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Harbinger Showcase

Harbinger Media Networkwww.spreaker.com
Weekly highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts including Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & 55 more.

This podcast is syndicated for community and campus radio at Montreal’s CKUT, Abbotsford's CIVL, Victoria’s CFUV, at CKUW and CJUM in Winnipeg, at CiTR and Co-op Radio in Vancouver, at CJTM in Toronto and at CJBU in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

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Episodes

Showcase ep46 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, GREEN PLANET MONITOR, PERSPECTIVES + SWEATER WEATHER)

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 discuss Jewish anti-Zionism with Independent Jewish Voices founding member Sid Shniad on GREEN PLANET MONITOR , look at the history of the Ku Klux Klan on the prairies on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE , document the complex issue of consulting firms ripping off government programs and deskilling the public service on the Broadbent Inst...

Oct 08, 202458 min

Showcase ep45 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, PALESTINE DEBRIEF, PULLBACK + UNMAKING SASKATCHEWAN)

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 implications of the Canada Revenue Agency’s decision to revoke the Jewish National Fund of Canada's charitable status on PALESTINE DEBRIEF , argue for the end of exploitation in the Temporary Foreign Worker Program on PULLBACK , look back at how charismatic free market politician Brad Wall dramatically changed...

Oct 01, 202458 min

Showcase ep44 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, SRSLY WRONG, THE MIDNIGHT CHOIR + STUDIO LA CONVERSE)

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 show welcomes three new podcasts to the community as we highlight solutions for the housing crisis on long-running Vancouver utopian socialist comedy show SRSLY WRONG , speak with federal immigration minister Marc Mille r about the government’s troubled track record on accepting Palestinian refugees fleeing Israel’s gen...

Sep 24, 202458 min

Showcase ep43 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, TECH WON'T SAVE US, EXPATS & ALLIES, THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA)

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 complicity of Google, Amazon, and Microsoft in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and how tech workers are organizing to stop it on TECH WON’T SAVE US , investigate Department of National Defence efforts to get ahead of stories about the relationship between the Canadian military and neo-Nazis in Ukraine on EX...

Sep 17, 202458 min

Showcase ep42 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, GREEN PLANET MONITOR, PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, VICTOR'S CHILDREN)

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 Israel’s genocidal war with Middle East Council on Global Affairs analyst Mouin Rabban i on GREEN PLANET MONITOR , unpack the scale of effort it would take to meaningfully mitigate worsening wildfire risk in Alberta with provincial firefighter Matt Rieger on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, explore anti-Communism in Canad...

Sep 10, 202458 min

Showcase ep41 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, PALESTINE DEBRIEF, THE BREACH SHOW, TECH WON'T SAVE US)

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 ask why Canada continues to support Israel with the Middle East at the brink of war on PALESTINE DEBRIEF , examine Shopify's connection to right-wing politics on TECH WON'T SAVE US , speak with Migrant Workers Alliance for Change organizer Syed Hussan about the bipartisan project to exploit migrant labour on THE BREACH S...

Sep 03, 202458 min

Showcase ep40 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, GREEN PLANET MONITOR, FREE CITY RADIO, OATS FOR BREAKFAST)

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 the World Peace Foundation about Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war on GREEN PLANET MONITOR , hear voices from spaces of solidarity organizing for Palestine on FREE CITY RADIO, reflect on the work and ideas of Noam Chomsky on OATS FOR BREAKFAST and survey what Dave Barrett’s 1972-75 BC NDP governmen...

Jul 23, 202458 min

Showcase ep39 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, GREEN MAJORITY, BIG SHINY TAKES, UNMAKING SASKATCHEWAN)

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 Dr. Chandni Desai about Israel, Canada, and settler-colonialism on GREEN MAJORITY , explain how Roy Romanow’s reactionary 90’s NDP government created the conditions for the rise of the political far-right on UNMAKING SASKATCHEWAN , dismantle an incoherently Boomer Globe and Mail column of bisexual skepticism o...

Jul 16, 202458 min

Showcase ep38 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, PALESTINE DEBRIEF, EXPATS & ALLIES, CITED)

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 Dr. Yipeng Ge about Israel’s targeted assault on hospitals and healthcare workers in Gaza on CJPME 's PALESTINE DEBRIEF , explore the history of fascist movements in Canada before and after the Second World War on The Maple 's EXPATS & ALLIES, ask where the idea of dismissing protesters as a mindless mob c...

