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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 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 the Broadbent Institute, Canadian Dimension and the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives on an extra-length excerpt from the inaugural episode of PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS.The Harbinger Media Network includes 80 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.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, on CJUM 101.5FM and CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, at CiTR 101.9FM and CFRO 100.5FM in Vancouver, at CJTM in Toronto and at CJBU 107.3FM in Sydney, Nova Scotia.Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com.

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 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 the Broadbent Institute, Canadian Dimension and the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives on an extra-length excerpt from the inaugural episode of PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS.The Harbinger Media Network includes 80 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.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, on CJUM 101.5FM and CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, at CiTR 101.9FM and CFRO 100.5FM in Vancouver, at CJTM in Toronto and at CJBU 107.3FM in Sydney, Nova Scotia.Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com.

"We did, in fact, prevent the first day of the [WTO] ministerial from occurring.” - Chris Dixon, Direct Action Network Organizer On November 30th, 1999, a huge movement spanning labor, environment, human rights, fair trade and more literally shut down the World Trade Organization in Seattle. It was milestone in the growing anti-corporate globalization movement and challenged the inevitability of neo-liberalism. In a new series of episodes, we're looking at the 25th anniversary of the "Battle in Seattle" talking with a number of people who participated in the organizing and its aftermath. In this episode, we talk Chris Dixon who was an organizer in the Pacific Northwest and with the Direct Action Network during the WTO shutdown. Bio// Chris was a student lead organizer with the Direct Action Network in 1999. He's now with the Punch Up Collective, a columnist for Canadian Dimension, and an advisory board member for the activist journal Upping the Anti. His many writings include the book “Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements." He's an adjunct research professor status in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. ------------------------ Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody Links// + WTO Shutdown Organizers History Project (https://www.shutdownwto20.org/) Follow Green and Red// +G&R Linktree: ⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast⁠⁠⁠ +Our rad website: ⁠⁠⁠https://greenandredpodcast.org/⁠⁠⁠ + Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/uvrdubcM) +NEW: Follow us on Substack (https://greenandredpodcast.substack.com) +NEW: Follow us on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/podcastgreenred.bsky.social) Support the Green and Red Podcast// +Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast +Or make a one time donation here: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/DonateGandR⁠⁠⁠ Our Networks// +We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.laborradionetwork.org/⁠⁠ +We're part of the Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork +Listen to us on WAMF (90.3 FM) in New Orleans (https://wamf.org/) This is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). Edited by Isaac.

Summary   "You don't name things that eat you." Zombie month ends on a gloriously bloody high note as we discuss Jeff Barnaby's Blood Quantum with film scholar Joseph Clark. Also discussed: dental hygiene, Women Talking, and the films of Alanis Obomsawin.     Show notes:   "Notes from an Apocalypse" (Walrus)   "Decolonizing the zombie apocalypse: An interview with Jeff Barnaby about his new film ‘Blood Quantum'" (Canadian Dimension)   "'I'm indigenizing zombies': behind gory First Nation horror Blood Quantum" (The Guardian)   Incident at Restigouche (NFB/Alanis Obomsawin film)   Joe Clark on Instagram     Recommendations:   Lisa: Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris (film)   Andrea G.:  Adrienne and the Castle (documentary)   Andrea W.:  Hair For Men by Michelle Winters (book) Joe: The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open (CBC Gem/film); Horror in Seconds Film Festival (Dec. 13-14, 2024)    Music credits  "Electrodoodle" by Kevin MacLeod From: incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License   Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From: incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License   "Good Times" by Podington Bear From:  Free Music Archive Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License     Pop This! Links: Pop This! on TumblrPop This! on iTunes (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Stitcher (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Google PlayPop This! on TuneIn radioPop This! on TwitterPop This! on Instagram Logo design by Samantha Smith Intro voiced by Morgan Brayton Pop This! is a podcast featuring three women talking about pop culture. Lisa Christiansen is a broadcaster, journalist and longtime metal head. Andrea Warner is a music critic, author and former horoscopes columnist. Andrea Gin is a producer and an avid figure skating fan. Press play and come hang out with your new best friends. Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin.  

Get Owen's Book here: https://shorturl.at/F15Sv   Canada's Long Fight against Democracy is a sweeping overview of Canadian-backed coups since 1950. It documents Canada's contribution to the ouster of over 20 elected governments from Mohammad Mossadegh in Iran to Patrice Lumumba in Congo, Salvador Allende in Chile and Jean Bertrand Aristide in Haiti.   As part of subverting democracy, Ottawa has cut off aid and imposed illegal sanctions in the hopes of turning the population against the targeted government. Canada has also financed opposition civil society groups and allowed protesters to use its embassy as a staging point to topple a president. They've even organized a secret international gathering to discuss overthrowing a popular leader, decided a marginal opposition politician was the legitimate president, and dispatched the Canadian military to subvert democracy.   While government officials and the media regularly frame conflicts with geopolitical competitors as motivated by a belief in democracy, the authors debunk the notion that decision-makers in Ottawa are driven by promoting democracy abroad.   Washington's role in subverting elected governments has been detailed in countless studies by scholars and observers from around the world. The literature on Canada's role in anti-democratic meddling is comparatively limited. In fact, this is the first book to focus on Canada's role in subverting democracy around the globe.   Owen Schalk is a writer from Manitoba. He is the author of Canada in Afghanistan: A Story of Military, Diplomatic, Political, and Media Failure, 2003-2023 (Lorimer Books, 2023). His articles have been published by Alborada, Monthly Review, and Protean Magazine, and he contributes a weekly column to Canadian Dimension magazine. He also writes fiction, and you can read his short stories in Quagmire Literary Magazine, Sobotka Literary Magazine, Vast Chasm Magazine, and more.   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?   Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!)   THANKS Y'ALL   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/ Twitter: @TIRShowOakland Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles   Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/   Pascal Robert's Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/Pascal%20Robert

A New Approach to Building Community Wealth Introduction   In many leftist circles, the term "wealth building" can trigger skepticism. It often brings to mind the language of neoliberal capitalism, where wealth creation is synonymous with the exploitation of labor and the concentration of resources in the hands of the few. With wealth inequality reaching historic highs, housing costs soaring beyond reach for many, and environmental devastation rampant due to the unbridled market forces of capital, should we rethink how we approach wealth? The concept of "community wealth building" offers an alternative rooted in collective ownership and control, challenging the individualist, competitive frameworks of traditional wealth accumulation.   Community wealth building seeks to empower workers and communities through cooperative models of enterprise, public ownership, and socially controlled financial institutions. It challenges the logic of capital by redistributing economic power from corporations and financial elites to the people. As Colin Bruce Anthes argues in his article "Canada Needs A Federal Community Wealth Building Agenda" for Canadian Dimension, this model represents a radical departure from the status quo, positioning economic justice as the foundation of democratic life. In a time when neoliberalism has hollowed out communities and starved them of resources, could community wealth building be the pathway to a more egalitarian and environmentally sustainable future?   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined,BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?   Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!)   THANKS Y'ALL   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3egTwitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcastwww.twitch.tv/leftflankvets​Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/Twitter: @TIRShowOaklandInstagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles   Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/   Pascal Robert's Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/Pascal%20Robert 

We've long heard about how the news business is failing - layoff after layoff, media execs have claimed that they have had no choice but to make cutbacks.In Bell's latest round of 4800 layoffs, CEO Mirko Babic defended his decision to a parliamentary committee, claiming the company was struggling in a tough economic environment - and that news was part of what was bringing them down.But is that the full story? Because before Google and Facebook ate up advertising dollars, the Canadian media companies of the 90s made a bad bet. And it failed to pay off. And now… the news industry is taking the fall. Further reading:Corporate ownership of media has failed Canadians, Marc Edge, Canadian Dimension, 2024Bell Media Has Cut 1 In 4 Positions Since 2020 as Parent Company Keeps Dividend Rolling, The Deep Dive, 2024 Media convergence, acquisitions and sales in Canada, CBC, 2010Convergence after the collapse: The ‘catastrophic' case of Canada, Marc Edge, Media, Culture and Society, 2011Financialization and the “Crisis of the Media”: The Rise and Fall of (Some) Media Conglomerates in Canada, Dwayne Winseck, Canadian Journal of Communication, 2010Host: Jesse Brown & Cherise SeucharanCredits: Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), André Proulx (Production Coordinator), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)Sponsors: Betterhelp Douglas IndochinoAdditional Music by Audio Network.Support Canadaland at canadaland.com/joinYou can listen ad-free on Amazon Music—included with Prime. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's another spectacular edition of our heroic HARBINGER SOAPBOX SERIES live podcast recording and community event!  This edition, vol.2 - Canada: What Are We Doing Here? features your friends 49th Parahell host Rob Rousseau, Nashwa Lina Khan from Habibti Please, and Tech Won't Save Us host Paris Marx live, on Saturday, March 23rd at the historic Eglise St. Jax basement venue l'Annexe located on rue Saint-Catherine in beautiful downtown Montreal on the same day as the Brian Mulroney state funeral happening a kilometer away, in a conversation talking Tiktok bans, ArriveCAN scandals, Dollar store drama and Israeli Apartheid Week.Hosts: Nashwa Lina Khan is a community educator, facilitator, and researcher. She is also a writer and poet exploring installation and narrative methodologies and has been published in Vice, Rewire, This Magazine, and The New York Times. Nashwa is the host and producer of the podcast projects Muslim Rumspringa and Habibti Please.Rob Rousseau is an independent journalist and political commentator, host of the podcasts 49th Parahell and The Insurgents, as well as the daily livestream TRRS on twitch.tv. His writing has appeared in VICE, Paste Magazine, Canadian Dimension and The Maple.Paris Marx is a Canadian tech writer and host of the award-winning Tech Won't Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and his work has been published by Time, Wired, CBC News, and more. Paris is also the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.Producer:André Goulet is executive director of Harbinger Media, national coordinator for the independent Canadian journalism community Unrigged, host of the nationally syndicated campus and community radio show Harbinger Showcase and the producer of more than 700 podcast episodes for Spacing Magazine,The Breach Media , the Quebec solidarity journalism cooperative Pivot and others.

Special Guest, John Clarke joins Host Jessa McLean to give a proper (hostile) send off to Brian Mulroney, Canada's Prime Minister from 1984 to 1993.Frustrated by the Parliamentarian/respectability politics that saw the leader of the workers' party give a glowing tribute to a man that was a sworn enemy of the working class, they go through the true 'legacy' of the man who ushered in an unchecked era of heightened exploitation.Throughout the episode the audience is also given a crash course in exactly what neoliberalism is and why its entrenchment in Canadian politics is nothing to honour. Here is our previous episode with John Clarke, Making Mass Actions Count. December 2022.________All of our content is free - made possible by the generous sponsorships of our Patrons. If you would like to support us: PatreonFollow us on InstagramResources: Follow John Clarke on Twitter (X)CBC: Mulroney Tried to Cover Up Cash PaymentsDid Mulroney really ‘lead the fight' against apartheid? – Canadian Dimension

Come hangout with Harbinger Media friends as they dig deep into the sorry state of Canadian journalism! Join Rob Rousseau (49th Parahell), Nashwa Lina Khan (Habibti Please), and Paris Marx (Tech Won't Save Us) on January 20th, 8pm at the historic Centre St. Jax basement venue l'Annexe located at1439 rue Saint-Catherine Ouest next to Concordia University in downtown Montreal.This event is licensed BYOB so bring your own beverage of choice with $15 admission or PWYC so bring some cash too. Doors are at 7, the show's at 8 and stay for the afterparty from 10pm till late see you there!Hosts: Nashwa Lina Khan is a community educator, facilitator, and researcher. She is also a writer and poet exploring installation and narrative methodologies and has been published in Vice, Rewire, This Magazine, and The New York Times. Nashwa is the host and producer of the podcast projects Muslim Rumspringa and Habibti Please.Rob Rousseau is an independent journalist and political commentator, host of the podcasts 49th Parahell and The Insurgents, as well as the daily livestream TRRS on twitch.tv. His writing has appeared in VICE, Paste Magazine, Canadian Dimension and The Maple.Paris Marx is a Canadian tech writer and host of the award-winning Tech Won't Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and his work has been published by Time, Wired, CBC News, and more. Paris is also the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.Producer:André Goulet is executive director of Harbinger Media, national coordinator for the independent Canadian journalism community Unrigged, host of the nationally syndicated campus and community radio show Harbinger Showcase and the producer of more than 700 podcast episodes for Spacing Magazine,The Breach Media , the Quebec solidarity journalism cooperative Pivot and others.

