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 The Energy Mix's Mitchell Beer returns to talk COP28, Pivot 's Francis Hérbert-Bernier speaks with labour reporter Emily Leedham about the historic 500,000 worker strike that’s shutting down Quebec on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES , Martin Lukacs interviews CJPME 's Dan Freeman-Maloy about Canada’s record serving imperial interest...
Dec 12, 2023•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 The Energy Mix's Mitchell Beer talks COP28, Electronic Intifada and The Anti-Imperialism project join Rob Rousseau on the long-anticipated return of 49th Parahell , Andre Goulet and Erick Wickham speak with Green Majority about new independent Canadian progressive journalism website unrigged.ca and The Alberta Advantage inv...
Dec 04, 2023•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 eight month long Calgary Herald strike and how the 2000 labour action pushed back against right-wing editorial overreach and unfair treatment in the newsroom on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE and present a long listen from the launch day event for new national progressive journalism aggregation website UNRIGGED.CA on the ...
Nov 28, 2023•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 the political philosophy of fascism on UNMAKING SASKATCHEWAN talk leadership with Al-Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network on GREEN PLANET MONITOR explain h ow disinformation foments anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia on REDEYE examine the neoliberal tilt of Saskatchewan NDP Premier Roy Romanow's 1991-2001 gov...
Nov 21, 2023•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 centenary of Germany’s failed 2023 socialist revolution on VICTOR’S CHILDREN examine the legal dimensions of Israel’s escalating Gaza assault on THE BREACH SHOW unpack the unhinged resolutions at last week’s UCP AGM on THE PROGRESS REPORT celebrate the end of the 6 month long wildfire season on ALBERTA ADVAN...
Nov 14, 2023•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: talk international mobilization for Palestinian rights on CJPME DEBRIEF reveal how nationalistic narratives distract us from a better understanding of tech in the US and China on TECH WON’T SAVE US explain the little-known story of an early period of psychedelic research in Weyburn, Saskatchewan on DARTS & LETTERS e...
Nov 07, 2023•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: a proposed wind-to-hydrogen megaproject is meeting significant resistance from Newfoundland communities on THE INDEPENDENT'S BERRYGROUNDS the environmental justice movement’s silence on Palestine on GREEN MAJORITY how Sheltered Workshops exploit people labelled with intellectual and developmental disabilities on INVISIBLE ...
Oct 31, 2023•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: Martin Lukacs reports back from the 2023 NDP convention on THE BREACH SHOW former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights Michael Lynk discusses war crimes in Gaza on GREEN PLANET MONITOR an interview unpacking how Canadian Sikhs are in the crosshairs of an aggressive campaign of harassment from social media comp...
Oct 24, 2023•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 labour actions, picket lines, labour boards and the role employer's dirty tricks play on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE talk with the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives’ David Macdonald about the CCPA’s annual alternative budget on REDEYE sit down with Dimitri Lascaris for a conversation upacking why are there so ma...
Oct 16, 2023•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: sit down with Simeon Tshakapesh and Anastasia Qupee to explore Newfoundland and Labrador’s Inquiry Respecting the Treatment, Experiences and Outcomes of Innu in the Child on The Independent ’s BERRYGROUNDS talk with the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives’ Ricardo Tranjan about his book 'THE TENANT CLASS ' on PULLBA...
Oct 10, 2023•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: talk with Naomi Klein about her new book Doppleganger on THE BREACH SHOW explore how people labeled with intellectual and developmental disabilities have been confined by the state on INVISIBLE INSTITUTIONS ask Migrant Workers Alliance for Change ’s Syed Hussan why a UN special rapporteur on slavery paid a visit to Cana...
Oct 03, 2023•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 cooperative systems for food production on HALF PAST CAPITALISM explain how dark money networks from out-of-province have set their sights on Manitoba's election on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES explore how Newfoundland & Labrador is facing a critical juncture on energy policy and climate change on THE INDEPENDENT'S...
