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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-forFind the new Fernwood Publishing release 'Making a Home' at https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/making-a-home

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

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 Public Accountability Collective of Toronto's AJ Withers, Winnipeg scholar and activist Kevin Walby from the Centre for Access to Information and Justice, RenovictionsTO's Patricio Davilla and Montreal's Parc-ex Anti-Eviction Mapping Project about how activists and critical researchers are deploying techniques like mapping and countermapping to visualize social justice issues in new ways.Find out more at https://datajusticehub.ca/https://renovictionsto.com/https://antievictionmontreal.org/en/https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/caij

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 justice at Toronto Metropolitan University, and is completing her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto where she is a Vanier Scholar studying Indigenous/Canadian politics.Hear her new podcast REDSURGENCE at www.rileyyesno.comSubscribe to PULLBACK wherever you get your podcasts and find the archives at https://www.pullback.org/

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 Servants Forced Government to Improve Deal By Going on Strike' and more.Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts and find more about the Congress at https://liftingeveryoneup.ca/Order your copy of Building A Better World: An Introduction to the Labour Movement in Canada at https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/building-a-better-world-4th-edition

The fiercely independent, proudly polemical and reader-supported BRIARPATCH has been publishing award-winning, hard-hitting journalism and critical commentary out of Regina, Saskatchewan since 1973. In it's 50th anniversary year Unpacking the News is excited to partner with so-called Canada's oldest legacy Left media space for bi-monthly episodes featuring journalists talking about their original insight, analysis and grassroots reporting from the magazine's latest issue. On this episode social service work educator Griffin Epstein and trauma-informed adult educator Kate Klein discuss disability justice as a lens for organizing collective safety in the labour movement and what the Left risks by erasing or “moving on” from COVID in their new piece 'THEY DON’T KNOW HOW TO FIGHT FOR THIS' in the May/June issue of Briarpatch, available now.For more visit briarpatchmag.comSupport Unpacking the News on Patreon.

Trailblazing progressive podcast UNPACKING THE NEWS is back after a 30 month hiatus for an all-new Season 2! In this kick-off episode BERRYGROUNDS' Justin Brake joins host Andre Goulet to explore how his work as The Independent interim editor will be afflicting the comfortable in Newfoundland and Labrador society and politics, his background in unapologetic, confrontational journalism and how Pierre Poilievre’s attacks on the CBC distort the reality of public broadcasting in so-called Canada. Watch for new episodes this spring and summer co-produced with Briarpatch contributors celebrating the magazine's 50th anniversary, Fernwood Publishing authors discussing new releases, conversations with data activists at the Mobilizing Data for Justice conference May 5-7 plus a week-long daily show at the 2023 Canadian Labour Congress covering events at the year's big union conference happening May 8-12 in collaboration with our friends at Quebec solidarity journalism cooperative Pivot. If you like the work we do consid

Hosts Stefan and David Hostetter in Toronto and Lauren Latour in Ottawa welcome world-renown geneticist and environmentalist David Suzuki and filmmakers Mark Starowicz and Caitlin Starovicz for an in-depth conversation discussing his new CBC documentary Apocalypse Plan B, delving into ideas for artificially trying to cool the earth and asking if a rise in “geoengineering” could risk mass flooding, droughts, or ultimately an era of international climate wars among nations. Watch it at https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/apocalypse-plan-bGreen Majority broadcasts on CIUT 89.5 FM in Toronto on Fridays at 11AM EST, on campus and community radio stations around the country or wherever you get your podcasts. Find out more about Canada's longest-running environment show at https://www.greenmajority.ca/

Chris Smalls was a worker at an Amazon packing facility in Staten Island when he was fired from the company for speaking out about unsafe working conditions during the pandemic. About a year later, he was instrumental in the creation of the first Amazon union in US history after a long fight with the union-busting corporate giant.Smalls eventually became the face of the movement and the architect behind “new school of labour” that changed the face of what labour leadership looks like and how workers can fight for their rights—even in the face of seemingly impossible odds.Since the union’s victory, Smalls has been trying to use the momentum to continue to push for workers to organize at other Amazon facilities and elsewhere, telling them, “you only lose if you give up.” On a new episode of Press Progress Sources he joins host Rumneek Johal to talk about paving the way forward for workers.This conversation was recorded live at the Broadbent Institute's 2023 Progress Summit in Ottawa. Watch his keynote address

