The crime against humanity of genocide occurs across cultures, across ethnicities, and across our world. On today’s drop, Joe Roberts and guest co-host Mac Chorney welcome Heidi Berger and Marcy Bruck from The Foundation for Genocide Education to discuss their effort to include genocide education in curriculums across North America so it’s victims are never forgotten and it never happens again.
Apr 29, 2021•39 min•Season 3Ep. 12
In today’s drop we’re joined by Paul Taylor, NDP candidate for Parliament in Toronto’s Parkdale-High Park riding, to discuss the state of Canadian politics, why he’s running for office, and how the system of capitalism creates an inequitable playing field for Canadians desperate for change.
Apr 27, 2021•41 min•Season 3Ep. 11
COVID-19 has exposed the failure of leadership at so many levels, leaving Canadians in a state of financial chaos, our civil liberties under assault, and now dying in unbelievable numbers. Then, the Liberals have announced the federal budget filled with bold bland policy that will move Canada forward maintain the status quo. We dive into what it all means.
Apr 22, 2021•45 min•Season 3Ep. 10
In our politics, Canadians have the privilege of free speech in our public discourse. Online, the rules are changing and corporations, not governments, are often limiting speech and collaborating with inhumane regimes in pursuit of profit. We're joined by digital free speech activist and author of the book Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism to discuss just what is at risk and who has the most to lose....
Apr 20, 2021•45 min•Season 3Ep. 9
The NDP Convention marked by technical difficulties, accessibility issues, and a lack of enthusiasm is behind us, and thankfully so. We break it all down. Then, Air Canada & PM Justin Trudeau have come to a deal to relieve the people of $6 billion in exchange for releasing our own money back to us. Corporate welfare sucks. And to round it out, for all the superiority we showed when things were really dire in the US, the Canadian response to COVID is now looking less than sparkling....
Apr 15, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 8
In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten Black men and one Black woman—Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time—were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens. In today’s episode, we’re joined by Rachel Marie-Crane Williams to discuss her book, Elegy for Mary Turner , a haunting depiction of American racial violence and lynching, the history behind the book, and why the dark subject drew her in demanding its story be told.
Apr 13, 2021•53 min•Season 3Ep. 7
On today’s drop, we talk the upcoming NDP convention, the struggle between bold vision and the status quo that will be on display, and what the NDP must do to win. Then, we talk the middle class myth and why it is so central to our identity as Canadians.
Apr 08, 2021•59 min•Season 3Ep. 6
We're joined by CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn to explore the incredible stakes working Canadians are facing, the battle to build working class power, and what does it all means in the face of incrdible odds. A labour activist for over 30 years, Fred has seen it all, and shares that now is the time for the working class to come together and fight for our collective future.
Apr 06, 2021•46 min•Season 3Ep. 5
The NDP Policy Convention is just one week away. In today’s drop, we’re joined by three socialists who have earned the DSC’s endorsement for positions of leadership in the party to discuss their vision for the future of the NDP. Ashwin Nair , New Left Radio Quebec Correspondent & DSC Member, is running for Policy Director of the Young New Democrats. Gabriel Masi (DSC Member) is seeking the leadership of the Young New Democrats as Co-Chair of the movement. Jessa McLean , socialist, Riding Ass...
Apr 01, 2021•57 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Former Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes drops by to talk about her experience as an MP under Justin Trudeau. Spoiler alert, it didn’t end well. After being tokenized, marginalized, and even demonized by her colleagues in the House of Commons, the conditions surrounding her departure from the caucus and a phone conversation with the PM, are telling a story that every Canadian voter needs to hear.
Mar 30, 2021•44 min•Season 3Ep. 3
On today's drop, our producer Santiago Helou Quintero fills in for Rodger Moran. Santiago and Joe explore the NDP's tepid proposal on student debt, the bizzare Conservative Party of Canada Convention, and climate action, or the lack thereof in Ottawa.
Mar 25, 2021•48 min•Season 3Ep. 2
The excitement on the left for Dimitri Lascaris’ candidacy in the Green Party of Canada Leadership election last year was palpable. For the first time in decades, an openly socialist candidate came within just a few thousand vote of clenching a place at the helm of a major political party. Now that the campaign is over, Dimitri joins us to discuss the future of the socialist project in Canada, the unity needed in our movement, and the organizing we must do to build socialist power at the ballot ...
