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Presenting a very spooky premiere episode of the inaugural season of 'The Harbinger Society Presents: The Left Podcast Conspiracy' from the Harbinger Media Network!

This terrifying Halloween conversation 'The Haunted Hustings: B.C.'s Decision 2020', featuring polisci pundits Stewart Prest and David Moscrop, B.C. Today's Shannon Waters and host Andre Goulet, comes courtesy of our pals at online Left thought and opinion journal Passage.....find it at readpassage.com. Get access to all exclusive content, including all upcoming episodes of this show, for as little as $3 a month at harbingermedianetwork.com.

Plus: an introduction to the Harbinger Media Network w/ Kino Lefter's Evan MacDonald and a critique of Saturday elections from comedian James Brown.

For more of Stewart Prest's BC election analysis go to https://vancouversun.com/news/politics/bc-election/bc-election-results-vancouver-false-creek

For more of Shannon Waters' work see https://muckrack.com/shannon-waters

To sign up for David Moscrop's online course at Passage go to https://readpassage.com/course/deepening-democracy/ and find his book 'Too Dumb for Democracy?' at https://gooselane.com/products/too-dumb-for-democracy

Music on this episode 'Neon Drip' (Blue Dot Sessions) + 'The Pleasure Kills' (Bare Wires) is courtesy of Creative Commons.

This conversation was recorded on October 25th, 2020.

Now unlocked for your edification and amusement, presenting a very special sophomore episode of the inaugural season of 'The Harbinger Society Presents: The Left Podcast Conspiracy' from the Harbinger Media Network!

This fun, friendly and heartwarming 2nd episode featuring comrades Nashwa Khan, host of 'Habibti Please' and 'Muslim Rumpsringa', Hilary Agro, host of 'Bread and Poppies' and Rob Rousseau host of '49th Parahell' and 'The Insurgents' comes courtesy of our pals at Passage. Find the best in online Canadian Left thought and opinion at readpassage.com. .

Plus: an introduction to the third season of Ricochet Media's 'le Plancher des Vaches' season 3 focusing on the 2020 US Presidential election w/ hosts Julie Dufort and Ludvic Moquin-Beaudry and executive producer Gabrielle Brassard-Lecours and a devastating electoral lament from comedian James Brown.

Find @nashwalina's @muslimrumspringa at https://soundcloud.com/user-194914331 and subscribe to @habibtiblease at https://habibtiplease.substack.com/

Hear @robrousseau's @49thparahell at https://49thparahell.libsyn.com/ and subscribe to @insurgentspod at https://theinsurgents.substack.com/podcast

Listen to @hilaryagro's @breadandpoppies at https://anchor.fm/bread-and-poppies

Music on this episode 'God Bless the USA' and The Star Spangled Banner' found via YouTube. Outro music 'Neon Drip' (Blue Dot Sessions) is courtesy of Creative Commons.

This conversation was recorded on November 4th, 2020.

Now unlocked for your edification and amusement, presenting episode 3 of the inaugural season of The Harbinger Society Presents!

In this conversation Laura Kruse (Jacobin, Kino Lefter), Tyler Ogilvie (The Alberta Advantage) and comedian Mav Adecer brutally assess Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party's 18 months in power and look back on a year from hell in Wildrose Country.

Plus: an introduction to the good work being done at Progress Alberta with Duncan Kinney and an analysis of Grimes' $90,000 FACTOR grant from comedian James Brown.

This conversation comes courtesy of our pals at Passage. Find the best in online Left Canadian thought and opinion at readpassage.com.

Get involved with Migrante Alberta at https://www.migrantealberta.ca/

To find out more about Mav's work check out
https://greenuofa.medium.com/the-climate-change-comedian-f6ab20297bd9

Find Duncan, James, Laura and Tyler on Twitter @duncankinney, @atjamesbrown, @_SaturnReturn and @georgefrowny and hear Duncan, Laura and Tyler's work on the Progress Report, Kino Lefter and Alberta Advantage podcasts, all on the Harbinger Media Network.  

Find out more about Duncan's work at progressalberta.ca

Music on this episode 'Algorithm' (Chad Crouch), 'Oblivion' (The Pleasure Kills) and 'Neon Drip' (Blue Dot Sessions) is courtesy of Creative Commons.

This conversation was recorded on November 15th, 2020.

Now unlocked and available for all, presenting episode 4 of the inaugural season of The Harbinger Society Presents! Independent, award-winning politics and culture magazine Briarpatch remains a cutting edge media outlet after nearly 50 years of publication. On this episode, host Andre Goulet (Tio'tia:ke/Montreal) welcomes three of the journalists who help make Briarpatch happen as current editor Saima Desai and lead on the new radical left Sask Dispatch project Sara Birell join the show from Regina (Treaty 4) and Nickita Longman, guest editor for the recent Landback issue, calls in from Winnipeg (Treaty 1).

Plus: legacy editor Valerie Zink describes the origins, early days and evolution of the magazine and comedian James Brown laments the end of the Atlantic Bubble from his family's shed in rural Prince Edward Island.

This conversation comes courtesy of our pals at Passage. Find the best in online Left Canadian thought and opinion at readpassage.com. .

Find all Briarpatch content free of charge, including the landmark Landback issue, at https://briarpatchmagazine.com/ and subscribe for just $30/year at https://briarpatchmagazine.com/subscribe

See the report on SK voter participation at
https://www.elections.sk.ca/reports-data/sk-voter-participation-1982-2016/

Find Nickita, Sara and James on Twitter @auntykita, @birlios, @atjamesbrown and @briarpatch

Music on this episode 'Algorithm' (Chad Crouch), 'The Second Line' (Clinic) and 'Neon Drip' (Blue Dot Sessions) is courtesy of Creative Commons.

This conversation was recorded on November 20th and 22nd, 2020.

On the Season 1 finale of Harbinger Society Presents host Andre Goulet convenes an all-star panel with Iranian-Canadian Congress policy chair Saman Tabasinejad in Toronto, Saudi Arabia/Canada investigative journalist Anthony Fenton in Vancouver and Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East VP Michael Bueckert in Montreal to discuss the Trudeau government's foreign policy failure in the region.

Plus: comedian James Brown shares a bed with Erin O'Toole in rural Prince Edward Island and Big Shiny Takes hosts Marino Greco, Jeremy Appel and Eric Wickham bury the hatchet with Andre in the inaugural 2020 BST/HSP Slumber Party Summit.

This conversation comes courtesy of our pals at Passage. Find the best in online Left Canadian thought and opinion at https://readpassage.com/ and find out more about the Harbinger community of Left podcasts at https://harbingermedianetwork.com/

Get involved with Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East at
https://www.cjpme.org/

Find out more about the Iranian-Canadian Congress at
https://www.iccongress.ca/

Follow this episode's guests on Twitter @anthonyfenton, @samantabasin, @mbueckert, @JeremyAppel1025, @ES_Wickham, @marinogreco and @atjamesbrown

Music on this episode 'Algorithm' (Chad Crouch), 'Pretend' (Malyssa Belarossa) and 'Neon Drip' (Blue Dot Sessions) is courtesy of Creative Commons.

This conversation was recorded on December 5th and 7th, 2020.

On this re-presentation of a December episode of the world's only anti-free speech podcast, National Post columnist John Ivison is mad at Churchill—Keewatinook Aski MP Niki Ashton and Nanaimo—Ladysmith MP Paul Manly for their support of a proposal to free Huawei heiress Meng Wanzhou, arrested by Canadian police in December, 2018 at the behest of the Trump administration.

In this conversation Harbinger Society host Andre Goulet joins Big Shiny Takes' Jeremy Appel, Marino Greco and Eric Wickham to hate-read the column, unpack Ivison's invocation of Lenin (or was it Stalin?) to declare the two MPs "useful idiots" and critique anti-China neo-McCarthyism in Canadian media.

Read Canadian Foreign Policy Institute Director Bianca Mugyenyi's response to Ivison's garbage take at Canadian Dimension: https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/new-group-of-progressive-mps-are-challenging-canadas-foreign-policy-myths

On an extra-length Season 2 launch Abdul Malik and Eytan Tobin introduce their new Harbinger-exclusive sports, history and politics podcast Offcourt and preview upcoming episodes including Cricket as Decolonial Praxis, How the ‘Miracle on Ice’ was a Cold War Turning Point and Why Amar’e Stoudemire Became a Zionist.

Plus: a PEI 2020 news round-up with comedian James Brown, a special presentation of the SOCIALYMPICS from the Toronto/Hamilton Left sketch comedy show Work It and an excerpt from a conversation with General Secretary of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions Tapan Sen on the November 26th mobilization of 250 million workers in an unprecedentedly massive General Strike, courtesy of Mostafa Heneway and Stephan Doucet at CKUT 90.3FM's Labour Radio. Harbinger Society Presents is hosted and produced by Andre Goulet in Montreal.