In which Patrick sits down with Kristin Schwartz to discuss the new book she co-wrote: We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action. Kristin grew up with the Toronto chapter of ARA from 1992-2003, contributing to the long struggle against white supremacy. She went on to work in community radio and has produced several audio documentaries including Women: the Oppressed Majority (2016) The Ravaging of Africa (2007). Her writing has been published in Our Times, Canadian Dimension, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Monitor and Labour/Le Travail. Find We Go Where They Go here or at your local bookstore! --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); the recommended reading page (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: historiacanadiana@gmail.com & Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory)

New report claims not enough competition in Canada's grocery industry Guest: Stuart Smyth, Agri-Food Innovation & Sustainability Enhancement Chair, associate professor, University of Saskatchewan Olivia Chow's victory in Toronto - are we seeing more diverse political representation in Canada? Guest: Chi Nguyen, executive director, Equal Voice What does the potential merger of Postmedia/Toronto Star mean for Canadian news media? Guest: Marc Edge, media columnist for Canadian Dimension, author of The Postmedia Effect PTSD Awareness Day Guest: Andy Cook, ambassador, Wounded Warriors Canada, Steve Topham, partnerships director, Wounded Warriors Canada The Imposters Guest: Tom Rachman, writer and author of several novels including The Imperfectionists and The Imposters A BC teen's animation software finds a place in Hollywood Guest: Kiegan Simard, animator

As Quebec's political and media class continue their attack on Amira Elghawaby, the federal government's new lead on Islamophobia in Canada, independent journalist Taylor C. Noakes (CBC, The Maple, Canadian Dimension, Jacobin) joins host Andre Goulet for a critical conversation exploring where public discourse, social values, discriminatory legislation and xenophobia intersect in the not-so-belle-province.Read Noakes' recent piece at https://cultmtl.com/2023/02/treatment-of-amira-elghawaby-exposes-islamophobia-she-was-hired-to-address-quebec-canada-bill-21/Find Drimonis' book at https://www.lindaleith.com/en/Pages/bookDetail/We_OthersThis conversation was recorded on February 6th, 2023.

As Quebec's political and media class continue their attack on Amira Elghawaby, the federal government's new lead on Islamophobia in Canada, independent journalist Taylor C. Noakes (CBC, The Maple, Canadian Dimension, Jacobin) joins host Andre Goulet for a critical conversation exploring where public discourse, social values, discriminatory legislation and xenophobia intersect in the not-so-belle-province.Read Noakes' recent piece at https://cultmtl.com/2023/02/treatment-of-amira-elghawaby-exposes-islamophobia-she-was-hired-to-address-quebec-canada-bill-21/Find Drimonis' book at https://www.lindaleith.com/en/Pages/bookDetail/We_OthersThis conversation was recorded on February 6th, 2023.

As Quebec's political and media class continue their attack on Amira Elghawaby, the federal government's new lead on Islamophobia in Canada, independent journalist Taylor C. Noakes (CBC, The Maple, Canadian Dimension, Jacobin) joins host Andre Goulet for a critical conversation exploring where public discourse, social values, discriminatory legislation and xenophobia intersect in the not-so-belle-province.Read Noakes' recent piece at https://cultmtl.com/2023/02/treatment-of-amira-elghawaby-exposes-islamophobia-she-was-hired-to-address-quebec-canada-bill-21/Find Drimonis' book at https://www.lindaleith.com/en/Pages/bookDetail/We_OthersThis conversation was recorded on February 6th, 2023.

Présentation Dans la bataille des idées, la « décroissance soutenable » ne cesse de gagner du terrain depuis une vingtaine d'année maintenant. Il reste que cette proposition politique révolutionnaire n'est pas toujours simple à comprendre, notamment parce qu'elle transgresse les clivages politiques auxquels nous sommes accoutumés. Pour mieux l'appréhender, une solution consiste à explorer les pensées dont elle s'est nourrie. C'est ce que les membres du collectif de recherche Polémos-décroissance tenteront de faire dans le cadre de ce cours, en présentant les idées et les parcours de quelques penseurs issus d'horizons divers que l'on peut considérer comme des précurseurs de la décroissance. Alexander Grothendieck et André Gorz (Écologie politique) mardi, 19h, Café Les Oubliettes Partie 1 : Alexander Grothendieck et « Survivre… Et vivre » (donnée par Noémi Bureau-Civil) Étonnamment peu connu, Alexander Grothendieck (1928-2014) fut l'un des plus grands mathématiciens du XXe siècle. Secoué par la guerre du Vietnam, puis par la découverte du financement partiel par des fonds militaires de l'institut de recherche au sein duquel il travaillait, Grothendieck quittera sa prestigieuse institution. Avec «Survivre… et vivre», un mouvement de scientifiques critiques qu'il fonde en 1970 à Montréal, il initiera une profonde critique du complexe scientifico-militaro-industriel, qui a constitué l'une des sources d'inspiration importantes de la décroissance. Cette brève présentation nous invitera à nous poser la question on ne peut plus d'actualité formulée par Alexander Grothendieck : « Allons-nous continuer la recherche scientifique? » Partie 2 : André Gorz (donnée par Andrea Levy) André Gorz (1923-2007) fut l'un des précurseurs incontestés de la décroissance et l'un des premiers auteurs à utiliser le terme même. Cet intellectuel français d'origine autrichienne a contribué à conscientiser toute une génération aux enjeux de l'écologie notamment par sa chronique, publiée sous le pseudonyme Michel Bosquet, dans Le Nouvel Observateur au cours des années 1970. Dans son long parcours, ce socialiste libertaire antiproductiviste a abordé à peu près tous les grands thèmes de la décroissance et s'est consacré à analyser les impasses du capitalisme ainsi que la nécessité impérieuse de limiter l'emprise toujours grandissante du marché sur la société. Nous discuterons de plusieurs aspects clés de son œuvre tel que ses idées sur l'autolimitation des besoins, la réduction du temps de travail, le revenu universel, et les réformes révolutionnaires. Professeur-e(s) Noémi Bureau-Civil est co-coordonnatrice du groupe de recherche Polémos. Elle détient une maîtrise scientifique en physiothérapie, domaine dans lequel elle a travaillé dix ans avant de se réorienter dans le communautaire. En 2021, elle s'est présentée aux élections fédérales comme candidate indépendante «pour une décroissance choisie» dans sa circonscription. Andrea Levy détient un doctorat en histoire de l'Université Concordia. Elle a consacré sa thèse à une biographie intellectuelle d'André Gorz. Chercheuse indépendante et journaliste engagée, elle codirige depuis des années la revue de gauche Canadian Dimension où elle a également signé une chronique sur l'écocide de 2010 à 2019. Au cours des 15 dernières années, elle a aussi collaboré régulièrement à la revue Les Nouveau Cahiers du socialisme. Elle travaille à son compte comme rédactrice et traductrice.

The Ford government in Ontario has crafted a plan to not only build new gas-fired power plants in the province, but to also ramp up the use of our existing gas-fired plants, and that will mean giving back about half the gains that Ontario made by ending the use of dirty coal to generate electricity. Yet, in September 2022, Ontario's Independent Electricity System Operator released a report entitled, Ontario's Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Potential Study, prepared by Dunsky Energy and Climate Advisors. This report tells us that Ontario doesn't need to increase its gas-fired energy capacity at all, and that we can meet our needs with a smart combination of distributed renewable power and efficiency programs instead... all while saving Ontarians $290 billion dollars. Taking Action: Take the Pledge for Climate Action (Ontario Green Party petition to Doug Ford to stop funding oil and gas projects): https://gpo.ca/climate/take-the-pledge/?source=C22.TTP.E.BTN Resources: Doug Ford government spent $231M to scrap green energy projects: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-green-energy-wind-turbines-cancelled-230-million-1.5364815 Why all of Canada will pay for Doug Ford's choice to cancel Ontario's cap-and-trade program: https://thenarwhal.ca/koch-sues-canada/ Ontario could be entering an energy supply crisis. Here's what you need to know: https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-electricity-grid/ Ontario's Coal Phase out: Lessons from a massive climate achievement: https://www.cleanairalliance.org/ontarios-coal-phase-out-lessons-from-a-massive-climate-achievement/ Costing the Cancellation of Cap and Trade: https://youtu.be/0y0nXLwQDJk Metrolinx removes electric vehicle chargers from GO station parking lots: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/metrolinx-ev-charging-stations-1.4972890 Electricity Systems Operator's 2021 outlook: https://www.ieso.ca/en/Sector-Participants/Planning-and-Forecasting/Annual-Planning-Outlook Ontario's Electricity Options: A Cost Comparison: https://www.cleanairalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/options2022nov.pdf Does Ontario Need New Gas Plants? https://www.cleanairalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/New-Gas-fact-or-fiction-sheet-oct-18-v_02.pdf Ontario's Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Potential Study (The Dunsky Report): https://www.ieso.ca/-/media/Files/IESO/Document-Library/engage/derps/derps-20220930-final-report-volume-1.ashx IESO Annual Planning Outlook (Ontario's electricity system needs: 2023-2042): https://www.ieso.ca/-/media/Files/IESO/Document-Library/planning-forecasts/apo/Dec2021/2021-Annual-Planning-Outlook.ashx IESO Recommends Shift to Grid-Scale Storage in Ontario, Relying on Natural Gas Expansions to Ensure Reliability in Near-Term: https://www.ieso.ca/Corporate-IESO/Media/News-Releases/2022/10/Grid-Scale-Storage-in-Ontario-Natural-Gas-Expansions-to-Ensure-Reliability-in-Near-Term Distributed Energy Resources: https://www.ieso.ca/en/Learn/Ontario-Electricity-Grid/Distributed-Energy-Resources Why is Ontario spending billions on nuclear energy when cheap renewables are available? https://sppga.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2021/10/Why-is-Ontario-spending-billions-on-nuclear-energy-when-cheap-renewables-are-available_-%E2%80%93-Canadian-Dimension.pdf Written and narrated by Art Lightstone Music: Feels, by Patrick Patrikios As Time Passes, by Zapsplat Atmospheria, by Francis Preve Investigations, by Kevin MacLeod Movement, by Dave Miles Half Cool, by Gemini Dulce Reggaeton, by An Jone Cryogenic, by Zapslat No pressure, by Zapsplat Rapid Turnaround, by Zapsplat Deep in Thought, by Zapsplat Still Learning, by Dave Miles Exploring, by Zapsplat Make You Move, by Ofshane

On Pullback ep86 Kyla Hewson and Kristen Pue are joined by Tech Won't Save Us host Paris Marx to talk about their new book, “Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation”, exploring the history of transportation and the current problems with tech in transport, with a focus on Silicon Valley's often twisted history and vision for the future. Paris has been published at CBC News, The Toronto Star, Jacobin, The Breach, The Tribune, Canadian Dimension, and more. Order the book at https://www.versobooks.com/books/3995-road-to-nowhere and find out more about Paris' show at https://techwontsave.us/

On Pullback ep86 Kyla Hewson and Kristen Pue are joined by Tech Won't Save Us host Paris Marx to talk about their new book, “Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation”, exploring the history of transportation and the current problems with tech in transport, with a focus on Silicon Valley's often twisted history and vision for the future.Paris has been published at CBC News, The Toronto Star, Jacobin, The Breach, The Tribune, Canadian Dimension, and more. Order the book at https://www.versobooks.com/books/3995-road-to-nowhere and find out more about Paris' show at https://techwontsave.us/

This week, Kyla and Kristen are joined by Paris Marx, host of Tech Won't Save Us, a weekly podcast that critiques the worldview of Silicon Valley. Paris has been published by NBC News, CBC News, Toronto Star, Jacobin, Tribune, OneZero, Canadian Dimension, and more. Paris holds a Master's degree in Geography and will be talking to us about their new book, “Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation”. This book explores the history of transportation and the current problems with tech in transport, with a focus on Silicon Valley and their visions of the future. Topics: history of cars; history of taxis; why Silicon Valley struggles to meet the needs of the general public; how to argue with an Elon Musk apologist; better solutions for the future. Get your copy here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3995-road-to-nowhere Leave us a voicemail! https://podinbox.com/pullback Website: https://www.pullback.org/episode-notes/episode83 Tech Won't Save Us: https://www.techwontsave.us/ Harbinger Media Network: https://harbingermedianetwork.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PullbackPodcast  Find Paris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/parismarx Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pullbackpodcast/?igshid=i57wwo16tjko  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PullbackPodcast/  Pullback is produced and hosted by Kristen Pue and Kyla Hewson. Logo by Rachel Beyer and Evan Vrinten.

