Harbinger Society Presents

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 friends Big Shiny Takes  host  Jeremy Appel , Emma Jackson from Common Horizon , and  The Progress Report  host  Duncan Kinney live, on Saturday, May 25th at a legacy housing co-operative located near Whyte avenue in a convers...

It’s another spectacular edition of our heroic HARBINGER SOAPBOX SERIES live podcast recording and community event!  This edition, vol.2 - Canada: What Are We Doing Here? features your friends 49th Parahell host Rob Rousseau , Nashwa Lina Khan from Habibti Please , and Tech Won't Save Us host Paris Marx live, on Saturday, March 23rd at the historic Eglise St. Jax basement venue l'Annexe located on...

Come hangout with Harbinger Media friends as they dig deep into the sorry state of Canadian journalism! Join Rob Rousseau ( 49th Parahell ), Nashwa Lina Khan ( Habibti Please ), and Paris Marx ( Tech Won't Save Us ) on January 20th, 8pm at the historic Centre St. Jax basement venue l'Annexe located at1439 rue Saint-Catherine Ouest next to Concordia University in downtown Montreal. This event is li...

Dental care is excluded from Canada’s universal healthcare system with services provided based on the ability to pay, leading large segments of the population to neglect care resulting in poor oral health and all its consequences. On a new Unpacking the News dentist and public healthcare activist Brandon Doucet joins host Andre Goulet for a conversation examining the little known history of dentis...

Elizabeth Comack 's work in the sociology of law and feminist criminology and as a member of the Manitoba Research Alliance , a consortium of academics and community partners engaged in research addressing poverty in Indigenous and inner-city communities, has informed 14 books she's written or edited including ‘Coming Back to Jail: Women, Trauma, and Criminalization ’ and ‘Racialized Policing: Abo...

On a new Unpacking the News an amazing array of independent media convene at Christie Pits park as Replay ’s Shama Rangwala , The Breach coordinating editor Emma Paling , analyst Chuka Ekjam , cartoonist Haus of Decline and Big Shiny Takes Institute senior fellows Marino Greco, Eric Wickham and Jeremy Appel sit down with host Andre Goulet to break down the candidates and issues, hopes and dreams a...

Former Saskatchewan NDP leadership candidate Kaitlyn Harvey and Edmonton city council candidate Navjot Kaur join journalist Haseena Manek and host Andre Goulet for a conversation exploring the exclusionary reflex of provincial NDP parties in the 2nd in a series of episodes produced in collaboration with Briarpatch celebrating the magazine's 50th anniversary year. Read Maneek's piece at https://bri...

On May 5th through 7th the 2023 Mobilizing Data for Justice conference brought together activists, community leaders and critical researchers from around the world for skill building, community outreach and research collaboration at Concordia University's downtown campus in Montreal. On a new episode of Unpacking the News Invisible Institutions' Megan Linton and host Andre Goulet spoke with multip...

NOTE: SUBSCRIBE TO UNPACKING THE NEWS AND RECEIVE NEW EPISODES ON YOUR FEED WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS! From May 8-12 don't miss UNPACKING THE NEWS broadcasting live from the 2023 Canadian Labour Congress with our friends at Quebec solidarity journalism cooperative Pivot! Every day we're releasing interviews and reports from Canada's 30th tri-annual labour summit including this episode featuri...

NOTE: SUBSCRIBE TO UNPACKING THE NEWS TO CONTINUE RECEIVING NEW EPISODES ON YOUR FEED WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS! From May 8-12 don't miss UNPACKING THE NEWS broadcasting live from the 2023 Canadian Labour Congress with our friends at Quebec solidarity journalism cooperative Pivot! Every day we're releasing interviews and reports from Canada's 30th tri-annual labour summit including this episo...

NOTE: SUBSCRIBE TO UNPACKING THE NEWS TO CONTINUE RECEIVING NEW EPISODES ON YOUR FEED WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS! From May 8-12 don't miss UNPACKING THE NEWS' daily show broadcasting live from the 2023 Canadian Labour Congress with our friends at Quebec solidarity journalism cooperative Pivot! Every day we're releasing interviews and reports from Canada's 30th tri-annual labour summit includin...

From May 8-12 don't miss UNPACKING THE NEWS' daily show broadcasting live from the 2023 Canadian Labour Congress with our friends at Quebec solidarity journalism cooperative Pivot! Every day we're releasing interviews and reports from the floor of Canada's 30th tri-annual labour summit including this episode featuring a panel from the conference floor moderated by Broadbent Institute director Jen...