This conversation comes courtesy of our pals at Passage. Find the best in online Left Canadian thought and opinion at https://readpassage.com/ and find out more about the Harbinger community of Left podcasts at https://harbingermedianetwork.com/

Find out more about Canada's new home for Left comedy at https://widgetmag.com/ and hear more episodes of Work It at https://widgetmag.com/podcast/

Find more Labour Radio at https://ckut.ca/en/content/labour-radio

Hear Drum Circle Jerk at https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/drum-circle-jerk/id1465010612

Find our more about The Mind Refinery at https://www.themindrefinery.com/ and follow them on Twitter @TheMindRefinery

Follow this episode's guests on Twitter @supernanify, @scallemang, @socialistraptor, @RabbiDieHardMan and @atjamesbrown

Music on this episode 'Algorithm' (Chad Crouch) and 'Neon Drip' (Blue Dot Sessions) is courtesy of Creative Commons.

These conversations were recorded over late December 2020 and early January 2021.

On an unlocked S2, E2 of the Harbinger Society Presents host Andre Goulet welcomes Roberta Lexier, Jeremy Appel, Scott Schmidt and Mo Cranker of The Forgotten Corner podcast as we celebrate FC's addition to the network with a wide-ranging and astutely analytical conversation on being wary of Jason Kenney's decline and why progressive Albertans need to push the provincial NDP to the left. Also: Danielle Smith's long history of cancellation and some casual cursing and coarse prairie humour!

And: Andre laments Keanu Bexte's banal border drama as he unpacks Rebel Media's incredible capacity for grifting rubes on a flight to Hawaii with Katelyn Miitri and Jody Tomchishen from the Imperial News podcast.

Plus: PEI/Montreal comedian James Brown on cat economics and making lifetime subscriptions to the media we trust.

This conversation comes courtesy of our pals at Passage. Find the best in online Left Canadian thought and opinion at https://readpassage.com/ and find out more about the Harbinger community of Left podcasts at https://harbingermedianetwork.com/

Follow this episode's guests on Twitter @JeremyAppel1025, @rlexier, @mocranker + @shmitzysays (all @ForgCornPod) + @SkepticalJody, @KatelynMitri (both at @imperialnewz) and @atjamesbrown

Music on this episode 'Algorithm' (Chad Crouch) and 'Neon Drip' (Blue Dot Sessions) is courtesy of Creative Commons.

These conversations were recorded the week of January 10th, 2021.

On a new episode Work It's Sam Allemagne and Janet Mowat join host Andre Goulet for a Game Stop struggle session, then Lana Polansky, Hugh Stewart and Andrew Neville convene to lament Jon Kay's hair care regime, praise the rising tide of the Democratic Socialists of America of Canada's new political initiative and play an exciting round of ‘Hit or Miss’ with Sandra Coupland's new erotic thriller ‘Xi’s the One'.

Plus: Harbinger Atlantic correspondent James Brown weighs in with a controversial choice to replace Julie Payette as Governor General, a call for gamer representation at Rideau Hall and Hugh comes down hard against the enduring legacy of Stan Rogers.

Follow Andrew, Hugh, Lana, Janet, Sam and James on Twitter at @andrewneville, @hghstwrt, @mechapoetic, @supernanify, @scallemang and @atjamesbrown

Hear Andrew and Hugh's maritime Marxist legacy show 'Dog Island' and the left comedy of Sam and Janet's 'Work It' wherever you get your podcasts and check out Canada's new home for left satire and humour at widgetmag.com and @widgetmagLOL

Hear Hugh and Andrew's outstandingly conceptual Penhorn Summer albums at
https://soundcloud.com/penhornhalloween and at https://penhornsummer.bandcamp.com/album/ill-be-home-for-penhorn

Check out our pals Passage at https://readpassage.com/

And be sure to look for 'Xi's the One' at
https://www.amazon.ca/Xis-One-Sandra-Coupland-ebook/dp/B01N1XZ33L

Opening music on this episode courtesy of Henry Lee. Check out his radical left anthropological narrative show 'Deathnography' wherever you get your podcasts. The Blue Dot Sessions' 'Neon Drip' and Chad Crouch's 'Algorithms' is from Creative Commons.

This conversation was recorded on February 4th, 2021.

On an unlocked new episode of Harbinger Society Presents the panel buries Federalism as writer Nora Loreto (Sandy and Nora Talk Politics), chemist Ada McVean and podcaster extraordinaire Aliya Pabani (We Are Not the Virus) join host Andre Goulet to discuss what the colliding crises in long-term care, homelessness and academia tell us about the limitations of government in an increasingly fake country after almost a year of pandemic trauma.

Plus: Atlantic correspondent James Brown gets something off of his 'chess' and Forgotten Corner hosts Jeremy Appel, Scott Schmidt and Dr. Roberta Lexier weigh in on the insane possibility of a spring federal election.

Music on this episode 'Algorithm' (Chad Crouch) and 'Neon Drip' (Blue Dot Sessions) is courtesy of Creative Commons. Opening track 'Not Epic Just Light' was composed by Henry Lee. Find Henry's narrative ethnography show ‘Deathnography’ wherever you get your podcasts.

Follow Nora, Ada, Aliya, James, Henry, Jeremy, Scott & Roberta on Twitter at @NoLore, @AdaMcVean, @aliyapabani, @atjamesbrown, @deathnography, @JeremyAppel1025, @rlexier & @shmitzysays

Find out more about Nora's research on LTCs at
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M_RzojK0vwF9nAozI7aoyLpPU8EA1JEqO6rq0g1iebU/edit#gid=0 hear her podcast at https://sandyandnora.com/ and order her book at https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/take-back-the-fight

Hear Aliya's next-level narrative podcast work at https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/we-are-not-the-virus/id1530051155 and https://www.canadaland.com/shows/the-imposter/

Find out more about the Encampment Support Network at https://www.encampmentsupportnetwork.com/

This conversation was recorded on February 16th, 2021.

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In 2001, a campaign to reconstitute the NDP into a new party emerged, calling itself the New Politics Initiative. It proposed a party with stronger links with social movements and the anti-globalization campaigns that had been growing over the previous years, and had some high-profile spokespeople. What happened with this initiative? What was the response from within the NDP? Can anything be learned from this effort to reshape the NDP towards a more explicitly left-wing vision?

Listeners may also be interested in this 2018 episode, The Waffle, the NDP, and Full Breakfast Socialism.

It's the one-year anniversary of the pandemic and there's a whole lot to feel disillusioned by! Fortunately on a new 49th Parahell, none other than renowned author & activist Naomi Klein joins the show to speak with host Rob Rousseau as she expresses maybe the most radical idea of all: that, maybe, just maybe, things might be starting to get a bit better.

www.patreon.com/robrousseau

On an UNLOCKED endless election spectacular Drew Brown, Alicia Morry and Paris Marx in St. John's join host Andre Goulet to discuss Newfoundland and Labrador's unique political culture and reveal the most surprising billionaire of all. Plus: the panel reviews 2019 federal election campaign songs in the lead-up to what could be a nation-wide Spring 2021 vote.

And: comedian James Brown embraces controversy with a critical take on the character and values of Newfoundlanders and left video satirist PropaGanada performs a 'Ballad for Billionaires'.

Follow the infinite campaign with all of the excellent coverage at theindependent.ca including The Indy podcast and a recent piece from Alicia at https://theindependent.ca/2021/02/26/is-hindsight-20-20-breaking-down-the-2021-nl-election-saga/

Hear the globally popular 'Tech Won't Save Us' and find out more about Paris' work at https://techwontsave.us/

Watch 'Ballad for Billionaires' at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYgN7r293MU

See Progressive Conservative leader Ches Crosbie's weird and charming political advertisement at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xatOZTZjZ1Y

Check out the Lib/Con 2019 campaign songs at https://election.ctvnews.ca/rock-the-vote-who-has-the-best-campaign-theme-song-1.4597978

Re-live the passion of the Bloc's 'Le Quebec C'est Nous' at https://www2.blocquebecois.org/2019/09/le-bloc-presente-sa-chanson-de-campagne/

This conversation was recorded on March 18th, 2021.

On a super stoked pre-convention panel housing activist and Etobicoke NDP organizer Bri Gardner and co-president of the Jeunes Néodémocrates du Québec Gabriel Masi join host Andre Goulet to discuss policy priorities, shifting the party to the left, Jagmeet's vibes and the mixed legacy of Thomas Mulcair.

Plus: Atlantic correspondent James Brown suffers Mulcair nostalgia and places a pensive personal ad, community and political organizer Jessa McLean explains why she's campaigning to bring the NDP back to its roots as a socialist alternative to the mainstream and we pull out a warm welcome for anti-capitalist sketch comedy podcast Work It as new Harbinger community members Janet Mowat and Sam Allemang pitch a variety of questionable new show ideas at the HMN corporate head office in episode opener 'The Big Deal'.

Music on this episode 'Neon Drip' (Blue Dot Sessions) and 'Dwarf Planet' (Gurdonark) is courtesy of Creative Commons. Opening track 'Not Epic Just Light' was composed by Henry Lee. Find Henry's narrative ethnography show ‘Deathnography’ wherever you get your podcasts.