Tom and Michael talk about the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) controversial definition of antisemitism. Many critics say that IHRA unfairly conflates criticism of Israel with antisemitism. How broadly has the IHRA definition been adopted in Canada, and what are some of the legitimate concerns about its adoption? What are the implications of IHRA for the Palestinian solidarity movement in Canada, and how are people pushing back?Links from this episode:1) IJV's “No IHRA” resources and campaign2) CJPME's article in Canadian Dimension on how IHRA is intended to silence speechSubscribe to CJPME on YouTube for a video version of this podcast, or donate to CJPME to support the work that we do. 

The brutality and invasiveness of the capitalist imperialism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was readily evident. With utter ruthlessness the imperial powers of the era smashed opened markets with gunboats and plundered the wealth of Asia and Africa through conquest and occupation. The process of decolonialization in the 1960s and 1970s raised hopes that a new era of peace and prosperity was about to dawn in those parts of the world that had been ravaged by imperialist exploitation. Unfortunately, those hopes have been dashed by the rise of informal networks and methodologies of imperial dominations. While the territorial empires of old no longer exist and imperialism is now a dirty word, behind the façade of independence, the peoples of the developing world continue to labor under foreign economic and political domination. However, today this domination is rarely exercised directly. Instead, it is often realized through indirect economic pressure with so-called international institutions such as the IMF and World Bank acting as the vanguard of this insidious neo-colonial order. What are the systems that perpetuate this state of affairs? How do the IMF and World Bank serve the interests of western capitalism? And what is the cost to people in the developing world? We ask these questions and more. This is Revolution. Owen Schalk Owen Schalk is a writer from Winnipeg.  His short stories have been published by Fairlight Books, Sobotka Literary Magazine, Goat's Milk Magazine, and others, and his political analyses have been featured in Alborada, People's Voice, and Protean Magazine.  He is a regular contributor to Canadian Dimension, and you can read his new essay on the culture industry and the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini in the November edition of Monthly Review. About TIR Thank you, guys, again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and every one of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron-only programming, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH! Become a patron now: https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, especially YouTube! THANKS Y'ALL YouTube: www.youtube.com/thisisrevolutionpodcast   Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast & www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/   Twitter: @TIRShowOakland  Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland The Dispatch on Zero Books (video essay series): https://youtu.be/nSTpCvIoRgw   Pascal Robert in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/PascalRobert   Get THIS IS REVOLUTION Merch here: www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com Get the show's music here: https://bitterlakeoakland.bandcamp.com/album/coronavirus-sessions

Fan of the show? https://www.patreon.com/newleftradio (Support us on Patreon)! How does a radical kid from Toronto end up running a public policy institute in Alberta? It's just the path of life for Gordon Laxer. Gordon's work took him to the belly of the beast, fighting for climate action in the heartland of oil & gas, and advocating for a renewed insurgency effort within the NDP — an effort that earned him a blacklisting from the party for his leadership in the Waffle. We discuss his life, his other, his work, and everything in between. Links https://www.gordonlaxer.com/ (Gordon's website) https://www.parklandinstitute.ca/ (The Parkland Institute) About Gordon Laxer Gordon Laxer is the founding Director and former head of Parkland Institute at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Parkland is a non-corporate research institute that does public policy research to serve the public interest. When the Progressive Conservatives ruled Alberta under Ralph Klein, the Globe and Mailcalled Parkland Alberta's ‘unofficial opposition'. Parkland's mission has been to change the political culture of Alberta. Laxer is a Political Economist and professor emeritus at the University of Alberta, and the author of After the Sands: Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians (Sept 2015) Douglas & McIntyre. Ge has authored or edited five other books, including Open for Business: The Roots of Foreign Ownership in Canada (Oxford Uni Press), which received the John Porter Award for best book written about Canada, and have published over 50 journal articles and refereed book chapters and reports. He was the Principal Investigator of a $1.9 million research project: Neoliberal Globalism and its Challengers: Reclaiming the Commons in the Semi-periphery (2000-2006). He is a socially-engaged, public intellectual. His op eds have been published in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Edmonton Journal, the Calgary Herald, the Montreal Gazette, the Vancouver Sun, the Province(Vancouver), the Winnipeg Free Press, the Victoria Times Colonist, the Hill Times, the Saint John Chronicle Herald, the St. John's Telegram, Canadian Dimension, and other publications. He has been interviewed a number of times on venues such as the CBC's The Current, As it Happens, and the House, and served on the board of the Council of Canadians from 2004 to 2009. About the Parkland Institute Parkland Institute is an Alberta-wide, non-partisan research centre situated within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. Parkland Institute studies economic, social, cultural, and political issues facing Albertans and Canadians, using the perspective of political economy. The Institute shares the results of its research widely and promotes discussion of the issues its research raises. Stay connected with the latest from New Left Radio by https://newleft.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8227a4372fe8dc22bdbf0e3db&id=e99d6c70b4 (joining our mailing list) today! _________ Support this podcast

On ep36 of Habibti Please Nashwa Khan and Geneviève Nevin host Jeremy Corbyn and Paul Rogers in advance of Selling Death: Why the International Arms Trade Must be Controlled, an upcoming event hosted by Egypt Watch and Jeremy Corbyn's Peace and Justice Project. Join Jeremy Corbyn, Paul Rogers, and Geneviève at the event on Saturday, July 17th, 2021, at 11 a.m. Eastern Standard Time and 4 p.m. London time here. This episode explores the arms trade and why we must move towards disarmament. The international arms trade fuels forever wars, bloody occupations, and the military-industrial complex. The detritus of war and occupation will linger long after militaries leave the countries they ravage. As this episode highlights, COVID-19 serves as a canary in the coal mine; a warning for how things can only get worse if change does not happen now. A virus cannot be nuked, yet the rush to create and sell arms from the imperial core has continued without challenge even during the pandemic. The Corbyn Peace and Justice Project illustrates why domestic and international problems and injustices cannot be separated. We also explore how we build solidarity beyond borders and across communities. This episode also draws links between the arms trade, the climate crisis, and other ongoing struggles, including the growing number of refugees. Industrialists selling weapons and war promoters are akin to the mythical hydra, where chopping off one head sprouts another. This hydra is a monster, directly supported by Western governments. And blowback is to be expected. Continued death and destruction fuelled by the imperial core through tradecraft will have global consequences,Now, more than ever, we must stand in solidarity to stop our governments from funding mass death throughout the world. Head over to thecorbynproject.com/armscontrol to sign up for Saturday's event. Habibti Please is proud to be part of the Harbinger Media Network and we are grateful to partner with Canadian Dimension on this episode.Originally from the West Coast, co-host Geneviève Nevin (she/her) is a white Ashkenazi settler based in Montréal (unceded and unsurrendered Kanien'kehà:ka territory) where she is a community organizer and JD/BCL candidate at McGill University. Geneviève is passionate about politics and social justice and is actively involved in movements for migrant rights and Palestine solidarity, particularly within the Jewish community, as the former Membership & Fundraising Coordinator with Independent Jewish Voices Canada. Geneviève was also one of the organisers behind the successful Palestine resolution at the 2021 NDP Convention which called for a ban on illegal Israeli settlement products as well as an arms embargo against Israel until Palestinians are free. Hosted by Nashwa Lina Khan Show Music by Johnny Zapras and postXamericaArt for Habibti Please by postXamerica and Canadian DimensionProduction by Canadian DimensionProduction Assistance by Geneviève Nevin, Nashwa Lina Khan and Canadian DimensionSupport the show Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/habibtipleaseFollow us on Twitter @habibtipleaseThis is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe

On ep36 of Habibti Please Nashwa Khan and Geneviève Nevin host Jeremy Corbyn and Paul Rogers in advance of Selling Death: Why the International Arms Trade Must be Controlled, an upcoming event hosted by Egypt Watch and Jeremy Corbyn's Peace and Justice Project. Join Jeremy Corbyn, Paul Rogers, and Geneviève at the event on Saturday, July 17th, 2021, at 11 a.m. Eastern Standard Time and 4 p.m. London time here. This episode explores the arms trade and why we must move towards disarmament. The international arms trade fuels forever wars, bloody occupations, and the military-industrial complex. The detritus of war and occupation will linger long after militaries leave the countries they ravage. As this episode highlights, COVID-19 serves as a canary in the coal mine; a warning for how things can only get worse if change does not happen now. A virus cannot be nuked, yet the rush to create and sell arms from the imperial core has continued without challenge even during the pandemic. The Corbyn Peace and Justice Project illustrates why domestic and international problems and injustices cannot be separated. We also explore how we build solidarity beyond borders and across communities. This episode also draws links between the arms trade, the climate crisis, and other ongoing struggles, including the growing number of refugees. Industrialists selling weapons and war promoters are akin to the mythical hydra, where chopping off one head sprouts another. This hydra is a monster, directly supported by Western governments. And blowback is to be expected. Continued death and destruction fuelled by the imperial core through tradecraft will have global consequences, Now, more than ever, we must stand in solidarity to stop our governments from funding mass death throughout the world. Head over to thecorbynproject.com/armscontrol to sign up for Saturday's event. Habibti Please is proud to be part of the Harbinger Media Network and we are grateful to partner with Canadian Dimension on this episode. Originally from the West Coast, co-host Geneviève Nevin (she/her) is a white Ashkenazi settler based in Montréal (unceded and unsurrendered Kanien'kehà:ka territory) where she is a community organizer and JD/BCL candidate at McGill University. Geneviève is passionate about politics and social justice and is actively involved in movements for migrant rights and Palestine solidarity, particularly within the Jewish community, as the former Membership & Fundraising Coordinator with Independent Jewish Voices Canada. Geneviève was also one of the organisers behind the successful Palestine resolution at the 2021 NDP Convention which called for a ban on illegal Israeli settlement products as well as an arms embargo against Israel until Palestinians are free. Hosted by Nashwa Lina Khan Show Music by Johnny Zapras and postXamerica Art for Habibti Please by postXamerica and Canadian Dimension Production by Canadian Dimension Production Assistance by Geneviève Nevin, Nashwa Lina Khan and Canadian Dimension Support the show Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/habibtiplease Follow us on Twitter @habibtiplease This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe

This week Habibiti Please is focused on a favorite topic of the show: disarmament. Nashwa and Geneviève host Jeremy Corbyn and Paul Rogers in advance of Selling Death: Why the International Arms Trade Must be Controlled, an upcoming event hosted by Egypt Watch and Jeremy Corbyn's Peace and Justice Project. Join Jeremy Corbyn, Paul Rogers, and Geneviève at the event on Saturday, July 17th, 2021, at 11 a.m. Eastern Standard Time and 4 p.m. London time here. We discuss the Peace and Justice Project, an initiative that works to bring people together for social and economic justice, peace, and human rights in Britain and across the world.This episode explores the arms trade and why we must move towards disarmament. The international arms trade fuels forever wars, bloody occupations, and the military-industrial complex. The detritus of war and occupation will linger long after militaries leave the countries they ravage. As this episode highlights, COVID-19 serves as a canary in the coal mine; a warning for how things can only get worse if change does not happen now. A virus cannot be nuked, yet the rush to create and sell arms from the imperial core has continued without challenge even during the pandemic. The Corbyn Peace and Justice Project illustrates why domestic and international problems and injustices cannot be separated. We also explore how we build solidarity beyond borders and across communities. This episode also draws links between the arms trade, the climate crisis, and other ongoing struggles, including the growing number of refugees. Industrialists selling weapons and war promoters are akin to the mythical hydra, where chopping off one head sprouts another. This hydra is a monster, directly supported by Western governments. And blowback is to be expected. Continued death and destruction fuelled by the imperial core through tradecraft will have global consequences,Forward-looking movements are needed now. Join Egypt Watch and Corbyn's Peace and Justice Project for Selling Death: Why the International Arms Trade Must be Controlled this Saturday on July 17th. We look forward to seeing you there. Now, more than ever, we must stand in solidarity to stop our governments from funding mass death throughout the world. Head over to thecorbynproject.com/armscontrol to sign up for Saturday's event. Habibti Please is proud to be part of the Harbinger Media Network and we are grateful to partner with Canadian Dimension on this episode.Organizations to check out: Egypt Watch Egypt Watch is a media services company based in London and was founded in 2019 by Osama Gaweesh, a well known Egyptian journalist and TV Presenter.Their mission is to put Egypt under the international spotlight and to raise global awareness about the declining situation in Egypt; to advocate for freedom of press, for human rights, and for upholding democracy. Corbyn Peace and Justice Project An organization founded by longtime activist for social justice and former Labour party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, to bring people together for social and economic justice, peace, and human rights, in Britain and across the world.The EventSelling Death: Why the International Arms Trade Must be ControlledWar is big business. The international arms trade is worth hundreds of billions, and arms deals brokered by the rich and the powerful continue to extend human misery around the world. The UK is the world's second-largest arms exporter in the world, fuelling conflicts like the war in Yemen which has claimed a quarter of a million lives to date. We must come together across borders and backgrounds to fight back against this economy of war and suffering, and demand real security for all. The Peace and Justice Project is proud to support Egypt Watch's upcoming event: Selling Death: Why the International Arms Trade Must be Controlled, an international conference that aims to shed light on the horrific abuses of the arms trade, and help build a movement to fight back. Join the event on Saturday July 17th, 2021, at 11 am Eastern Standard Time and 4pm London time, and sign up now.Additional Resources:Some resources that complement this episode: Boris Johnson is leading the UK into an even greater COVID catastrophe by Paul RogersUnions must stand united to end Canada's arms sales to Saudi Arabia by Simon BlackWESCAM controversy highlights double standards in Canadian arms controls by Lital Khaikin 100 million Egyptians at risk of going thirsty by Osama GaweeshGuest Information Guests of the Week: Jeremy Corbyn and Paul RogersJeremy Corbyn served as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 2015 to 2020, and has represented Islington North since 1983. He is a lifelong campaigner for peace and justice, holding roles in the Anti-Apartheid Movement, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and Stop the War Coalition.As Labour leader, he oversaw the development of a comprehensive programme to rebuild the UK economy, transfer wealth and power from the few to the many, tackle poverty and division, put Britain at the forefront of confronting the climate emergency, and pursue a peace and rights-based foreign policy.Jeremy received the Gandhi International Peace Award in 2013 and the Seán MacBride Peace Prize in 2017.Paul Rogers is an Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University. He is a biologist by original training, lecturing early on at Imperial College and also working as a senior scientific officer in government service in East Africa.   For the past forty years, he has worked on international and environmental security and has written or edited thirty books.  He is International Security Advisor to Open Democracy.In the late 1990s, he wrote Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century, which was years, if not decades, ahead of its time, anticipating the 9/11 attacks and the twenty-year war on terror that follows. A new edition has just been published updating and expanding the analysis. It looks forward to the 2030s and 2040s as the decades that will see a showdown between a bitter, environmentally wrecked, and deeply insecure world and a possible world order rooted in justice and peace. You can order the updated edition here.Co-hosted by Geneviève NevinOriginally from the West Coast, Geneviève Nevin (she/her) is a white Ashkenazi settler based in Montréal (unceded and unsurrendered Kanien'kehà:ka territory) where she is a community organizer and JD/BCL candidate at McGill University. Geneviève is passionate about politics and social justice and is actively involved in movements for migrant rights and Palestine solidarity, particularly within the Jewish community, as the former Membership & Fundraising Coordinator with Independent Jewish Voices Canada. Geneviève was also one of the organisers behind the successful Palestine resolution at the 2021 NDP Convention which called for a ban on illegal Israeli settlement products as well as an arms embargo against Israel until Palestinians are free. Production Credits:Hosted by Nashwa Lina Khan Show Music by Johnny Zapras and postXamericaArt for Habibti Please by postXamerica and Canadian DimensionProduction by Canadian DimensionProduction Assistance by Geneviève Nevin, Nashwa Lina Khan and Canadian DimensionSocial Media & Support:Follow us on Twitter @habibtipleaseSupport us on PatreonSubscribe to us on Substack This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe

Two weeks ago hundreds of police officers and parapolice descended upon Trinity Bellwoods park in Toronto to violently evict the residents living there, displacing people from their homes and severing communities. Toronto has been cruel and brutal to the people living in this city. The austerity measures put in place using the pandemic as an excuse for imposing cruelty will not suddenly dissipate after the pandemic “ends.” It is important to note how the pandemic continues to ravage other places in the world. Many are under the illusion that it is near the end because of the inequitable global vaccine rollout and apartheid. While companies thrived, many have died. This episode was done in collaboration with the Encampment Support Network (ESN) in Toronto. We worked with Charlotte, an outreach volunteer with ESN. We discussed the evictions at Lamport Stadium that took place in May which involved a bulldozer to forcibly remove residents. Throughout the pandemic Encampment Support Network Toronto has provided help for people in encampment sites. Right now in the city, there is increasing pressure to re-open, and we must reckon with what reopening and “back to normal” means for those most disenfranchised. Public officials informed the “general public” to socially distance, while at the same time pushing unhoused people to live in crowded shelters and shelter hotels where the virus was spreading and killing. There are a number of obscene contradictions like this that reveal how people in power intentionally make others live in deplorable conditions to die.The lives of unhoused people do not matter to Mayor John Tory and downtown City Councillor Joe Cressy. Although many have known this for far too long, it has again become blatantly obvious this week. Who we let live and who we let die speaks volumes about our society and cities. Depredation and violence by capitalists and the governments that back them were fully demonstrated viscerally throughout the pandemic and should not be surprising. The pandemic again brought this out revealing sores in the underbelly of Toronto brought about by austerity measures. Entire populations are subjected to death and disease by choice. Laid bare by the pandemic are the conditions which have always existed for those marginalized by the state. Capitalism is functioning as it should be, and the pandemic has only accelerated its efficiency. The proliferation of narratives by people like high-ranking public servant Brad Ross claiming the park was “dirty” continues to push the selective disposal of human beings. They want you to imagine that people who live in encampments are unclean but also disposable; not worthy of public space or full lives.  As Zoë Dodd posted, “people are not garbage.”As Dodd and many others have pointed out these were people's homes. Dodd also reminds us how violence is a spectacle and more specifically how words like “safety” are weaponized against those who are cash poor. Parks are public spaces and necessary. Parks are a space of life, however, the City appears to only want some to enjoy parks while others must be dispossessed of public space. As Alex V. Green reminds us, parks are a site and space for so much life. The violent clearing events at Trinity Bellwoods serve as a harbinger. Austerity and privatization are in full effect as the means with exterminism as the goal. It is reasonable to expect that the new austerity and security measures are here to stay “post” pandemic. The city attempted media rehabilitation after images of the full force of their violence turned public opinion against their immorality,  claiming there were public health issues and that people in the encampment were offered housing. This is false: only one individual was offered housing. It is important that we cut to the truth and do not cast doubt on the City of Toronto's violence and injustice by their spin and narratives. This episode highlights how encampments are an alternative for so many and the reasons behind that. It also speaks to the work Encampment Support Network Toronto is doing. This episode discusses the tactics deployed by the city, police, and para-police. It also highlights how people can and do care for each other.In these moments, it is also vital to connect our discontents. We will continue to bear witness to evictions and mutations of evictions. It is necessary that we understand the global nature of clearing people. There is creative destruction in so many urban environments, but also an urbanization that has cultivated a specific desire for a specific class of citizen that the nation desires. Here, it is the rich who are desirable. It is impossible for low-income and marginalized populations to live in cities or centers of cities. Pulling from Henri Lefebvre, it is a necessity to think about who has the right to the city, the right to everything urban life offers. We deserve cities that offer life to all residents. These discontents should never neglect this struggle globally. Presently in Silwan village in East Jerusalem, thousands of Palestinians are losing their homes and even being forced to destroy their own homes. Capitalism, white supremacy, and fascism yield a massive graveyard. Criminalizing poverty is a war on people. The war on drugs is a war on people. Only through connecting our oppressions will we move forward. We do all owe each other so much, and so many deserve so much better.This is a free episode, but we hope people who are able to consider donating to groups in the mutual aid section of the shownotes. We also hope people support Idle No More, other Indigenous organizations, movements, and people in their calls to #CancelCanadaDay. You can learn more here. Habibti Please is proud to be part of the Harbinger Media Network, this episode was graciously edited by executive director Andre Goulet. The Harbinger Media Network is working towards building a left media ecosystem in Canada and we urge you to check it out if that's your thing! We are also grateful to partner with Canadian Dimension.Mutual Aid & Community Support:Although this episode is not paywalled we would deeply appreciate it if people would share or give (if able to do so) to any of the causes or groups listed below. The Encampment Support Network Toronto (ESN)  is an ad-hoc, volunteer-run network supporting people living in encampments in 6 locations throughout Toronto. This includes ESN Parkdale, ESN Trinity Bellwoods, ESN Scadding Court, ESN Moss Park, ESN LNP, and ESN Cherry Beach. We advocate for better conditions in encampments, report on city conditions and activity in encampments, and advocate for long-term permanent housing for people in their communities of choice. ESN also collects and compiles feedback from residents to support our advocacy efforts and continues to pressure the city to develop real solutions to the housing crisis. The only way to provide effective support and find solutions is by listening to and centring the needs of people experiencing homelessness.You can support their work here. website:https://www.encampmentsupportnetwork.com/instagram: https://www.instagram.com/esn.to.4real/twitter: https://twitter.com/esn_toyoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0ZLEEETJXZtA4kSv6W7qJAThis Way Up Collective is a group of queer and trans BIPOC youth that are on the ground providing mutual aid. Taken from their website: “our goal is to actively engage the communities that we are a part of and fill in the gaps wherever possible. We support encampments, youth in shelters, and anyone in need via care packages, weekly hot meal drops, and community arts programming.” * they are one of the groups that have been helping provide meals to encampment residents and doing amazing work. You can support their work here. website: https://www.thiswayup.ca/instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thiswayupcollective/Toronto Indigenous Harm Reduction (TIHR) emerged in April 2020 during the first wave of the COVID19 pandemic in response to a massive shutdown of frontline services and a lack of basic needs for Indigenous houseless folks in the city of Toronto. Over the past year, we have provided basic needs, access to critical health support & covid 19 testing, harm reduction supplies, sexual, reproductive health and prenatal support, traditional medicines, traditional food, expressive arts, and ceremony to some of our most vulnerable people. TIHR aims to reduce the negative impacts of substance use and other stigmatized behaviours and experiences through culture and unconditional support. TIHR is an entirely queer and Two-Spirit Indigenous collective founded by Nanook Gordon, co-led by Brianna Olson Pitawanakwat and Lua Mondor, and supported by Dashmaawaan Bemadzinjin (They feed the people) and countless volunteers.To date they have served over 3,000 meals to the encampments and Indigenous street folks. You can support their work here.website: https://www.torontoindigenoushr.com/facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TorontoIndigenousHarmReductioninstagram: https://www.instagram.com/torontoindigenousharmreduction/Additional Resources:Some resources that complement this episode: Take action with the #NoEncampmentEvictions toolkitESN Toronto NewslettersWe Are Not the Virus PodcastFixing the housing crisis will mean treating shelter as a right—not a commodity by David MoscropEviction at Trinity Bellwoods repeats history by Cathy CroweDemolishing Palestinian homes for an Israeli religious theme park by Al JazeeraGuest Information Guests of the Week: Charlotte Smith of Encampment Support Network TorontoCharlotte is an outreach volunteer with the Encampment Support Network in Toronto, Ontario. The Encampment Support Network Toronto (ESN)  is an ad-hoc, volunteer-run network supporting people living in encampments in 6 locations throughout Toronto. This includes ESN Parkdale, ESN Trinity Bellwoods, ESN Scadding Court, ESN Moss Park, ESN LNP and ESN Cherry Beach. We advocate for better conditions in encampments, report on city conditions and activity in encampments, and advocate for long term permanent housing for people in their communities of choice. ESN also collects and compiles feedback from residents to support our advocacy efforts and continues to pressure the city to develop real solutions to the housing crisis. The only way to provide effective support and find solutions is by listening to and centring the needs of people experiencing homelessness.Production Credits:Hosted by Nashwa Lina Khan Show Music by Johnny Zapras and postXamericaArt for Habibti Please by postXamericaProduction by Andre GouletProduction Assistance by Charlotte Smith, Ali McKnight, Nashwa Lina Khan, and Canadian DimensionSocial Media & Support:Follow us on Twitter @habibtipleaseSupport us on PatreonSubscribe to us on Substack This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe

