On this episode: every century or so the Canadian left gathers at the Royal Canadian Legion #1 in downtown Calgary to inaugurate a new era of progress. In 1932 it was J.S. Woodworth and the gang at the founding of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (which would become the NDP), and on June 13th, 2025 it was The Alberta Advantage, Shama Rangwala, André Goulet, Roberta Lexier and Rob Rousseau saying goodbye to the NDP with a brief history of the Party and discussing the possibilities of a socialist project to come.

On this episode we reveal why rent control is good, actually, on SRSLY WRONG, discuss ways the climate movement can be more inclusive on PULLBACK, explain why solution-focused energy reporting has become more important than ever on the Sierra Club’s THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA and unpack the story of how a small group of Waffle-aligned activists managed to briefly take over the 1971 New Brunswick NDP on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this episode we look at the rise of the extreme-right in Canada on Rachel Gilmore's BUBBLE POP, talk about a recent report unpacking the changing status of endangered species in BC since 2010 on Sierra Club Canada's THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA, investigate the importance of challenging political complacency in a time of rising fascist politics on FREE CITY RADIO and discuss the illusion of convenience that AI offers on CYBORG GODDESS.

On this episode we discuss how Doug Ford and Mark Carney’s housing policies heavily favour corporate landlords on THE BREACH SHOW, talk about the best case outcome of the NDP leadership race on THE NORTH STATE, speak with the World Bank’s Chief Climate Economist about the links between climate change and poverty on GREEN MAJORITY and explore Universal Basic Income and how its appeal relates to left-wing politics and strategy on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this episode we talk about Atlantic Canada’s lobster crisis on BERRYRGROUNDS, speak with BC’s new Zoomer Green Party leader Emily Lowan on BUBBLE POP,  sift through the ashes of a post-CANADALAND wasteland on THE NORTH STATE and explain why the U.S. private equity owned Ksi Lisims LNG development project in British Columbia isn't nation building on THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA.

On this episode we examine the spinelessness of Canadian news media on THE NORTH STATE, break down how government inaction is endangering more than a 1000 grad students from Gaza who’ve been accepted into Canadian universities on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, explain why billionaire wealth flight is an empty threat on The Broadbent Institute’s PERSPECTIVES and take a deep dive into the NDP’s past in a conversation exploring the 1969 Waffle Manifesto and economic nationalism on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this episode we introduce the campaign to renew the NDP and put it in the hands of the grassroots on THE BREACH SHOW and speak with NDP leadership candidates labour leader Rob Ashton, activist Avi Lewis and Memeber of Parliament Heather Macpherson on three new episodes of BUBBLE POP.

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On this episode we explain why The Narwhal is taking the RCMP to court on REDEYE, examine how Canada's export framework allows military goods to bypass oversight and accountability on PALESTINE DEBRIEF, explore policy interventions to reduce food insecurity in Canada on GREEN PLANET MONITOR and unpack how our interactions with robots are changing our sense of ourselves on CYBORG GODDESS.

On this episode we explain why it was a bad year for scabs and a good year for separatists on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, review the weapons-selling Swedish royal family's December visit to Canada on HABIBTI PLEASE, look back at the year in tech on TECH WON’T SAVE US and celebrate a landmark 1000th episode of GREEN MAJORITY.

On this episode we discuss how the NDP leadership race could turn the party into a vehicle for bold left politics or cement its decline on THE BREACH SHOW, talk about the health risks of zoonotic diseases and the political circus surrounding a flock of BC ostriches on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, look back at the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike on ANTI-EMPIRE PROJECT and explore Marxism, Chinese culture and ecology on CITED.

On this episode we report on the recent successful union certification drives for Uber drivers and Amazon workers in BC on REDEYE, look at healthcare, colonialism, and liberation struggle on HABIBTI PLEASE, investigate the Prime Minister’s Western ideological orientation on the Broadbent Institute's PERSPECTIVES and look at the Canadian origins of "eco-development" and liberal environmentalism on CITED.