Listen to a full 58 years of Singapore's National Parade Day music at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iYjKazEOmk&list=PLw6GjJYVtN0zxzjSKgxfujBmTNhuNOqnv

Hear Nikki Yanofsky's 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics banger at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v0o27BPIIk

Find out more about next weekend's 4/9-4/11 NDP convention at https://www.ndp.ca/convention2021

This conversation was recorded on April 5th, 2021.

Work It is a sketch comedy podcast about jobs, working & capitalism, written and performed by Janet Mowat and Sam Allemang. This week’s episode includes a Quarantine Novel, the Highs & Furloughs game show, Socially Distanced Fatalities and more.

Get more of the best in anti-capitalist Canadian comedy at https://widgetmag.com/ and subscribe to the show at https://widgetmag.com/workit/ or wherever you get your podcasts!

Three-term Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi joins hosts Scott Schmidt and Jeremy Appel just days after announcing he will not be running for another term in office this fall for an intimate and refreshingly candid conversation reflecting on the journey that led him to become one of the most well-known municipal leaders in the world and the first Muslim mayor in Canadian history.

For more episodes of the show go to https://www.forgottencornerpod.com/

Support the podcast at https://www.patreon.com/forgottencornerpod

On episode 12 housing rights advocate David DesBaillet presents Housing Party, a recurring interview-length Harbinger Society segment exploring the crisis of housing in Canada, for a conversation with organizer and social housing policy scholar Josh Hawley on the recent victory for tenants in Ottawa’s Sandy Hill neighbourhood, the disturbingly cozy relationship between Doug Ford’s Conservatives and Ontario’s Landlord and Tenant Tribunal and how Josh's tweet about about Ottawa mayor Jim Watson made him a target of academic cancel culture.

Plus: Atlantic correspondent James Brown re-lives some truly creepy landlord trauma on a new installment of ‘Solitary Thoughts’.

Find David and Josh on Twitter @DDesBaillets and @SqwashHawley

Find Josh’s book ‘Villages in Cities’ at http://blackrosebooks.net/products/view/Villages+in+Cities%3A+Community+Land+Ownership%2C+Cooperative+Housing%2C+and+the+Milton+Parc+Story/83754

Find more of Paul Cargnello’s music at https://paulcargnello.bandcamp.com/

Introduction music courtesy of Henry Lee. Check out the recent episode of his narrative interview podcast 'Deathnography' featuring ‘The Jakarta Method’ author Vincent Blevins and The Leap program director Maya Menezes at https://open.spotify.com/episode/1tV0kHpgxBxK9JClIvBwzl?si=5LBsuzA3Q9qT6GKFbTaiNw&utm_source=copy-link&nd=1

For more on the Sandy Hill tenant victory read https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/osgoode-street-renovictions-rooming-houses-1.6010715

Get early access to the show and other Harbinger exclusives by becoming a network supporter at https://harbingermedianetwork.com/

This conversation was recorded on May 3rd, 2021.

On this episode Press Progress investigative reporters Emily Leedham and Stephen Magusiak join host Andre Goulet for a Winnipeg/Calgary/Montreal power panel exploring the provincial purgatory of pandemic Alberta.

Plus: journalist and 'The Forgotten Corner' co-host Scott Schmidt describes Medicine Hat's recent super-spreader event, Harbinger Atlantic correspondent James Brown reports on bad bosses from rural PEI and the panel does a deep dive into Emily's expose on how the federal government's CEWS is helping to sustain and support scab labour.

You can read the report at https://pressprogress.ca/companies-providing-scab-labour-to-saskatchewan-refinery-wont-say-if-they-spent-emergency-wage-subsidies-on-scabs/

Follow Stephen and Emily's reporting at https://pressprogress.ca/

Find more of Scott's work at https://medicinehatnews.com/author/scottschmidt/ and https://www.forgottencornerpod.com/

Music on this episode 'Neon Drip' (Blue Dot Sessions) and 'Dwarf Planet' (Gurdonark) is courtesy of Creative Commons.

These conversations were recorded on May 7th and 10th, 2021.

On the inaugural Harbinger Society Presents live recording it's an evening of history and hard questions on Canadian exceptionalism as Nashwa Khan and Shaadie Ali of Habibti Please and Deathnography's Henry Lee join host Andre Goulet for a conversation on Vincent Bevins' excellent 2020 book 'The Jakarta Method', Ottawa's Victims of Communism Memorial, how to fight for justice for Palestine and more.

Plus: Atlantic correspondent James Brown makes a bold proposal for another kind of monument in our nation's capital.

Special thanks to Zaid Siddiqui for research on this episode.

Hear the Q&A by supporting the community with a small monthly contribution at
https://harbingermedianetwork.com/

Support Habibti Please and check out episode 30 featuring conversations with the Palestinian Youth Movement and the framers of the 2021 NDP convention resolution at https://habibtiplease.substack.com/p/episode-30-with-palestine-youth-movement

Hear Henry Lee's conversation with Bevins on a recent episode of Deathnography at https://deathnography.libsyn.com/what-is-possible-realistic-dreams-and-the-myth-of-scarcity-ft-vincent-bevins-and-maya-menezes and support the show at https://www.patreon.com/deathnography

Support Palestinian Youth organizing at https://palestinianyouthmovement.com/donate

Islamic Relief is helping to provide immediate medical assistance and vital aid to all those affected by the violence and most in need at
https://www.islamicreliefcanada.org/emergencies/palestine/

Eye on Palestine is providing media coverage that mainstream news never will at
https://www.instagram.com/eye.on.palestine/

Find our more about the Movement to Safeguard Palestinian Communities and how to become part of the movement for peace at
https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/icareaboutpeace/

This conversation was recorded on May 20th, 2021.

On an auspicious episode 20 host Charlie Demers welcomes BC’s Attorney General & Minister for Housing for a conversation on political culture, pandemic, & complicated inheritances. Plus: a special surprise appearance by Charlie's daughter, adorably interrupting a conversation about the housing market!

Find out more about David's work as the MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey at https://davidebymla.ca/

Get early access to the show by stepping in the chit-chat and subscribing to Charlie's excellent Substack at https://charliedemers.substack.com/people/14775259-charlie-demers or find new episodes one week after release wherever you get your podcasts!

On a new Big Shiny Takes hosts Eric Wickham, Marino Greco and Jeremy Appel sit down with Palestine House board member and psychotherapist Hammam Farah (@HumHum83) and Israeli-Canadian pal and OffCourt and Drum Circle Jerk co-host Eytan Tobin (@RabbiDieHardman) to explore how Israel, like Canada, is a fake ass genocidal settler state.

For those who haven’t been paying attention, Israel recently attacked Gaza killing about 250 people, including dozens of children, after provoking violence at al-Aqsa Mosque. And this time something feels different. People are actually taking Palestinian perspectives seriously.

But over at Postmedia, of course, it’s business as usual. On this episode the panel talk about two Sun columns that regurgitate the usual Hasbara talking points about how Israel is never wrong and you’re all a bunch of anti-Semites.

Support the Big Shiny Takes Institute at https://www.patreon.com/bigshinytakes

Find out more about #JusticeForJavier at https://tdsbremoteteachersupportgroup.wpcomstaging.com/475-2/

To support the Palestine Children's Relief Fund go to
https://pcrf1.z2systems.com/np/clients/pcrf1/donation.jsp?campaign=1680

To support UNRWA visit
https://donate.unrwa.org/-landing-page/en_EN

Find out how to get involved with the BDS solidarity movement at
https://bdsmovement.net/

Subscribe to Drum Circle Jerk at
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/drum-circle-jerk/id1465010612

Watch for Season 2 of OffCourt, launching June 2021!

“Do your research!” We’re hearing it more and more these days. On S1 of this timely narrative podcast hosts Mathieu Charlebois, Liane Décary-Chen and Colin Boudrias contribute a comedically comprehensive critique of the QAnon conspiracy phenomenon, en francais, fucking with their algorithms so that you don’t have to.

On ep1 of 'Faisez vos recherches!':
When Hubert Reeves tried to explain QAnon he got a huge migraine, so we've grabbed a bottle of Advil to give it a try.

Hear the full season 1 wherever you get your podcasts!

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«Faites vos recherches!», répètent constamment les complotistes. Mathieu Charlebois, Liane Décary-Chen et Colin Boudrias ont suivi le conseil, et ils décortiquent les croyances de la complosphère tendance Qanon. Ils ont fucké leurs algorithmes pour ne pas que vous ayez à le faire.

Sur cette episode:
Il paraît qu'Hubert Reeves a déjà essayé d'expliquer QAnon, pis il a pogné une solide migraine. On cale une bouteille d'Advil et on s'essaie à notre tour.

'Faisez vos recherches!' is a production of Ricochet Media Francais.

What went into starting the CCF— the precursor to today's NDP? What was the working-class and socialist response to the deep depression and government inaction of the 1930s? How did prior struggles and experiences contribute to the formation of this new party, and how did they envision changing the world? Nashwa Khan of Habibti Please joins Team Advantage to discuss this fascinating historical moment.