Jul 09, 202458 min

Showcase ep37 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, THE END OF SPORT, PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES + SWEATER WEATHER)

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 York University athlete Charlotte Phillips about playing on the Palestinian National Soccer Team member on THE END OF SPORT , discuss grocery prices and the Loblaw’s boycott on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES , review the kitschy new documentary I Am Celine Dion on SWEATER WEATHER and welcome Stampede: Misogyny, White ...

Jul 02, 202458 min

Showcase ep36 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, GREEN PLANET MONITOR, VICTOR'S CHILDREN, GREEN MAJORITY)

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 examine how big corporations benefit from small businesses being the friendly face of modern capitalism on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, speak with UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education Farida Shaheed to understand how Israel is committing a Palestinian education system Scholasticide on GREEN PLANET MONITOR, discuss "reco...

Jun 25, 202458 min

Showcase ep35 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, OATS FOR BREAKFAST, FREE CITY RADIO, THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA)

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 Montreal-based journalist Anaïs Elboujdaïni about her reporting from Gaza on OATS FOR BREAKFAST , sit down with anti poverty organizer John Clarke for a conversation exploring the 230 Fightback campaign against a downtown eastside Toronto condo development on FREE CITY RADIO , explain where climate and inflati...

Jun 18, 202458 min

Showcase ep34 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, BROADBENT INSTITUTE'S PERSPECTIVES, CLIMATE ORGANIZING SHORTS)

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 to Palestine solidarity encampment supporters about their experiences with violent police crackdowns and explore how student movements of the past inform the present on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE , talk with Climate Justice Organizing HUB ’s Sara Adams about the state of the climate movement in Canada today on CLIMATE ORGAN...

Jun 11, 202458 min

Showcase ep33 (LIVE SHOW #3 w/ Jeremy Appel, Emma Jackson & Duncan Kinney)

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 it’s another spectacular edition of the HARBINGER SOAPBOX SERIES live podcast recording and community event! This edition, vol.3 - Edmonton: Purple City Blues features your friends Big Shiny Takes host Jeremy Appel , Emma Jackson from Common Horizon , and The Progress Report host Duncan Kinney live, on Saturday, May 25th at...

Jun 04, 202458 min

Showcase ep32 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, THE BREACH SHOW, GREEN PLANET MONITOR, THE FORGOTTEN CORNER)

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 dissect Canada’s participation in military occupations and failed elections in Haiti on T HE BREACH SHOW , visit Palestine’s Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability and Museum of Natural History on GREEN PLANET MONITOR , say farewell to an old friend on the final episode of THE FORGOTTEN CORNER and investigate how ...

Apr 23, 202458 min

Showcase ep31 (UNRIGGED AT THE 2024 PROGRESS SUMMIT w/ THE BREACH. PIVOT, BRIARPATCH, THE HOSER and PRESS PROGRESS)

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: Ever since Facebook banned Canadian news in 2023, the task of building spaces for independent journalism to thrive has become more crucial than ever. Last November the independent media community teamed up to launch unrigged.ca, a new website that posts hourly content updates from a coalition of 25 local, regional and nati...

Apr 16, 202457 min

Showcase ep30 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA, FREE CITY RADIO, CLIMATE ORGANIZING SHORTS)

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 real costs of carbon pricing on The Sierra Club ’s THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA , learn how to lead de-escalation workshops and confront counter-protesters on CLIMATE ORGANIZING SHORTS , explore where music and mobilizing for Palestine intersect on FREE CITY RADIO and sit down with Canadian Centre for Policy Alte...

Apr 09, 202458 min

Showcase ep29 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, GREEN PLANET MONITOR, THE PROGRESS REPORT & GREEN MAJORITY)

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: Sarah Hoffman explores her vision for the future of the province In the first in a series of interviews with candidates for the Alberta NDP leadership race on THE PROGRESS REPORT, activist and journalist Dimitri Lascaris attends the Doha International Maritime Defence Exhibition & Conference on GREEN PLANET MONITOR, Pu...

Apr 02, 202458 min

Showcase ep28 (LIVE SHOW #2 w/ Rob Rousseau, Nashwa Khan + Paris Marx)

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 It’s another spectacular edition of our HARBINGER SOAPBOX SERIES live podcast recording and community event. This edition, vol.2 - Canada: What Are We Doing Here? features your friends Rob Rousseau ( 49th Parahell ), Nashwa Lina Khan ( Habibti Please ) and Paris Marx ( Tech Won't Save Us ) live on Saturday, March 23rd at th...

Mar 26, 202458 min

Showcase ep27 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, VICTOR'S CHILDREN, ANTI-EMPIRE PROJECT, TECH WON'T SAVE US)

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 Palestine Solidarity Movement In Canada on VICTOR’S CHILDREN , look at the history of the Gaza blockade and how Israel has ghettoized the Palestinian population with The Electronic Intifada on THE ANTI-EMPIRE PROJECT , unpack widely-held misconceptions about the effectiveness of plastic recycling on TECH WON’...

