Green Majority Radio

We discuss the COVID crisis’s potential for catalyzing positive change, the need to help workers rather than corporations, and various ideas for environmental infrastructure.

We discuss physical distancing, community care, economics, climate change and UBI.

We talk about oil prices and COVID-19, and interview Stand Gibson of Water Docs.

We discuss whether Canada will finally stop lying about Indigenous peoples, also racism, authoritarianism, media narratives and climate change. The Sustainable Economist Tim Nash interviews three guests about green investing in the final 25 minutes.

Justin Trudeau is tasting the fruit of his misinformed, half-hearted and rhetoric-heavy reconciliation project. Let’s hope Canada is finally ready to come to the table in good faith. Emma McIntosh joins us again this week to discuss Wet’suwet’en, the Teck mine, TMX, Jason Kenney and Canadian media. Matthew Klippenstein, our EV market expert, hops on the phone to talk about capitalism and climate c...

We talk about the nationwide uprising clogging Canada’s economy, speak with correspondent Kevin Guyan who has been camping out at the Mohawk rail blockade in Tyendinaga, Ontario, and interview David Suzuki on his new documentary, Aging Well Suzuki Style, one senior’s look at a journey into the latter phase of our lives.

We discuss the Turtle Island-wide rebellion sparked by the Wet’suwet’en struggle against the theft of their land and the misinformation perpetrated by government and industry regarding the legality of our government’s invasion. We also talk about Evo Morales and the role Bolivian lithium deposits played in his ouster.

The RCMP is in the midst of a raid of Wet’suwet’en land, indigenous concerns have been ignored regarding TMX, the Teck Mine is still being considered, and environmental protectors across Latin America are being killed. In our last segment we sit down with Christine Nielsen to discuss her vivid new documentary Kingdom of the Tide.

We discuss how culture edits itself and how we’ve marginalized our own history in the context of pipelines, colonialism and Davos. We also talk about citizens’ assemblies, green taxes, the EU, Trump, Greta, climate lawsuits, big tech and renewables.

We talk about the potential of farmer’s co-ops to dismantle extractive corporate agriculture, Canadian colonialism, oceans, Trump, and the hypnotism of men in suits.

We imagine with Eric Holthaus what this decade could become if we actually tackle the crisis. Emma McIntosh joins us again to discuss the ongoing Wet’suwet’en struggle against the RCMP in Northern BC - also BlackRock, the Teck Frontier mine, wildfires and how weather shapes culture.

Our colonial contradictions continue to threaten Indigenous peoples and the environment. We talk about the Wet’suwet’en struggle against a pipeline in Northern BC, Iran, Australian fires, Indonesia, India and corporate feudalism.

We look back at 2019 and the 10’s and look forward to the 2020’s in the world of environmental justice. We also play a 20-minute sound art piece put together from YouTube videos to illustrate our climate conundrum.

We talk about COP25, a Canadian Green New Deal, India, climate litigation, greenwashing and Christmas.

We discuss Canada’s climate commitments both federal and provincial, the piles of cash ripe for investment in the Green New Deal, and the consumerist ideology that paralyses public power. We’re joined by the National Observer’s Emma McIntosh and The Logic’s Famita Sayed .

We outline the contemporary role of citizens’ assemblies in widening democracy and their potential for addressing the climate crisis. We then look at Jane McAlevey’s ideas about organizing, a scientific warning about tipping points and two new developments in green tech.

We discuss the mistaken platitudes of certain environmental commentators, the UN emissions gap report, the impacts of displacement, Doug Ford, protests, the divestment movement and Iron + Earth.

We talk about fossil fuel divestment, carbon pricing, Canada’s new environment minister, offshore wind, renewable energy, pipelines and coal.

We discuss a hopeful vision of a community-centred eco-transformation, talk with Erika Reyes of WiseBird and briefly think about Jeremy Corbyn’s environmental plan.

We talk about worldwide unrest, COP25 and CBC Kids News. Kim D’Oliveira joins us in the second segment to discuss various attempts towards a circular economy.

Tim Nash joins us to talk about elections, youth protests, climate lawsuits and the Exxon trial.

We talk about the Canadian election outcome, environmental justice, the biggest polluters and Californian utilities. We end by interviewing documentary writer-director Roberto Verdecchia on his new film about fear.

We talk about the worldwide Extinction Rebellion protests and their impact on media, politics and public perception. We then discuss Sandy Garossino’s exacting analysis of the claims behind Jason Kenney’s conspiracist rhetoric around environmentalists and the oil sands.

We end with the relationship between integrity and pragmatism in the modern environmental movement, beginning with a discussion about a new fossil discovery with evolutionary biologist Maydianne Andrade and film director Andrew Gregg, moving into a look at the precautionary blackouts in California and the Canadian federal leaders’ debate.

We outline and discuss the climate plans of Canada’s four major parties, as well as Toronto’s climate emergency victory, CAPP’s data collection intentions and the 100 climate debates that recently took place across the country. Lauren Latour is in-studio this week along with Fatima Syed and Emma McIntosh of the National Observer.