For more AA episodes and to find out how to support the show go to https://albertaadvantagepod.com/

For more on Nashwa's work with Habibti Please go to
https://habibtiplease.substack.com/

A new reader-supported digital media outlet is making a major push to bring back progressive, hard-hitting news coverage to the Toronto region. On Harbinger Society Presents ep15 The Hoser co-editors-in-chief Shannon Carranco and Kevin Taghabon join host Andre Goulet to talk about the future of their incredibly exciting new project and explain why it's crucial to support independent alternative media in the GTA.

Plus: Progress Report host Duncan Kinney reveals why he's filed papers with Elections Alberta to run in the province’s October 2021 Senate Nominee Election and Harbinger Atlantic correspondent James Brown cancels Canada Day from rural Prince Edward Island on a new Solitary Thoughts.

This panel was recorded on June 28th, 2021.

This is a public excerpt from ep32 of Habibti Please. Get access to the full conversation with Vincent Bevins at habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe

The austerity measures that were first implemented during the pandemic will not ease post-pandemic. Global vaccine apartheid continues to exist and it seems that only those in North America with relations outside of North America or to communities. It feels eerily familiar for people who straddle worlds to be aware that “back to normal” means back to normal for people completely detached from the global reality of how COVID continues to ravage people outside of the imperial core.

This episode takes a look at how the world we all now came to be. One where vaccine apartheid is normalized for so many. One where extermination programs and coups are staples. In this episode Shaadie and Nashwa interview Vincent Bevins, author of the Jakarta Method. Nashwa and Shaadie approached this episode with the thought and care they approach other work with. They wanted to honor those who died and survived the mass extermination in Indonesia while also weaving our own understanding as young Muslims of the world into this episode.

Bevins book Jakarta Method is an accessible must-read about the United State's role in constructing a global anti-communist network. In 1965 and 1966, the Indonesian military killed one million civilians and with praise and enthusiasm from the American government. It was an apocalyptic slaughter of leftists and accused leftists. As Bevins writes, this series of events was instrumental in shaping our global economic system as it exists today. As beneficiaries of US hegemony, it is important to recognize this gap in collective memory and the responsibilities we have.

On ep36 of Habibti Please Nashwa Khan and Geneviève Nevin host Jeremy Corbyn and Paul Rogers in advance of Selling Death: Why the International Arms Trade Must be Controlled, an upcoming event hosted by Egypt Watch and Jeremy Corbyn’s Peace and Justice Project. Join Jeremy Corbyn, Paul Rogers, and Geneviève at the event on Saturday, July 17th, 2021, at 11 a.m. Eastern Standard Time and 4 p.m. London time here.

This episode explores the arms trade and why we must move towards disarmament. The international arms trade fuels forever wars, bloody occupations, and the military-industrial complex. The detritus of war and occupation will linger long after militaries leave the countries they ravage. As this episode highlights, COVID-19 serves as a canary in the coal mine; a warning for how things can only get worse if change does not happen now. A virus cannot be nuked, yet the rush to create and sell arms from the imperial core has continued without challenge even during the pandemic.

The Corbyn Peace and Justice Project illustrates why domestic and international problems and injustices cannot be separated. We also explore how we build solidarity beyond borders and across communities.

This episode also draws links between the arms trade, the climate crisis, and other ongoing struggles, including the growing number of refugees. Industrialists selling weapons and war promoters are akin to the mythical hydra, where chopping off one head sprouts another. This hydra is a monster, directly supported by Western governments. And blowback is to be expected. Continued death and destruction fuelled by the imperial core through tradecraft will have global consequences,
Now, more than ever, we must stand in solidarity to stop our governments from funding mass death throughout the world.

Head over to thecorbynproject.com/armscontrol to sign up for Saturday’s event.

Habibti Please is proud to be part of the Harbinger Media Network and we are grateful to partner with Canadian Dimension on this episode.

Originally from the West Coast, co-host Geneviève Nevin (she/her) is a white Ashkenazi settler based in Montréal (unceded and unsurrendered Kanien’kehà:ka territory) where she is a community organizer and JD/BCL candidate at McGill University. Geneviève is passionate about politics and social justice and is actively involved in movements for migrant rights and Palestine solidarity, particularly within the Jewish community, as the former Membership & Fundraising Coordinator with Independent Jewish Voices Canada. Geneviève was also one of the organisers behind the successful Palestine resolution at the 2021 NDP Convention which called for a ban on illegal Israeli settlement products as well as an arms embargo against Israel until Palestinians are free.

Hosted by Nashwa Lina Khan

Show Music by Johnny Zapras and postXamerica

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On this episode:

Host Andre Goulet makes the risky decision to look for answers regarding a suspicious and baffling death in Canada's political community on the mean streets of Gatineau with Inspector Abdul Malik & Israeli International Peace Operations Trainee Eytan Tobin (OFFCOURT).

Then: the Harbinger Special Victims Unit elite squad (Superintendent Marino Greco, Sergeant Jeremy Appel & Community Liaison Eric Wickham of BIG SHINY TAKES) convenes at Ottawa PD headquarters to examine the evidence as they desperately search for the culprit in the untimely death of the Canadian Greens.

Plus: Harbinger Atlantic correspondent James Brown makes the case for a Green Party revival from rural Prince Edward Island on a new Solitary Thoughts.

On an early episode of Sweater Weather host Aaron Giovannone speaks with Sam Gindin, co-author of modern classic The Making of Global Capitalism (2012), as well as the more recent but no less essential The Socialist Challenge Today (2020) both co-written with his long-time friend and colleague Leo Panitch. From 1974-2000, Sam was the director of research at the Canadian Auto Workers union, now Unifor, the largest private sector union in Canada.

Sam is an internationally recognized authority on political economy and social movements, and he frequently writes and speaks about socialism in a global context—but he’s Canadian, so I was keen to hear what he had to say about the battle on the home front. We talk about Canada’s place in the global capitalist system, about Canada’s possibilities for economic nationalism, about Canadian unions and the working class, the Green New Deal versus Green Capitalism, and his promising efforts with a worker-led project called Green Jobs Oshawa.

Aaron and Sam also talk about the Canadian manifestations of the left populist up-welling in recent years, which he thinks was (unfortunately) captured by the Trudeau Liberals. And we’ll address that age-old question for Canadian socialists: to NDP, or not to NDP.

* Support Sweater Weather at www.patreon.com/canadiansweater

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* Watch the conversation on the SW YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTToo3_nZGE

Have you ever considered using nuclear explosions for fun and profit? On this May, 2021 episode Team Advantage explore the strange collision of two worlds: children’s movie Bigfoot Family (recent target of Jason Kenney’s War Room) and a 1950’s plot to use nuclear explosions to mine Alberta’s oil sands. (note: this is a real thing that almost happened lol)

On a new Progress Alberta guest host Jim Storrie wonders why (since nobody's actually getting elected to the Senate this year) Jason Kenney's United Conservative Party are holding a Senate "election". And why's Progress Report host Duncan Kinney running for "office"?

If you like the show please support it! Go to https://www.theprogressreport.ca/patrons and become a monthly patron.

Award-winning non-profit news org Press Progress is taking ethical, confrontational journalism to the mainstream. In this conversation publisher Jen Hassum and BC editor Alex Cosh join host Andre Goulet to talk about the organization's journalistic mission, it's relationship with the Broadbent Institute, the myth of objectivity and how to cover the upcoming federal election.

And: Emma Austin and Eva Espenshade introduce 'Gender Troubles', their new show demystifying and debunking feminism by examining its movements and moments from a left perspective, coming to the Harbinger community this October.

Find out more about Jen and Alex's work at https://pressprogress.ca/ and follow them on Twitter @AlexCosh_, @jenhassum and @pressprogress

Find Gender Troubles wherever you get your podcasts or at https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/gender-troubles-eva-emma-YlApQ0PRjsW/

Follow Gender Troubles on twitter @FamilyFeudalism, @oopsemmamay and @gendertroubles1 and find James @atjamesbrown and @andremarrgoulet

Opening music on this episode courtesy of Henry Lee. Check out his radical left anthropological narrative show 'Deathnography' wherever you get your podcasts. The Blue Dot Sessions' 'Neon Drip' and Chad Crouch's 'Algorithms' is from Creative Commons.

These conversations were recorded on August 9th and 11th, 2021.

Streamer, pundit and possibly even retiring podcaster Rob Rousseau joins host Andre Goulet for the official HSP ELXN44 Campaign Launch and Airing of Grievances as the pair reflect on a summer ended too soon and the lasting legacy of 49th Parahell after a triumphant 39 month run at the top of the charts.

Opening music on this episode courtesy of Henry Lee. Check out his radical left anthropological narrative show 'Deathnography' wherever you get your podcasts. The 'Neon Drip' closing theme is from from Creative Commons.

This conversation was recorded on August 17th, 2021.

It's the end of an era as host Rob Rousseau welcomes Karen Geier, Nora Loreto, The DC Sentinel's Sam Knight and Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East's Michael Bueckert to discuss Doug Ford, Quebec social solidarity, Canada's relationship to Israel/Palestine and more on the 49th Parahell ep100 series finale!

