Expats & Allies

We spoke to labour researcher Adam D.K. King about the causes behind the so-called "quiet quitting" phenomenon, what it means, the responses from the managerial class, and what this apparent trend could mean for advancing worker solidarity and labour rights in the long term. Read Adam's recent piece for Passage on "quiet quitting" here: https://readpassage.com/dont-write-o...

Support The Maple by subscribing to our daily newsletter for as little as $7 per month. In this week's early-release episode, we spoke to Maple contributor Jeremy Appel and PressProgress reporter Stephen Magusiak in Calgary, Alberta about the UCP leadership race, whether any candidate can beat frontrunner Danielle Smith, and how the Alberta NDP might respond to a Smith premiership. We also ta...

Support The Maple by subscribing to our daily newsletter for as little as $7 per month. This week, we spoke to Sean Orr, who is running for Vancouver City Council with Vote Socialist, a new organization that commits to restitution for Indigenous nations, promoting safe and affordable housing as a human right, making the rich pay their fair share for public services, and to defunding and disarming...

Support The Maple by subscribing to our daily newsletter for as little as $7 per month. This week, we spoke to Dr. Amit Arya - a palliative care physician, board member of Canadian Doctors for Medicare, and advocate for those who live and work in the long-term care sector - about the Doug Ford government's plans to further privatize Ontario's public health system, and how this will impac...

Support The Maple by subscribing to our daily newsletter for as little as $7 per month. This week, we spoke to Michael Bueckert, vice president of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East about Israel's recent attack on Gaza, and the Canadian government's non-response. We also talk about the roots of the current situation in Palestine, and how Canada helps Israel act with impun...

Support The Maple by subscribing to our daily newsletter for as little as $7 per month. In this week's episode, we spoke to journalist Mitchell Thompson about his recent articles exploring the complex history of Canadian peacekeeping and examples of bloody interventions that are far out of step with rhetoric that pitches peacekeeping as a benign alternative to war. Read Mitchell's articl...

Support The Maple by subscribing to our daily newsletter for as little as $7 per month. This week, we spoke to Paris Marx about their new book, titled Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation. Paris' book argues that big tech companies are offering a future for transportation built on false promises that will not deliver an equitable version of auto-m...

Support The Maple by subscribing to our daily newsletter for as little as $7 per month. This week, we spoke to Matt Hatfield, the campaigns director at OpenMedia, about the Rogers outage, the telecom giant's plan to takeover Shaw, and the failures of Canada's telecom oligopoly. Learn more about OpenMedia: https://openmedia.org/about Music credit: "Fluidity," by tobylane.

Support The Maple by subscribing to our daily newsletter for as little as $7 per month. This week, we spoke to Vancouver-based activist, commentator and Ricochet Media co-founder Derrick O'Keefe about BC Premier John Horgan's resignation, his government's track record, the history of the BC NDP, and who might run to be the party's new leader. Follow Derrick on Twitter: @derrick...

Support The Maple by subscribing to our daily newsletter for as little as $7 per month. A read out of one our favourite recent articles titled 'A History of Abortion Rights in Canada and Their Future,' by Jasmyne Eastmond. The article was read out by The Maple's managing editor, Alex Cosh. Read the original article here.

Support The Maple by subscribing to our daily newsletter for as little as $7 per month. This week, we spoke to Yves Engler, a fellow with the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, about the Liberal government's $40 billion "modernization" plan for NORAD. We discuss the binational military command's history, how it undermines Canadian sovereignty, and how weapons dealers benefit fr...

Support The Maple by subscribing to our daily newsletter for as little as $7 per month. In this episode, we spoke to John Cartwright, chairperson of the Council of Canadians, about a new organization called Community Solidarity Project that is helping to mobilize communities to counter reactionary groups linked to the so-called 'freedom' convoy, and to fight for a better future. Music cr...

Support The Maple by subscribing to our daily newsletter for as little as $7 per month. The Maple's Ontario election reporter Nora Loreto returns to the show to discuss the key takeaways from Doug Ford's victory in a record-low turnout election, and what Ontarians can expect from the next four years of Progressive Conservative government. Music credit: "Fluidity," by tobylane.

