Ricochet's Unpacking The News

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Ricochet Media's Unpacking the News: a bi-weekly conversation highlighting public-interest journalism and Canadas cultural and political diversity from coast to coast to coast .

Episodios

  • ep110: Alberta's Attack on Trans Kids + Doug Ford vs. FOI Requests

    21/04/2026 Duración: 58min

    Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we discuss the US and Israel's illegal war on Iran and Lebanon on BUBBLE POP explain how Doug Ford's new FOI law throttles reporting in Ontario on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, discuss the strategy behind Prime Minister Mark Carney's push for a majority through floor-crossing on THE NORTH STATE and examine the province's reactionary backlash targeting trans people and children on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.The Harbinger Media Network includes 89 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, at CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo, on CJUM 101.5FM and CK

  • ep109: Quebec's Catholic Social Democracy + the Return of 'Unmaking Saskatchewan'

    14/04/2026 Duración: 58min

    Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we unpack why the economy is so uneven on SRSLY WRONG, introduce the Catholic roots of Quebec’s social democratic tradition on the Broadbent Institute’s PERSPECTIVES, explain why public health care advocates are protesting in response to Alberta’s new two-tier health care law on REDEYE and celebrate the triumphant return of UNMAKING SASKATCHEWAN.The Harbinger Media Network includes 89 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, at CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo, on CJUM 101.5FM and CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, at CiTR 101.9FM, CJSF 90

  • ep108: The Avi Era Begins + Labour Action Basics 101

    07/04/2026 Duración: 58min

    Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we unpack the big Avi Lewis win at last week’s NDP leadership convention on THE BREACH SHOW, explain how to save Canadian healthcare on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, look back at the repression of pro-Palestinian encampments at University of Calgary and University of Alberta on STUDENT POWER and talk strikes, picket lines, labour boards and more in an overview of labour action basics on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.The Harbinger Media Network includes 89 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, at CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo, on CJUM 101.5FM

  • ep107: the John Howard Society of Manitoba interview (w/ John Samson Fellows + Emily Leedham)

    31/03/2026 Duración: 58min

    Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On a special new interview episode John Howard Society of Manitoba's John Samson Fellows (The Weakerthans, Propaghandi) and Emily Leedham (Press Progress, Rank & File) join host Andre Goulet for an exclusive conversation about faith, carceral justice, colonialism and reconciliation. The Harbinger Media Network includes 89 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, at CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo, on CJUM 101.5FM and CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, at CiTR 101.9FM, CJSF 90.1FM and at CFRO 100.5FM in Vancouver, at Hamilton's CFMU 93.3FM, at Radio L

  • ep106: Mapping the Manosphere + Can Unapologetic Socialism Save the NDP?

    24/03/2026 Duración: 58min

    Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we map the Manosphere on POLITE CONVERSATIONS, explain why ‘unapologetic socialism’ can revive the NDP on THE BREACH SHOW, connect the 1919 Anglo-Persian Agreement and the British-organized coup overthrowing the Shah of Iran on ANTI EMPIRE PROJECT and meet the radical mid 20th Century father-son duo who became two of British Columbia’s left-wing pioneers  on the Perspective Journal’s SOCIAL DEMOCRATS OF THE NORTH.The Harbinger Media Network includes 89 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, at CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo,

  • ep105: Canadian Oil & Gas and Iran + US-style Charter Schools in Alberta

    17/03/2026 Duración: 58min

    Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we discuss the costs of Canada’s growing partnership with India on THE BREACH SHOW, explain why Oil & Gas interests lie about the future of their projects while profiting from the war in Iran on Sierra Club Canada's THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA and unpack the fallout from Vancouver mayor Ken Sim’s  false accusations that city councillors are dealing drugs on REDEYE and talk about American-style Charter Schools and how they relate to the broader changes happening in the public education system on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.The Harbinger Media Network includes 89 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3F

  • ep104: Alberta Separatism Rally Eyewitness + Costs of the Canada/India Partnership