Support Rob's work at https://www.patreon.com/robrousseau and catch his stream every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 12-4 EST on Twitch TV at https://www.twitch.tv/robrousseau

On episode 19 Andre Goulet welcomes Left Turn Canada co-hosts Christo Aivalis & Andy Borkowski for a federal election week 2 review as the panel asks: is an NDP candidate getting trolled by the so-called Ottawa Small Landlord Association good for the discourse?

Plus: Andy's take on why Andrew Scheer is probably *that type* of gamer, Christo dismantles O'Toole-mania and comedian James Brown considers Trudeau's much-diminished luster.

Hear Left Turn Canada at https://leftturncanada.buzzsprout.com/ and support the show at https://www.patreon.com/LeftTurnCanada

This conversation was recorded on August 25th, 2021.

On a super special Harbinger Society Presents late summer spectacular a galaxy of guests join host Andre Goulet for a safe and satisfying pandemic picnic in Toronto's Christie Pits' park including Offcourt's Eytan Tobin, thehoser.ca's Shannon Carranco & Kevin Tagabon, Big Shiny Takes' Eric Wickham & Marino Greco, Work It's Sam Allemang, Harbinger Board of Director's member Dr. Jessica Green and Twitter superstar Hilary Agro.

Plus: James Brown weighs in on his special relationship with Erin O'Toole on Solitary Thoughts and the Industrial Worker's of the World make a surprising guest appearance that will shock you!

Find more of Kevin and Shannon's local GTA reporting at https://www.thehoser.ca/

Find out how to get involved with the IWW's Toronto branch at https://iwwtoronto.org/

Hear 'Work It', 'Big Shiny Takes', 'OffCourt' and Hilary Agro's 'Bread and Poppies' wherever you get your podcasts.

Follow Dr. Jessica Green on Twitter @greenprofgreen

This community picnic episode was recorded live on August 28th, 2021.

It's episode 1 of The Rob Rousseau Show audio edition, featuring the best of Rob's Twitch stream, with Junk Filter Pod's Jesse Hawken!

Subscribe on the new feed for future episodes at: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/473204.rss

And on Apple Podcasts at: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rob-rousseau-show/id1584204650

Support Rob's work at https://www.patreon.com/robrousseau

You can hear Junk Filter at https://podbay.fm/p/junk-filter

On a deviously conspiratorial S4, E3 of Le Plancher des Vaches hosts Julie Dufort and Ludvic Moquin-Beaudry welcome comedians Mathieu Charlebois and Colin Boudrias and multidisciplinary artist Liane Décary-Chen for a power packed panel about conspiracy theories and the federal election including revelations regarding Trudeau's bitcoin half-brother, the QAnon influence in Quebec political discourse + more.

Find Le Plancher des Vaches and Faisez Vos Recherches at ricochet.media/fr, at https://www.spreaker.com/show/le-plancher-des-vaches and
https://www.spreaker.com/show/faisez-vos-recherches or wherever you get your podcasts!

Julie DuFort and Ludvic Moquin-Beaudry of election show Le Plancher des Vaches and pop culture feminist podcast Les Ficelles hosts Amelie Faubert and Solene Paré join André Goulet and Ricochet Media editor-in-chief Gabrielle Brassard-Lecours to break down last week's debates as the panel examines the state of the race in Quebec.

Plus: Montreal NDP candidate Mme. Christine Paré explains why it's time for a socialist, feminist Member of Parliament in Justin Trudeau's riding of Papineau and Atlantic correspondent James Brown contrasts our political class' wretched debate performance with the inspirational tennis nationalism of Leylah Fernandez's US Open run on a new Solitary Thoughts.

Celebrate Harbinger's first anniversary w/ a stacked deck of incredible guests to lament the hopeless and harrowing 2021 Federal Election on part 1 of an absolutely epic 12 hour-long Twitchstream telethon featuring hosts Rob Rousseau and Hilary Agro w/ Nora Loreto, Martin Lukacs, OffCourt's Abdul Malik and Eytan Tobin & climate policy scholar Dr. Jess Green from our Board of Directors.

Find Rob at https://www.twitch.tv/robrousseau
Hear Hilary at https://anchor.fm/bread-and-poppies
Read Nora at https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/take-back-the-fight
Martin writes at https://breachmedia.ca/
Subscribe to OffCourt at https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-off-court-podcast/id1547121012
Follow Dr. Jess on Twitter @greenprofgreen

Celebrate Harbinger's first anniversary w/ a stacked deck of incredible guests to lament the hopeless and harrowing 2021 Federal Election on part 1 of an absolutely epic 12 hour-long Twitchstream telethon featuring hosts Jeremy Appel, Marino Greco and Andre Goulet and Broadbent Institute executive director Jen Hassum, Press Progress investigative reporters Emily Leedham and Stephen Magusiak, Ricochet managing editor Gabrielle Brassard-Lecours, Progress Report host and Alberta Senator-in-Waiting Duncan Kinney, Forgotten Corner producer Mo Cranker plus Dr. Roberta Lexier and Kai Nagata from our Board of Directors, an unsettling video from comedic stars Janet Mowat and Sam Allemagne and an emotionally ideological ballad from YouTuber PropaGanada.

Find out more about Jen's work: https://www.broadbentinstitute.ca/
Read Emily and Stephen's reporting: https://pressprogress.ca/
Explore Gabrielle's work: https://ricochet.media/fr
Subscribe to Big Shiny Takes, The Progress Report and The Forgotten Corner:
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Watch Work It: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yXqFolQ--c
Subscribe to PropaGanada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7E_Av-2n-M

Celebrate Harbinger's first anniversary w/ a stacked deck of incredible guests to lament the hopeless and harrowing 2021 Federal Election on part 3 of an absolutely epic 12 hour-long Twitchstream telethon featuring The Alberta Advantage, Tech Won't Save Us host Paris Marx, the 30-months-in-the-making News You Can Use reunion with Drew Brown, Tannara Yelland and James Wilt, Sweater Weather's Aaron Giovannone, Darts & Letters' Gordon Katic, The Maple managing editor Alex Cosh, The Hoser co-founder Kevin Taghabon, Gender Troubles' Eve Espenshade and Emma Austin, Andre Goulet and the Harbinger Board of Directors' Kai Nagata.

Hear the Alberta Advantage: https://albertaadvantagepod.com/
Discover Tech Won't Save Us: https://techwontsave.us/
Check out the News You Can Use archives: https://soundcloud.com/user-112754787
Support The Hoser: https://www.thehoser.ca/
Listen to Darts & Letters: https://www.dartsandletters.ca/
Find The Maple: https://www.readthemaple.com/
Subscribe to Gender Troubles: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/gender-troubles-eva-emma-YlApQ0PRjsW/

Celebrate Harbinger's first anniversary w/ a stacked deck of incredible guests to lament the hopeless and harrowing 2021 Federal Election as we wrap up with part 4 of an absolutely epic 12 hour-long Twitchstream telethon featuring Rob Rousseau, Nora Loreto, The Breach publisher Dru Oja Jay, Left Turn Canada's Christo Aivalis and Andy Borkowski, Kino Lefter's Evan MacDonald, Andre Goulet and the Harbinger Board of Directors' Kai Nagata.

Hear Kino Lefter: https://www.buzzsprout.com/226175
Listen: https://leftturncanada.buzzsprout.com/
Read: https://breachmedia.ca/
Watch: https://www.twitch.tv/robrousseau
Learn: https://sandyandnora.com/

Writer and activist Nora Loreto joins host Andre Goulet to bury the 2021 Federal Election with a regrettable result round-up, then unpacks her 2020 book and upcoming Harbinger podcast 'Take Back the Fight: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age'. Plus: Tamsyn and Paniz explain the origins of their new show 'Anti Girlboss Socialist Club', and Atlantic correspondent James Brown finds a silver lining in last night's exasperating electoral outcome.

Watch for 'Take Back the Fight' and 'Anti Girlboss Socialist Club' launching in early October at Harbinger, and get your copy of the book at https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/take-back-the-fight

Place your pre-order for 'Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic' at https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/spin-doctors

These conversations were recorded on September 14th and 21st, 2021

On a new episode of Housing Party, activist and academic David DesBaillets’ show-within-a-show focusing on the housing crisis from an intersectional perspective, Mouvement pour mettre fin à l'itinérance à Montréal (The Movement to End Homelessness in Montreal) head Michelle Chappaz joins David for a hopeful, smart conversation on the work her organization is doing to bring together researchers, charities and civil society actors to find permanent and inclusive solutions to the crisis for the city's thousands of unhoused citizens.

Find out more about the new MMFIM report at https://2000solutions.mmfim.ca/

Music on the episode is courtesy of Paul Cargnello: https://paulcargnello.bandcamp.com/

This conversation was recorded on September 29th, 2021.

On the debut episode of a new show exploring her 2020 book 'Take Back The Fight
Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age', host Nora Loreto talks about history and white supremacism, how these kinds of ever-present issues aren't front-of-mind for feminists today, and why we must always wrestle with both.

