Ricochet's Unpacking The News

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 DEBRIEFreveal 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 & LETTERSexplore labour unions in Canada and the US on ALBERTA ADVANTAGEThe Harbinger Media Network includes more than 60 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio at CIUT 89.5FM in Toronto, CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg and at Vancouver Co-op Radio.Financial support on this e

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 BERRYGROUNDSthe environmental justice movement’s silence on Palestine on GREEN MAJORITYhow Sheltered Workshops exploit people labelled with intellectual and developmental disabilities on INVISIBLE INSTITUTIONS Premiere Danielle Smith has declared her province “sovereign within a united Canada" (whatever that means) on ALBERTA ADVANTAGEThe Harbinger Media Network includes more than 60 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio at CIUT 89.5FM in Toronto, CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, CK

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 SHOWformer UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights Michael Lynk discusses war crimes in Gaza on GREEN PLANET MONITORan interview unpacking how Canadian Sikhs are in the crosshairs of an aggressive campaign of harassment from social media companies on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCESthe panel examines western alienation and how it explicitly shapes right-wing collective identity on ALBERTA ADVANTAGEThe Harbinger Media Network includes more than 60 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio at CIUT 89.5FM in Toronto, CKUT 90.3FM in Mon

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 ADVANTAGEtalk with the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives’ David Macdonald about the CCPA’s annual alternative budget on REDYEsit down with Dimitri Lascaris for a conversation upacking why are there so many super old Nazis in Canada on GREEN PLANET MONITOR explore how the Israeli arms industry uses the occupied Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology on Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East’s CJPME DEBRIEFThe Harbinger Media Network includes more than 60 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & m

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 BERRYGROUNDStalk with the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives’ Ricardo Tranjan about his book 'THE TENANT CLASS' on PULLBACKspeak with researcher Moss Robeson about the University of Alberta's 1.5 million in endowments and donations dedicated to Waffen-SS veterans on THE FORGOTTEN CORNERlook back at the history of Blairmore, Alberta, which elected Canada’s first communist town council in 1933, on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGEThe Harbinger Media Network includes more than 60 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Sav

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 SHOWexplore how people labeled with intellectual and developmental disabilities have been confined by the state on INVISIBLE INSTITUTIONSask Migrant Workers Alliance for Change’s Syed Hussan why a UN special rapporteur on slavery paid a visit to Canada this summer on REDEYEexplain what role Ukrainian ultra-nationalists and World War 2 Nazis play in Canada, and how their activities contribute to foreign policy commitments on ALBERTA ADVANTAGEThe Harbinger Media Network includes more than 60 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio

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 CAPITALISMexplain how dark money networks from out-of-province have set their sights on Manitoba's election on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCESexplore how Newfoundland & Labrador is facing a critical juncture on energy policy and climate change on THE INDEPENDENT'S BERRYGROUNDSexamine the deeply unsettling world of 'Danielle Smith Thought' on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGEThe Harbinger Media Network includes more than 60 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio at CIUT 89.5FM in Toronto, CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg and at Vancouver

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 PULLBACKtalk regularization and exploitation with Justice For Migrant Workers on LABOUR INTENSIVEask who the Bank of Canada’s sledgehammer interest rates hurt the most on CANADA RE-IMAGINEDexplore the collision of the children’s movie Bigfoot Family and Project Cauldron, a 1950’s plot to use nuclear explosions to mine the tar sands on ALBERTA ADVANTAGEThe Harbinger Media Network includes more than 60 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio at CIUT 89.5FM in Toronto, CKUT 90.3FM in M

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 SASKATCHEWANunpack Bill C-18 and Facebook/Instagram’s scorched earth policy banning Canadian journalism on TECH WON’T SAVE USexamine the shifting political discourse surrounding the World Economic Forum and political elites on DARTS AND LETTERSdiscuss grocery store profiteering, the housing market and the Bank of Canada with economist Jim Stanford on ALBERTA ADVANTAGEThe Harbinger Media Network includes more than 60 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio at CIUT 89.5FM in Toronto, CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg and

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 Winnipegunpack the negative impact of the Canadian Blood Services' 15-year deal with a for-profit plasma corporation on CO-OP RADIO’s REDEYEdive into how the Corporate Mapping Project gathers data about capitalist, academic and governmental involvement with the fossil fuel industry on DATA DECODED from Concordia University’s Data Justice Hub in Montrealexplain why the conspiratorial right wing convoy heading to Toronto to “Save the Children” is already spinning out of control on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCESThe Harbinger Media Network includes more than 60 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech W

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 Torontounpack a landmark Quebec Superior Court decision that found police stops are often based on race at Vancouver Co-op Radio’s REDEYEdive into a Newfoundland and Labrador “fishsplainer” on the BERRYGROUNDS podcast with The Independent's editor-in-chief Justin Brakelook at the recent wave of anti-LGBT+ protests and hate crimes with Canadian Anti-Hate Network researcher Kurt Phillips on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCESThe Harbinger Media Network includes more than 60 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is

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 based on at Gender, Sex, and Tech: An Intersectional Feminist Guide.

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 rationale for its nuclear bombing of Japan: avoiding the huge casualties that would supposedly have resulted from putting boots on Japanese soil. Other, more cynical reasons would emerge in time.This is a story about America’s development of Little Boy and Fat Man, featuring interviews with German-American nuclear physicist Hans Bethe, head of the theoretical physics division of the Los Alamos Laboratory, where America’s first nuclear ‘device’, Trinity, was developed, and the winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics. Host D

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, humorous… Canada Re-Imagined.On episode 9: all transportation is linked, networked. We know that vehicles in the future will be greener for both cargo and people. But that’s only half the problem. Think, congestion. Now, double the traffic, and double the fun as host Patrick Esmond-White untangles transportation gridlock. Subscribe to Canada Re-Imagined wherever you get your podcasts.

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 the industry like corporate ownership and cosmetic dentistry and more from his new Fernwood Publishing release ‘About Canada: Dental Care’. The ‘About Canada’ series includes short, easy to read volumes on immigration, health care, disability rights, poverty, media among other topics. Find the series and more essential left Canadian books at www.fernwoodpublishing.ca.

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 podcasts.

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 to talk about her latest book from Fernwood ‘Realizing a Good Life: Men’s Pathways Out of Drugs and Crime’.Find the book at your local library, independent bookstore and at https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/realizing-a-good-lifeFind 'Property Wrongs: The 70 Year Fight for Public Housing in Winnipeg' at https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/property-wrongs

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:@JimboStanfordSign 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/labourintensiveFollow the podcast on social media: https://twitter.com/Labintpodhttps://www.instagram.com/labourintensivepod/https://www.tiktok.com/@labourintensivepod

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 special 40th birthday best wishes segment recorded for Harbinger pal and friend of the show Rob Rousseau.

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.