this timely narrative podcast hosts Mathieu Charlebois, Liane Décary-Chen and Colin Boudrias contribute a comedically comprehensive critique of the QAnon conspiracy phenomenon, en francais, fucking with their algorithms so that you don’t have to. On ep1 of 'Faisez vos recherches!': When Hubert Reeves tried to explain QAnon he got a huge migraine, so we've grabbed a bottle of Advil to give it a try. Hear the full season 1 whe...
Jun 08, 2021•46 min
On a new Big Shiny Takes hosts Eric Wickham, Marino Greco and Jeremy Appel sit down with Palestine House board member and psychotherapist Hammam Farah (@HumHum83) and Israeli-Canadian pal and OffCourt and Drum Circle Jerk co-host Eytan Tobin (@RabbiDieHardman) to explore how Israel, like Canada, is a fake ass genocidal settler state. For those who haven’t been paying attention, Israel recently attacked Gaza killing about 250 people, including dozens of children, after provoking violence at al-Aq...
Jun 03, 2021•1 hr 40 min
On an auspicious episode 20 host Charlie Demers welcomes BC’s Attorney General & Minister for Housing for a conversation on political culture, pandemic, & complicated inheritances. Plus: a special surprise appearance by Charlie's daughter, adorably interrupting a conversation about the housing market! Find out more about David's work as the MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey at https://davidebymla.ca/ Get early access to the show by stepping in the chit-chat and subscribing to Charlie's excell...
May 30, 2021•52 min
On the inaugural Harbinger Society Presents live recording it's an evening of history and hard questions on Canadian exceptionalism as Nashwa Khan and Shaadie Ali of Habibti Please and Deathnography's Henry Lee join host Andre Goulet for a conversation on Vincent Bevins' excellent 2020 book 'The Jakarta Method', Ottawa's Victims of Communism Memorial, how to fight for justice for Palestine and more. Plus: Atlantic correspondent James Brown makes a bold proposal for another kind of monument in ou...
May 21, 2021•56 min
On this episode Press Progress investigative reporters Emily Leedham and Stephen Magusiak join host Andre Goulet for a Winnipeg/Calgary/Montreal power panel exploring the provincial purgatory of pandemic Alberta. Plus: journalist and 'The Forgotten Corner' co-host Scott Schmidt describes Medicine Hat's recent super-spreader event, Harbinger Atlantic correspondent James Brown reports on bad bosses from rural PEI and the panel does a deep dive into Emily's expose on how the federal government's CE...
May 17, 2021•1 hr
On episode 12 housing rights advocate David DesBaillet presents Housing Party, a recurring interview-length Harbinger Society segment exploring the crisis of housing in Canada, for a conversation with organizer and social housing policy scholar Josh Hawley on the recent victory for tenants in Ottawa’s Sandy Hill neighbourhood, the disturbingly cozy relationship between Doug Ford’s Conservatives and Ontario’s Landlord and Tenant Tribunal and how Josh's tweet about about Ottawa mayor Jim Watson ma...
May 11, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Three-term Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi joins hosts Scott Schmidt and Jeremy Appel just days after announcing he will not be running for another term in office this fall for an intimate and refreshingly candid conversation reflecting on the journey that led him to become one of the most well-known municipal leaders in the world and the first Muslim mayor in Canadian history. For more episodes of the show go to https://www.forgottencornerpod.com/ Support the podcast at https://www.patreon.com/forg...
Apr 29, 2021•1 hr 22 min
Work It is a sketch comedy podcast about jobs, working & capitalism, written and performed by Janet Mowat and Sam Allemang. This week’s episode includes a Quarantine Novel, the Highs & Furloughs game show, Socially Distanced Fatalities and more. Get more of the best in anti-capitalist Canadian comedy at https://widgetmag.com/ and subscribe to the show at https://widgetmag.com/workit/ or wherever you get your podcasts!...
Apr 15, 2021•30 min
On a super stoked pre-convention panel housing activist and Etobicoke NDP organizer Bri Gardner and co-president of the Jeunes Néodémocrates du Québec Gabriel Masi join host Andre Goulet to discuss policy priorities, shifting the party to the left, Jagmeet's vibes and the mixed legacy of Thomas Mulcair. Plus: Atlantic correspondent James Brown suffers Mulcair nostalgia and places a pensive personal ad, community and political organizer Jessa McLean explains why she's campaigning to bring the NDP...
Apr 06, 2021•1 hr 8 min
On an UNLOCKED endless election spectacular Drew Brown, Alicia Morry and Paris Marx in St. John's join host Andre Goulet to discuss Newfoundland and Labrador's unique political culture and reveal the most surprising billionaire of all. Plus: the panel reviews 2019 federal election campaign songs in the lead-up to what could be a nation-wide Spring 2021 vote. And: comedian James Brown embraces controversy with a critical take on the character and values of Newfoundlanders and left video satirist ...
