Best Broadbent Institute Podcasts (2024)

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Showcase ep34 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, BROADBENT INSTITUTE'S PERSPECTIVES, CLIMATE ORGANIZING SHORTS) 58:01

9d ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we speak to Palestine solidarity encampment supporters about their experiences with violent police crackdowns and explore how student movements of the past inform the present …

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Showcase ep35 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, OATS FOR BREAKFAST, FREE CITY RADIO, THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA) 58:01

2d ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we speak with Montreal-based journalist Anaïs Elboujdaïni about her reporting from Gaza on OATS FOR BREAKFAST, sit down with anti poverty organizer John Clarke for a conversat…

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Profits, Inflation and Survival in an Age of Emergencies with Isabella Weber 50:05

10d ago50:05

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The 2024 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture was held on Thursday, May 30th in partnership with Toronto Metropolitan University’s Faculty of Arts. A special thanks to TMU Interim Dean of Arts Amy Peng for hosting this Broadbent Institute event. Ellen Meiksins Wood was one of the left’s foremost theorists on democracy and history, and often promoted the ide…

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Showcase ep33 (LIVE SHOW #3 w/ Jeremy Appel, Emma Jackson & Duncan Kinney) 58:01

16d ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode it’s another spectacular edition of the HARBINGER SOAPBOX SERIES live podcast recording and community event! This edition, vol.3 - Edmonton: Purple City Blues features your fr…

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The Rise of Investor Ownership and the Housing Crisis with Jeremy Withers 37:49

23d ago37:49

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The housing crisis is apparent for most ordinary Canadians, especially for those paying rents and mortgages that feel increasingly out of reach. Recent data shows that among wealthy countries, Canada's housing cost increases have seen the fastest decoupling from income growth, and with that accelerated price inflation, according to Jeremy Withers, …

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Is Canada Falling Behind on Green Industrial Policy? with Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood 13:16

1M ago13:16

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To help make Canada into a “good society,” Ed Broadbent was a major proponent of “industrial strategy” throughout the 1970s and 80s as leader of Canada’s NDP, to use this policy vision for social democratic change and challenge the dominance of market mechanisms, ultimately to the working-class the tools to build a just and equal economic democracy…

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Profits? Productivity? Affordability? Talking Economics with Angella MacEwen 18:01

2M ago18:01

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In today’s apparently well-performing capitalist economy, working-class ordinary Canadians aren’t feeling like they live in a "Good Society" and acutely feel these economic pressures. Price inflation, lagging productivity, and record profits. These are the economic indicators that policymakers use to say that the economy is doing so well, and which…

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Showcase ep32 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, THE BREACH SHOW, GREEN PLANET MONITOR, THE FORGOTTEN CORNER) 58:01

2M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we dissect Canada’s participation in military occupations and failed elections in Haiti on THE BREACH SHOW, visit Palestine’s Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability and…

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Democracy, Participation and Capitalist Crisis: An Interview with Nancy Fraser 51:44

2M ago51:44

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This conversation with Nancy Fraser explores her work on the crises of capitalism, democracy, and participation. She is interviewed by Nick Vlahos, Deputy Director at the Center for Democracy Innovation, and Adrian Bua, Marie Curie-Sklodowska Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ahead of their forthcoming co-edited special volume of th…

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Showcase ep31 (UNRIGGED AT THE 2024 PROGRESS SUMMIT w/ THE BREACH. PIVOT, BRIARPATCH, THE HOSER and PRESS PROGRESS) 56:33

2M ago56:33

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode: Ever since Facebook banned Canadian news in 2023, the task of building spaces for independent journalism to thrive has become more crucial than ever. Last November the indepe…

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Showcase ep30 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA, FREE CITY RADIO, CLIMATE ORGANIZING SHORTS) 58:01

2M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we unpack the real costs of carbon pricing on The Sierra Club’s THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA, learn how to lead de-escalation workshops and confront counter-protesters on CLIMATE…

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Showcase ep29 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, GREEN PLANET MONITOR, THE PROGRESS REPORT & GREEN MAJORITY) 58:01