We discuss how Mark Carney and establishment media’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza continues on THE BREACH SHOW, expose Calgary’s new police dragnet on THE PROGRESS REPORT, collapse Doug Ford’s dumb highway tunnel on THE NORTH STATE and report on the Rise of End-of-the-World Fascism and Resistance from the Global South with Naomi Klein on the Broadbent Institute’s PERSPECTIVES.

On this episode we look at what Mark Carney’s 2025 budget contains and how the nation building rhetoric the Prime Minister campaigned on could actually have been implemented on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, unpack Carney's cringe path-to-pipeline MOU between Alberta and the feds on BUBBLE POP,  look back on the impact of the LEAP Manifesto at the federal NDP's 2016 convention in Edmonton on THE PROGRESS REPORT and discuss how decades of Canadian mining interests and weapons smuggling made the country complicit in the war in Sudan on THE BREACH SHOW.

On this episode we talk about Atlantic Canada’s lobster crisis on BERRYRGROUNDS, speak with BC’s new Zoomer Green Party leader Emily Lowan on BUBBLE POP,  sift through the ashes of a post-CANADALAND wasteland on THE NORTH STATE and explain why the U.S. private equity owned Ksi Lisims LNG development project in British Columbia isn't nation building on THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA.

On this episode we talk about the Liberal government’s new Harper-esque budget on THE BREACH SHOW, look back at a 19th century Montreal journalist who advocated for Quebec’s working poor on The Broadbent Institute’s PERSPECTIVES, discuss a new essential read for Canadians who want to advance reconciliation on REDEYE look at how organized labour in Alberta is responding to an existential threat as the province’s teachers are ordered back to work  by Danielle Smith’s UCP on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this episode we report from the federal budget journalist lockup on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, explore the bizarre pop culture of the far-right on BUBBLE POP, explain why we need to cut our American technology dependence on TECH WON’T SAVE US and develop a new parenting system to overcome the historical tension between fathers and sons on SRSLY WRONG. 

On this episode we discuss how Doug Ford and Mark Carney’s housing policies heavily favour corporate landlords on THE BREACH SHOW, talk about the best case outcome of the NDP leadership race on THE NORTH STATE, speak with the World Bank’s Chief Climate Economist about the links between climate change and poverty on GREEN MAJORITY and explore Universal Basic Income and how its appeal relates to left-wing politics and strategy on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this episode we discuss how the NDP leadership race could turn the party into a vehicle for bold left politics or cement its decline on THE BREACH SHOW, talk about the health risks of zoonotic diseases and the political circus surrounding a flock of BC ostriches on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, look back at the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike on ANTI-EMPIRE PROJECT and explore Marxism, Chinese culture and ecology on CITED.

On this episode we discuss the dismissal of a federal government lawyer for calling for Divestment from Israel on CJPME's PALESTINE DEBRIEF, explain why the federal government’s Bill C-9 legislation to combat hate crimes is a threat to civil liberties on REDEYE, explore the history of - 19th century Montreal journalist, politician, and union leader Médéric Lanctôt, Canada’s first social democrat on the Broadbent Institute’s PERSPECTIVES and dig into how the state facilitates resource extraction domestically and globally at the expense of the common good on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this episode we look at the rise of the extreme-right in Canada on Rachel Gilmore's BUBBLE POP, talk about a recent report unpacking the changing status of endangered species in BC since 2010 on Sierra Club Canada's THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA, investigate the importance of challenging political complacency in a time of rising fascist politics on FREE CITY RADIO and discuss the illusion of convenience that AI offers on CYBORG GODDESS.

On this episode we explain how the Liberals’ harsher immigration policies negatively affect all workers on THE BREACH SHOW, examine the ‘Carney Doctrine’ with Jacobin’s Luke Savage on THE ORCHARD, talk about the Liberal government’ gaslighting around Indigenous relations on GREEN MAJORITY and examine Gary Teeple's 1972 essay, 'Liberals in a hurry': socialism and the CCF-NDP in a conversation asking if moralizing about capitalism's ill effects is a useful strategy to bring about political change on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this episode we report on the recent successful union certification drives for Uber drivers and Amazon workers in BC on REDEYE, look at healthcare, colonialism, and liberation struggle on HABIBTI PLEASE, investigate the Prime Minister’s Western ideological orientation on the Broadbent Institute's PERSPECTIVES and look at the Canadian origins of "eco-development" and liberal environmentalism on CITED.