Subscribe to the show at https://shows.acast.com/take-back-the-fight/about
Find the book at https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/take-back-the-fight

It’s November, aka. the month when we are all encouraged to partake in the manufacturing of sympathy for militarism in preparation for Remembrance Day. On this episode of AGSC, Paniz and Tamsyn are joined by Tyler Shipley, author of Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination published by Fernwood Publishing. Often, those criticizing militarism are labeled disrespectful. Here, Paniz, Tamsyn and Tyler explore how what actually is “disrespectful” is the devastation and destruction that the Canadian state commits worldwide in the name of democracy, human rights, and gender equality.

Find Tyler Shipley’s book 'Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination' at
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/canada-in-the-world

READING LIST:
Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism, edited by Robin L. Riley, Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Minnie Bruce Pratt
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/feminism-and-war-9781848136687/

Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism by Sherene Razack
https://utorontopress.com/9780802086631/dark-threats-and-white-knights/

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

The Vimy Trap: or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Great War by Ian McKay and Jamie Swift
https://btlbooks.com/book/the-vimy-trap

Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in UN Peacekeeping: An Analysis of Risk and Prevention Efforts by Kelly Neudorfer
https://www.refworld.org/pdfid/59c383034.pdf

Find Paniz's piece 'To end military sexual violence, defund the CAF' at
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/to-end-military-sexual-violence-defund-the-caf

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.

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 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/

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 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

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

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

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 together. But what if a book mangled the concept and mobilized it with a series of vapid phrases designed to superficially inspire centrists as only such a book–and maybe an episode of the West Wing–could? And what if that same book was written by one of the least trustworthy people in politics? Jacobin staff writer and co-host of the podcast Michael and Us Luke Savage makes the case for Pete Buttigieg’s Trust: America’s Best Chance.

Finally, (@29:01) the left needs to understand and contend with serious, right-wing books that seek to chart the course for the future of the ideology. Scholar, PillPod podcaster, and writer Matt McManus has found two offerings that are…not that. But they need to be reckoned with in their own way anyway. He takes down Ben Shapiro’s The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America’s Institutions Against Dissent and Mark Levin’s American Marxism.

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

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 dictatorship, and ultimately help establish prestigious cornerstones of Canadian arts, culture and academics.

This is part of a series exploring how the ruling elite shape power in Canada. Subscribe to The Maple to support independent journalism and this podcast for as little as $1 per week at https://www.readthemaple.com/

Further reading:

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/may/27/pacific-rim-lawsuit-el-salvador-mine-gold-free-trade

https://nbmediacoop.org/2011/06/16/student-anti-mining-activist-murdered-in-el-salvador/

https://canadians.org/analysis/anti-mining-activists-murdered-el-salvador

https://mediacoop.ca/story/2391

https://progressive.org/magazine/how-el-salvador-won-on-mining/

https://miningwatch.ca/news/2016/10/14/there-are-no-winners-after-seven-years-and-millions-dollars-pac-rim-mining-loses

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/12/06/bitcoin-city-el-salvador-nayib-bukele/

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

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

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 Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries by Kathi Weeks
https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-problem-with-work?fbclid=IwAR15jxAjzzS0NFkMM8EQa-XkPTXD17jm6-7OKJhQakgOeKYZXyGKaB_FdL8

Wages for Housework: A History of an International Feminist Movement, 1972–77 by Louise Toupin
https://www.ubcpress.ca/wages-for-housework?fbclid=IwAR0eLkINbHXm3smQV0cQU2atkbxhOQ-OrmtsierQ_Cz0HzK3aHkgY-iQ3aU

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/
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Become a member of the Harbinger community and get early access to this and other exclusive shows at https://harbingermedianetwork.com/

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.

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.

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

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 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

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/

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.

Hosts Roberta Lexier, Scott Schmidt and Jeremy Appel welcome author Tyler Shipley for part one of a conversation about his acclaimed book from Fernwood Publishing 'Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination'.

Find the book at https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/canada-in-the-world
Support the show at https://www.patreon.com/forgottencornerpod

On a new episode of the hard-hitting political analysis & satire podcast Worst Case Ontario hosts Judd Baldwin, Arthur Fleck and Max Alberta discuss western media’s coverage of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Russians living in Canada getting cancelled, the physics of nuclear missiles, the history of Canadian spies, and our deputy prime minister’s scarf.

Support the show at www.patreon.com/wcontario

Invisible Institutions is a new documentary podcast exploring the past and present of institutions for people labelled with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Canada

On episode 3 host Megan Linton welcomes People First of Canada's Shelley Fletcher and MDC survivor David Weremy to investigate one of the few remaining large-scale government funded and operated institutions for people labelled with an intellectual/developmental disability in Western Canada, the Manitoba Development Centre (MDC).

A heads up that today’s episode deals with confinement, sexual and physical abuse and suicide.

For a transcript of ep3 go to: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WBAzTbV4G7tBetFQSQuXHMRssjE9cUDrXhQBEuL4lU0/edit

Find out more about the show and the broader project it's a part of at http://invisibleinstitutions.com/

Deathnography speaks to academics and shares ethnographic analysis and fieldnotes in deep-dive conversations about anthropology, politics, memes, and more. On a new episode host Henry Lee speaks with Wósdéé Podcast host, University of Arizona PhD and member of the Navajo Nation Majerle Lister about sovereignty, the history of Navajo tribal government, red-baiting, and solidarity between Indigenous and white working people then sits down with Métis communist and organizer & Theory and Criticism PhD candidate at Western University Alexandra Lépine to talk about class and colonial antagonisms in Canada, identity and the concept of “white-passing,” and the necessity of anti-fascist organizing.

Subscribe to Deathnography wherever you get your podcasts and support the show at https://www.patreon.com/deathnography

For links to the content discussed on this episode visit
https://deathnography.libsyn.com/8-indigenous-sovereignty-revolution-fr-majerle-lister-alexandra-lpine

Canada’s journalism landscape is changing, and smaller, independent media outlets are beginning to fill-in the gaps left by corporate media. PressProgress, an award-winning non-profit news organization, hosted a 3/29/22 virtual event called “Punching Above Our Weight: The Outsized Impact of Canadian Independent Media” featuring PressProgress’ Emily Leedham moderating a panel exploring how independent media is shifting perceptions about current events, politics and identity in Canada, including:

• Saima Desai: Editor of Briarpatch Magazine, a national magazine of grassroots politics based on Treaty 4 territory in Regina, Saskatchewan.

• André Goulet: Executive director of the Harbinger Media Network, an independent media nonprofit amplifying the voices of a new generation of leftist media creators.

• Kevin Taghabon: Editor at The Hoser, whose reporting focuses on labour, police violence and protests and demonstrations in Toronto.

• Mel Woods: Associate culture editor at Xtra Magazine, a non-profit online magazine and community platform covering LGBTQ2S+ culture, politics, relationships and health.

Find out more at
https://pressprogress.ca/
https://briarpatchmagazine.com/
https://www.thehoser.ca/
https://xtramagazine.com/
https://harbingermedianetwork.com/

Subscribe to Canada's #1 labour newsletter Shiftwork at https://pressprogress.ca/tag/shiftwork/

Daniel Muessig is in a US federal prison where he will spend the next 5 years. In the year 2022, he is being caged because he sold a plant, cannabis, to people who wanted it. In this episode, he tells the story of how his life was stolen from him and explains why the justice system isn't actually broken—it's working exactly as intended.

Bread and Poppies is hosted by Hilary Agro (@hilaryagro on social media), anthropologist and anti-prohibition activist. Produced by Marcel Rambo (@vee9zee). Music by Pusher (@itsPusher). With thanks to Maria Guido (follow her on Twitter for updates about Dan: @sandernista412).

Support Hilary's work at patreon.com/hilaryagro

A new collection launching in April 2022 from Between the Lines Books is bringing together a range of essays anchored in experience and solidarity with those putting their lives on the line to fight for police abolition in Canada.

On Harbinger Society Presents ep33 University of Winnipeg criminal justice scholar Kevin Walby and University of Toronto sociology of criminalization professor Julius Haag join host Andre Goulet to discuss their contributions to the book 'Police Use of Force in Canada: Dispelling the Myth of Difference' and 'Against the Social Harms of Policing'.

Order the book now at https://btlbooks.com/book/disarm-defund-dismantle

RSVP to attend the virtual book launch event hosted by Desmond Cole and El Jones at
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/disarm-defund-dismantle-online-launch-tickets-311282583587

On Harbinger Society Presents episode 34 hear highlights from the Broadbent Institute’s March 30th-April 1st 2022 Progress Summit, including barista Sarah Broad on a recent Starbucks union organizing campaign, Don’t Look Up screenwriter and Bernie Sanders scriptwriter David Sirota in conversation with journalist Hannah Sung, anti-convoy hero Zexi Li on discovering civic engagement during the Ottawa occupation plus our prize-winning journalist pals at Press Progress, Broadbent Institute executive director Jen Hassum and a live spoken word piece from poet Komi Omaf.

Find out more about the 2022 Progress Summit at https://www.broadbentinstitute.ca/summit2022

Read about the Institute's 6 Principles at
https://www.broadbentinstitute.ca/principles

Watch the David Sirota interview at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBhRoUYYgwE&t=3982s

Live from the future, federal Minister of Just Transition Joy Ross-Jones explains how the Trudeau government's Ministry of Just Transition achieved it's ambitious climate targets at a 2025 press conference.