Mar 24, 2021•56 min
It's the one-year anniversary of the pandemic and there's a whole lot to feel disillusioned by! Fortunately on a new 49th Parahell, none other than renowned author & activist Naomi Klein joins the show to speak with host Rob Rousseau as she expresses 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 17, 2021•50 min
In 2001, a campaign to reconstitute the NDP into a new party emerged, calling itself the New Politics Initiative. It proposed a party with stronger links with social movements and the anti-globalization campaigns that had been growing over the previous years, and had some high-profile spokespeople. What happened with this initiative? What was the response from within the NDP? Can anything be learned from this effort to reshape the NDP towards a more explicitly left-wing vision? Listeners may als...
Mar 07, 2021•1 hr 7 min
On an unlocked new episode of Harbinger Society Presents the panel buries Federalism as writer Nora Loreto (Sandy and Nora Talk Politics), chemist Ada McVean and podcaster extraordinaire Aliya Pabani (We Are Not the Virus) join host Andre Goulet to discuss what the colliding crises in long-term care, homelessness and academia tell us about the limitations of government in an increasingly fake country after almost a year of pandemic trauma. Plus: Atlantic correspondent James Brown gets something ...
Feb 27, 2021•57 min
On a new episode Work It's Sam Allemagne and Janet Mowat join host Andre Goulet for a Game Stop struggle session, then Lana Polansky, Hugh Stewart and Andrew Neville convene to lament Jon Kay's hair care regime, praise the rising tide of the Democratic Socialists of America of Canada's new political initiative and play an exciting round of ‘Hit or Miss’ with Sandra Coupland's new erotic thriller ‘Xi’s the One'. Plus: Harbinger Atlantic correspondent James Brown weighs in with a controversial cho...
Feb 16, 2021•1 hr 7 min
On an unlocked S2, E2 of the Harbinger Society Presents host Andre Goulet welcomes Roberta Lexier, Jeremy Appel, Scott Schmidt and Mo Cranker of The Forgotten Corner podcast as we celebrate FC's addition to the network with a wide-ranging and astutely analytical conversation on being wary of Jason Kenney's decline and why progressive Albertans need to push the provincial NDP to the left. Also: Danielle Smith's long history of cancellation and some casual cursing and coarse prairie humour! And: A...
Feb 02, 2021•52 min
On an extra-length Season 2 launch Abdul Malik and Eytan Tobin introduce their new Harbinger-exclusive sports, history and politics podcast Offcourt and preview upcoming episodes including Cricket as Decolonial Praxis, How the ‘Miracle on Ice’ was a Cold War Turning Point and Why Amar’e Stoudemire Became a Zionist. Plus: a PEI 2020 news round-up with comedian James Brown, a special presentation of the SOCIALYMPICS from the Toronto/Hamilton Left sketch comedy show Work It and an excerpt from a co...
Jan 17, 2021•1 hr 12 min
On this re-presentation of a December episode of the world's only anti-free speech podcast, National Post columnist John Ivison is mad at Churchill—Keewatinook Aski MP Niki Ashton and Nanaimo—Ladysmith MP Paul Manly for their support of a proposal to free Huawei heiress Meng Wanzhou, arrested by Canadian police in December, 2018 at the behest of the Trump administration. In this conversation Harbinger Society host Andre Goulet joins Big Shiny Takes' Jeremy Appel, Marino Greco and Eric Wickham to...
Dec 28, 2020•49 min
On the Season 1 finale of Harbinger Society Presents host Andre Goulet convenes an all-star panel with Iranian-Canadian Congress policy chair Saman Tabasinejad in Toronto, Saudi Arabia/Canada investigative journalist Anthony Fenton in Vancouver and Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East VP Michael Bueckert in Montreal to discuss the Trudeau government's foreign policy failure in the region. Plus: comedian James Brown shares a bed with Erin O'Toole in rural Prince Edward Island and Bi...
Dec 20, 2020•1 hr 12 min
Now unlocked and available for all, presenting episode 4 of the inaugural season of The Harbinger Society Presents! Independent, award-winning politics and culture magazine Briarpatch remains a cutting edge media outlet after nearly 50 years of publication. On this episode, host Andre Goulet (Tio'tia:ke/Montreal) welcomes three of the journalists who help make Briarpatch happen as current editor Saima Desai and lead on the new radical left Sask Dispatch project Sara Birell join the show from Reg...
Dec 11, 2020•55 min
Now unlocked for your edification and amusement, presenting episode 3 of the inaugural season of The Harbinger Society Presents! In this conversation Laura Kruse (Jacobin, Kino Lefter), Tyler Ogilvie (The Alberta Advantage) and comedian Mav Adecer brutally assess Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party's 18 months in power and look back on a year from hell in Wildrose Country. Plus: an introduction to the good work being done at Progress Alberta with Duncan Kinney and an analysis of Grime...
Nov 25, 2020•53 min
Now unlocked for your edification and amusement, presenting a very special sophomore episode of the inaugural season of 'The Harbinger Society Presents: The Left Podcast Conspiracy' from the Harbinger Media Network! This fun, friendly and heartwarming 2nd episode featuring comrades Nashwa Khan, host of 'Habibti Please' and 'Muslim Rumpsringa', Hilary Agro, host of 'Bread and Poppies' and Rob Rousseau host of '49th Parahell' and 'The Insurgents' comes courtesy of our pals at Passage. Find the bes...
Nov 08, 2020•1 hr 5 min
