Harbinger Society Presents

Harbinger's October 30th I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST TELETHON continues as Darts & Letters Gordon Katic and Jay Cockburn sit down with Press Progress' Mitchell Thompson to review spooky PSAs, then Gabrielle Brassard-Lecours, Alexis Ross, Fanny Tan and Sam Harper celebrate the first birthday of Quebec solidarity journalism cooperative PIVOT. Plus: National Observer hack Max Fawcett and Globe & Mail po...

Harbinger's October 30th I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST TELETHON continues as Dru Oja Jay talks about The Breach Media's journalism for transformation and Community University Television station manager Sophia Barsoski unpacks the 50 year legacy of CUTV, then Shannon Carranco, Amy Cunningham and Leah Borts-Kuperman explain how The Hoser Media is re-inventing local journalism in the GTA and David Gray-Do...

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 discu...

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 ind...

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. In this conversation 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 Cr...

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 journal...

Host Andre Goulet warmly welcomes back to the podcast your pundit pulverizing pals from the Big Shiny Takes Institute and with adjunct consultant Kino Lefter in a few-holds-barred conversation exploring the ascension of toxic dweeb Pierre Poilievre to the 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....

On a new episode 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 http...

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 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 exp...

On this episode ‘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...

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 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...

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?"

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 jo...

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...

On 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...

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 Ha...

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 independ...

On episode 31 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...

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 Hous...

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. W...

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. Watch the full conversation at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1301505681 Support the shows at https:...

On ep28 Dr. Jess Green, Kai Nagata and Dr. Roberta Lexier from Harbinger's board of directors join host 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 pod...

Harbinger's prestige premium podcast 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, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East's Tom Woodley and Michael Bueckert talk about DEBRIEF with host Andre Goulet and Atlantic correspondent James Brown suggests an elegant solution fo...

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 f...

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...