    10/03/2026 Duración: 58min

    Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we talk Alberta separatism on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, investigate The Narwhal’s ongoing lawsuit against the RCMP on THE NORTH STATE, explore political activism of Olympic athletes on THE END OF SPORT and discuss the costs of Canada’s growing partnership with India on THE BREACH SHOW.  The Harbinger Media Network includes 89 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, at CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo, on CJUM 101.5FM and CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, at CiTR 101.9FM, CJSF 90.1FM and at CFRO 100.5FM in Vancouver, at Hamilton's CFMU 93.3

  • ep103: Fascist Aesthetics + No Arms in the Arts vs. Scotiabank

    03/03/2026 Duración: 58min

    Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we examine fascist aesthetics on GREEN PLANET MONITOR, concern troll the far-right on BUBBLE POP, unpack No Arms in the Arts’ BDS victory over Scotiabank on THE ORCHARD and explore the role Ukrainian ultra-nationalists have played in Canada's history on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.The Harbinger Media Network includes 86 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, at CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo, on CJUM 101.5FM and CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, at CiTR 101.9FM, CJSF 90.1FM and at CFRO 100.5FM in Vancouver, at Hamilton's CFMU 93.3FM, at Radio L

  • ep102: Canada and Iran + Climate Emergency Unit Legacy

    24/02/2026 Duración: 58min

    Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we argue that Canada’s expansion of medically-assisted dying reflects a deeper neoliberal logic on THE BREACH SHOW, assess the legacy of the Climate Emergency Unit on GREEN MAJORITY, examine how Anti-feminist narratives impact housing choices for women on REDEYE and enjoy an unforgettable highlight from part VII of the spectacular SRSLY WRONG saga 'Genocide, Apocalypse - The Injured Boy Inside'.The Harbinger Media Network includes 86 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, at CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo, on CJUM 101.5FM and

  • ep101: Critiquing the 2026 Winter Olympics + The RCMP vs. Journalism

    17/02/2026 Duración: 58min

    Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we talk about the Tumbler Ridge tragedy, youth radicalization and transphobia on BUBBLE POP, banter about Bad Bunny, the Super Bowl and the 2026 Winter Olympic on THE END OF SPORT, discuss the RCMP vs. Canadian journalism on THE NORTH STATE and explore the events surrounding 1983’s Operation Solidarity, one of the largest political protests in British Columbia's history, on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.The Harbinger Media Network includes 86 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, at CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo, on CJUM 101.5FM and CK

  • ep100: Cross-border Solidarity, ICE and Minneapolis Under Siege

    10/02/2026 Duración: 58min

    Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we discuss cross-border solidarity in the face of anti-migrant state violence in the US on THE BREACH SHOW, unpack the intersection of sports, labor, politics and Minneapolis under siege on THE END OF SPORT, talk about the fallout from Venezuela, Trump’s fossil fuel donors and EV tariffs on GREEN MAJORITY and hear about how Ott­awa is sys­tem­at­ic­ally under­fund­ing on-reserve child and family services on REDEYE.The Harbinger Media Network includes 86 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, at CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo,

  • ep99: Billionaire Wealth Flight + The 1969 Waffle Movement

    03/02/2026 Duración: 58min

    Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we examine the spinelessness of Canadian news media on THE NORTH STATE, break down how government inaction is endangering more than a 1000 grad students from Gaza who’ve been accepted into Canadian universities on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, explain why billionaire wealth flight is an empty threat on The Broadbent Institute’s PERSPECTIVES and take a deep dive into the NDP’s past in a conversation exploring the 1969 Waffle Manifesto and economic nationalism on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.The Harbinger Media Network includes 83 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria

  • ep98: New Democrat Futures + The NDP Leadership Race Contenders

    26/01/2026 Duración: 58min

    Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we introduce the campaign to renew the NDP and put it in the hands of the grassroots on THE BREACH SHOW and speak with NDP leadership candidates labour leader Rob Ashton, activist Avi Lewis and Memeber of Parliament Heather Macpherson on three new episodes of BUBBLE POP.The Harbinger Media Network includes 83 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, at CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo, on CJUM 101.5FM and CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, at CiTR 101.9FM, CJSF 90.1FM and at CFRO 100.5FM in Vancouver, at Hamilton's CFMU 93.3FM, at Radio La

  • ep97: The Narwhal Takes the RCMP to Court + Policy Interventions to Reduce Food Insecurity