Support The Maple by subscribing to our daily newsletter for as little as $7 per month. We spoke to eco-socialist lawyer and activist Dimitri Lascaris about why he has decided not to run again for Green Party leader, and the hostile atmosphere towards dissent on Western foreign policy that contributed to his decision.  We also talk about the response to Dimitri's decision from his supporters,...

Support The Maple by subscribing to our daily newsletter for as little as $7 per month. This week, we spoke to Matthew DiMera, founder and publisher of The Resolve, a new journalistic project that is building a platform for Black, Indigenous and people of colour journalists to tell their own stories directly to BIPOC audiences — not filtered through a white lens. We discuss systemic racism in Cana...

Support The Maple by subscribing to our daily newsletter for as little as $7 per month. This week,  we spoke to PressProgress reporter Stephen Magusiak about Alberta Premier Jason Kenney's surprise announcement that he is resigning as leader of the United Conservative Party. We discuss Kenney's grim record, and what's next for him and the UCP. Follow Stephen on Twitter @Magusiak. He...

Support The Maple by subscribing to our daily newsletter for as little as $7 per month. We spoke to Maple contributor and independent journalist Jeremy Appel about the six candidates running for Conservative Party leader, and the different factions of the party that they represent. We also discuss whether or not the winner will be able to hold together the Conservative coalition until the next fed...

Support The Maple by subscribing to our daily newsletter for as little as $7 per month. We spoke to Joyce Arthur, executive director of Abortion Rights Coalition Canada (ARCC), about the U.S. Supreme Court's leaked decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and how this might influence the future of abortion access in Canada. Follow ARCC on Twitter @AbortionRights or visit their website. National Abor...

Support The Maple by subscribing to our daily newsletter for as little as $7 per month. We spoke with The Maple's new Ontario election reporter, Nora Loreto, about what we can expect from this election cycle as Ontarians get ready to head to the polls on June 2. Sound design by Sophia Sanford www.sanfordsanford.com ; @_sanfordsanford . Music credit: "Fluidity," by tobylane.

Support The Maple by subscribing to our daily newsletter for as little as $7 per month. A read out of one our favourite recent articles titled 'Poverty Wage Plutocrats: A Guide to Canada's Grocery Chain Oligarchs,' by Mitchell Thompson. The article was read out by The Maple's managing editor, Alex Cosh. Read the original article here. Follow Mitchell on Twitter here. Let us kno...

Support The Maple by subscribing to our daily newsletter for as little as $7 per month. This week, we spoke to Brent Patterson, executive director of Peace Brigades International - Canada, about the federal government’s plan to purchase 88 new F-35 fighter jets from American weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin. Sound design by Sophia Sanford www.sanfordsanford.com ; @_sanfordsanford . Music credi...

Support The Maple by subscribing to our daily newsletter for as little as $7 per month. This week, we spoke to Yurii Sheliazhenko, a peace advocate based in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, and Yves Engler, a fellow with the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine and Canada’s role in fuelling the geopolitical tensions at the heart of th...

Support The Maple by subscribing to our daily newsletter for as little as $7 per month. Why did police treat the far-right occupation of Ottawa and supportive convoys across Canada with kid gloves? We spoke to community organizers Audrey Redman and Jaggi Singh about their experiences countering the convoy protests in Edmonton and Montreal, and why police sympathy with the convoy's far-right p...

Support The Maple by subscribing to our daily newsletter for as little as $7 per month. Police have moved in to clear the occupation of Ottawa by the so-called "freedom" convoy, but what was it really like for residents living in and around the downtown area, and what do the far-right politics of the convoy's leadership mean for the future? We spoke with Riley, an Ottawa resident wh...

Support The Maple by subscribing to our daily newsletter for as little as $1.75 per week. In this week's episode of the Great Gilded North podcast series, we spoke to Cassandra Kislenko about Canada's role in the murder of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cassandra Kislenko is a non-binary settler journalist working and writing on Treaty 13 t...