On this episode we reveal why rent control is good, actually, on SRSLY WRONG, discuss ways the climate movement can be more inclusive on PULLBACK, explain why solution-focused energy reporting has become more important than ever on the Sierra Club’s THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA and unpack the story of how a small group of Waffle-aligned activists managed to briefly take over the 1971 New Brunswick NDP on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

We discuss how Mark Carney and establishment media’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza continues on THE BREACH SHOW, expose Calgary’s new police dragnet on THE PROGRESS REPORT, collapse Doug Ford’s dumb highway tunnel on THE NORTH STATE and report on the Rise of End-of-the-World Fascism and Resistance from the Global South with Naomi Klein on the Broadbent Institute’s PERSPECTIVES.

On this episode: every century or so the Canadian left gathers at the Royal Canadian Legion #1 in downtown Calgary to inaugurate a new era of progress. In 1932 it was J.S. Woodworth and the gang at the founding of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (which would become the NDP), and on June 13th, 2025 it was The Alberta Advantage, Shama Rangwala, André Goulet, Roberta Lexier and Rob Rousseau saying goodbye to the NDP with a brief history of the Party and discussing the possibilities of a socialist project to come.

On this episode we unpack August’s tense stand-off between Air Canada and its 10,000 flight attendants on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, speak with Manitoba Senator Marilou McPhedran about how she and others in the Senate are calling on the government to implement punitive measures against Israel on GREEN PLANET MONITOR, break down how to understand the Hockey Canada trial and its implications on THE END OF SPORT and explain why Prime Minister Carney’s historic military spending hike will only benefit the weapons lobby on THE BREACH SHOW.

On this episode we explore how the Left should respond to Trump's tariffs on VICTOR’S CHILDREN, talk climate change as class war on GREEN MAJORITY, spend a morning in Utopia on SRSLY WRONG and explore the massive 1983 protest against BC's far-right Social Credit government 'Operation Solidarity' on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this episode we talk with Vancouver socialist city councillor Sean Orr about the complexities of balancing grassroots movements with electoral politics on HABIBTI PLEASE, unpack the story of the Canadian Armed Forces members in an extremist Facebook group on THE NORTH STATE, reveal the history of oil pipeline development on Sierra Club’s THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA and explore populist right wing exploitation of economic inequality in Quebec on FREE CITY RADIO.

On this episode we explore the absence of the role of international law in the context of Israel and Palestine on GREEN PLANET MONITOR, unpack the effect of the Online News Act on pushing Canadian news habits to the right on THE NORTH STATE, make the case for fare-free transit on PULLBACK and look at the working-class and socialist response to the deep depression and government inaction of the 1930s that led to the founding of the CCF on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this episode we find non-market solutions to the housing crisis with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative’s Ricardo Tranjan and Le Front d’action populaire en réaménagement urbain’s Francois Saillant on HOUSING PARTY, unpack how housing access effects reproductive rights with the Women's National Housing and Homelessness Network and the National Right to Housing Network on ABORSH and trace a history of Canadian nationalist sentiment to understand the contemporary moment of rising nationalism on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this episode we talk with Vancouver socialist city councillor Sean Orr about the complexities of balancing grassroots movements with electoral politics on HABIBTI PLEASE, unpack the story of the Canadian Armed Forces members in an extremist Facebook group on THE NORTH STATE, reveal the history of oil pipeline development on Sierra Club’s THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA and explore populist right wing exploitation of economic inequality in Quebec on FREE CITY RADIO.