3M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode: Sarah Hoffman explores her vision for the future of the province In the first in a series of interviews with candidates for the Alberta NDP leadership race on THE PROGRESS RE…

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Showcase ep28 (LIVE SHOW #2 w/ Rob Rousseau, Nashwa Khan + Paris Marx) 57:59

3M ago57:59

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode It’s another spectacular edition of our HARBINGER SOAPBOX SERIES live podcast recording and community event. This edition, vol.2 - Canada: What Are We Doing Here? features you…

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Showcase ep27 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, VICTOR'S CHILDREN, ANTI-EMPIRE PROJECT, TECH WON'T SAVE US) 57:57

3M ago57:57

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode We discuss The Palestine Solidarity Movement In Canada on VICTOR’S CHILDREN, look at the history of the Gaza blockade and how Israel has ghettoized the Palestinian population …

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Showcase ep26 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, THE BREACH SHOW, 49th PARAHELL & THE END OF SPORT) 58:00

3M ago58:00

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we expose Canada’s $28.5 million in military exports to Israel on The Breach Show, Sarah Jama talks about her expulsion from the Ontario NDP caucus and how Canadian political …

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Showcase ep25 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, THE BREACH SHOW, PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES & REDEYE) 58:01

4M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we report on Israel's targeted attacks on education, knowledge and culture in Gaza on REDEYE, explore how the late NDP leader Ed Broadbent spent a lifetime seeking democracy a…

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Showcase ep24 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, The Independent's LOCK & KEY, The Broadbent Institute's PERSPECTIVES, THE ANTI-EMPIRE PROJECT 58:00

4M ago58:00

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we discuss the realities of the province's drug poisoning crisis on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, spend two nights with the residents of Tent City for Change in St. John’s on The Indepen…

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Showcase ep23 (Alberta Advantage, Green Planet Monitor, Press Progress Sources + more) 58:01

4M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we visit the frontlines of apartheid in Jerusalem with progressive Israeli NGO Ir Amim on GREEN PLANET MONITOR, ask why Canada’s spy agency is investigating the nomination of …

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Showcase ep22 (Alberta Advantage, Progress Report, The End of Sport + Redeye) 58:01

4M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we explore what's hidden or obscured when thinking uncritically about economic thought on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, reckon with ultimate political weirdo Jason Kenney’s legacy on THE…

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Showcase ep21 (Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Green Planet Monitor + Berrygrounds) 58:01

4M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode the team analyze crypto-fascist petropropaganda on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, explain why the Canadian government's response to the UN's top court's ruling on Israel's genocide in Gaz…

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Harbinger Showcase ep20 (LIVE SHOW w/ Rob Rousseau, Nashwa Khan + Paris Marx) 58:01

5M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode come hangout with Harbinger Media friends as they dig deep into the sorry state of Canadian journalism with Rob Rousseau (49th Parahell), Nashwa Lina Khan (Habibti Please), an…

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Showcase ep19 (Alberta Advantage, Tech Won't Save Us, The Forgotten Corner + Redeye) 58:01

5M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode the panel explore ideology in theory, history and how it’s even present among people who consider themselves "objective” on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, Naomi Klein explores how the onl…

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Showcase ep18 (Alberta Advantage, Green Planet Monitor, Victor's Children + Green Majority) 58:01

5M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode the panel dismantle the legacy of fondly remembered provincial premiere Peter Lougheed on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard discusses South Africa's…

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Showcase ep17 (Alberta Advantage, 49th Parahell, Tech Won't Save Us + Unmaking Saskatchewan) 57:55

5M ago57:55

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we explain why Zionism is bad, actually, on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, unpack how capitalism creates insecurity to sustain itself with writer Astra Taylor on TECH WON'T SAVE US, refle…

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Competition and Co-ops: MP Daniel Blaikie on Bill C-56, the Affordable Housing and Groceries Act 33:07

6M ago33:07

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Earlier this fall, the federal Liberal government tabled Bill C-56, the Affordable Housing and Groceries Act, with the aim of jump starting construction of purpose built rental homes with a GST rebate on these kinds of projects, and increasing competition in the grocery industry by strengthening the federal Competition Bureau, upgrading its ability…