Mar 23, 2021•53 min•Season 3Ep. 1
In the season two finale we dive into the abysmal poll numbers and seemingly endless Mia truths of Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and the UCP. After a definitive electoral victory, could this be the end of his leadership? Erin O’Toole is busy retooling the CPC into a populist messaging machine. It definitely isn’t real, but could it be a winning formula? Then, we’re joined by Paul Taylor, Executive Director of Foodshare Toronto to explore food justice and the why so many Canadians live in food ins...
Mar 18, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 40
In today’s episode, we’re joined by Nahum Mann a socialist candidate seeking the nomination for the Federal NDP in Toronto Davenport. We explore Nahum’s path to the left, his work as a community organizer, and his vision for a better world.
Mar 16, 2021•55 min•Season 2Ep. 39
We're joined by Quebec correspondent Ashwin Nair to discuss the games that the CAQ is playing with the lives of Quebecers and the governments attempts to undermine labour by importing nurses - all in the name of corporate profit. Then we cover the bizarre news this week out of Lethbridge, Alberta where it is reported that former NDP Enivironment Minister and sitting MLA Shannon Phillips has been continuously monitored and harassed by members of the Lethbridge Police Service for over four years. ...
Mar 11, 2021•57 min•Season 2Ep. 38
we see the same debate on immigration play out across the anglophone world with the arguments against newcomers ranging from mildly xenophobic to outright offensive. We’re joined by author, researcher, and academic whose expertise is the racialised rhetoric and policy of immigration to separate the reality from the myth, and the politics of scapegoating the most vulnerable among us in an attempt to cover up the failures of capitalism that has left so many of us on the economic sidelines and look...
Mar 09, 2021•52 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Last week Canadians received a crushing blow on Pharmacare with the failure of Bill C-213 in the House of Commons. We look at the fight leading to the vote, the hollow words of Liberal opposition, and the path forward. Think human beings in cages is an American problem, think again. We look at the disturbing, and eye opening investigative report by Christopher Curtis for Ricochet that has Canadians questioning our treatment of undocumented detainees. The Alberta NDP took an anti-fascist stand on...
Mar 04, 2021•51 min•Season 2Ep. 36
COVID-19 has laid bare the glaring gaps in our society and shown just how interdependent we are, regardless of the neoliberal myths of individualism. In today’s drop, we’re joined by Catherine Rottenberg and Lynne Segal of the Care Collective to discuss their new book, The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence , the ways that care effects our lives, and the very human need to be meaningfully connected to one another....
Mar 02, 2021•58 min•Season 2Ep. 35
The commodification of housing has led to some very dark and nefarious policy. Due to the pandemic, we’ve seen vulnerable Canadians struggle to keep a roof over their head with no relief, we’ve seen champions of those who sleep on the street be demonized, and we’ve seen a lack of action by our elected officials. In today’s drop, we’re joined by Toronto correspondent Dylan Day to discuss The city’s battle against solutions and poor policy choices that have brought it to bear. Then, we’re joined b...
Feb 25, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 34
On today’s NLR, we’re joined by one of the most fierce advocates for justice in the Ontario opposition, ONDP MPP Rima Berns-McGown for a candid conversation about the struggle for justice in her riding of Beaches-East York, Ontario, Canada, and the world. We explore the devastating and intertwined crises of housing and COVID-19, and the brutality of the eviction machine that is forcing Torontonians into homelessness. She shares her roots, her path to the long fight for justice, and hopes for bet...
Feb 23, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Corporate interests run our government. In the fight for safe working conditions for meat packets in Alberta, and sick days in Ontario, the pressure of big money to choose what is best for profit over the people rules the day. Lobbyists and corporate donors aren’t, the constituents, we are. If you want a chance to win the Bernie mug seen here shoot us your best Bernie photo/meme on Twitter and don’t forget to tag @newleftradio1 , @joe_roberts01 , & @itsrodgermoran !...