On this episode we look at how Doug Ford is dismantling Ontario on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, make the case for a digital detox on TECH WON’T SAVE US, explain why, actually, drinking urine isn’t the true universal remedy for all diseases and disorders on SRSLY WRONG and unpack the Alberta UCP government’s pursuit of an abstinence-only drug use model that rejects harm-reduction approaches on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this episode break down what Canadian progressives can learn from Zohran Mamdani’s win on THE BREACH SHOW, speak with Dr. Tarek Loubani in Gaza about being a healthcare worker under siege on HABIBTI PLEASE, explore how Canada’s mainstream newsrooms cover Iran and Gaza on Rachel Gilmore's BUBBLE POP and talk about Edmonton's upcoming municipal election with city councilor Michael Janz on THE PROGRESS REPORT.

On this episode we explain why we thought it was so over when we were actually almost so back on SRSLY WRONG, talk about what Canadians need to know about Germany’s AfD and the far-right’s threat to democracy on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES and unpack the federal election results from a provincial perspective on UNMAKING SASKATCHEWAN.

On this episode we explain why we think Mark Carney will adapt a Conservative agenda on THE BREACH SHOW, talk about the Prime Minister's first press conference on BUBBLE POP,

hear about a new documentary investigating the groundbreaking legal

proceeding against the Canadian government and Rio Tinto Alcan on REDEYE and sit down with Bryan D. Palmer to discuss his new book Capitalism and Colonialism: The Making of Modern Canada 1890–1960 onALBERTA ADVANTAGE. (originally aired March 18, 2025)

On this episode we discuss Canada’s colonial courts, police violence and land defense on THE BREACH SHOW and review the dark Radio-Canada crime comedy streaming series C'est Comme Ça Que Je T'aime on SWEATER WEATHER and expose ourselves to bad poetry, absurd race science and convenient economic motivations in an episode searching for the intellectual basis justifying an independent Albertan nation on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE. (originally aired March 18, 2025)

On this week's episode we explore what the US election results could mean for Gaza and the Middle East with Norman Finkelstein on OATS FOR BREAKFAST, respond to Trump’s return with Spectre Magazine and the Democratic Socialists of America on VICTOR’S CHILDREN, exorcize the ghosts of neoliberalism haunting Canadian progressive movements on The Broadbent Institute’s PERSPECTIVES and speak with political cartoonists Ben Clarkson and Matt Bors about their new Ahoy Comics satire Justice Warriors: Vote Harder on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE. (originally aired December 10, 2024)

On this week's episode the show welcomes three new podcasts to the community as we highlight solutions for the housing crisis on long-running Vancouver utopian socialist comedy show SRSLY WRONG, speak with federal immigration minister Marc Miller about the government’s troubled track record on accepting Palestinian refugees fleeing Israel’s genocide on THE MIDNIGHT CHOIR from Montreal investigative journalism pubilsher therover.ca, hear the hip hop journalism of 5 young musicians on the billingual track ‘Cest pas la fin du la hood’ on the series ‘MC Converse’ from Quebec BIPOC society and culture show STUDIO LA CONVERSE and learn why industrial policy is the sexiest topic on the left today in a conversation examining important aspects of technological advancement, Canadian regionalism and economic development on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE. (originally aired September 24, 2024)

On this week's episode we look at 70 years of Israel/Palestine history on SRSLY WRONG, explain why immigrants aren’t to blame for the housing crisis on OATS FOR BREAKFAST, break down the state of Canadian journalism in 2025 with Rachel Gilmore on THE NORTH STATE and look back at the 2001 New Politics Initiative campaign to strengthen links between the NDP and social, environmental and anti-globalization movements on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE. (originally aired January 21, 2025)

On this episode we explore the absence of the role of international law in the context of Israel and Palestine on GREEN PLANET MONITOR, unpack the effect of the Online News Act on pushing Canadian news habits to the right on THE NORTH STATE, make the case for fare-free transit on PULLBACK and look at the working-class and socialist response to the deep depression and government inaction of the 1930s that led to the founding of the CCF on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this episode we explain why we thought it was so over when we were actually almost so back on SRSLY WRONG, talk about what Canadians need to know about Germany’s AfD and the far-right’s threat to democracy on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES and unpack the federal election results from a provincial perspective on UNMAKING SASKATCHEWAN.