The austerity measures that were first implemented during the pandemic will not ease post-pandemic. Global vaccine apartheid continues to exist and it seems that only those in North America with relations outside of North America or to communities. It feels eerily familiar for people who straddle worlds to be aware that “back to normal” means back to normal for people completely detached from the global reality of how COVID continues to ravage people outside of the imperial core. This episode takes a look at how the world we all now came to be. One where vaccine apartheid is normalized for so many. One where extermination programs and coups are staples. In this episode Shaadie and Nashwa interview Vincent Bevins, author of the Jakarta Method. Nashwa and Shaadie approached this episode with the thought and care they approach other work with. They wanted to honor those who died and survived the mass extermination in Indonesia while also weaving our own understanding as young Muslims of the world into this episode. Bevins book Jakarta Method is an accessible must-read about the United State's role in constructing a global anti-communist network. In 1965 and 1966, the Indonesian military killed one million civilians and with praise and enthusiasm from the American government. It was an apocalyptic slaughter of leftists and accused leftists. As Bevins writes, this series of events was instrumental in shaping our global economic system as it exists today. As beneficiaries of US hegemony,  it is important to recognize this gap in collective memory and the responsibilities we have. A selection of propaganda leaflets blaming the Indonesian Communist Party for the 30 September (1965) movement that appeared in late 1965. Photo from Wikimedia Commons.The Jakarta Method maps out and tracks the violent anti-communism campaign, subsequent mass arrests, executions, and American sponsored disinformation campaign that rendered deadly results we will always benefit from. For example, the mass murder of Indonesians is why the tourism industry in Bali possible. As Bevins illustrates, this massacre was one of the biggest turning points of the Cold War and it inspired other regions to carry out similar programs.  It is egregious and the replication of what happened in Indonesia should never be forgotten because it remains a blueprint for extermination programs globally. This episode features a number of resources that complement the conversation—please check them out below. From Vincent Bevins' The Jakarta Method.Habibti Please is proud to be part of the Harbinger Media Network. For episodes focused on different struggles in Canada and around the world, we are grateful to partner with Canadian Dimension for this episode. Until Liberation, Canadian Dimension, Shaadie, and NashwaTo Read and Watch:The Jakarta Method: How to destabilize and control the Third World by Clement Nocos How ‘Jakarta' Became the Codeword for US-Backed Mass Killing by Vincent Bevins The Cold War's unfinished legacy by Noah TsikaThe Act of Killing Joshua Oppenheimer on "The Act of Killing": The VICE Podcast 034Tribunal 1965Organizations we like this week: Anakbayan Toronto ANAKBAYAN is the largest and most comprehensive organization of Filipino youth and students for National Democracy, with 20,000 members worldwide. We strive for genuine freedom, peace, and democracy in the Philippines.Migrant Workers Alliance for ChangeMigrant Workers Alliance for Change is building a democratic member-led organization of migrant farmworkers, care workers, students and more to win worker and immigration justice.Guest Information Vincent Bevins is an American journalist and writer. He previously worked as a foreign correspondent based in Brazil for the Los Angeles Times, after working previously in London for the Financial Times. He then moved to Jakarta and began covering Southeast Asia for the Washington Post, and in 2018 began writing a book about Cold War violence in Indonesia and Latin America, that book being The Jakarta Method. You can buy Jakarta Method here.Production Credits:Hosted by Nashwa Lina Khan and Shaadie AliShow Music by Johnny Zapras and postXamericaArt for Habibti Please by postXamericaProduction by Candian DimensionProduction Assistance by Canadian Dimension, Andy Assaf, and Ali McKnight Social Media & Support:Follow us on Twitter @habibtipleaseSupport us on PatreonSubscribe to us on SubstackHabibti Please is proud to be part of the Harbinger Media Network This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe

This week Nashwa spent time with the guys at The Insurgents. In this special crossover episode, Nashwa joins Jordan and Rob of The Insurgents. We discussed the escalating aggression toward Palestinians and the attacks on Gaza that have left over 250 dead. We are disgusted by the Biden administration's continued support of Netanyahu's further annexation of Gaza and the West Bank.This is a crossover episode that was generously produced by Jordan and Rob of The Insurgents. You can also listen to the Insurgents on iTunes here, on Spotify here, and on Google Podcasts here. Find them elsewhere here. Please support the Palestinian Youth Movement here.Last Friday MP Jack Harris the NDP has called for an emergency debate, thousands of Canadians have written elected officials also voicing our disagreement with our tax money and our government's involvement in the occupation and violent dispossession of Palestinian people and Palestine. You can participate in a number of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East's campaigns here. Please also consider signing this House of Commons petition to stop foreign military recruitment on campus. We hope this episode pushes people to go beyond posting. Throughout Canada and the world, many actions are taking place. You can find a list of Canadian actions here. The Nakba never ended. Our solidarity with Palestinians and Palestine must also always continue.  This is a free episode, if you want to support the creation of more content like this and unlock Habibti Please exclusives please consider becoming a patron on Patreon or a paid Substack subscriber. We are a small team and it costs a bit to make this happen. We are happy to contribute to this passion project but we are also *so* grateful to anyone who is able to support us in continuing to build content like this. Habibti Please is proud to be part of the Harbinger Media Network. We also collaborate with Canadian Dimension for episodes focused on different struggles in Canada and around the world. Production Credits:Hosted by Rob Rousseau and Jordan Uhl featuring Nashwa Lina Khan Music by Johnny Zapras and postXamericaArt for Habibti Please by postXamericaProduction by Nashwa Lina Khan and Johnny ZaprasProduction Assistance by Raymond KhananoSocial Media & Support:Follow us on Twitter @habibtipleaseSupport us on Patreon This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe

Last week marked the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba, the Palestinian exodus, at the same time that the Israeli occupation has again increased its assault on Palestinian civilians in east Jerusalem and Gaza. On a new Habibti Please hosts Nashwa Khan and Ryan Deshpande are joined by guests from Palestinian Youth Movement Toronto and some of the core organizers behind Palestine Resolution 2021 at the NDP Convention. As the NDP calls for an emergency debate and thousands of Canadians write their elected officials voicing disagreement with the governmourent’s involvement in the occupation and violent dispossession of Palestinian people and Palestine, please see this episode's Substack show notes for information on how you can participate in campaigns to push back against an untenable status quo: https://habibtiplease.substack.com/p/episode-30-with-palestine-youth-movement The team at Habibti Please and Canadian Dimension hope that this episode pushes people to go beyond posting. Throughout Canada and the world, many actions are taking place. The Nakba never ended. Our solidarity with Palestinians and Palestine must also always continue.

Last week marked the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba, the Palestinian exodus, at the same time that the Israeli occupation has again increased its assault on Palestinian civilians in east Jerusalem and Gaza. On a new Habibti Please hosts Nashwa Khan and Ryan Deshpande are joined by guests from Palestinian Youth Movement Toronto and some of the core organizers behind Palestine Resolution 2021 at the NDP Convention. As the NDP calls for an emergency debate and thousands of Canadians write their elected officials voicing disagreement with the governmourent's involvement in the occupation and violent dispossession of Palestinian people and Palestine, please see this episode's Substack show notes for information on how you can participate in campaigns to push back against an untenable status quo: https://habibtiplease.substack.com/p/episode-30-with-palestine-youth-movementThe team at Habibti Please and Canadian Dimension hope that this episode pushes people to go beyond posting. Throughout Canada and the world, many actions are taking place. The Nakba never ended. Our solidarity with Palestinians and Palestine must also always continue.

Today marks the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba. At the same time, the Israeli occupation has once again increased their assault on Palestinian civilians in east Jerusalem and Gaza. We were honoured to be joined by guests from Palestinian youth Movement Toronto and some of the core organizers behind Palestine Resolution 2021 at the NDP Convention. As of Friday MP Jack Harris the NDP has called for an emergency debate, thousands of Canadians have written elected officials also voicing our disagreement with our tax money and our government's involvement in the occupation and violent dispossession of Palestinian people and Palestine. You can participate in a number of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East's campaigns here. Please also consider signing this House of Commons petition to stop foreign military recruitment on campus. We hope this episode pushes people to go beyond posting. Throughout Canada and the world, many actions are taking place. You can find a list of Canadian actions here. The Nakba never ended. Our solidarity with Palestinians and Palestine must also always continue.  This is a free episode, if you want to support the creation of more content like this and unlock Habibti Please exclusives please consider becoming a patron on Patreon or a paid Substack subscriber. We are a small team and it costs a bit to make this happen. We are happy to contribute to this passion project but we are also *so* grateful to anyone who is able to support us in continuing to build content like this. Habibti Please is proud to be part of the Harbinger Media Network. For episodes focused on different struggles in Canada and around the world, we are grateful to partner with Canadian Dimension.Mutual Aid & Community Support:Although this episode is not paywalled we would deeply appreciate it if people would share or give (if able to do so) to any of the causes or groups listed below. Support Palestinian Youth Organizing by donating to Palestinian Youth Movement.Islamic Relief is helping to provide immediate medical assistance and vital aid to all those affected by the violence and most in need.Eye on Palestine is providing media coverage that mainstream news never will, follow them but also support their work.Movement to Safeguard Palestinian Communities, while homes and land continue to be stolen this group works on actionable advocacy.Additional Resources:Some resources that complement this episode: Joint Statement by Palestinians in North America on Nakba DayPalestine Resolution 2021Deadly ExchangeResources from Palestinian Youth Movement of Sheikh Jarrah BDS MovementThe Nakba Demands Justice by Kaleem Hawa This Is Not Fine: Why Video of an Ultranationalist Frenzy in Jerusalem Is So Unsettling by Robert MackeyTeshuvah: A Jewish Case for Palestinian Refugee Return by Peter BeinartGuest Information From Palestinian youth Movement Toronto, we were joined by Rawan N. and Mohammed W. From Palestine Resolution 2021 at the NDP Convention, we were joined by Amy Kishek, Sam Hersh, Geneviève Joëlle, and Omar Burgan.Production Credits:Hosted by Nashwa Lina Khan Show Music by Johnny Zapras and postXamericaArt for Habibti Please by postXamericaProduction by Candian DimensionProduction Assistance by Canadian Dimension and Ryan DeshpandeSocial Media & Support:Follow us on Twitter @habibtipleaseSupport us on PatreonSubscribe to us on SubstackHabibti Please is proud to be part of the Harbinger Media Network This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe

This week's Eid episode is a double feature! In the first half of this episode, Nashwa sits down with Priya Prabhakar to discuss the ongoing Farmers' protests in India that began in November 2020. In June of 2020, three ordinances were introduced and eventually passed as acts by Modi and his right-wing government. These bills translate into the mass deregulation and neo-liberalization of the agricultural market. Farmers continue to protest these three farm acts that were subsequently passed by the Indian government in September 2020. The protests are largely set in Delhi. We hope this episode helps people understand the larger context and the righteousness of farmer anger right now. The farmers' protests are critical and we hope this episode provides a nuanced and accessible explainer on why these protests matter and what is happening in India. In India, neither farmer protests nor farmer suicides are uncommon and have been occurring for decades.The first half of this episode was recorded shortly before India became the epicenter of the COVID pandemic. The second half of this episode highlights how the devastating pandemic has also interacted with the strikes. In the second half of this episode, Priya and Nashwa sit down with Vijay Prashad to discuss how COVID is ravaging India, as well as how the Modi government has been failing the Indian people. Some highlights of this episode include Vijay's insights on vaccine apartheid and America allegedly withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. This is a free episode, if you want to support the creation of more content like this and unlock Habibti Please exclusives please consider becoming a patron on Patreon or a paid Substack subscriber. We are a small team and it costs a bit to make this happen. We are happy to contribute to this passion project but we are also *so* grateful to anyone who is able to support us in continuing to build content like this. Habibti Please is proud to be part of the Harbinger Media Network. For episodes focused on different struggles in Canada and around the world, we are grateful to partner with Canadian Dimension.Mutual Aid & Community Support:Although this episode is not paywalled we would deeply appreciate it if people would share or give (if able to do so) to any of the causes or groups listed below. Mutual Aid India - this is a curated list of Covid response efforts in India. Khalsa Aid - Khalsa Aid is an international NGO with the aim to provide humanitarian aid in disaster areas and civil conflict zones around the world.Internet Freedom Foundation - The Internet Freedom Foundation defends online freedom, privacy, and innovation in India.NewsClick - An independent media organization dedicated to covering news from India and elsewhere with a focus on progressive movements.The People's Forum - Syringes for Cuba CampaignAdditional Resources:Some resources that complement this episode: Harvest of Dissent by Sharanya DeepakLong Live Farmer-Laborer Unity by Veena Dubal and Navyug Gill Leading from the front: The role of women in Farmers' movementIn Kerala, the Present Is Dominated by the Future: The Eighteenth Newsletter (2021) from Vijay PrashadWaiting for Catastrophes by Vijay Prashad‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity': Arundhati Roy on India's Covid catastrophe by Arundhati RoyHere's Why Farmers Are Protesting the 3 New Agriculture Ordinances by Aibhav PalnitkarPunjabi Dalit Women Fight Multiple Battles Rolled into One at Farmers Protest by Shreya SharmaPeople's Leader: A Dalit Woman Becomes The Voice of Farmers In India by  Sania FarooquiBurdened by debt and unable to eke out a living, many farmers in India turn to suicide by Salimah Shivji Elite Despair About “Farmers' Lack of Discipline” is Comical, Though Not Innocent by Subin DennisGovernment Should Fight Corona, not Farmers and Labourers: SKM by Sabrang India All India Kissan SabhaNewsClickGuest Information Guests of the Week: Priya Prabhakar and Vijay PrashadPriya Prabhakar is an organizer, filmmaker, and researcher currently based out of Oakland, California, and hails from Chennai, India. You can find her online on instagram and twitter.Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian and journalist. Prashad is a Marxist commentator and the author of thirty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World, and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. He is the Chief Correspondent for Globetrotter and a Columnist for Frontline (India). He is the Chief Editor of LeftWord Books (New Delhi). He has appeared in two films – Shadow World (2016) and Two Meetings (2017). He is currently the director of Tricontinental. You can buy his newest book here.Production Credits:Hosted by Nashwa Lina Khan Show Music by Johnny Zapras and postXamericaArt for Habibti Please by postXamericaProduction by Canadian DimensionProduction Assistance by Canadian Dimension and Priya Prabhakar Social Media & Support:Follow us on Twitter @habibtipleaseSupport us on PatreonSubscribe to us on SubstackHabibti Please is proud to be part of the Harbinger Media Network This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe

In this double feature, Nashwa and Ryan sit down with Patricio Dávila and Phil Zigman of RenovtictionsTO and Cole Webber of Parkdale Organize to discuss the state of renovictions in Ontario and how residents and tenant organizers have been working together to resist and fight back. One example is West Lodge Tenants organizing a food bank and winning space from their massive corporate landlord to host it out of. We also have witnessed rent strikes in the city.Support Keep Your Rent and People's Defence Toronto, both groups are mentioned on the show and doing amazing work. We also suggest people use and share the Toronto Covid Evictions Tracker if they or their comrades are facing evictions. Anti-eviction action and organizing has an important history. In the second year of the Great Depression, it was so intense that evictions effectively stopped in New York, Detroit, and Chicago. Solidarity to those fighting evictions, upcoming episodes looking at the Farmer's protests, and COVID-19 in India.Although this episode is not paywalled we would deeply appreciate it if people would share or give (if able to do so) to the fundraiser for The East York 50: this fundraiser was set up to help support a group of 50 immigrant families slated to be evicted.Hosted by Nashwa Lina Khan and Ryan DeshpandeShow Music by Johnny Zapras and postXamericaProduction by Canadian Dimension and Johnny ZaprasFollow the show on Twitter @habibtiplease and support the show on Patreon.This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe

In this double feature, Nashwa and Ryan sit down with Patricio Dávila and Phil Zigman of RenovtictionsTO and Cole Webber of Parkdale Organize to discuss the state of renovictions in Ontario and how residents and tenant organizers have been working together to resist and fight back. One example is West Lodge Tenants organizing a food bank and winning space from their massive corporate landlord to host it out of. We also have witnessed rent strikes in the city. Support Keep Your Rent and People’s Defence Toronto, both groups are mentioned on the show and doing amazing work. We also suggest people use and share the Toronto Covid Evictions Tracker if they or their comrades are facing evictions. Anti-eviction action and organizing has an important history. In the second year of the Great Depression, it was so intense that evictions effectively stopped in New York, Detroit, and Chicago. Solidarity to those fighting evictions, upcoming episodes looking at the Farmer’s protests, and COVID-19 in India. Although this episode is not paywalled we would deeply appreciate it if people would share or give (if able to do so) to the fundraiser for The East York 50: this fundraiser was set up to help support a group of 50 immigrant families slated to be evicted. Hosted by Nashwa Lina Khan and Ryan Deshpande Show Music by Johnny Zapras and postXamerica Production by Canadian Dimension and Johnny Zapras Follow the show on Twitter @habibtiplease and support the show on Patreon. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe

In this May Day double feature, Nashwa and Ryan sit down with Patricio Dávila and Phil Zigman of  RenovtictionsTO and Cole Webber of Parkdale Organize. In this May Day double feature, we discuss the state of renovictions in Ontario as well as how people are resisting. Tenant organizers have been working together to resist and fight back. One example is West Lodge Tenants organizing a food bank and winning space from their massive corporate landlord to host it out of. We also have witnessed rent strikes in the city.We recommend people also check out and support Keep Your Rent and People's Defence Toronto, both groups are mentioned on the show and doing amazing work. We also suggest people use and share the Toronto Covid Evictions Tracker if they or their comrades are facing evictions. Anti-eviction action and organizing has an important history. In the second year of the Great Depression, it was so intense that evictions effectively stopped in New York, Detroit, and Chicago. Solidarity to those fighting evictions, upcoming episodes looking at the Farmer's protests, and COVID-19 in India.If you want to support the creation of more content like this and and unlock Habibti Please exclusives please consider becoming a patron on Patreon or a paid Substack subscriber. We are a small team and it costs a bit to make this happen. We are happy to contribute to this passion project but we are also *so* grateful to anyone who is able to support us in continuing to build content like this. Mutual Aid & Community Support:Although this episode is not paywalled we would deeply appreciate it if people would share or give (if able to do so) to the fundraiser for The East York 50: this fundraiser was set up to help support a group of 50 immigrant families slated to be evicted.Additionally, here are further resources for communities from Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area  facing the results of increased austerity:Encampment Support Network (ESN) is an ad-hoc, volunteer-run network supporting people living in encampments in 6 locations throughout Toronto. This includes ESN Parkdale, ESN Trinity Bellwoods, ESN Scadding Court, ESN Moss Park, ESN LNP and ESN Cherry Beach.RenovictionsTO is a volunteer-run organization that gives tenants the tools they need to organize and fight back against their landlords who are partaking in a renoviction. Keep Your Rent is another vital organization that offers Toronto residents a litany of resources to combat rent evictions.Evictions Ontario is yet another great resource for evictions—it also specifically offers a tracker to see where evictions are taking place across the province.Disability Justice Network of Ontario is a collective that aims to build a just and accessible Ontario through the dissemination of knowledge regarding issues that people with disabilities face—they promote change through legislative action; also, they support community members through a community caremongering program.Additional Resources:Some resources that complement this episode : Doug Ford is Using the Pandemic to Criminalize Tenant Organizing by Cole Webber Ontario is Mass Evicting Tenants, In as Little as 60 Seconds by Cole Webber Above Guideline Rent Increases in the Age of Financialization by Philip Zigman and Martine AugustAnti-eviction mapping project Tenants Rise Up! Fighting for Housing Justice in the Bay Area (short documentary) Online Activism During COVID-19: A Case Study in Rent Strikes by Cierra Bettens Doug Ford is Consolidating the Power of Landlords During a Time of Crisis by Shehnoor Khurram and Ryan KelpinToronto Tenants Seek Leverage on COVID Relief with Rent Strike by Morgan SharpParkdale Tenants Rally Against Goliath Corporate Landlords by Shannon CarrancoToronto Residents Get Their Massive Landlord to Donate An Apartment to Help Feed Tenants by Olivia Little Why Fighting ‘Renoviction' is so HardGuest Information Guests of the Week:  Patricio Dávila and Phil Zigman of  RenovtictionsTO and Cole Webber of Parkdale OrganizeRenovictionsTORenovictionsTO is a project seeking to document renovictions and above guideline rent increases in Toronto, provide resources and information for tenants, and support tenant organizing. Check out renovictionsto.com to learn more about where in the city renovictions and above guideline rent increases are happening and who are the landlords engaging in these practices. If you're facing a renoviction or above guideline rent increase, reach out to report your landlord and learn more about how you can fight back. In the future they will also start collecting data on the use (N12) evictions and making this information public on their website. You can check out their recent AGI report written by Phil Zigman and Martine August here. You can also find them on twitter @renovictions.Phil Zigman is the co-creator of RenovictionsTO. Patricio Dávila is a designer, artist, researcher and educator. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design, at York University. He is the co-creator of RenovictionsTO. Parkdale Organize Parkdale Organize is a group of working class people who organize to build neighbourhood power in Parkdale. The organization aims to build working class organizations independent of politicians and social service providers.Cole Webber is a legal clinic worker in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto, who is on Twitter @colefwebberCheckout Parkdale Organize and learn more about them through their facebook page, twitter page, and website.Production Credits:Hosted by Nashwa Lina Khan Show Music by Johnny Zapras and postXamericaArt for Habibti Please by postXamericaProduction by Candian DimensionProduction Assistance by Canadian Dimension and Johnny ZaprasSocial Media & Support:Follow us on Twitter @habibtipleaseSupport us on PatreonSubscribe to us on SubstackHabibti Please is proud to be part of the Harbinger Media Network This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe

This week features a special collaboration between Habibti Please, Canadian Dimension, and Courage Coalition. Nashwa and Ryan sit down with Omar Burgan of Courage Coalition to discuss some of the seven priority resolutions they have put forward for the upcoming NDP convention. They have submitted 14 resolutions for the NDP's upcoming convention, occurring from April 9-11. This episode specifically focused on resolutions such as Justice and Peace in Israel-Palestine, Land Back, Free Transit for All, Abolish Billionaires, and Defund the RCMP. If you want to connect with members who are part of Courage and working within their EDAs please fill out this form. Courage is doing invaluable work beyond electoral politics and we hope people check them out. They have formed chapters throughout Canada and are a refreshing addition to the growing left in Canada. If you want to support Habibti Please as a project please consider becoming a patron on Patreon or a paid Substack subscriber.  As a subscriber, you can unlock full-length Habibti Please exclusives and videos.Guest Information:Collaborators: Courage Coalition and Canadian DimensionGuest of the Week: Omar Burgan of Courage CoalitionCourage CoalitionCourage is a coalition of the independent left as well as a pan-Canadian, membership-based organization that attempts to bridge the divide between movement and electoral politics. Courage was founded on the belief that although elections can be important and consequential, the left needs non-electoral organizations that are focused on pushing forward social and economic transformation – especially when left parties are in power. You can find out more about the Courage Coalition on their website. Follow them on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.Omar Burgan is a researcher based out of Ottawa (on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe people). He is a member of Courage as well as a labour union, anti-war and anti-colonial advocate.  Canadian DimensionCanadian Dimension is the longest-standing voice of the left in Canada since 1963. For more than half-a-century, CD has provided a forum for lively and radical debate where red meets green, socialists take on social democrats, Indigenous voices are heard, activists report from every corner of the country, and the latest books and films are critically reviewed. Subscribe today: bit.ly/sub2CDYou can find out more about Canadian Dimension on their website. Follow them on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, SoundCloud, and YouTube.Production Credits:Hosted by Ryan Deshpande and Nashwa Lina Khan Show Music by Johnny Zapras and postXamericaArt for Habibti Please by postXamericaProduction by Canadian Dimension, Courage Coalition, Nashwa Lina Khan, and Johnny ZaprasProduction Assistance by Raidin Brailsford, Raymond Khanano, and Ali McKnightSocial Media & Support:Follow us on Twitter @habibtipleaseSupport us on PatreonSubscribe to us on Substack This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit habibtiplease.substack.com/subscribe

