Harbinger Showcase

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: speak with socialist scholars from Russia and Ukraine in a conversation explaining Putin's war on VICTOR’S CHILDREN in Winnipeg unpack the negative impact of the Canadian Blood Services' 15-year deal with a for-profit pla...

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: discuss the media’s role in movement building with The Grind publisher David Gray-Donald on CIUT’s environmental news show GREEN MAJORITY in Toronto unpack a landmark Quebec Superior Court decision that found police stops...

On Gender Sex & Tech S2,E3 host Jennifer Jill Fellows welcomes sextech academic Chloe Locatelli for a conversation exploring her research on sex robots, relationships with technologies and how the personification and gamification of sex tech is specifically marketed and targeted at heterosexual men. Gender Sex & Tech engages with scholars to examine technology using a feminist intersection...

Seventy-eight years ago, on August 6, 1945, the US dropped a uranium-enriched fission bomb, code named ‘Little Boy’, on the Japanese port city, Hiroshima. Three days later, they dropped a second bomb, a plutonium-implosion device — Fat Man — on Nagasaki. When the dust settled, between 130 and 225,000 people were dead or dying. To this day, casualty numbers vary widely. One thing is clear: almost a...

The world is a mess, and boomers like Patrick Esmond-White share the blame. It will take both imagination and action for our grandchildren to get through the endless crisis now upon us. But it is possible, and there are many reasons for hope. The first step is to think totally outside of the proverbial box. Suspend your disbelief. Re-Imagine Canada. Canada Re-Imagined looks at intractable problems...

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...

On the debut episode DATA DECODED Concordia University's Data Justice Hub welcomes Dr. Erin McElroy for a conversation discussing the American grassroots collective Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and their work gathering data on evictions with the aim of confronting gentrification, the challenges in advocating for tenants rights with the adoption of new tracking and surveillance technologies by lan...

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 Labour Intensive host Jody Tomchishen sits down with economist Jim Stanford to discuss inflation, interest rates, and bargaining for better wages. Visit his website: https://centreforfuturework.ca/ Follow him on Twitter:@JimboStanford Sign up for Press Progress' Shift Work newsletter for union updates curated by Emily Leedham: https://pressprogress.ca/shiftwork/ Support the show and becom...

An amazing array of independent media convened at Christie Pits park this month 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 and traumas and f...

Marxist scholar Shama Rangwala and activist and journalist Desmond Cole discuss rocks, fish, birds, women, the 2017 action-adventure game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and what it's like to publicly embrace being a gamer on so-called Canada's #1 leftist pop culture podcast.

On a new Unpacking the News former Saskatchewan NDP leadership candidate Kaitlyn Harvey and Edmonton city council candidate Navjot Kaur join journalist Haseena Manek in Halifax and host Andre Goulet in Montreal 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 a...

The Breach Show returned for a special Alberta election night special, and here are some highlights! Hosts Martin Lukacs and Aditya Rao are joined by a great lineup of guests from all over Alberta. Ricardo Acuña, Romy Garrido, Emma Jackson, Angele Alook, Brad Lafortune and Des Bissonnette unpack what Danielle Smith’s win means for Albertans and what Rachel Notley’s uninspiring campaign and ultimat...

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...

On the PULLBACK Season 1 finale Kyla Hewson and Kristen Pue welcome Anishinaabe scholar, writer, and commentator Riley Yesno to discuss the land back movement that seeks to reclaim Indigenous rights and rebalance our relationships with the land and each other. Riley Yesno has been a contributor at some of the largest media outlets in Canada and around the world, including at the New York Times, BB...

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...

Hosts Stefan and David Hostetter in Toronto and Lauren Latour in Ottawa welcome world-renown geneticist and environmentalist David Suzuki and filmmakers Mark Starowicz and Caitlin Starovicz for an in-depth conversation discussing his new CBC documentary Apocalypse Plan B, delving into ideas for artificially trying to cool the earth and asking if a rise in “geoengineering” could risk mass flooding,...

Chris Smalls was a worker at an Amazon packing facility in Staten Island when he was fired from the company for speaking out about unsafe working conditions during the pandemic. About a year later, he was instrumental in the creation of the first Amazon union in US history after a long fight with the union-busting corporate giant. Smalls eventually became the face of the movement and the architect...

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 Harbinger Society Presents ep49 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 lo...

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...

The tuition freeze is over. Anger is growing over how the university is being managed. And now faculty members are on strike. The crisis at Memorial University cannot be understood without considering the institution's slide into corporatization. On the inaugural episode of BERRYGROUNDS former Provost and Vice President Academic Noreen Golfman joins host Justin Brake for an inside look at the deep...