Sep 26, 2023•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 the 2020 book A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency with author and activist Seth Klein on PULLBACK talk regularization and exploitation with Justice For Migrant Workers on LABOUR INTENSIVE ask who the Bank of Canada ’s sledgehammer interest rates hurt the most on CANADA RE-IMAGINED explore the ...
Sep 19, 2023•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 decline of medicare from 1944 to today on UNMAKING SASKATCHEWAN unpack Bill C-18 and Facebook/Instagram’s scorched earth policy banning Canadian journalism on TECH WON’T SAVE US examine the shifting political discourse surrounding the World Economic Forum and political elites on DARTS AND LETTERS discuss gro...
Sep 13, 2023•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 socialist scholars from Russia and Ukraine in a conversation explaining Putin's war on VICTOR’S CHILDREN in Winnipeg unpack the negative impact of the Canadian Blood Services' 15-year deal with a for-profit plasma corporation on CO-OP RADIO’s REDEYE dive into how the Corporate Mapping Project gathers data abo...
Sep 05, 2023•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: discuss the media’s role in movement building with The Grind publisher David Gray-Donald on CIUT’s environmental news show GREEN MAJORITY in Toronto unpack a landmark Quebec Superior Court decision that found police stops are often based on race at Vancouver Co-op Radio’s REDEYE dive into a Newfoundland and Labrador “fi...
Aug 21, 2023•58 min
On Gender Sex & Tech S2,E3 host Jennifer Jill Fellows welcomes sextech academic Chloe Locatelli for a conversation exploring her research on sex robots, relationships with technologies and how the personification and gamification of sex tech is specifically marketed and targeted at heterosexual men. Gender Sex & Tech engages with scholars to examine technology using a feminist intersectional lens. Find out more about the show at gendersextech.opened.ca and find the book the podcast is ba...
Aug 14, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Seventy-eight years ago, on August 6, 1945, the US dropped a uranium-enriched fission bomb, code named ‘Little Boy’, on the Japanese port city, Hiroshima. Three days later, they dropped a second bomb, a plutonium-implosion device — Fat Man — on Nagasaki. When the dust settled, between 130 and 225,000 people were dead or dying. To this day, casualty numbers vary widely. One thing is clear: almost all were civilians. Thousands more would sicken and die in the years to come. America’s public ration...
Aug 08, 2023•59 min
The world is a mess, and boomers like Patrick Esmond-White share the blame. It will take both imagination and action for our grandchildren to get through the endless crisis now upon us. But it is possible, and there are many reasons for hope. The first step is to think totally outside of the proverbial box. Suspend your disbelief. Re-Imagine Canada. Canada Re-Imagined looks at intractable problems, finding hope and inspiration in unanticipated places. Futuristic, utopian, factual, heretical, hum...
Jul 24, 2023•11 min
Dental care is excluded from Canada’s universal healthcare system with services provided based on the ability to pay, leading large segments of the population to neglect care resulting in poor oral health and all its consequences. On a new Unpacking the News dentist and public healthcare activist Brandon Doucet joins host Andre Goulet for a conversation examining the little known history of dentistry in Canada, how private business interests have prevailed over public health, current trends in t...
Jul 17, 2023•41 min
On the debut episode DATA DECODED Concordia University's Data Justice Hub welcomes Dr. Erin McElroy for a conversation discussing the American grassroots collective Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and their work gathering data on evictions with the aim of confronting gentrification, the challenges in advocating for tenants rights with the adoption of new tracking and surveillance technologies by landlords and more. FInd out more about the AEMP Susbcribe to DATA DECODED wherever you get your podcas...
Jul 10, 2023•21 min
Elizabeth Comack 's work in the sociology of law and feminist criminology and as a member of the Manitoba Research Alliance , a consortium of academics and community partners engaged in research addressing poverty in Indigenous and inner-city communities, has informed 14 books she's written or edited including ‘Coming Back to Jail: Women, Trauma, and Criminalization ’ and ‘Racialized Policing: Aboriginal People’s Encounters with Police’ . On a new Unpacking the News she joins host Andre Goulet t...