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What Progressives Are Getting Wrong (and Right!) About Affordable Housing with Professor Carolyn Whitzman 39:22

6M ago39:22

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Perspectives Journal sat down with Professor Carolyn Whitzman to dive deeper into her Globe and Mail article published last August entitled Canada’s progressive parties have lost the plot on the housing crisis. This was a response to Prime Minister Trudeau’s earlier blunt statement that “housing is not federal responsibility” while ordinary Canadia…

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Showcase ep16 (The Energymix, Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show + Press Progress Sources) 58:01

6M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode The Energy Mix's Mitchell Beer returns to talk COP28, Pivot's Francis Hérbert-Bernier speaks with labour reporter Emily Leedham about the historic 500,000 worker strike that’s…

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Harbinger Showcase ep15 (The Energy Mix, Alberta Advantage, 49th Parahell + Green Majority) 58:01

7M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode The Energy Mix's Mitchell Beer talks COP28, Electronic Intifada and The Anti-Imperialism project join Rob Rousseau on the long-anticipated return of 49th Parahell, Andre Goule…

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Green Industrial Policy in Canada 35:10

7M ago35:10

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On October 17th, 2023 the Green Economy Network, a coalition of labour, environmental, and social justice organizations working to build a green economy in Canada, held a workshop in Ottawa at the Canadian Labour Congress to present its updated “Common Platform”, an action plan for investments in job creation and emissions reductions in key economi…

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Harbinger Showcase ep14 (Alberta Advantage + Rob Rousseau w/ The Breach, Midnight Sun & The Rover) 58:01

7M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we explore the eight month long Calgary Herald strike and how the 2000 labour action pushed back against right-wing editorial overreach and unfair treatment in the newsroom on…

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Harbinger Showcase ep13 (w/ Alberta Advantage, Unmaking Saskatchewan. Green Planet Monitor + Redeye) 58:01

7M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: unpack the political philosophy of fascism on UNMAKING SASKATCHEWAN talk leadership with Al-Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network on GREEN PLANET MONITOR explain how disinfor…

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Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality with Ed Broadbent, Frances Abele, Jonathan Sas and Luke Savage 51:46

7M ago51:46

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In this episode, we’ll take you to the book launch event of Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality, held on October 22nd, 2023 at the Toronto Reference Library featuring co-authors Ed Broadbent, Frances Abele, Jonathan Sas, and Luke Savage. The quartet of authors take you behind the scenes of the book, explaining the impe…

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Harbinger Showcase ep12 (w/ Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Victor's Children, The Progress Report) 58:01

7M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: explore the centenary of Germany’s failed 2023 socialist revolution on VICTOR’S CHILDREN examine the legal dimensions of Israel’s escalating Gaza assault on THE BREACH SHO…

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Harbinger Showcase ep11 (w/ Alberta Advantage, CJPME Debrief, Tech Won't Save Us, Darts & Letters) 58:01

8M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: talk international mobilization for Palestinian rights on CJPME DEBRIEF reveal how nationalistic narratives distract us from a better understanding of tech in the US and C…

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Care Worker Activism with Professor Ethel Tungohan 25:08

8M ago25:08

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Perspectives Journal chats with Broadbent Institute Policy Fellow Ethel Tungohan; Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism, and Professor of Politics at York University. Her new book released late this summer is called Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building and Communities of Care, published by Un…

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Harbinger Showcase ep10 (w/ Alberta Advantage, Invisible Institutions, The Independent's Berrygrounds, Green Majority) 58:01

8M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode: a proposed wind-to-hydrogen megaproject is meeting significant resistance from Newfoundland communities on THE INDEPENDENT'S BERRYGROUNDS the environmental justice movement’s…

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Harbinger Showcase ep9 (w/ Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Press Progress Sources, Green Planet Monitor) 58:01

8M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode: Martin Lukacs reports back from the 2023 NDP convention on THE BREACH SHOW former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights Michael Lynk discusses war crimes in Gaza …

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Pharmacare Showdown with MP Don Davies 22:01

8M ago22:01

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At the federal New Democratic Party’s 2023 convention held October 13-15 in Hamilton, Ontario, party membership voted unanimously for the NDP to withdraw support of the Liberal government’s Confidence and Supply Agreement, holding the minority Parliament together, if they do not deliver on a universal, comprehensive public national Pharmacare progr…