On this episode we explain why we think Mark Carney will adapt a Conservative agenda on THE BREACH SHOW, talk about the Prime Minister's first press conference on BUBBLE POP,

hear about a new documentary investigating the groundbreaking legal

proceeding against the Canadian government and Rio Tinto Alcan on REDEYE and sit down with Bryan D. Palmer to discuss his new book Capitalism and Colonialism: The Making of Modern Canada 1890–1960 onALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this episode we discuss how Silicon Valley thinking is creeping into Canadian politicson TECH WON’T SAVE US, talk to legendary Vancouver activist Sean Orr about running for office in the April 5th City Council by-election on SRSLY WRONG, bid a bittersweet goodbye to our pals at BIG SHINY TAKES and explore what can be learned from a lifetime on the Canadian left with long-time economist and policy advisor Andrew Jackson in a conversation unpacking his 2021 Between the Lines Books release The Fire and the Ashes: Rekindling Democratic Socialism on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this episode we explain why increasing wages and capping rent is an investment in sustainable business on The Broadbent Institute's PERSPECTIVES, unpack how Israel and the US wage war on domestic human rights and the UN-based international legal order on GREEN PLANET MONITOR and make the connection between war abroad and local struggles against racism at home on FREE CITY RADIO.

On this episode we discuss Canada’s colonial courts, police violence and land defense on THE BREACH SHOW and review the dark Radio-Canada crime comedy streaming series C'est Comme Ça Que Je T'aime on SWEATER WEATHER and expose ourselves to bad poetry, absurd race science and convenient economic motivations in an episode searching for the intellectual basis justifying an independent Albertan nation on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this episode we introduce the BDS Movement’s official boycott app on PALESTINE DEBRIEF, ask what’s the NDP’s purpose with Avi Lewis on THE ORCHARDCAST, explore where reproductive rights and sex work intersect on ABORSH and reveal the business lobby behind the push to remove Canada's internal trade barriers on REDEYE.

On this episode we explore how the Left should respond to Trump's tariffs on VICTOR’S CHILDREN, talk climate change as class war on GREEN MAJORITY, spend a morning in Utopia on SRSLY WRONG and explore the massive 1983 protest against BC's far-right Social Credit government 'Operation Solidarity' on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

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On this week's episode we unpack how Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney is rebranding failed ideas as fresh solutions on THE BREACH SHOW, explain why Canada's economy could be facing an apocalyptic scenario with under Trump’s terror tariffs on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, reveal how Elon Musk’s DOGE is reshaping the US government on TECH WON’T SAVE US and say a sad farewell to Duncan Kinney on his final episode of THE PROGRESS REPORT.

On this week's episode we look at the lawsuit challenging Canada’s role in the Gaza Genocide on CJPME’s PALESTINE DEBRIEF, explain why Trump’s tariff threat remains very real on THE ORCHARDCAST, talk about tenants organizing against the encroachment of for-profit interests in housing on the Perspective Journal’s ACTIVISTS MAKE HISTORY and explore how student movements of the past inform what's going on today on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this week's episode we explore the historical and political context of Trump's annexation rhetoric and why the Canadian political system is ill-equipped to fight it on THE NORTH STATE, and hear Jacobin columnist Luke Savage in conversation with theBroadbent Institute,Canadian Dimension and the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives on an extra-length excerpt from the inaugural episode of PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS.

On this week's episode we explain Trump’s tariff tantrum on THE BREACH SHOW, parody ‘peeping’ Pierre Polievre on SRSLY WRONG, imagine a post neoliberal industrial policy on The Broadbent Institute’s PERSPECTIVES and discuss Dogged and Destructive: Essays on the Winnipeg Police with author James Wilt on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this week's episode we speak with El Jones about her recent trip to the occupied West Bank on THE BREACH SHOW, talk with the CUPW about the Delivering Community Power campaign on THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA, learn how to openly discuss abortion and share personal experience on ABORSH and explore how an NDP-Green cooperation deal could open the door for proportional representation in BC on REDEYE.