For the first time since Canada's premiere politically and socially progressive conference launched in 2014 this year's Progress Summit included a workshop exploring how podcasts can be a force for change in a time of division in a special showcase convened by the Harbinger community. An astonishing 14 network hosts sat down for the 90 minute panel including TECH WON’T SAVE US' Paris Marx, INVISIBLE INSTITUTIONS' Megan Linton, BIG SHINY TAKES' Eric Wickham, PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES' Stephen Magusiak and Rumneek Johal, PULLBACK's Kristen Pue, PIVOT QUEBEC's Gabrielle Brassard-Lecours, THE HOSER MEDIA's Shannon Carranco and Kevin Taghabon, DARTS & LETTERS' Gordon Katic, ALBERTA ADVANTAGE's William Gillies and GREEN MAJORITY's Stefan Hostetter and Lauren Latour and moderator Andre Goulet. Big thanks to the Broadbent Institute for the opportunity to talk about how Harbinger values like collaboration, community and social justice are leading the fight against radical right-wing voices in Canadian media and worki

The 2023 Progress Summit conference, happening March 8-10 in Ottawa, is an ambitious event bringing together hundreds of socialists, social democrats, leftists, NGOs, labour organizers and rank and file union members from around the country, featuring compelling speakers and big ideas from around the world.The annual Summit is convened by the Broadbent Institute, an influential left-ish think tank that works on movement building around income inequality, a green economy and democratic renewal, creating a space for building stronger understanding and solidarity across a wide range of movements.On Harbinger Society Presents episode 50 Broadbent Institute director Jen Hassum and director of policy and engagement Clement Nocos join host Andre Goulet to talk about why this year's Summit theme of ‘Stronger Together: Forging Unity in a Time of Division’ is strategically crucial for movement-building on the left.

On Harbinger Society Presents ep49 the Council of Canadians' Nikolas Barry-Shaw joins host Andre Goulet to discuss the Fight for Pharmacare Alliance, a national coalition coming together to raise political pressure and convince the feds that universal pharmacare needs to happen in a conversation unpacking the patient voices and patient advocacy groups represented in the alliance, how Big Pharma lobbying has increased since the Liberal/NDP confidence and supply agreement, what kind of timeline for implementation the alliance is calling for and more.Plus: introducing 'About Canada: Dental Care', a new book providing a rare look behind the curtain of the dental corporation industry that describes the lack of access to dental care in relation to a broader picture of inequity, colonialism, ableism, and racism from Fernwood Publishing.Join the 'Pharamacare Now' campaign at https://canadians.org/pharmacare-now/?utm_source=Council+of+Canadians&utm_campaign=29430f47bd-2023-02-13-Pharmacare-Launch&utm_medium=em

The Harbinger Media Network's showcase at next month's 2023 Progress Summit will pick up on this year’s conference theme of ‘Stronger Together: Forging Unity in a Time of Division’. On episode 48 of Harbinger Society Presents Megan Linton from Invisible Institutions, Big Shiny Takes' Eric Wickham and Tech Won't Save Us host Paris Marx join Andre Goulet to explain why solidarity, collaboration and mutual aid are some of the key characteristics of Harbinger’s approach to building a media community.The 2023 Progress Summit is happening March 8-10 in Ottawa! Join Eric, Megan, Paris, Andre plus Stephen Magusiak and Rumneek Johal (Press Progress), Kristen Pue (Pullback), Gabrielle Brassard-Lecours (Pivot), Shannon Carranco and Kevin Taghabon (The Hoser), Gordon Katic (Darts & Letters), Will Gillies (Alberta Advantage) and Stefan Hostetter and Lauren Latour (Green Majority) for a 90 minute showcase/workshop begining at 1pm at the Delta Hotel.Tickets are available at broadbentinstitute.ca/summit202This panel was

