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Hello and welcome to rabble radio. It's Friday, January 14, 2022. I'm Breanne Doyle, your new  host of rabble radio. Thanks for tuning in. Where is Chelsea? Where, indeed. Well, as some of you may be aware, our dear Chelsea Nash has taken a job at the Hill Times in Ottawa. We'll miss her here at rabble, and wish her well! You may have heard my name on this podcast before - I've been behind-the-sce...

Hello and welcome to rabble radio. It's Friday, December 17, 2021. I'm the host and the editor of rabble, Chelsea Nash. Thanks so much for listening! Rabble breaks down the news of the day from a progressive lens. It's a good place to catch up and catch on to what's happening in Canadian politics, activism, environment, and so much more. Listen to us on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get...

Hello and welcome to rabble radio. It's the week of Friday, December 10. I'm your host and the editor of rabble.ca, Chelsea Nash. This week on the podcast, rabble contributor Brent Patterson interviews Wet'suwet'en land defenders Eve Saint and Jocelyn, or Jocey, Alec. Eve and Jocey are sisters who have been arrested and criminalized for defending their sovereign territory in northern British Colum...

Hello, and welcome to rabble radio! It's the week of Friday, December 3, 2021.  The top stories of this week include the Liberal government's ban on conversion therapy finally passing the House with unanimous consent, both Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford received failing grades on their environmental policy, and, Syrian refugees need Canada to act. Has it forgotten them? Rabble breaks down the news o...

Hello and welcome to rabble radio. It's the week of Friday, November 25. I'm your host and the editor of rabble, Chelsea Nash.  The top stories of this week include the Trudeau government's return to Parliament. On Tuesday, we heard the Governor General deliver the speech from the throne. While Parliament will only resume for a very short time before it breaks again for the holidays, what did we l...

Hello and welcome to rabble radio. It's the week of Friday, November 19 and I'm your host and the editor of rabble, Chelsea Nash. Thanks so much for listening!  Rabble breaks down the news of the day from a progressive lens. It's a good place to catch up and catch on to what's happening in Canadian politics, activism, environment, and so much more. Listen to us on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or where...

This week on the show, Hamilton local Wayne MacPhail interviews rabble contributor and fellow Hamilton-area local Doreen Nicoll about what she sees as the threat of urban sprawl in Hamilton, Ontario. On November 9, Hamilton City Council held a meeting to discuss whether or not to expand its urban boundary onto the surrounding farmland and the final vote will take place November 19. That farmland i...

Hello and welcome to rabble radio: rabble.ca's weekly audio magazine. I'm your host and the editor of rabble.ca, Chelsea Nash. Rabble has its finger on the beat of the issues that matter to you and every Friday, we break it down for you - no matter where or how you're listening. It's a good way to catch up on the news of the week and, as with all rabble news, look at current events through a progr...

Some might say the unveiling of a new cabinet is like Christmas for political nerds...I guess here at rabble we are no exception. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Trudeau introduced his new cabinet to the country, shaking up his inner circle and giving us a peek into who he trusts most. There's a lot we can learn about a government from the PM's cabinet picks. What regions are represented? Whose got the...

These days Facebook is dominating the news. Under fire from regulators and lawmakers over its business practices, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook is planning to rebrand itself -- and will be giving itself a new name that's going to have something to do with the metaverse. Critics argue that the re-naming is a just distraction from the controversies Facebook has found itself in. Not the lea...

Every election cycle, the conversation of electoral reform is revived to some extent. 2021 was no different.    Consider this: ​​In Toronto, the Liberals only won 48.9 per cent of the votes, but they won more than 90 per cent of the seats in Canada's largest city, electing 48 of the 53 MPs there. The NDP won 14.5 per cent of the vote in Toronto, but ended up with no seats. The nearly 400,000 voter...

This week on the show, we're talking about the absence of agriculture from Canada's political discourse. Of course, during an election campaign that was only five weeks long, it's hard to fit everything in, but rabble columnist Lois Ross makes the case for turning our politicians' relatively scattered attention span to agriculture. It's not an issue that necessarily garners the most headlines, but...