On this week's episode we look at 70 years of Israel/Palestine history on SRSLY WRONG, explain why immigrants aren’t to blame for the housing crisis on OATS FOR BREAKFAST, break down the state of Canadian journalism in 2025 with Rachel Gilmore on THE NORTH STATE and look back at the 2001 New Politics Initiative campaign to strengthen links between the NDP and social, environmental and anti-globalization movements on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

This week we present a special full-length 55 minute The Breach Show episode featuring Desmond Cole and editor in chief Martin Lukacs reflecting on Justin Trudeau’s near decade in power, from the initial psychic relief of Conservative Stepher Harper’s ousting in 2015 to the Prime Minister's grim accumulation of symbolic posturing and assists to Canada’s corporate elite, and even what Justin deserves real credit for.

The Harbinger Media Network includes 77 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.

On this week's episode Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani discusses the expanding conflict in Syria and its broader implications for the region on PALESTINE DEBRIEF, Desmond Cole sits down with Mississauga mayor Carolyn Parrish to talk about out of control police budgets on THE BREACH SHOW, Duncan Kinney talks about Edmonton cops targeting Progress Alberta’s journalism on 49th PARAHELL and The Maple labour scholar Adam D. King looks back on 2024 as a year of labour unrest and considers if the union movement should be thinking and planning beyond the Rand Formula on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this week's episode Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani discusses the expanding conflict in Syria and its broader implications for the region on PALESTINE DEBRIEF, Desmond Cole sits down with Mississauga mayor Carolyn Parrish to talk about out of control police budgets on THE BREACH SHOW, Duncan Kinney talks about Edmonton cops targeting Progress Alberta’s journalism on 49th PARAHELL and The Maple labour scholar Adam D. King looks back on 2024 as a year of labour unrest and considers if the union movement should be thinking and planning beyond the Rand Formula on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this week's episode we explore what the US election results could mean for Gaza and the Middle East with Norman Finkelstein on OATS FOR BREAKFAST, respond to Trump’s return with Spectre Magazine and the Democratic Socialists of America on VICTOR’S CHILDREN, exorcize the ghosts of neoliberalism haunting Canadian progressive movements on The Broadbent Institute’s PERSPECTIVES and speak with political cartoonists Ben Clarkson and Matt Bors about their new Ahoy Comics satire Justice Warriors: Vote Harder on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this week's episode we explore the parallel lives of Chrystia Freeland's Nazi collaborator grandfather and Holocaust survivor Anne Charney on EXPATS & ALLIES, hear from Progress Report’s Duncan Kinney about facing ten years in jail for mischief charges over allegedly spraypainting antifash grafitti on an Edmonton Waffen SS memorial on THE BREACH SHOW and explain how socialism presents an alternative to corporate feminism on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this week's episode we speak with Canadians who have suffered mentally, emotionally and financially in their attempts to reunite with family under the government's Temporary Resident Visa Program for Gazans on CJPME's PALESTINE DEBRIEF, unpack a report revealing millions of dollars in Canadian charitable donations have been funneled to organizations implicated in supporting illegal Israeli settlements, violent settler groups, and military activities on REDEYE, explain why the return of inequality studies is the biggest change to happen in economics over the last decade on CITED and visit the picket line to hear what striking CUPW workers have to say on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this week's episode Desmond Cole speaks with United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese on THE BREACH SHOW, the panel examine the weather phenomenon of Fire Season and the end of "cheap nature on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, the Council of Canadians detail the ways grassroots activism plays a role in the struggle to implement a national Pharmacare program on FREE CITY RADIO and the Wrong Boys celebrate their 10 year anniversary on SRSLY WRONG.