The tuition freeze is over. Anger is growing over how the university is being managed. And now faculty members are on strike. The crisis at Memorial University cannot be understood without considering the institution's slide into corporatization.On the inaugural episode of BERRYGROUNDS former Provost and Vice President Academic Noreen Golfman joins host Justin Brake for an inside look at the deeply entrenched idea that MUNL exists first and foremost to serve Newfoundland and Labrador's corporate interests and the economy.This podcast is made in collaboration with progressive journalism outlet The Independent. Support their work at https://theindependent.ca/

As Quebec’s political and media class continue their attack on Amira Elghawaby, the federal government’s new lead on Islamophobia in Canada, independent journalist Taylor C. Noakes (CBC, The Maple, Canadian Dimension, Jacobin) joins host Andre Goulet for a critical conversation exploring where public discourse, social values, discriminatory legislation and xenophobia intersect in the not-so-belle-province.Read Noakes' recent piece at https://cultmtl.com/2023/02/treatment-of-amira-elghawaby-exposes-islamophobia-she-was-hired-to-address-quebec-canada-bill-21/Find Drimonis' book at https://www.lindaleith.com/en/Pages/bookDetail/We_OthersThis conversation was recorded on February 6th, 2023.

The law-defying strike by the 55, 000 workers in CUPE's Ontario School Board Council of Unions in November 2022 was brief but arguably the most important strike in so-called Canada in almost two decades. On ep25 of Victor's Children Spring magazine's Peter Hogarth joins host David Camfield about the background to the strike, how it unfolded, why it ended the way it did, and its lessons.

On November 1st, Israelis completed their fifth election in four years, returning Benjamin Netanyahu to power with the support of extreme, far-right figures who are about to play a major role in the emerging coalition government. Although negotiations to form the government are still underway, it is commonly said that this may be Israel’s most far-right government in history.On this episode of CJPME DEBRIEF host Michael Bueckert is joined by Natasha Roth-Rowland of +972 Magazine to break down the election, introduce us to the key players, and reflect on the impact that this may have on the lives of Palestinians under apartheid.Support Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East's work at https://www.cjpme.org/donate_epRead +972 Magazine's independent journalism from Israel and Palestine at https://www.972mag.com/

In his new book 'Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change' Winnipeg academic David Camfield argues that a just transition from fossil fuels won’t be delivered by businesspeople or politicians. On Harbinger Society Presents episode 46 he joins host Andre Goulet to talk about the book and his podcast VICTOR'S CHILDREN exploring "socialism from below" which joined the network in May 2022. Plus: the long-running Green Majority community radio programme and podcast joined Harbinger in October. Stefan and David Hostetter in Toronto and Lauren Latour in Ottawa describe the origins of the show and Lauren's observations after having attended COP27 in Egypt last month and Montreal's COP15 in December 2022. Order David's book at https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/future-on-fire Find Victor's Children and Green Majority Radio at harbingermedianetwork.com and at https://soundcloud.com/user-737267994 and http://www.greenmajority.ca/

Hosts Christo Aivalis and Andy Borkowski welcome the almost-elected 2021 Green Party leadership candidate runner-up activist and advocate Dmitri Lascaris for a conversation unpacking the failures of the Green Party of Canada and exploring how to build an ecosocialist Canada that goes beyond the limited scope of Green or NDP policy proposals. Support the show and join the Discord for just $1/month at https://www.patreon.com/LeftTurnCanada

What and who are the main drivers of anti-Muslim hate in Canada? On a new CJPME DEBRIEF hosts Michael Bueckert and Tom Woodley are joined by Jasmin Zine, author of a new report on the Canadian “Islamophobia Industry” for a conversation exploring some of the key organizations, personalities, and discourses responsible for perpetuating anti-Muslim hate in Canada, how the connections between them form an ecosystem of hate and the role of certain fringe-right, pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian voices in spreading Islamophobic views. Read the report 'The Canadian Islamophobia Industry: Mapping Islamophobia’s Ecosystem in the Great White North' at https://iphobiacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Canada-Report-2022-1.pdf Support Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East's work at https://www.cjpme.org/donate_ep