Harbinger Showcase

On Harbinger Society Presents 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 Ottaw...

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...

Daniel Muessig is in a US federal prison where he will spend the next 5 years. In the year 2022, he is being caged because he sold a plant, cannabis, to people who wanted it. In this episode, he tells the story of how his life was stolen from him and explains why the justice system isn't actually broken—it's working exactly as intended. Bread and Poppies is hosted by Hilary Agro (@hilaryagro on so...

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...

Deathnography speaks to academics and shares ethnographic analysis and fieldnotes in deep-dive conversations about anthropology, politics, memes, and more. On a new episode host Henry Lee speaks with Wósdéé Podcast host, University of Arizona PhD and member of the Navajo Nation Majerle Lister about sovereignty, the history of Navajo tribal government, red-baiting, and solidarity between Indigenous...

Invisible Institutions is a new documentary podcast exploring the past and present of institutions for people labelled with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Canada On episode 3 host Megan Linton welcomes People First of Canada's Shelley Fletcher and MDC survivor David Weremy to investigate one of the few remaining large-scale government funded and operated institutions for people lab...

On a new episode of the hard-hitting political analysis & satire podcast Worst Case Ontario hosts Judd Baldwin, Arthur Fleck and Max Alberta discuss western media’s coverage of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Russians living in Canada getting cancelled, the physics of nuclear missiles, the history of Canadian spies, and our deputy prime minister’s scarf. Support the show at www.patreon.com/wcontario

Hosts Roberta Lexier, Scott Schmidt and Jeremy Appel welcome author Tyler Shipley for part one of a conversation about his acclaimed book from Fernwood Publishing 'Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination'. Find the book at https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/canada-in-the-world Support the show at https://www.patreon.com/forgottencornerpod

On episode 31 of Harbinger Society Presents 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 thei...

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 in part one of a two part conversation. Watch the full conversation at https://www.twitch.tv/videos...

On Harbinger Society Presents ep28 Dr. Jess Green, Kai Nagata and Dr. Roberta Lexier from Harbinger's board of directors join host/executive director 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...

Ethical consumption podcast PULLBACK hosts Kristen Pue and Kyla Hewson welcome OFFCOURT's Abdul Malik to explore what an ethical Olympics would look like, and how they'd affect the environment, vulnerable citizens and labour movements. Plus: the panel connects the Beijing's 2022 Winter Games to global politics, sponsorships and corruption, and the value of sports to communities. Find out more abou...

Harbinger's premium prestige show 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 and Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East's Tom Woodley and Michael Bueckert talk about DEBRIEF with host Andre Goulet. Find The Maple's North Untapped at https://www.readthemaple.com/ Subs...

On Anti-Girlboss Socialist Club ep5, Paniz and Tamsyn are joined by Judy Rebick to talk about her book Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution, outlining 60 years of feminist activism in Canada and exploring abortion, socialist feminism, anti-war and anti-carceral activism, story telling as a medium and the anti-violence movement. Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolu...

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...

North Untapped digs deeper into topics covered in articles written by The Maple contributors and other Canadian journalists, exploring politics, foreign policy, imperialism and history from a socialist perspective in conversation with editor-in-chief Alex Cosh. On the 4th installment of the show's 'Great Guilded North' series Cosh speaks with journalist Cassandra Kislenko about how Canada facilita...

The 1940s saw Canada's socialist party soar in popularity, with the CCF forming official opposition in Ontario in 1943, and public opinion polls showing nationalizing industries to be widely popular across the country. How did the popularity of the CCF's positions get diffused, managed, or attacked in the years following the Second World War? Support the show at https://www.patreon.com/albertaadva...

The first annual Dumb Book Awards turns the page on 2021 as Washington Post columnist David Moscrop and Jacobin staff writer Luke Savage join host Gordon Katic to review the mostly mediocre 'The Two Michaels: Innocent Canadian Captives and High Stakes Espionage in the US-China Cyber War', Pete Buttigieg’s totally terrible 'Trust: America’s Best Chance' and more. Support the show at https://www.pat...

Live on the Big Shiny Takes’ TwitchTV stream Eric Wickham, Marino Greco, Jeremy Appel and Andre Goulet sit by the fire with carols, hot chocolate, and a warm and wholesome game of Pundit Grifter Bingo as they read an absolutely wild Western Standard column by Dave Makichuk. (warning: YouTube fireplace Christmas songs are consistent through this episode lol) Read Makichuk’s insane piece at https://...

Hosts Eric Wickham, Marino Greco and Jeremy Appel ask where Steven Guilbeault was on 9/11 as they sit down with Climate Justice Edmonton's Bronwen Tucker and Green Majority Radio's Stefan Hostetter to discuss a conspiratorial October 2021 Jesse Kline column about Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault and the ongoing inability of Canadian punditry to talk realistically about climate justice. Suppo...

On a recent episode of The Progress Report host Duncan Kinney sits down with Noah Zatzman, the former advisor to former Green Party of Canada leader Annamie Paul (who blew up the Greens by posting about how he wanted to unseat two-thirds of the party's sitting MPs for their criticism of Israel), for a bizarre and revealing feature-length interview you won't want to miss. Support Progress Report's...

Launching in October 2021, Harbinger is a progressive podcast community featuring a dramatically different kind of discourse on society and politics that you won’t hear anywhere else in mainstream Canadian media. In a podcast field dominated by right-wing voices, our mission is to create a space to educate and entertain, featuring the best analysis and interviews from dozens of shows across the co...