This week Beth and Wendy discuss Luis Alfredo Garavito, a Colombian serial killer who was convicted of murdering 138 boys in the 1990s. Thanks for listening! This is a weekly podcast and new episodes drop every Thursday, so until next time... look alive guys, it's crazy out there! Shout Outs Handcuffed Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/handcuffed-podcast/id1457812017 The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together https://www.amazon.com/Sum-Us-Everyone-Prosper-Together/dp/0525509569 What’s Happening?! 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Will the next federal election spell doom for the NDP, out maneuvered by the Conservatives for working-class voters? I talk to Steven C. High, professor of history at Concordia University and author of the recent article for Canadian Dimension, "Right-wing populism and the realignment of working-class politics in Canada." See the full interview here: https://youtu.be/Pj2N4vMOoYk Steven High's article: https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/right-wing-populism-and-the-realignment-of-working-class-politics-in-canada Support Sweater Weather on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=73... Sweater Weather's website: https://www.sweaterweatherpod.com/ Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/canadiansweater Watch on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/canadiansweater Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/canadian.sweater/

How has deindustrialization impacted the working class in Canada and around the world? In what ways is deindustrialization, a side effect of global capital constantly seeking cheaper labour, shaping the politics of our time? Will the next federal election spell doom for the NDP, out maneuvered by the Conservatives for working class voters? This week I talk to Steven C. High, professor of history at Concordia University, who has published extensively on deindustrialization and the post-industrial transformation of North American cities. His books include Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt (U of T Press, 2003), The Deindustrialized World: Confronting Ruination in Post-Industrial Places (UBC Press, 2017), and One Job Town: Work, Belonging and Betrayal in Northern Ontario (U o T Press, 2019). We also discuss a piece he recently published in Canadian Dimension, “Right-wing populism and the realignment of working-class politics in Canada,” as well as a new international research project he is leading titled Deindustrialization and the Politics of our Time.   Steven High's piece in Canadian Dimension: https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/right-wing-populism-and-the-realignment-of-working-class-politics-in-canada Sweater Weather's new website, where you'll find everything you need: https://www.sweaterweatherpod.com/ Support Sweater Weather on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=73... Support Sweater Weather on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/canadiansweater?locale.x=en_US Follow Sweater Weather on Twitter: https://twitter.com/canadiansweater

On this re-presentation of a December episode of the world's only anti-free speech podcast, National Post columnist John Ivison is mad at Churchill—Keewatinook Aski MP Niki Ashton and Nanaimo—Ladysmith MP Paul Manly for their support of a proposal to free Huawei heiress Meng Wanzhou, arrested by Canadian police in December, 2018 at the behest of the Trump administration. In this conversation Harbinger Society host Andre Goulet joins Big Shiny Takes' Jeremy Appel, Marino Greco and Eric Wickham to hate-read the column, unpack Ivison's invocation of Lenin (or was it Stalin?) to declare the two MPs "useful idiots" and critique anti-China neo-McCarthyism in Canadian media. Read Canadian Foreign Policy Institute Director Bianca Mugyenyi's response to Ivison's garbage take at Canadian Dimension: https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/new-group-of-progressive-mps-are-challenging-canadas-foreign-policy-myths

On this re-presentation of a December episode of the world's only anti-free speech podcast, National Post columnist John Ivison is mad at Churchill—Keewatinook Aski MP Niki Ashton and Nanaimo—Ladysmith MP Paul Manly for their support of a proposal to free Huawei heiress Meng Wanzhou, arrested by Canadian police in December, 2018 at the behest of the Trump administration. In this conversation Harbinger Society host Andre Goulet joins Big Shiny Takes' Jeremy Appel, Marino Greco and Eric Wickham to hate-read the column, unpack Ivison's invocation of Lenin (or was it Stalin?) to declare the two MPs "useful idiots" and critique anti-China neo-McCarthyism in Canadian media. Read Canadian Foreign Policy Institute Director Bianca Mugyenyi's response to Ivison's garbage take at Canadian Dimension: https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/new-group-of-progressive-mps-are-challenging-canadas-foreign-policy-myths

On this re-presentation of a December episode of the world's only anti-free speech podcast, National Post columnist John Ivison is mad at Churchill—Keewatinook Aski MP Niki Ashton and Nanaimo—Ladysmith MP Paul Manly for their support of a proposal to free Huawei heiress Meng Wanzhou, arrested by Canadian police in December, 2018 at the behest of the Trump administration. In this conversation Harbinger Society host Andre Goulet joins Big Shiny Takes' Jeremy Appel, Marino Greco and Eric Wickham to hate-read the column, unpack Ivison's invocation of Lenin (or was it Stalin?) to declare the two MPs "useful idiots" and critique anti-China neo-McCarthyism in Canadian media.Read Canadian Foreign Policy Institute Director Bianca Mugyenyi's response to Ivison's garbage take at Canadian Dimension: https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/new-group-of-progressive-mps-are-challenging-canadas-foreign-policy-myths

Abdul Malik aka @SocialistRaptor (a dope Twitter handle & a great follow btw) joins Redspin Sports' founder Nathaniel (or Nate -it's whatever) Wallace @NateWallace9, to riff on everything from similarities and differences in sporting culture in the U.S. and Canada, his work as a labor/environmental/indigenous rights activist in "oil country" of Edmonton, Alberta (aka "Canada's Texas"), lots of hoops, football (and the differences in the U.S. and Canadian versions of the game) hockey, and of course the central role of sport in the broader labor struggle against neoliberalism's hegemony (albeit with growing cracks in the armor) across North America. We hit on a lot, but expect a Part II because there's much more I regret not getting to this time around.Along with his political and environmental activism, Abdul Malik, is currently new media producer for the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE). Abdul's a native of Toronto, Ontario who moved to what is in many ways Canada's "wild west" (to make an historical U.S, pop cultural reference) of Edmonton, Alberta. Unfortunately, "wild west" allusion is still an apt one given the predominance of far-right conservative politics in Canada's Alberta Province. Hence why the power of oil and identity's seemingly inseparable marriage is another topic we definitely hit on in the pod. He is an often published writer and investigative journalist whose work is often featured in Jacobin, Canadian Dimension, and many other progressive media platforms and publications. Checkout a couple recent pieces Abdul's had published just this past week. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/12/luxury-sneaker-markets-capitalist-nikes-resalehttps://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/from-winnipeg-to-tokyo-sports-capitalism-and-the-surveillance-stateThis CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) article on the Edmonton-based Hate Free YEG, the radical anti-racist/indigenous rights organization he co-founded, and the Edmonton rally they organized against racism in the city. Abdul is quoted extensively in the article, as are quotes from the far-right Soldiers of Odin (yeah, that Odin from Norse Mythology) white supremacists who counter-protested Hate Free YEG's action. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/hate-free-yeg-pep-rally-1.4976412If you enjoy the content, please consider supporting our work on Patreon so we can produce more of it. The editing, equipment, podcast hosting, and other costs are the biggest barriers in the way of being able to churn out more content on a consistent basis.https://www.patreon.com/redspinsports@RedspinSports (Twitter & Instagram)Nathaniel (Nate) Wallace: @NateWallace9 on Twitter and @wallace_nate on InstagramMichael (Mike) Sampson: @BrotherFlourish Twitter and @mikeflourish on Instagramhttps://www.facebook.com/RedspinSports/Checkout Redspin Sports on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeart Radio, YouTube, and elsewhere.This episode was recorded on Friday, December 11th, 2020.Follow "Redspin Sports on Spreaker or wherever you listen to podcasts.https://www.spreaker.com/show/redspin-sports

Paris Marx is joined by James Wilt to talk about how COVID-19 is affecting transportation systems, the flaws in tech’s auto-oriented visions of the future, and why we need to fight for better transit systems to more equitably serve everyone.James Wilt is the author of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?: Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk". He's also written for Canadian Dimension, Briarpatch, and Passage. Follow James on Twitter as @james_m_wilt.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.Support the show (https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus)

How do we teach history during COVID-19? Historian Dr. Sean Carleton (University of Manitoba) reminds us that colonialism doesn't stop because COVID-19 has started. How can we ensure we are prioritizing nation-to-nation relationships during, and after, this time? Learn about the Pandemic Pedagogy series on the Imagining a New 'We' video series, here: https://www.imagininganewwe.com/videos/pandemic-pedagogy Watch our conversation on YouTube:https://youtu.be/D88YBTfX1Tw Find Sean on Twitter at https://twitter.com/SeanCarleton and check out his writing in Canadian Dimension https://canadiandimension.com/articles/author/sean-carleton Sean also recommends the following resources: Borrows, John. “Wampum at Niagara: The Royal Proclamation, Canadian Legal History, and Self-Government.” In Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada: Essays on Law, Equality, and Respect for Difference. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1997. 155-172.You can find it online here: http://www.sfu.ca/~palys/Borrows-WampumAtNiagara.pdf Interested in learning more about the nation-to-nation relationship? Check out this short video https://vimeo.com/236418784 or this awesome book collection from UofT Press: https://utorontopress.com/us/the-right-relationship-2 As well as Sean's own article from Canadian Dimension: https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/coronavirus-colonialism-how-crisis-is-catalyzing-dispossession The book Sean was reading was Esyllt Jones' Influenza 1918: Death, Disease, and Struggle in Winnipeg also by UofT Press: https://utorontopress.com/us/influenza-1918-4 Learn more about me at https://www.SamanthaCutrara.com/ Learn more about the Imagining a New We video series at https://www.ImaginingaNewWe.com/videos See all the Pandemic Pedagogy videos at https://www.ImaginingaNewWe.com/videos/pandemic-pedagogy All the Pandemic Pedagogy conversations are also available as a podcast: https://anchor.fm/Samantha-Cutrara Read about the Pandemic Pedagogy series at http://activehistory.ca/2020/04/how-do-we-teach-history-after-this-thoughts-from-the-pandemic-pedagogy-series/ Pre-order Transforming the Canadian History Classroom: Imagining a New 'We'! https://www.amazon.ca/Transforming-Canadian-History-Classroom-Imagining/dp/0774862831 https://www.ubcpress.ca/transforming-the-canadian-history-classroom #History #ImaginingaNewWe #MeaningfulLearning #TeachingHistory #PandemicPedagogy #ImaginingaNewWe #MeaningfulLearning #TeachingHistory

In Episode 49, we talk to native warrior, artist and author Gord Hill, who comes from the Kwakwaka'wakw Nation in BC. He is a well-known grassroots native activist and his artwork and writings have been published in various outlets including Briarpatch, Canadian Dimension magazine and Red Rising magazine. Today he talks to us about the importance of native resistance and solidarity with other social movements to effect real social change. For those of you who follow my Youtube series called Reconciliation Book Club, you’ll recall that we reviewed on his books: 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9PKZTTBZWc&t=8s Here is the link to buy his book: https://amzn.to/2vyQ9v5 In addition to that book, he also was the author and illustrator for two comic books: "500 yrs of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book" published in 2010: https://amzn.to/2VLeb0t And "The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic" book originally published in 2012, both by Arsenal Pulp Press: https://amzn.to/2VLeb0t Gord also suggested that we all read the book: Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement (Classics Edition) for more information: https://amzn.to/3czihi1 As promised, here are the links to the Gitdimt'en Yintah Access website: www.yintahaccess.com/ And the Unist'ot'en Camp supporter toolkit for those who want to offer support, including the official link for donations: unistoten.camp/supportertoolkit/ If you would like to help me keep my content independent, please consider supporting my work at Patreon: www.patreon.com/join/2144345 Note: The information contained in this podcast is not legal, financial or medical advice, nor should it be relied on as such. Nothing in this podcast advocates for violence on Indigenous territories. If you would like more information about these issues, you can check out my website at https://www.pampalmater.com Thank you all for your ongoing support! Photo credit: Gord Hill

Manitoba votes on September 10th in its 39th Provincial election to fill the 57 seats of the Legislature. But despite a fixed election date law, Premier Brian Pallister has chosen to go to the polls over a year earlier than necessary. Why you may ask? Some opinions lean towards the Conservative brand gameplan of solidifying enough Provincial governments to enable the possible amendment of the Canadian Constitution with a Federal Conservative win this October. Some opinions point to the building protests and resistance against his austerity measures requiring a new mandate to continue with any seeming legitimacy. There is no question about the turmoil the Pallister government has caused in three years. Healthcare has seen strikes and consolidation as facilities close and wait times grow. Education has seen ideological interference linked to funding. Environmental policy has disappeared with little regard. Social programs have been slashed, addiction grows and adequate housing and services disappear as privatization spreads. Indigenous policy has hit a low point as issues continue to grow. Nothing has been immune as the "Premier of Costa Rica" plays the role of "Father Knows Best". Is there a viable alternative? James Wilt is a freelance journalist and graduate student based in Winnipeg and can be found on twitter at  @james_m_wilt. He has written for The Narwhal, VICE Canada, The Globe & Mail, Briarpatch and National Observer. Currently working on a book about public transportation for Between The Lines Books, James joins The View Up Here to analyze and discuss the Manitoba election based on his comprehensive piece in Canadian Dimension titled "The Devastation Of Manitoba: An Autopsy Of Pallister's Austerity Regime" available here https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/the-devastation-of-manitoba

