Harbinger Showcase

A new reader-supported digital media outlet is making a major push to bring back progressive, hard-hitting news coverage to the Toronto region. On Harbinger Society Presents ep15 The Hoser co-editors-in-chief Shannon Carranco and Kevin Taghabon join host Andre Goulet to talk about the future of their incredibly exciting new project and explain why it's crucial to support independent alternative me...

What went into starting the CCF— the precursor to today's NDP? What was the working-class and socialist response to the deep depression and government inaction of the 1930s? How did prior struggles and experiences contribute to the formation of this new party, and how did they envision changing the world? Nashwa Khan of Habibti Please joins Team Advantage to discuss this fascinating historical mom...

“Do your research!” We’re hearing it more and more these days. On S1 of this timely narrative podcast hosts Mathieu Charlebois, Liane Décary-Chen and Colin Boudrias contribute a comedically comprehensive critique of the QAnon conspiracy phenomenon, en francais, fucking with their algorithms so that you don’t have to. On ep1 of 'Faisez vos recherches!': When Hubert Reeves tried to explain QAnon he...

On a new Big Shiny Takes hosts Eric Wickham, Marino Greco and Jeremy Appel sit down with Palestine House board member and psychotherapist Hammam Farah (@HumHum83) and Israeli-Canadian pal and OffCourt and Drum Circle Jerk co-host Eytan Tobin (@RabbiDieHardman) to explore how Israel, like Canada, is a fake ass genocidal settler state. For those who haven’t been paying attention, Israel recently att...

On an auspicious episode 20 host Charlie Demers welcomes BC’s Attorney General & Minister for Housing for a conversation on political culture, pandemic, & complicated inheritances. Plus: a special surprise appearance by Charlie's daughter, adorably interrupting a conversation about the housing market! Find out more about David's work as the MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey at https://davidebymla.ca/ G...

On the inaugural Harbinger Society Presents live recording it's an evening of history and hard questions on Canadian exceptionalism as Nashwa Khan and Shaadie Ali of Habibti Please and Deathnography's Henry Lee join host Andre Goulet for a conversation on Vincent Bevins' excellent 2020 book 'The Jakarta Method', Ottawa's Victims of Communism Memorial, how to fight for justice for Palestine and mor...

On this episode Press Progress investigative reporters Emily Leedham and Stephen Magusiak join host Andre Goulet for a Winnipeg/Calgary/Montreal power panel exploring the provincial purgatory of pandemic Alberta. Plus: journalist and 'The Forgotten Corner' co-host Scott Schmidt describes Medicine Hat's recent super-spreader event, Harbinger Atlantic correspondent James Brown reports on bad bosses...

On episode 12 housing rights advocate David DesBaillet presents Housing Party, a recurring interview-length Harbinger Society segment exploring the crisis of housing in Canada, for a conversation with organizer and social housing policy scholar Josh Hawley on the recent victory for tenants in Ottawa’s Sandy Hill neighbourhood, the disturbingly cozy relationship between Doug Ford’s Conservatives an...

Three-term Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi joins hosts Scott Schmidt and Jeremy Appel just days after announcing he will not be running for another term in office this fall for an intimate and refreshingly candid conversation reflecting on the journey that led him to become one of the most well-known municipal leaders in the world and the first Muslim mayor in Canadian history. For more episodes of th...

Work It is a sketch comedy podcast about jobs, working & capitalism, written and performed by Janet Mowat and Sam Allemang. This week’s episode includes a Quarantine Novel, the Highs & Furloughs game show, Socially Distanced Fatalities and more. Get more of the best in anti-capitalist Canadian comedy at https://widgetmag.com/ and subscribe to the show at https://widgetmag.com/workit/ or wherever y...

On a super stoked pre-convention panel housing activist and Etobicoke NDP organizer Bri Gardner and co-president of the Jeunes Néodémocrates du Québec Gabriel Masi join host Andre Goulet to discuss policy priorities, shifting the party to the left, Jagmeet's vibes and the mixed legacy of Thomas Mulcair. Plus: Atlantic correspondent James Brown suffers Mulcair nostalgia and places a pensive persona...

On an UNLOCKED endless election spectacular Drew Brown, Alicia Morry and Paris Marx in St. John's join host Andre Goulet to discuss Newfoundland and Labrador's unique political culture and reveal the most surprising billionaire of all. Plus: the panel reviews 2019 federal election campaign songs in the lead-up to what could be a nation-wide Spring 2021 vote. And: comedian James Brown embraces cont...