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Harbinger Showcase ep8 (w/ Alberta Advantage, CJPME Debrief, Green Planet Monitor + Redeye) 58:01

8M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: look at labour actions, picket lines, labour boards and the role employer's dirty tricks play on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE talk with the Canadian Center for Policy Alternative…

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Harbinger Showcase ep7 (w/ Alberta Advantage, Pullback, Berrygrounds + the Forgotten Corner) 58:01

8M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: sit down with Simeon Tshakapesh and Anastasia Qupee to explore Newfoundland and Labrador’s Inquiry Respecting the Treatment, Experiences and Outcomes of Innu in the Child …

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Seeking Social Democracy - An Interview with Ed Broadbent 33:21

8M ago33:21

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Perspectives spoke to Ed Broadbent, founder of the Broadbent Institute, former leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, and co-author of Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality. Part memoir, part history, part political manifesto, Seeking Social Democracy offers the first full-length treatment of Ed Broadbent’s ideas …

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Harbinger Showcase ep6 (w/ Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Invisible Institutions + Redeye) 58:01

9M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: talk with Naomi Klein about her new book Doppleganger on THE BREACH SHOW explore how people labeled with intellectual and developmental disabilities have been confined by …

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Harbinger Showcase ep5 (w/ Alberta Advantage, Press Progress Sources, The Independent's Berrygrounds + Half Past Capitalism) 58:01

9M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: unpack cooperative systems for food production on HALF PAST CAPITALISM explain how dark money networks from out-of-province have set their sights on Manitoba's election on…

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Progressive Governance with British Columbia Premier David Eby 42:40

9M ago42:40

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How does a social democratic government in British Columbia deliver on principles of justice and equality for its people? From sustainable economic development in the face of the climate crisis, to the pandemic measures, to the housing affordability crisis and public safety, the Broadbent Institute hosted British Columbia Premier David Eby for a fi…

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Harbinger Showcase ep4 (w/ Alberta Advantage, Pullback, Labour Intensive + Canada Re-Imagined) 58:01

9M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: unpack the 2020 book A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency with author and activist Seth Klein on PULLBACK talk regularization and exploitation with Just…

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Harbinger Showcase ep3 (w/ Alberta Advantage, Tech Won't Save Us, Unmaking Saskatchewan + Darts & Letters) 58:00

9M ago58:00

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: look at the decline of medicare from 1944 to today on UNMAKING SASKATCHEWAN unpack Bill C-18 and Facebook/Instagram’s scorched earth policy banning Canadian journalism on …

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Harbinger Showcase ep2 (w/ Data Decoded, Press Progress, Redeye + Victor's Children) 58:01

10M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: speak with socialist scholars from Russia and Ukraine in a conversation explaining Putin's war on VICTOR’S CHILDREN in Winnipeg unpack the negative impact of the Canadian …

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Harbinger Showcase ep1 (w/ Press Progress, The Independent, Redeye + Green Majority) 58:01

10M ago58:01

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Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: discuss the media’s role in movement building with The Grind publisher David Gray-Donald on CIUT’s environmental news show GREEN MAJORITY in Toronto unpack a landmark Queb…

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The Gamification of Sextech (Gender, Sex & Technology S2,E3) 1:04:54

10M ago1:04:54

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On Gender Sex & Tech S2,E3 host Jennifer Jill Fellows welcomes sextech academic Chloe Locatelli for a conversation exploring her research on sex robots, relationships with technologies and how the personification and gamification of sex tech is specifically marketed and targeted at heterosexual men. Gender Sex & Tech engages with scholars to examin…

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Little Boy and Fat Man (Green Planet Monitor ep22) 59:24

11M ago59:24

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Seventy-eight years ago, on August 6, 1945, the US dropped a uranium-enriched fission bomb, code named ‘Little Boy’, on the Japanese port city, Hiroshima. Three days later, they dropped a second bomb, a plutonium-implosion device — Fat Man — on Nagasaki. When the dust settled, between 130 and 225,000 people were dead or dying. To this day, casualty…

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