Then, 350.org's Kathleen Lund explains why March 2022's national Day of Action showed what’s possible if political leaders invest in a bold and urgent Just Transition plan.

And Divest McGill's Nathalie and Em describe the 2 week occupation of the McCall-McBain Arts Building and why their movement is calling for a complete overhaul of a university system built on white supremacy and settler-colonialism.

Plus: Atlantic correspondent James Brown connects the future of climate with worker's rights on a new 'Solitary Thoughts'.

Join the Ministry of Just Transition campaign at https://350.org/just-transition-day-of-action/

Find out more about Divest McGill at https://www.divestmcgill.ca/

On a new episode of 'NORTH UNTAPPED' The Maple editor-in-chief Alex Cosh welcomes Edmonton and Montreal community organizers Audrey Redman and Jaggi Singh to explain why police treated February's far-right occupation of Ottawa and supportive convoys across Canada with kid gloves and why police sympathy with the convoy's far-right politics highlights a systemic problem.

Follow @AudreyJRedman, @JaggiMontreal and @NoBordersMedia on Twitter.

Support The Maple's reporting at https://www.readthemaple.com/

In his book ‘Saving the City: The Challenge of Transforming a Modern Metropolis’ journalist Daniel Sanger delivers equal parts reportage, oral history and memoir chronicling what grassroots eco-socialist municipal political party Projet Montreal did right, where it failed, and where it’s headed, drawn from his own experience working closely with the party for almost a decade.

On this episode he joins host Andre Goulet for a conversation exploring the personalities and policies behind the rise to power of the most progressive Canadian municipal political movement in recent memory, and examines what the future might hold for their ambitious agenda to transform Montreal into a green, human-scale city.

Plus: Newfoundland-bound comedian James Brown says 'au revoir' forever to his home of 7 years in a sweetly sentimental farewell to the sins and satisfactions of life in la belle ville.

Order the book at https://www.vehiculepress.com/q.php?EAN=9781550655803

Although the train plays little part in the lives of most Saskatchewan residents today, there was a time when the rail line had almost unlimited power over the province's development. In this episode we'll talk about the legacy of the CP Rail.

Support the show:
https://www.patreon.com/unmakingsaskatchewan

Support the Sask Dispatch:
https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/help-the-sask-dispatch-grow

Transcript:
https://wordpress.com/home/unmakingsaskatchewan.wordpress.com

This week, Martin and Pam break down the Ontario election: who we hate, who isn't great, and who can't communicate. El Jones joins Pam for an in-depth look at a new Senate report that calls for the exoneration of 12 imprisoned Indigenous women that provides insights in the systemic violence and discrimination of Canada's prison system.

Plus, should police dogs have unions? And why are our elites so quick to unsee racism in Canada?

Featuring Martin Lukacs, Pam Palmater and El Jones. Donya Ziaee is off this week.

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On Short Circuit ep3 hosts Shannon Carranco and Kevin Taghabon take a look at the state of labour in Ontario in the run up to the June 2nd provincial election as they speak with:

* University of Toronto frontline service workers fighting against the contracting out of secure, unionized public sector jobs

* Worker's Action Centre in Toronto where executive director Deena Ladd unpacks strategies employed at the WAC and Justice for Workers' campaigns

* Gig Workers United, an organization of app-based workers fighting for union recognition and decent work in Ontario.

This episode was produced by Eric Wickham of Big Shiny Takes (Twitter: @ES_Wickham) with theme music from Alex from Haus of Decline (Twitter: @hausofdecline).

Support The Hoser's journalism at https://www.patreon.com/TheHoserMedia

On a new Harbinger Society Presents the independent left media community come together for a picnic in Toronto's Christie Pits park with pals from The Hoser, Darts & Letters, Worst Case Ontario, Press Progress and others to answer the question that's on everyone's minds in the lead-up to the 2022 Ontario election: "What's Life Like in Doug Ford's Utopia?"

On ep38 of Harbinger Society Presents host Andre Goulet sits down with Regina-based journalist Sara K. Birell to talk about the economy of land, ‘the hunger strategy’, prairie and gender and more in their exceptional new-ish podcast Unmaking Saskatchewan.

Then, Worst Case Ontario's Fleck in Toronto and Max in Ottawa explain why Canada is totally ready to elect Pierre Shapirollievre as our first Incel Prime Minister and investigate what was really behind the federal government's February invocation of the Emergencies Act.

Support the shows at https://www.patreon.com/unmakingsaskatchewan and at https://www.patreon.com/wcontario

Colin et son Alter Ego fan de crypto monnaies explorent ce qui intéresse autant les gens avec le phénomène. L’humoriste Arnaud Soly explique le fonctionnement de Bitcoin en jouant de la flûte avec le nez…

Sources:
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/book/
https://changelly.com/blog/proof-of-work/#Proof_of_Work_Purpose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BODyqM-V71E
https://www.bitcoinmining.com/what-is-the-bitcoin-block-reward/
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1869831/bitcoin-minage-cryptomonnaies-gaz-petrole-ordinateurs?fbclid=IwAR0WOX38pDb-2DCSJ7KMMpi_X81CCh9kKCKyl_SbvwsEXv-7pJBONjm8_7U

On Harbinger Society Presents ep39 ‘Code White: Sounding the Alarm on Violence Against Healthcare Workers’ co-authors Margaret Keith and Jim Brophy and ‘Bent Out of Shape: Shame, Solidarity and Women’s Bodies at Work’ author Karen Messing join host Andre Goulet to discuss their recent books and how healthcare work, health and wellbeing, advocacy research and more intersect in a special co-presentation with publisher Between the Lines.

Plus: Council of Canadians Trade and Privatization campaigner Nik Barry-Shaw explains why we need a People's Vaccine and avid Ottawa-watcher and Harbinger Atlantic correspondent James Brown dunks outrageously on Pierre Polievre from the safety of St. John's, Newfoundland.

Get your copies of 'Code White' and 'Bent Out of Shape' and check out the 2022 Between the Lines line-up of outstanding left books at https://btlbooks.com/

Find out more about the People's Vaccine campaign and get involved with the Council of Canadians at https://canadians.org/action/open-letter-vaccine-justice

Hosts Christo Aivalis and Andy Borkowski reflect on British Columbia's disappointing John Horgan era as the provincial NDP leader prepares to step down as Premier.

Plus: the possibilities of the Party's upcoming leadership race and what it means to ensure national access to reproductive rights in Canada.

Support the show at https://www.patreon.com/LeftTurnCanada

Inspired by the recently released sixth season of The Kids in the Hall, Naomi and Aaron talk about this legendary sketch comedy show (1988-1995). We discuss the Kids' paths to becoming comic actors, and how the show was too dark for us to appreciate when we were kids ourselves. We breakdown some of their most notorious sketches, including Cabbage Head and The Chicken Lady, and pay special attention to their unfairly maligned feature film, Brain Candy (1996), which is actually very good! Finally, we consider the dangers of cultural nostalgia and decide that we'll do it anyway.

This is the free 34-minute version of the episode. To access the full 79-minute version, subscribe to the show on Pateron at https://www.patreon.com/canadiansweater

Subscribers gain access to all full-length episodes of Sweater Weather—that's about twice the content!

Find the video version of this episode on YouTube and at https://www.sweaterweatherpod.com/

The overturning of Roe v Wade in the US puts the spotlight back on the politics of abortion. David speaks with Jocelyn Piercy about the movement organizing that eventually led to the decriminalization of abortion in so-called Canada and defeated the Mulroney Tory government's attempt to recriminalize it, and in particular the work of the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics. This experience is relevant today as we face emboldened right-wing forces intent on replacing liberal sexual and gender rights with its reactionary sexual hegemony.

Recommended reading:

Jocelyn Piercy, Canada: History and strategies in the fight for reproductive justice
http://links.org.au/canada-history-abortion-rights-campaign

Misha Falk, "Neither Liberalism Nor Fascism But Trans Liberation and Socialism"
https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/neither-liberalism-nor-fascism-but-trans-liberation-and-socialism/

Rebel Girls' Rag, the publication of Toronto Socialist Feminist Action (1987-1992)
https://riseupfeministarchive.ca/publications/rebel-girls-rag-a-forum-of-womens-resistance/

Three exceptional hosts from the Harbinger community join Andre Goulet for a casual conversation exploring their broadcasting origins, the challenges of launching a successful show and why the podcast medium is so ideal for popular education with Invisible Institutions' Megan Linton, Unmaking Saskatchewan's Sara Birrell and Tech Won't Save Us' Paris Marx.

Plus leadnow.com lead organizer Tim Ellis explains how Progress Champions is working to build a comprehensive resource hub for leftists to access modern skills without the barrier of high-priced consultants and traditional gatekeepers.