Feb 18, 2021•57 min•Season 2Ep. 32
Regular listeners of the show will know that in just 8 days the House of Commons will be voting on pharmacare for Canadians in the form of Bill C-213. This legislation creates the framework for life saving medication, regardless of ability to pay. It is a step to towards equity in our system, and finishing the job of Universal Medicare envisioned by Tommy Douglas. On today's drop, we're joined by NDP MP Peter Julian, friend of the show and sponsor of Bill C-213 to discuss the goals of the legisl...
Feb 16, 2021•42 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Your goverment has released a website ( letstalkbudget2021.ca ) to hear what the people want prioritized in the next federal budget. They’ve opened it for open comments but will they listen? The horrifying conditions in long term care homes were widely know before the pandemic, with the recent death toll bringing them into the political debate. This week, Erin O’Toole said he opposes the creation of a national stars of care. How would he feel about nationalization? Green Party leader Annamie Pau...
Feb 11, 2021•57 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Paul Manly’s path to parliament was never a certainty. A classically trained jazz musician, documentary filmmaker, and activist, Paul came to politics by seeing the needs facing Canadians and our planet being ignored by the status quo. In today’s drop, we have a candid conversation and explore the fight for justice and Palestinian liberation that led Manly to run as a Green, the existential crisis of climate change and Canada’s failure to hit every carbon reduction target that’s ever been set, a...
Feb 09, 2021•50 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Corporate Canada’s leaders have come together to launch an unprecedented initiative - rapid testing of their employees in an effort to “get the economy back on track.” Their plan comes at the expense of working Canadians, frontline workers, and provides a very dangerous false sense of security. Ottawa has announced yet another round of corporate bailouts in the form of a cash loan of up to $1 million to business. With all the wage subsides and rent subsides pouring into corporate coffers, the go...
Feb 04, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Lindsay Mathyssen is the NDP MP for London-Fanshawe, Critic for Women and Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Youth, Post Secondary Education as well as Deputy Whip, Deputy Critic for Export Promotion and International Trade and Deputy Critic for Small Business. Even with the enormity of that portfolio, she found some time to sit down with us to talk about the issues facing Canadians, the future of our politics, and the dangers of disenfranchisement of the electorate in the face of repe...
Feb 02, 2021•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 27
With no vaccine arriving in Canada this week and the rollout unequal across the country, it will be over three years to vaccinate all Canadians at the current pace. It is within the federal governments power to invoke the Emergencies Act and implement a national strategy, so why haven’t they? Governor General Julie Payette has resigned after abusing working Canadians in her employ and creating a culture of toxicity. How was this her history of abuse overlooked? This whole scandal begs the questi...
Jan 28, 2021•54 min•Season 2Ep. 26
A fierce voice for equity in health care & the NDP Critic for Health in the 43rd parliament, MP Don Davies joins us to discuss the enormous challenges we face in dentalcare, Pharmacare, & making Tommy Douglas’s vision of a universal system of Medicare whole. We explore Liberal stalling, the Trudeau government’s opposition to policies supported by 90-plus percent of Canadians, and how broken Liberal campaign promises have led us to a point where the electorate is losing trust in the insti...
Jan 26, 2021•57 min•Season 2Ep. 25
The CPC and Erin O’Toole are tightly purging Nazi sympathizers from their ranks, but is this all just virtue signaling and political theatre? As promised, Joe Biden cancelled Keystone XL on day one. Jason Kennedy’s big bet on oil, gas, and mining seem to be a loser. What does this mean for the future of Alberta and the UCP? Were joined by Robin Graham, a housing activist on PEI to explore the damage short term rentals have wrought on the Island and the massive challengers with housing access acr...
Jan 21, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 24
By now, we all recognize the ubiquitous box or shipping packet with the arrow, but the reality behind the packaging is much darker and much more ubiquitous in our lives than most people could ever imagine. From last mile delivery, warehouse & fulfillment workers, major tech companies, and avergae citizens across the globe - Amazon has an impact on billiuons of us in one way or another. We're joined by sociologists Jake Alimahomed-Wilson & Ellen Reese to discuss their new book, The Cost o...
Jan 19, 2021•52 min•Season 2Ep. 23