Jul 03, 2023•41 min
On a new Labour Intensive host Jody Tomchishen sits down with economist Jim Stanford to discuss inflation, interest rates, and bargaining for better wages. Visit his website: https://centreforfuturework.ca/ Follow him on Twitter:@JimboStanford Sign up for Press Progress' Shift Work newsletter for union updates curated by Emily Leedham: https://pressprogress.ca/shiftwork/ Support the show and become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/labourintensive Follow the podcast on social media: https://tw...
Jun 26, 2023•57 min
An amazing array of independent media convened at Christie Pits park this month as Replay ’s Shama Rangwala , The Breach coordinating editor Emma Paling , analyst Chuka Ekjam , cartoonist Haus of Decline and Big Shiny Takes Institute senior fellows Marino Greco, Eric Wickham and Jeremy Appel sit down with host Andre Goulet to break down the candidates and issues, hopes and dreams and traumas and fears of Toronto's 2023 Mayoral byelection. Plus stay tuned until the end of the episode for a very s...
Jun 19, 2023•39 min
Marxist scholar Shama Rangwala and activist and journalist Desmond Cole discuss rocks, fish, birds, women, the 2017 action-adventure game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and what it's like to publicly embrace being a gamer on so-called Canada's #1 leftist pop culture podcast.
Jun 12, 2023•1 hr 5 min
On a new Unpacking the News former Saskatchewan NDP leadership candidate Kaitlyn Harvey and Edmonton city council candidate Navjot Kaur join journalist Haseena Manek in Halifax and host Andre Goulet in Montreal for a conversation exploring the exclusionary reflex of provincial NDP parties in the 2nd in a series of episodes produced in collaboration with Briarpatch celebrating the magazine's 50th anniversary year. Read Maneek's piece at https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/who-is-the-ndp-...
Jun 05, 2023•1 hr 3 min
The Breach Show returned for a special Alberta election night special, and here are some highlights! Hosts Martin Lukacs and Aditya Rao are joined by a great lineup of guests from all over Alberta. Ricardo Acuña, Romy Garrido, Emma Jackson, Angele Alook, Brad Lafortune and Des Bissonnette unpack what Danielle Smith’s win means for Albertans and what Rachel Notley’s uninspiring campaign and ultimate loss mean for the left. Find more 'Journalism for Transformation' at breachmedia.ca...
May 31, 2023•1 hr 36 min
On May 5th through 7th the 2023 Mobilizing Data for Justice conference brought together activists, community leaders and critical researchers from around the world for skill building, community outreach and research collaboration at Concordia University's downtown campus in Montreal. On a new episode of Unpacking the News Invisible Institutions' Megan Linton and host Andre Goulet spoke with multiple presenters including conference lead organizer Dr. Chris Hurl , the Information Mobilization and ...
May 22, 2023•1 hr 1 min
On the PULLBACK Season 1 finale Kyla Hewson and Kristen Pue welcome Anishinaabe scholar, writer, and commentator Riley Yesno to discuss the land back movement that seeks to reclaim Indigenous rights and rebalance our relationships with the land and each other. Riley Yesno has been a contributor at some of the largest media outlets in Canada and around the world, including at the New York Times, BBC World News, The Globe and Mail, and the CBC National News. She teaches Indigenous governance and j...
May 14, 2023•48 min
From May 8-12 don't miss UNPACKING THE NEWS' daily show every morning live from the 2023 Canadian Labour Congress with our friends at Quebec solidarity journalism cooperative Pivot! Each episode will feature interviews and reports from the floor of Canada's 30th tri-annual labour summit including this episode with prairie labour journalist Emily Leedham and host Andre Goulet exploring what to expect at convention this week, her new Press Progress piece about the PSAC-AFPC action ' Public Servant...
May 08, 2023•23 min