Find out more at
https://www.progresschampions.com/
http://invisibleinstitutions.com/
https://techwontsave.us/
https://www.spreaker.com/show/unmaking-saskatchewan

Researchers with the best of intentions still get things wrong. “Who made you the expert” is a valid question that research subjects might ask… and frankly, they’re right to ask that. If you’re, say, a drug user in Vancouver’s downtown east side you probably don’t want some guy from Harvard telling you what paternalistic research he’s doing on you. You want to be a partner in research done with you.

So what does it look like when the old paternalistic ways are dispensed of? Garth Mullins hosts Crackdown, a podcast about the drug war in Vancouver covered by the drug users themselves. Gordon talks to him about being the researcher and the researched in the downtown east side, a place where activists and academics have come together to develop better methods.

We also talk to Michelle Fine of City University of New York. She’s a leading proponent of “critical participatory action research“. That’s a way of researching that de-centres the academic. We find out the theory, and what that means for expertise more broadly.

Special thanks to Samona Marsh, one of the authors of Research 101: A process for developing local guidelines for ethical research in heavily researched communities, and also to Liz Dozier of Chicago Beyond. Liz and Samona’s work was really important to this episode even if we couldn’t get their voices to air.

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Harbinger Society Presents returns from summer break as host Andre Goulet welcomes legacy left-wing Toronto Star and Globe and Mail columnist Rick Salutin to explain why Tory leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre’s pledge to make Canada “the freest nation on earth” may be the silliest campaign promise on earth.

Find Rick Salutin, Gideon Salutin and Toronto Star editorial cartoonist Dušan Petričić's new graphic novel 'Gideon's Bible' at https://ecwpress.com/products/gideons-bible

Read his piece debunking right-wing talking points on 'Freedom' at https://rabble.ca/columnists/poilievres-pledge-to-make-canada-the-freest-nation/

Find Leslie Kern's new book 'Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies' at https://btlbooks.com/book/gentrification-is-inevitable-and-other-lies

In the wake of Queen Elizabeth II's passing, host Alex Cosh speaks to policy analyst and writer Chuka Ejeckam about the bloody imperialist legacy that the monarchy represents, the bizarre reactions to the queen's death in the UK and Canada, the case for why the monarchy should be replaced with a democratic alternative, and some of the obstacles that stand in the way of advancing such a project.

Follow Chuka on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChukaEjeckam

Support The Maple by subscribing to the daily newsletter for as little as $7 per month.
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Music credit: "Fluidity," by tobylane.

Host Andre Goulet warmly welcomes back to the podcast our pundit pulverizing pals from the Big Shiny Takes Institute and Kino Lefter in a few-holds-barred conversation on the ascension of toxic dweeb Pierre Poilievre to the very top of Canada’s mendaciously mediocre political class in an episode we just had to call ‘Revenge of the Nerd’.

Support the shows at
https://www.patreon.com/andregoulet
https://www.patreon.com/bigshinytakes
https://www.patreon.com/kinolefter

On an extra-length episode Nora Loreto joins host Andre Goulet to unpack the results of Quebec’s nightmare-scenario 2022 election, then The Breach's Maya Amoah presents highlights from Monday's election livestream with conversations on the ongoing healthcare collapse, the ecological challenges facing the province, the rise of the far-right and the future of the Quebec left with independent journalist Taylor C. Noakes and Sam Harper, Coralie Beaumont, Alexis Ross and Gabrielle Brassard-Lecours from solidarity journalism cooperative Pivot.

This episode is a special co-presentation with Canada's oldest campus-based broadcaster CUTV. Find out more at https://www.cutvmontreal.org/ and watch the full 2 hour-long broadcast at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC5nbo4T608

Find more great journalism at Quebec's best progressive media outlet https://pivot.quebec/

Read Taylor C. Noakes piece 'Quebec is Trading Social Solidarity for the Politics of Exclusion' at https://jacobin.com/2022/10/quebec-elections-bill-96-french-legault-anglade-plamondon

In her sweeping new book on gentrification, Leslie Kern expertly weaves theory, concepts, and up-to-date debates together, making it accessible to both urban scholars and general readers. On a new episode of Harbinger Society Presents she joins host Andre Goulet to discuss 'Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies' available now from Verso and Between the Lines press.

Plus: David DesBaillets’ and law professor Daniel Crespo Villareal explore strategies for how to defend tenants from wrongful evictions and explain how suspicious evictions and renovictions are swamping the legal system on a new segment of Housing Party.

Order Leslie Kern's book at https://btlbooks.com/book/gentrification-is-inevitable-and-other-lies

Find more of Housing Party composer Paul Cargnello's music at https://paulcargnello.bandcamp.com/

You see, the woke establishment wants to control what media Albertans see, what vaccines we take, the resources we develop — and even what we are allowed to grow and eat. Independent journalist Jeremy Appel joins Team Advantage to explore Danielle Smith Thought.

Follow Jeremy @JeremyAppel1025 and subscribe to his newsletter, The Orchard, at theorchard.substack.com. You can also hear him on Big Shiny Takes and The Forgotten Corner.

Support Alberta Advantage, watch their livestream and sign up for the AA newsletter at https://albertaadvantagepod.com/

Press Progress' Calgary correspondent Stephen Magusiak welcomes climate journalist Geoff Dembicki for a conversation exploring his new book 'The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change'.

Drawing from internal oil industry documents spanning decades, The Petroleum Papers examines how major players in the Alberta oilsands suppressed their own research about the climate crisis, and created the playbook to spread climate change denialism in Canada and the US.

Find the book at your local library or at https://greystonebooks.com/products/the-petroleum-papers

For more of Press Progress' investigative reporting visit at https://pressprogress.ca/

How do academia and independent Canadian media collaborate to amplify public scholarship and popular education?

Join The Walrus magazine's Carmine Starnino, Pivot's Fanny Tan, CUTV's Sophia Barsoski, Harbinger's Andre Goulet and moderator Fenwick McKelvey from Concordia University's Department of Communications for an in-depth conversation exploring how scholarly research, graduate studies and independent journalism intersect in Canada's media ecosystem.

Find out more at
https://thewalrus.ca/
https://www.cutvmontreal.org/
https://pivot.quebec/

This panel was recorded virtually on October 21st, 2022.

Technocracy is the idea that experts should govern. For the common good, presumably. It makes a certain amount of sense, given how irrational our politics seem to be right now. So, technocracy is seductive.

In fact, it’s an idea as old as politics itself. On this episode Darts & Letters begins the first of a three-part series telling stories of technocracies past, present, and future.

In this first part, Ira Basen tells the story of Technocracy, Inc. This 1930s movement aimed to install non-democratic North American “technate” where we only work from the ages of 25 to 45, for 16 hours a week. It might surprise you to learn that Elon Musk’s grandfather was one of its leaders. Basen produced an extended CBC: Ideas documentary on the movement, and it’s worth checking out.

Then, perhaps the most influential intellectual today: Noam Chomsky. What is the place of technical expertise in a radical left project? Chomsky’s famous “Responsibility of Intellectuals” is one of the best critiques of the liberal technocratic intelligentsia. However, his lesser-known writing on Mikhail Bakunin’s predictions about how the Marxist intellectual vanguard would “beat the people with the people’s stick” offers a warning to left technocrats. We have a wide-ranging conversation with Professor Chomsky on his critique of intellectuals, the place of technical expertise in a radical left project, his anarchist theory of expertise, and his thoughts on popular reason and popular intelligence.

This is part of a wider series on techno-utopian thinking, produced with professors Tanner Mirrlees and Imre Szemen. For a full list of credits, contact information and more visit www.dartsandletters.ca

On Fernwood Publishing's 30th anniversary podcast THIRTYWOOD host Nora Loreto discusses new book 'Frequently Asked White Questions' with authors Alex Khasnabish and Ajay Parasram.

Ajay Parasram is a multigenerational transnational byproduct of the British empire, with roots in South Asia, the Caribbean and the settler cities of Halifax, Ottawa and Vancouver. He is an associate professor in the Departments of International Development Studies, History and Political Science at Dalhousie University in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), unceded Mi’kma’ki. His research interests surround the colonial present, or the many ways through which strings of historical colonial entanglements continue to tighten the limit of political action today, and how those strings might be undone.

Alex Khasnabish is a writer, researcher and teacher committed to collective liberation living in Halifax, on unceded and unsurrendered Mi’kmaw territory. He is a professor in sociology and anthropology at Mount Saint Vincent University. His research focuses on radical imagination, radical politics, social justice and social movements.

Hosted and produced by Nora Loreto with music is by General Khan.

Harbinger Society Presents presents a terrifying excerpt from our October 30th I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST TELETHON as Bread and Poppies' Hilary Agro and Harbinger board member Dr. Jess Green in Toronto talk COP 27 and leftist parenting strategies for Halloween, then Stephen Magusiak and Romy Garrido in Calgary, Emily Leedham in Winnipeg, Rumneek Johal in Surrey and Mitchell Thompson in Toronto discuss Press Progress' recent reporting and the organization's new podcast 'Sources'.

Hear the entire 6 part series at our flagship community show Harbinger Society Presents and on the Harbinger Spotlight network highlight show, both available wherever you get your podcasts.

Find the full 12 hour telethon production at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1638776642