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On episode 31 of Harbinger Society Presents Toronto scholar and drug user rights activist Hilary Agro sits down with host Andre Goulet in Montreal to talk about the re-launch of BREAD AND POPPIES and how the show explores the ways in which the War on Drugs intersects with a post-capitalist future, then academic Kristen Pue in Ottawa and researcher Kyla Hewson in Vancouver join Andre to unpack their show PULLBACK's long-running mission to demystify ethical consumption. Support Hilary's work at https://www.patreon.com/hilaryagro Explore the Pullback archives at https://www.pullback.org/ These conversations were recorded on March 6th and 7th, 2022.

On a special Harbinger Society double feature Ottawa-based disability rights advocate and researcher Megan Linton joins host Andre Goulet to discuss her exceptional new podcast Invisible Institutions, then housing justice activist Dr. David DesBaillets welcomes Montrealer Rebecca Bain to share her story of successfully fighting back against a corporate landlord renoviction on a new segment of Housing Party. Find out more about Megan's work at http://invisibleinstitutions.com/ and find Invisible Institutions wherever you get your podcasts. Read about Rebecca's story at https://ricochet.media/en/3763/this-tenant-fought-renoviction-and-won-heres-how Hear more from Paul Cargnello at https://paulcargnello.bandcamp.com/

eplay's Shama Rangwala and Desmond Cole, Big Shiny Takes' Eric Wickham, Jeremy Appel and Marino Greco and Kino Lefter's Evan MacDonald join Harbinger director Andre Goulet for an exceptional night of analysis and fun as the panel reviews Canada's three weeks of far-right insurrection and occupation in the 2nd of a two part conversation. Plus: a very special 'A Fairytale of Ottawa' presentation. Watch the full conversation at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1301505681 Support the shows at https://www.patreon.com/kinolefter and https://www.patreon.com/bigshinytakes Find out more about Replay at https://www.pedagogyandpraxis.com/replaypodcast

Replay's Shama Rangwala and Desmond Cole, Big Shiny Takes' Eric Wickham, Jeremy Appel and Marino Greco and Kino Lefter's Evan MacDonald join Harbinger director Andre Goulet for an exceptional night of analysis and fun as the panel reviews Canada's three weeks of far-right insurrection and occupation in part one of a two part conversation. Watch the full conversation at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1301505681 Support the shows at https://www.patreon.com/kinolefter and https://www.patreon.com/bigshinytakes Find out more about Replay at https://www.pedagogyandpraxis.com/replaypodcast

On Harbinger Society Presents ep28 Dr. Jess Green, Kai Nagata and Dr. Roberta Lexier from Harbinger's board of directors join host/executive director Andre Goulet to explore where the Gitxsan blockade, academic strike organizing and re-thinking climate policy intersect. Plus: what role does new media play as a space for popular education in confronting the far-right? And: Gordon Katic reveals the origins of the exceptional Darts & Letters podcast and Atlantic correspondent James Brown says goodbye to Erin O'Toole's political career.

Ethical consumption podcast PULLBACK hosts Kristen Pue and Kyla Hewson welcome OFFCOURT's Abdul Malik to explore what an ethical Olympics would look like, and how they'd affect the environment, vulnerable citizens and labour movements. Plus: the panel connects the Beijing's 2022 Winter Games to global politics, sponsorships and corruption, and the value of sports to communities. Find out more about the show at https://www.pullback.org/ Watch for Offcourt's Season 3 launching in Spring 2022.

