Harbinger Society Presents

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://...

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...

On a new episode of Housing Party, activist and academic David DesBaillets’ show-within-a-show focusing on the housing crisis from an intersectional perspective, Mouvement pour mettre fin à l'itinérance à Montréal (The Movement to End Homelessness in Montreal) head Michelle Chappaz joins David for a hopeful, smart conversation on the work her organization is doing to bring together researchers, ch...

In the third of three Harbinger Society TwitchTV telethon segments celebrating the network's first anniversary host Andre Goulet, the Harbinger Board of Director's Kai Nagata, The Breach publisher Dru Oja Jay, Nora Loreto and Rob Rousseau bury the election as they end the day on an unsettling but ultimately hopeful and upbeat note. Read: https://breachmedia.ca/ Watch: https://www.twitch.tv/robrous...

In the second of three Harbinger Society Twitch TV telethon segments celebrating the network's first anniversary host Andre Goulet, Tech Won't Save Us' Paris Marx and the Harbinger Board of Director's Kai Nagata sit down with The Maple managing editor Alex Cosh and The Hoser co-founder Kevin Taghabon in a pair of panels exploring how to revitalize Canadian media + Emma Austin and Eva Espenshade pu...

In the first of three Harbinger Society segments celebrating the network's first anniversary on our TwitchTV telethon host Andre Goulet welcomes Broadbent Institute executive director Jen Hassum and Ricochet managing editor Gabrielle Brassard-Lecours to introduce Quebec's newest, biggest left media initiative + PropaGanada offers empathy for the richest among us in a 'Ballad for Billionaires'. Fin...

Writer and activist Nora Loreto joins host Andre Goulet to bury the 2021 Federal Election with a regrettable result round-up, then unpacks her 2020 book and upcoming Harbinger podcast 'Take Back the Fight: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age'. Plus: Tamsyn and Paniz explain the origins of their new show 'Anti Girlboss Socialist Club', and Atlantic correspondent James Brown finds a silver linin...

Julie DuFort and Ludvic Moquin-Beaudry of election show Le Plancher des Vaches and pop culture feminist podcast Les Ficelles hosts Amelie Faubert and Solene Paré join André Goulet and Ricochet Media editor-in-chief Gabrielle Brassard-Lecours to break down last week's debates as the panel examines the state of the race in Quebec. Plus: Montreal NDP candidate Mme. Christine Paré explains why it's ti...

On a super special late summer spectacular a galaxy of guests join host Andre Goulet for a safe and satisfying pandemic picnic in Toronto's Christie Pits' park including Offcourt's Eytan Tobin, thehoser.ca's Shannon Carranco & Kevin Tagabon, Big Shiny Takes' Eric Wickham & Marino Greco, Work It's Sam Allemang, Harbinger Board of Director's member Dr. Jessica Green and Twitter superstar Hilary Agro...

On episode 19 Andre Goulet welcomes Left Turn Canada co-hosts Christo Aivalis & Andy Borkowski for a federal election week 2 review as the panel asks: is an NDP candidate getting trolled by the so-called Ottawa Small Landlord Association good for the discourse? Plus: Andy's take on why Andrew Scheer is probably *that type* of gamer, Christo dismantles O'Toole-mania and comedian James Brown conside...

Streamer, pundit and possibly even retiring podcaster Rob Rousseau joins host Andre Goulet for the official HSP ELXN44 Campaign Launch and Airing of Grievances as the pair reflect on a summer ended too soon and the lasting legacy of 49th Parahell after a triumphant 39 month run at the top of the charts. Opening music on this episode courtesy of Henry Lee. Check out his radical left anthropological...

Award-winning non-profit news org Press Progress is taking ethical, confrontational journalism to the mainstream. In this conversation publisher Jen Hassum and BC editor Alex Cosh join host Andre Goulet to talk about the organization's journalistic mission, it's relationship with the Broadbent Institute, the myth of objectivity and how to cover the upcoming federal election. And: Emma Austin and E...

On this episode: Host Andre Goulet makes the risky decision to look for answers regarding a suspicious and baffling death in Canada's political community on the mean streets of Gatineau with Inspector Abdul Malik & Israeli International Peace Operations Trainee Eytan Tobin (OFFCOURT). Then: the Harbinger Special Victims Unit elite squad (Superintendent Marino Greco, Sergeant Jeremy Appel & Communi...

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...

On the Harbinger Society Presents ep14 live recording Q&A Nashwa Khan and Shaadie Ali of Habibti Please, Deathnography's Henry Lee and host Andre Goulet continue their conversation and analysis on Vincent Bevins' 2020 book 'The Jakarta Method'. Support Habibti Please and check out episode 30 featuring conversations with the Palestinian Youth Movement and the framers of the 2021 NDP convention reso...

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...

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 a special Harbinger Society mini episode leading up to the NDP's April 9th to 11th policy convention, community and political organizer Jessa McLean explains why she's campaigning to pull the NDP back to its roots as a bold, socialist alternative to mainstream politics. Find out more about Jessa's campaign at https://www.jessamcleanndp.ca/platform.html Opening music on this episode courtesy of...

On an 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 controversy w...

On a new episode 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 country after almost a year of pandemic trau...

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 ‘...

'Imperial News' hosts and Rebel-watchers Jody Tomchishen and Katelyn Miitri unpack the past, present and future of one of Ezra Levant's greatest crimes against humanity. Follow Imperial News on Twitter @imperialnewz and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

On episode 7 Harbinger Society 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: Danielle Smith's long history of cancellation...