    20/01/2026 Duración: 58min

    Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we explain why The Narwhal is taking the RCMP to court on REDEYE, examine how Canada's export framework allows military goods to bypass oversight and accountability on PALESTINE DEBRIEF, explore policy interventions to reduce food insecurity in Canada on GREEN PLANET MONITOR and unpack how our interactions with robots are changing our sense of ourselves on CYBORG GODDESS.The Harbinger Media Network includes 83 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, at CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo, on CJUM 101.5FM and CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg

  • ep96: Sweden Arms Canada + 20 years of GREEN MAJORITY RADIO

    12/01/2026 Duración: 58min

    Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we explain why it was a bad year for scabs and a good year for separatists on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, review the weapons-selling Swedish royal family's December visit to Canada on HABIBTI PLEASE, look back at the year in tech on TECH WON’T SAVE US and celebrate a landmark 1000th episode of GREEN MAJORITY.The Harbinger Media Network includes 83 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, at CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo, on CJUM 101.5FM and CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, at CiTR 101.9FM, CJSF 90.1FM and at CFRO 100.5FM in Vancouver, at

  • ep95: The North State vs. CANADALAND + Fulfilling Big Oil's Wish List

    09/12/2025 Duración: 58min

    Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we force Canadaland publisher Jesse Brown to face journalistic accountability on THE NORTH STATE, explain how Mark Carney and Alberta Premiere Danielle Smith are fulfilling Big Oil’s wish list on THE BREACH SHOW, look back at the life of  iconic socialist J.S. Woodsworth on the Perspective Journal’s Social Democrats of the North from The Broadbent Institute and argue that the rush for Indigenous identity policies in academia is causing harm on REDEYE. The Harbinger Media Network includes 83 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in A

  • ep94: Champagne Neoliberalism + Alberta's NDP and the LEAP Manifesto

    02/12/2025 Duración: 58min

    Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we look at what Mark Carney’s 2025 budget contains and how the nation building rhetoric the Prime Minister campaigned on could actually have been implemented on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, unpack Carney's cringe path-to-pipeline MOU between Alberta and the feds on BUBBLE POP,  look back on the impact of the LEAP Manifesto at the federal NDP's 2016 convention in Edmonton on THE PROGRESS REPORT and discuss how decades of Canadian mining interests and weapons smuggling made the country complicit in the war in Sudan on THE BREACH SHOW.The Harbinger Media Network includes 83 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CK

  • ep93: BC’s Zoomer-led Greens + CANADALAND Wasteland

    25/11/2025 Duración: 58min

    Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we talk about Atlantic Canada’s lobster crisis on BERRYRGROUNDS, speak with BC’s new Zoomer Green Party leader Emily Lowan on BUBBLE POP,  sift through the ashes of a post-CANADALAND wasteland on THE NORTH STATE and explain why the U.S. private equity owned Ksi Lisims LNG development project in British Columbia isn't nation building on THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA.This episode of Harbinger Showcase is brought to you by scholar-activist Nada Elia's new release 'Palestine and Feminist Liberation' from Between the Lines Books. The Harbinger Media Network includes 83 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKU

  • ep92: Alberta Labour's Existential Threat + Mark Carney's Harper-esque Budget

    18/11/2025 Duración: 58min

    Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we talk about the Liberal government’s new Harper-esque budget on THE BREACH SHOW, look back at a 19th century Montreal journalist who advocated for Quebec’s working poor on The Broadbent Institute’s PERSPECTIVES, discuss a new essential read for Canadians who want to advance reconciliation on REDEYE look at how organized labour in Alberta is responding to an existential threat as the province’s teachers are ordered back to work  by Danielle Smith’s UCP on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.The Harbinger Media Network includes 83 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victori

  • ep91: Inside the Budget Lockup + Wire Cutting American Tech

    11/11/2025 Duración: 58min

    Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we report from the federal budget journalist lockup on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, explore the bizarre pop culture of the far-right on BUBBLE POP, explain why we need to cut our American technology dependence on TECH WON’T SAVE US and develop a new parenting system to overcome the historical tension between fathers and sons on SRSLY WRONG. The Harbinger Media Network includes 83 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, at CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo, on CJUM 101.5FM and CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, at CiTR 101.9FM, CJSF 90.1FM and a

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