It's the one-year anniversary of the pandemic and there's a whole lot to feel disillusioned by! Fortunately on a new 49th Parahell, none other than renowned author & activist Naomi Klein joins the show to speak with host Rob Rousseau as she expresses maybe the most radical idea of all: that, maybe, just maybe, things might be starting to get a bit better. www.patreon.com/robrousseau

In 2001, a campaign to reconstitute the NDP into a new party emerged, calling itself the New Politics Initiative. It proposed a party with stronger links with social movements and the anti-globalization campaigns that had been growing over the previous years, and had some high-profile spokespeople. What happened with this initiative? What was the response from within the NDP? Can anything be learn...

On an unlocked new episode of Harbinger Society Presents the panel buries Federalism as writer Nora Loreto (Sandy and Nora Talk Politics), chemist Ada McVean and podcaster extraordinaire Aliya Pabani (We Are Not the Virus) join host Andre Goulet to discuss what the colliding crises in long-term care, homelessness and academia tell us about the limitations of government in an increasingly fake coun...

On a new episode Work It's Sam Allemagne and Janet Mowat join host Andre Goulet for a Game Stop struggle session, then Lana Polansky, Hugh Stewart and Andrew Neville convene to lament Jon Kay's hair care regime, praise the rising tide of the Democratic Socialists of America of Canada's new political initiative and play an exciting round of ‘Hit or Miss’ with Sandra Coupland's new erotic thriller ‘...

On an unlocked S2, E2 of the Harbinger Society Presents host Andre Goulet welcomes Roberta Lexier, Jeremy Appel, Scott Schmidt and Mo Cranker of The Forgotten Corner podcast as we celebrate FC's addition to the network with a wide-ranging and astutely analytical conversation on being wary of Jason Kenney's decline and why progressive Albertans need to push the provincial NDP to the left. Also: Dan...

On an extra-length Season 2 launch Abdul Malik and Eytan Tobin introduce their new Harbinger-exclusive sports, history and politics podcast Offcourt and preview upcoming episodes including Cricket as Decolonial Praxis, How the ‘Miracle on Ice’ was a Cold War Turning Point and Why Amar’e Stoudemire Became a Zionist. Plus: a PEI 2020 news round-up with comedian James Brown, a special presentation of...

On this re-presentation of a December episode of the world's only anti-free speech podcast, National Post columnist John Ivison is mad at Churchill—Keewatinook Aski MP Niki Ashton and Nanaimo—Ladysmith MP Paul Manly for their support of a proposal to free Huawei heiress Meng Wanzhou, arrested by Canadian police in December, 2018 at the behest of the Trump administration. In this conversation Harbi...

On the Season 1 finale of Harbinger Society Presents host Andre Goulet convenes an all-star panel with Iranian-Canadian Congress policy chair Saman Tabasinejad in Toronto, Saudi Arabia/Canada investigative journalist Anthony Fenton in Vancouver and Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East VP Michael Bueckert in Montreal to discuss the Trudeau government's foreign policy failure in the re...

Now unlocked and available for all, presenting episode 4 of the inaugural season of The Harbinger Society Presents! Independent, award-winning politics and culture magazine Briarpatch remains a cutting edge media outlet after nearly 50 years of publication. On this episode, host Andre Goulet (Tio'tia:ke/Montreal) welcomes three of the journalists who help make Briarpatch happen as current editor S...

Now unlocked for your edification and amusement, presenting episode 3 of the inaugural season of The Harbinger Society Presents! In this conversation Laura Kruse (Jacobin, Kino Lefter), Tyler Ogilvie (The Alberta Advantage) and comedian Mav Adecer brutally assess Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party's 18 months in power and look back on a year from hell in Wildrose Country. Plus: an intr...

Now unlocked for your edification and amusement, presenting a very special sophomore episode of the inaugural season of 'The Harbinger Society Presents: The Left Podcast Conspiracy' from the Harbinger Media Network! This fun, friendly and heartwarming 2nd episode featuring comrades Nashwa Khan, host of 'Habibti Please' and 'Muslim Rumpsringa', Hilary Agro, host of 'Bread and Poppies' and Rob Rouss...

Presenting a very spooky premiere episode of the inaugural season of 'The Harbinger Society Presents: The Left Podcast Conspiracy' from the Harbinger Media Network! This terrifying Halloween conversation 'The Haunted Hustings: B.C.'s Decision 2020', featuring polisci pundits Stewart Prest and David Moscrop, B.C. Today's Shannon Waters and host Andre Goulet, comes courtesy of our pals at online Lef...