From May 8-12 don't miss UNPACKING THE NEWS' daily show every morning live from the 2023 Canadian Labour Congress with our friends at Quebec solidarity journalism cooperative Pivot! Each episode will feature interviews and reports from the floor of Canada's 30th tri-annual labour summit including this episode with prairie labour journalist Emily Leedham and host Andre Goulet exploring what to expe...

The fiercely independent, proudly polemical and reader-supported BRIARPATCH has been publishing award-winning, hard-hitting journalism and critical commentary out of Regina, Saskatchewan since 1973. In it's 50th anniversary year Unpacking the News is excited to partner with so-called Canada's oldest legacy Left media space for bi-monthly episodes featuring journalists talking about their original...

Trailblazing progressive podcast UNPACKING THE NEWS is back after a 30 month hiatus for an all-new Season 2! In this kick-off episode BERRYGROUNDS ' Justin Brake joins host Andre Goulet to explore how his work as The Independent interim editor will be afflicting the comfortable in Newfoundland and Labrador society and politics, his background in unapologetic, confrontational journalism and how Pie...

We're back! Returning after a two and a half year hiatus Unpacking the News is a weekly progressive podcast featuring in-depth interviews and panel conversations on Canadian society, culture and politics with journalists, academics and activists from coast to coast. Hosted by André Goulet in Montréal, this season will include episodes co-produced with: Council of Canadians campaign organizers Bria...

For the first time since Canada's premiere politically and socially progressive conference launched in 2014 this year's Progress Summit included a workshop exploring how podcasts can be a force for change in a time of division in a special showcase convened by the Harbinger community. An astonishing 14 network hosts sat down for the 90 minute panel including TECH WON’T SAVE US' Paris Marx, INVISIB...

The 2023 Progress Summit conference, happening March 8-10 in Ottawa, is an ambitious event bringing together hundreds of socialists, social democrats, leftists, NGOs, labour organizers and rank and file union members from around the country, featuring compelling speakers and big ideas from around the world. The annual Summit is convened by the Broadbent Institute, an influential left-ish think tan...

On a new episode the Council of Canadians' Nikolas Barry-Shaw joins host Andre Goulet to discuss the Fight for Pharmacare Alliance, a national coalition coming together to raise political pressure and convince the feds that universal pharmacare needs to happen in a conversation unpacking the patient voices and patient advocacy groups represented in the alliance, how Big Pharma lobbying has increas...

The Harbinger Media Network's showcase at next month's 2023 Progress Summit will pick up on this year’s conference theme of ‘Stronger Together: Forging Unity in a Time of Division’. On episode 48 of Harbinger Society Presents Megan Linton from Invisible Institutions, Big Shiny Takes' Eric Wickham and Tech Won't Save Us host Paris Marx join Andre Goulet to explain why solidarity, collaboration and...

As Quebec’s political and media class continue their attack on Amira Elghawaby, the federal government’s new lead on Islamophobia in Canada, independent journalist Taylor C. Noakes (CBC, The Maple, Canadian Dimension, Jacobin) joins host Andre Goulet for a critical conversation exploring where public discourse, social values, discriminatory legislation and xenophobia intersect in the not-so-belle-...

In his new book 'Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change' Winnipeg academic David Camfield argues that a just transition from fossil fuels won’t be delivered by businesspeople or politicians. On Harbinger Society Presents episode 46 he joins host Andre Goulet to talk about the book and his podcast VICTOR'S CHILDREN exploring "socialism from below" which joined the network in...

On the frightening finale of Harbinger's I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST TELETHON Scott Schmidt in Medicine Hat and Jeremy Appel in Calgary welcome Kino Lefter's Evan MacDonald and Bridget Sterling in Edmonton to The Forgotten Corner to hate-watch Danielle Smith's unhinged victory speech, then Dogwood comms director and Harbinger board member Kai Nagata sits down with Gisxtan land defender Kolin Sutherla...

The bone-chilling I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST TELETHON continues with volume V as Replay's Shama Rangwala and Desmond Cole talk pop culture, racial capitalism and the unmatched excellence of Toronto's water quality, then The Alberta Advantage advocate for gamer's rights in a provocative and competitive survivor round of Left For Dead. Hear the full 6 part series at our flagship community show Harbing...

The I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST TELETHON continues with volume IV as Invisible Institutions' Megan Linton and Unmaking Saskatchewan's Sara Birrell talk Briarpatch's 50th birthday with Saima Desai and John Cameron, then Pullback's Kristen Pue and Kyla Hewson sit down with Green Majority Radio's Lauren Latour to talk with Victor's Children host David Camfield about his new book 'Future on Fire: Capital...