On this week's episode we look at Canada's foundational alignment with Israel on THE NORTH STATE, examine Trump’s unholy alliance of Silicon Valley tech billionaires and Christian nationalists on OATS FOR BREAKFAST, lean into the Loblaws boycott on PULLBACK and dig into the history of coal mining and deindustrialization in Nova Scotia on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this week's episode Dimitri Lascasris reports on Israel’s invasion of Lebanon from Beirut on GREEN PLANET MONITOR, we examine how the rise of private nursing agencies is affecting public healthcare on The Broadbent Institute's PERSPECTIVES, Martin Lukacs and El Jones unpack the election campaign and an America on the edge of the abyss on THE BREACH SHOW and the team explore how the province under the leadership of Premier Danielle Smith has proclaimed itself "sovereign within a united Canada" (whatever that means) on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this week's episode we investigate the role Big Tech plays in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza on PALESTINE DEBRIEF, dive into the history of prairie brute Scott Moe on UNMAKING SASKATCHEWAN, explain how the most powerful country in the world came to the apocalyptic crossroads of 2024 election on VICTOR’S CHILDREN and ask what horror tell us about our fears and anxieties under capitalism in a conversation exploring David McNally's 2011 Haymarket Books release ‘Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism’ on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this week's episode we introduce Citizen's Assemblies on PULLBACK, unpack the crackdown on the Palestine solidarity movement in Canada on THE BREACH SHOW, and examine socialism or barbarism with the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives on THE MIDNIGHT CHOIR and discuss if it’s possible to like hockey from the left on the ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this week's episode we investigate how Canadian news media has distorted coverage of Israel’s crimes in Gaza on THE NORTH STATE, discuss climate change as class war on GREEN MAJORITY, look at two major upcoming non-market housing developments in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside on REDEYE and examine the role of corporate agribusiness in rural Alberta and the labour struggles that have shaped the industry on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this week's episode discuss Jewish anti-Zionism with Independent Jewish Voices founding member Sid Shniad on GREEN PLANET MONITOR, look at the history of the Ku Klux Klan on the prairies on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, document the complex issue of consulting firms ripping off government programs and deskilling the public service on the Broadbent Institute’s PERSPECTIVES and re-visit Marian Engel’s Governor General's Award-winning 1976 novel Bear and its unconventional narrative about a woman's romantic relationship with a bear on SWEATER WEATHER.

On this week's episode we unpack the implications of the Canada Revenue Agency’s decision to revoke the Jewish National Fund of Canada's charitable status on PALESTINE DEBRIEF, argue for the end of exploitation in the Temporary Foreign Worker Program on PULLBACK, look back at how charismatic free market politician Brad Wall dramatically changed a province's political culture forever on UNMAKING SASKATCHEWAN and ask what we can learn about the ongoing pandemic and how it's being handled and what that means for future global health crises on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this week's episode the show welcomes three new podcasts to the community as we highlight solutions for the housing crisis on long-running Vancouver utopian socialist comedy show SRSLY WRONG, speak with federal immigration minister Marc Miller about the government’s troubled track record on accepting Palestinian refugees fleeing Israel’s genocide on THE MIDNIGHT CHOIR from Montreal investigative journalism pubilsher therover.ca, hear the hip hop journalism of 5 young musicians on the billingual track ‘Cest pas la fin du la hood’ on the series ‘MC Converse’ from Quebec BIPOC society and culture show STUDIO LA CONVERSE and learn why industrial policy is the sexiest topic on the left today in a conversation examining important aspects of technological advancement, Canadian regionalism and economic development on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this week's episode we discuss the complicity of Google, Amazon, and Microsoft in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and how tech workers are organizing to stop it on TECH WON’T SAVE US, investigate Department of National Defence efforts to get ahead of stories about the relationship between the Canadian military and neo-Nazis in Ukraine on EXPATS & ALLIES, explorethe ecumenical faith community’s fight to get Royal Bank out of oil and gas on THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA and unpack the history of Canada's second-oldest political party on its centennial anniversary in an in-depth examination of the Communist Party of Canada on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.

On this week's episode we discuss Israel’s genocidal war with Middle East Council on Global Affairs analyst Mouin Rabbani on GREEN PLANET MONITOR, unpack the scale of effort it would taketo meaningfully mitigate worsening wildfire risk in Alberta with provincial firefighter Matt Rieger on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, exploreanti-Communism in Canada's Ukrainian diaspora with historian John-Paul Himka on VICTOR’S CHILDREN and talk about the unwaged and unpaid work that goes on "behind the scenes" of waged labour on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.