Harbinger's premium prestige show returns with all-new episodes exploring the latest additions to Canada's favourite podcast network as The Maple editor-in-chief Alex Cosh introduces NORTH UNTAPPED and Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East's Tom Woodley and Michael Bueckert talk about DEBRIEF with host Andre Goulet. Find The Maple's North Untapped at https://www.readthemaple.com/ Subscribe to CJPME's Debrief at https://www.cjpme.org/ Become a member of the Harbinger community and get early access to this and other exclusive shows at https://harbingermedianetwork.com/

On Anti-Girlboss Socialist Club ep5, Paniz and Tamsyn are joined by Judy Rebick to talk about her book Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution, outlining 60 years of feminist activism in Canada and exploring abortion, socialist feminism, anti-war and anti-carceral activism, story telling as a medium and the anti-violence movement. Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution by Judy Rebick https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/391053/ten-thousand-roses-by-judy-rebick/9780143015444 Heroes in My Head: A Memoir by Judy Rebick https://houseofanansi.com/products/heroes-in-my-head Gender Trouble's episode on Wages for Housework Movement https://open.spotify.com/episode/61PkbwAaDolG888LScVIrb?si=2ae6de9d7c7943fe&nd=1 Take Back The Fight: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age by Nora Loreto https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/take-back-the-fight https://open.spotify.com/show/5apowL1mc8KMMQROg7NbKv?si=347c6ddb8c27487c&nd=1 The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Po

The conversation continues as Big Shiny Takes' Eric Wickham and Jeremy Appel, Kino Lefter's Evan MacDonald and Harbinger director Andre Goulet consider the political electoral reality facing the patriotic demands of #FreedomConvoy2022 and Canadian conservatism in general, argue that Terry Fox would have been pro vaccine and ask if Pierre Pollievre has the most punchable face in Ottawa. Watch the full conversation at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1280281145 Support the shows at https://www.patreon.com/kinolefter and https://www.patreon.com/bigshinytakes

Big Shiny Takes' Eric Wickham and Jeremy Appel, Kino Lefter's Evan MacDonald and Harbinger director Andre Goulet survey the wreckage of a fallen nation as the #FreedomConvoy2022 patriots descend on Ottawa, featuring inspiring songs from the movement like Sandy Lambert's 'Trucker Convoy', Christ Sampson's 'Freedom Convoy 2022' and Marcel Irnie's 'Canada United'. Watch the full conversation at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1280281145 Support the shows at https://www.patreon.com/kinolefter and https://www.patreon.com/bigshinytakes

North Untapped digs deeper into topics covered in articles written by The Maple contributors and other Canadian journalists, exploring politics, foreign policy, imperialism and history from a socialist perspective in conversation with editor-in-chief Alex Cosh. On the 4th installment of the show's 'Great Guilded North' series Cosh speaks with journalist Cassandra Kislenko about how Canada facilitated one of the worst acts of violence against Indigenous People in this continent's history. Episode background: Nova Scotia-born Izaak Walton Killam made his millions through pulp, paper and hydro-electric projects across Latin America. His Montreal-based International Power company controlled a monopoly on electrical power in El Salvador and charged extremely high rates on the country’s exploited workers. When Indigenous peasants began an organized uprising in 1932, Killam called in a personal favour to protect his capital. This would end in a civilian massacre that would usher in decades of military dictatorsh

The 1940s saw Canada's socialist party soar in popularity, with the CCF forming official opposition in Ontario in 1943, and public opinion polls showing nationalizing industries to be widely popular across the country. How did the popularity of the CCF's positions get diffused, managed, or attacked in the years following the Second World War? Support the show at https://www.patreon.com/albertaadvantage

The first annual Dumb Book Awards turns the page on 2021 as Washington Post columnist David Moscrop and Jacobin staff writer Luke Savage join host Gordon Katic to review the mostly mediocre 'The Two Michaels: Innocent Canadian Captives and High Stakes Espionage in the US-China Cyber War', Pete Buttigieg’s totally terrible 'Trust: America’s Best Chance' and more. Support the show at https://www.patreon.com/dartsandletters SHOW NOTES: First, (@4:09) the two Michaels and Meng affair gripped Canada and the world for the better part of three years. Could a single book capture the intricacies, context, and implications of that behemoth geopolitical moment? Washington Post columnist, podcaster and Darts and Letters show-notes writer/guy writing this sentence David Moscrop argues…maybe. But it’s certainly not The Two Michaels: Innocent Canadian Captives and High Stakes Espionage in the US-China Cyber War by Mike Blanchfield and Fen Osler Hampson. Then, (@17:39) some argue trust is the glue that holds society toget