This week on the show, rabble editor Chelsea Nash sat down for a conversation with rabble's own columnist Chuka Ejeckam. Chuka is a writer and policy researcher who works in the labour movement. The son of Igbo immigrants to Canada, he grew up in Winnipeg.  They talked about what was missing from this federal election, and as Chuka notes, we were in large part missing substantive media coverage. T...

Well, the 44th federal election is behind us, and things aren't that different. Did we go through that process and learn nothing? Maybe, maybe not. We will see how Parliament plays out upon its return. I expect we won't be hearing the last of one of the biggest issues on the campaign trail: the fact that there was even an election in the first place.  It's likely that the Trudeau government will r...

Hello and welcome to rabble radio: the election edition! We're here for half an hour every week of this federal campaign diving deep into the issues that matter to you.  OFF THE HILL On Sept 17 we heard from our amazing panelists at our live politics panel: Off the Hill. You'll hear a clip of their discussion. Host Robin Browne takes panelists through an insightful discussion of the real issues fa...

Hello and welcome to rabble radio: the election edition! Rabble radio has its finger on the beat of the issues that matter to you. We're here once a week, for half an hour, coming to you for the last few weeks -- and just one more week after that! -- with election coverage. CLIMATE TALK This week, we're talking about how climate change has featured in this election so far. It's a critical moment....

THE RUNDOWN Hello and welcome to rabble radio, the proud reemergence of our weekly audio magazine. Rabble radio has its finger on the beat of the issues that matter to you. This week, we're talking about the issues that are conspicuously absent from the federal election thus far. And, we're talking youth voting. After that I'll take you through last week's headlines in a segment called "in case yo...

THE RUNDOWN This first episode is the proud rebirth of our weekly audio magazine, rabble radio. Rabble radio tunes in on the issues and actions that matter to you. And, this week, what could be more timely and top-of-mind than a federal election. Well, okay, the Delta variant and Afghanistan, but it's top of mind for us because of the Off the Hill event we hosted last Wednesday night. More on that...

In the sixth and final episode of the  Courage My Friends  podcast special series, we welcome eco-feminist, scientist, author and celebrated global climate justice leader, Dr. Vandana Shiva. Our discussion takes us beyond borders to the global realties of this pandemic -- a pandemic that is most acutely felt by low-income nations who must contend with deep legacies of poverty amid the callous disr...

In episode 5 of the Courage My Friends podcast, urban planner and author Cheryll Case and community organizer, author and activist Dave Meslin discuss our cities, their structures, priorities, politics and the relationships they foster with those that call them home. With more people now living in urban areas than at any other time in human history, cities are of increasing importance. Centres of...

This is Episode Four of the Courage My Friends podcast:  From epidemic to pandemic: rethinking health.   We discuss how people are coping in the pandemic and the ways populations are impacted differently. Where is the most vulnerability? The discussion highlights the realities for those in poverty, particularly the under-housed. Together we discuss how Indigenous teachings and harm reduction pract...

In episode three of the  Courage My Friends  podcast, we are joined by Paul Taylor, a life-long anti-poverty activist, current Federal NDP candidate and Executive Director of  FoodShare Toronto , Canada's largest food justice organization. As Taylor says, "One of the ways I've come to think about our work is we are working alongside communities, across the city of Toronto, that have faced chronic...

In episode two of the  Courage My Friends  podcast, we are joined by anti-poverty activist and former organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, John Clarke and Paul Meinema, national president of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), representing essential workers including "food workers from field to fork." Clarke and Meinema discuss the ways in which this pandemic has forced us...

In the pilot episode of the  Courage My Friends  podcast,  we feature a conversation with Ed Broadbent former leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada and Chair of the Broadbent Institute, and Kofi Hope,  thought leader, Toronto Star columnist and CEO of  Monumental . They discuss this current crisis that reveals, even as it accelerates, deepening fractures within our societies. Looking at the...

In December, we at  rabble.ca  asked "What are the organizations that inspire you? Who are the activists leading progressive change? Who are the rabble rousers to watch in 2021?" And you responded. Over the next while, we'll be running both print and audio features about the people and organizations you nominated. Follow our rabble rousers to watch  here . Today on rabble radio's rabble rousers to...