Mar 19, 202458 min

Showcase ep26 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, THE BREACH SHOW, 49th PARAHELL & THE END OF SPORT)

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 expose Canada’s $28.5 million in military exports to Israel on The Breach Show , Sarah Jama talks about her expulsion from the Ontario NDP caucus and how Canadian political culture stifles free expression on 49th Parahell, discuss advocating for just working conditions with Professional Women's Hockey League Players Asso...

Mar 12, 202458 min

Showcase ep25 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, THE BREACH SHOW, PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES & REDEYE)

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 report on Israel's targeted attacks on education, knowledge and culture in Gaza on REDEYE , explore how the late NDP leader Ed Broadbent spent a lifetime seeking democracy and equality on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, unpack the new national Pharmacare legislation on THE BREACH SHOW and discuss the prairies' orphan wells probl...

Mar 05, 202458 min

Showcase ep24 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, The Independent's LOCK & KEY, The Broadbent Institute's PERSPECTIVES, THE ANTI-EMPIRE PROJECT

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 realities of the province's drug poisoning crisis on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE , spend two nights with the residents of Tent City for Change in St. John’s on The Independent ’s LOCK & KEY , examine what progressives get right and wrong about affordable housing on The Broadbent Institute 's new podcast PERSPECTIVE...

Feb 27, 202458 min

Showcase ep23 (Alberta Advantage, Green Planet Monitor, Press Progress Sources + more)

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 visit the frontlines of apartheid in Jerusalem with progressive Israeli NGO Ir Amim on GREEN PLANET MONITOR , ask why Canada’s spy agency is investigating the nomination of an Ontario Conservative MP on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES , investigate how Calgary hospital laundry workers' wildcat strikes forced Ralph Klein's PC gove...

Feb 20, 202458 min

Showcase ep22 (Alberta Advantage, Progress Report, The End of Sport + Redeye)

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's hidden or obscured when thinking uncritically about economic thought on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, reckon with ultimate political weirdo Jason Kenney’s legacy on THE PROGRESS REPORT, speak out against Canadian support for Israel’s genocidal violence against Gaza on THE END OF SPORT and ask why media are incorrectl...

Feb 13, 202458 min

Showcase ep21 (Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Green Planet Monitor + Berrygrounds)

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 team analyze crypto-fascist petropropaganda on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE , explain why the Canadian government's response to the UN's top court's ruling on Israel's genocide in Gaza exposes its "egregious double standards" towards Palestinians on THE BREACH SHOW , hear genocide scholar William Schabas ' thoughts on the Internat...

Feb 06, 202458 min

Harbinger Showcase ep20 (LIVE SHOW w/ Rob Rousseau, Nashwa Khan + Paris Marx)

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 come hangout with Harbinger Media friends as they dig deep into the sorry state of Canadian journalism with Rob Rousseau ( 49th Parahell ), Nashwa Lina Khan ( Habibti Please ), and Paris Marx ( Tech Won't Save Us ) recorded live on January 20th at the historic Centre St. Jax venue l'Annexe in downtown Montreal. The Harbinge...

Jan 30, 202458 min

Showcase ep19 (Alberta Advantage, Tech Won't Save Us, The Forgotten Corner + Redeye)

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 panel explore ideology in theory, history and how it’s even present among people who consider themselves "objective” on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE , Naomi Klein explores how the online ‘mirror world’ and personal branding distort reality on TECH WON'T SAVE US . Palestinian Youth Movement ’s Mousa Qasqas discusses Edmonton solida...

Jan 23, 202458 min

Showcase ep18 (Alberta Advantage, Green Planet Monitor, Victor's Children + Green Majority)

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 panel dismantle the legacy of fondly remembered provincial premiere Peter Lougheed on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE , Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard discusses South Africa's argument that Israel’s assault on Gaza matches the definition of genocide , a claim that he submitted to the International Criminal Court last week,...

Jan 16, 202458 min

Showcase ep17 (Alberta Advantage, 49th Parahell, Tech Won't Save Us + Unmaking Saskatchewan)

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 why Zionism is bad, actually, on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE , unpack how capitalism creates insecurity to sustain itself with writer Astra Taylor on TECH WON'T SAVE US , reflect on Western values and the Anglo American Empire's decline with Kawsachun News ’ Camilla Press on 49th PARAHELL and explore the reactionary rise o...

Jan 09, 202458 min
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