Live on the Big Shiny Takes’ TwitchTV stream Eric Wickham, Marino Greco, Jeremy Appel and Andre Goulet sit by the fire with carols, hot chocolate, and a warm and wholesome game of Pundit Grifter Bingo as they read an absolutely wild Western Standard column by Dave Makichuk. (warning: YouTube fireplace Christmas songs are consistent through this episode lol) Read Makichuk’s insane piece at https://westernstandardonline.com/2021/12/makichuk-the-west-will-rise-its-only-a-matter-of-time/ Watch and subscribe to Big Shiny Takes on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/bigshinytakes Support the show at https://www.patreon.com/bigshinytakes

Hosts Eric Wickham, Marino Greco and Jeremy Appel ask where Steven Guilbeault was on 9/11 as they sit down with Climate Justice Edmonton's Bronwen Tucker and Green Majority Radio's Stefan Hostetter to discuss a conspiratorial October 2021 Jesse Kline column about Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault and the ongoing inability of Canadian punditry to talk realistically about climate justice. Support the show at https://www.patreon.com/bigshinytakes

On a recent episode of The Progress Report host Duncan Kinney sits down with Noah Zatzman, the former advisor to former Green Party of Canada leader Annamie Paul (who blew up the Greens by posting about how he wanted to unseat two-thirds of the party's sitting MPs for their criticism of Israel), for a bizarre and revealing feature-length interview you won't want to miss. Support Progress Report's journalism at https://www.theprogressreport.ca/patrons

Launching in October 2021, Harbinger is a progressive podcast community featuring a dramatically different kind of discourse on society and politics that you won’t hear anywhere else in mainstream Canadian media. In a podcast field dominated by right-wing voices, our mission is to create a space to educate and entertain, featuring the best analysis and interviews from dozens of shows across the country, including long-running legacy podcasts like The Alberta Advantage and new shows from Desmond Cole and Nora Loreto. Find out more about why we launched Harbinger in this message from executive director Andre Goulet and chip in to help us build the community at https://harbingerprod.wpengine.com/support-us/

On a new Kino Lefter host Evan 'Dr. Movies' MacDonald welcomes Alex from Haus of Decline to discuss cipher politics, Mayor Pete's struggle against Black voters and 'Boys State' director Jesse Moss' "intimate" look at the domestic and campaign life of Mayor Pete Buttigieg during the 2020 Democratic primary. Support the show at https://www.patreon.com/kinolefter Find Alex's music, comix and podcast at https://www.hausofdecline.com/

Darts and Letters is a left newsmagazine covering public intellectualism and the politics of academia from a populist perspective. On ep39 host Gordon Katic welcomes Canadian Media Concentration Project director Dwayne Winseck and American Economic Liberties Project research director Matt Stoller to discuss how corporate concentration affects Canada’s communications system, the global supply chain and politics on both sides of the border. Subscribe to Darts and Letters wherever you get your podcasts and support the show at https://www.patreon.com/dartsandletters

On Replay activist and writer Desmond Cole and cultural studies scholar Shama Rangwala explore how popular culture shapes our world. On a special Halloween-themed episode 2, Desmond and Shama discuss their favourite 'Treehouse of Horror' episodes from The Simpsons and unpack the psychological horror of Robert Eggers’ 2015 film The Witch. Spoilers abound, so you may want to watch The Witch before listening. Please consider donating or boosting the fundraiser for 1492 Landback Lane: https://www.gofundme.com/f/legal-fund-1492-land-back-lane. Write the show at replaythepod@gmail.com and follow on Twitter at @ReplayThePod.