In Episode 11, we talk about a new wave of native dispossession - the appropriation of native identities by "White settlers". Although this isn't new, it has the potential to do great harm to our families, communities and Nations. This show was based on an article I wrote for Canadian Dimension magazine and can be found at this link: https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/appropriated-identities-and-the-new-wave-of-dispossession Also some of Darryl Leroux's work as it relates to fraudulent Metis claims can be found here: http://theconversation.com/becoming-indigenous-the-rise-of-eastern-metis-in-canada-80794 (pic of Grey Owl - actually Archibald Stansfield Belaney from England taken from Library and Archives Canada) If you would like more information about these issues, you can check out my website at www.pampalmater.com If you would like to support my work, here is the link to my Patreon account: www.patreon.com/pampalmater

Foreign Affairs minister Chrystia Freeland was in good company this week at the Davos summit as she shared a stage with far-right Brazilian president Jair Bolsanaro to defend and promote the soft coup in Venezuela. Writer and academic Christo Aivalis (Canadian Dimension, The Washington Post, Ricochet) joins host Andre Goulet to explore why an official endorsement of regime change in the southern hemisphere by the Canadian government shouldn't surprise us. Plus: how the manufactured media-driven 'crisis' over Jagmeet Singh's leadership is over-hyped and why the federal NDP leader needs to pay close attention to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders and the resurgent American Left as he and his party prepare to fight the 2019 election. Find Christo's recent piece at Canadian Dimension here: https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/the-lesson-ocasio-cortez-and-sanders-have-for-the-left-welcome-their-hatred Music: 'Himno Nacional de Venezuela' w/ Gustavo Dudamel This episode was recorded on January 24th, 2019.

This book attempts to redefine the novel by combining narrative with an imagined anthropological record. We discuss Le Guin's background and mission, as well as larger questions about cultural misappropriation and utopianism. Interested in the media we discussed this episode? Please support the show by purchasing it through our affiliate store: Always Coming Home Additional Resources: Future Ethnography of the Inhabitants of the Valley of the Na, and The unBible of Ursula K. Le Guin PAPERBACKS; THE KESH IN SONG AND STORY Always coming home… Ursula K. Le Guin‘s Folk/Electronica Album Can Teach Us a Lot About Storytelling The Journeys of Ursula K. Le Guin. By: CARPENTER, ZOË, Nation, 00278378, 10/24/2016, Vol. 303, Issue 17 Taking Politics to Another World. By: Pilon, Dennis, Canadian Dimension, 00083402, Sep/Oct2007, Vol. 41, Issue 5 Le Guin, Urusula K. “On the Frontier,” in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination, edited by Le Guin. Boston: Shambhala Press, 2004.  

On this episode we talk to Winnipeg based journalist James Wilt. James writes for Desmog Canada, Canadian Dimension, Vice Canada, Rank and File.ca. We talked with James about his work on climate change for Desmog. James talks about covering climate change, the NDP leadership race, the hype around electric cars, and how the doom and gloom of climate science won't help us mobilize. Check out James's writing at Desmog Canada here https://www.desmog.ca/user/james-wilt James also does a Podcast which is super fun. Check it out. https://soundcloud.com/user-112754787 James also tweets a lot @james_m_wilt

In this episode we talk with Michal Rozworski. Michal Rozowrski is a economist, writer and podcast produce who endeavor's to bring a popular left perspective to the collision of economics and politics. His been producing a podcast, Political Eh Economy, since 2014. His writing has appeared in Jacobin, Ricochet (where he is a contributing editor), The Toronto Star, Briarpatch Magazine, The Tyee and Canadian Dimension. Michal talks about the challenge of bringing a left economic perspective to a wider audience and how to make economic concepts "living concepts" rather than theoretical ones. You can get more of Michal Rozworski's writings and podcast at  http://rozworski.org/political-eh-conomy/ Like Radio Free Winnipeg on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/radiofreewinnipeg/ Follow us on Twitter @Radio_Free_Wpg  

In this episode we look at Canada's involvement in NATO. We speak with Harrison Samphir (@HarrySamphir), web editor of Canadian Dimension, to shed some light on Canada's recent deployment of troops to Poland and Latvia, as well as the greater conflict in Ukraine. Samphir helps sift through media coverage to illustrate how Russia has been consistently demonized by Western publications to the benefit of NATO interests in the region. We also discuss the growing wave of fascist movements in Europe and across the globe. Additional Links Why is Canada adding to NATO's military build-up in Eastern Europe? Canadian Dimension Magazine

Interview with Ian Angus: Angus is the editor of Climate and Capitalism.He founded and edited the Socialist History Projectand was an editor of Socialist Voice. He was a founding member and Coordinating Committee Member of Ecosocialist International Network, a member of the Canadian Dimension editorial collective, advisory editor of Socialist Resistance.[2] In 2007 he was a co-founder of the Ecosocialist International Network; in 2008 he was co-author of the EIN's Belem Ecosocialist Declaration.Well known environmentalist; eco-socialist and author of several books on climate change.Interview with Ramesh Agrawal:  http://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/ramesh-agrawal2014 Goldman Prize Recipient Asia With a small internet café as his headquarters, Ramesh Agrawal   organized villagers to demand their right to information about industrial development projects and succeeded in shutting down one of the largest proposed coal mines in Chhattisgarh. Kevin Healy; discussing this weeks jokers in the political circles; Humphrey McQueenDiscussing the stock market; surplus value; Value adding; over capacity; the banks and circulation of this overcapacity All interviews available on podcast on 3cr.org.auWeb site is: solidaritybreakfast.org.au 

It felt like summer was over when we got word of the election call, didn't it? OK, so now that Stephen Harper has spoiled our summer fun, time to spoil some of his. It works in the favour of Stephen Harper's Conservatives if voters stay home. Today we'll talk about why it's necessary for YOU … to get out and vote.   We'll also hear about strategies to get out the vote among people who traditionally don't vote. Item 1: Be the Vote is a new organization that's taking action. It was started by a group of young Canadians passionate about getting youth to vote. They believe that youth must be an active and relevant force if they want politicians to listen to them. Victoria Fenner talks to Grace Kennedy, a student of Social Work at McMaster University in Hamilton. She's the founder and executive director of Be The Vote. Item 2: Getting Out the Student Vote – In July of 2015, the Canadian Federation of Students lost a court challenge and subsequent appeal in an attempt to have the Fair Elections Act ruled unconstitutional. Roman Jakubowski is president of the Lakehead Student Union in Thunder Bay. He spoke to the National Campus Community Radio program and the rabble podcast Groundwire, produced this month by Kootenay Co-op Radio in Nelson, B.C. They talked about how the Lakehead University Students Union will be supporting students' access to voting. Item 3: Voting in prison is a constitutional right. According to CBC News report last week, 54 per cent of federal inmates cast a ballot in the last election. The following is an excerpt of a an interview with Joan Ruzsa, first heard on The Prison Radio Show. The Prison Radio Show is broadcast from CKUT in Montreal. The show seeks to confront the invisibility of prisons and prisoner struggle, by focusing on the roots of incarceration, policing, and criminalization, and by challenging our ideas about what prisons are and the people inside our jails. Joan Ruzsa speaks on behalf of Rittenhouse, an agency dedicated to bringing healing, transformative justice instead of retributive justice in the criminal justice system. She explains the process for voting inside federal prisons. Thanks to the NCRA's program Groundwire for that clip. Item 4:  Here at rabble.ca, we've been preparing for the dropping of the writ for many months. One of the highlights of our winter/spring season was an event which we sponsored with Canadian Dimension magazine. George Lakoff is an American cognitive linguist and author of Don't Think of an Elephant. He spoke to a crowd in Toronto about how conservative values have come to dominate public discourse. One of the things he talked about was voters in the middle, the ones who are conservative (small c) in some ways, progressive in other ways. Everybody is courting the centrist vote. Those are the swing voters. They could go any which way. They represent growth for every political party. That's why it's so important for political parties to try to understand them. George Lakoff provides these insights into the mind of the moderate conservative. Chip in to keep stories like these coming.

As part of our on-going 50th anniversary celebrations, Canadian Dimension hosted an evening with Chris Hedges on Sept 20, 2013 at Bloor Street United Church in Toronto. At the event Hedges details the destruction of the left, the power of the Occupy movement among other topics. The audio includes introductions by Simon Black and Jim Stanford. Thanks to Sean Michael Turrell for the audio and all those who made the evening so wonderful.

Political scientist and Canadian Dimension collective member Dennis Pilon discusses what the federal budget reveals about Stephen Harper’s Plan for Reshaping Canada. Canadian Dimension collective member Andrea Levy talks about CD’s new issue that focuses on de-growth.

Micheal Vonn, Policy Director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association discusses soon-to-be introduced “lawful access” bills to expand police surveillance powers. The federal government has announced that it will soon be introducing legislation to increase the ability of police to intercept private communications and access more personal information stored electronically. Steven Staples, President of the Rideau Institute takes on pro-war lobbyists at the Conference of Defence Associations, part of an increasingly powerful National Security Establishment in Ottawa. Canadian Dimension labour columnist Herman Rosenfeld analyses the anti-union campaign shaping up in Canada and laments about the weak state of the labour movement’s opposition.

Canadian Dimension editors and regulars reflect on the outcome of the federal election and discuss how we must fight the Harper majority: John Cartwright (Toronto & York Region Labour Council); Eric Darier (Quebec Greenpeace); Leo Panitch (Socialist Register); Dennis Pilon (Political Scientist); Andrea Levy (Historian); Judy Rebick (Rabble.ca); Geoff Bickerton (CUPW); John Clarke (OCAP); Richard Sanders (COAT), Clayton Thomas Muller (IEN).

Canadian Dimension editors reflect on the critical developments in 2010 what happened and equally important, what did not happen; and look ahead to expectations for 2011. Mitch Podolak uncovers new political songs for Music is the Weapon.

Ian Angus, editor of the on line journal Climate and Capitalism and member of the Canadian Dimension collective talks about the outcome and the climate movement politics emerging out of The World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth convened by Bolivia’s President Evo Morales in Cochabamba. Clayton Thomas-Muller of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) talks about the message he delivered to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues last Saturday about the woeful example of First Nations rights in Alberta’s Tar Sands. Ron Mackay, spokesman for British MP George Galloway talks about why Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenny ordered Galloway banned from Canada. Elle Flanders, driving force behind Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, talks about the campaign to bar QAIA from this year’s Toronto Pride parade. Mitch Podolak brings songs of the environment to this week’s Music Is The Weapon.

In this podcast: an ethics expert on the importance of hate speech, eco-defenders stand up to corporate greenwashing, talking access to content with Canada's Pirate Party, and truckers with something to say. Not to mention some hard rock from the '80s, and a delicious taste of Montreal hip-hop! It's been a little while since Ann Coulter's speech at the University of Ottawa was cancelled because of concerns for her safety due to angry crowds. Coulter herself was the one who pulled the plug on her appearance, but she's filing a human rights complaint because of the experience which, she says, violated her freedom of speech. The ordeal has gotten people talking about what types of speech should and shouldn't be allowed a soapbox in public discourse. And beyond that – whether the banning of any kind of speech is something we should condone. Professor Arthur Schafer is Director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba. In his opinion, even hate speech plays an important role in public dialogue. Here's what he had to say about the topic, in an interview with Canadian Dimension's Jeff Hughes. Recently, Greenpeace hired Tzeporah Berman as its new Climate Energy director. The move has caused outrage among activists – especially ones in British Columbia, who are familiar with Berman's history of corporate collaboration. Dru Oja Jay is a member of The Dominion editorial collective in Montreal, and co-founded SaveGreenpeace.Org in light of the organization's growing flirtation with big business. Here's part of what he had to say in an interview with Redeye… Even if she isn't here to play co-host this week, Meagan Perry's still making an appearance. For the latest episode of The Ruckus, Meagan had a chat with Brian Vollmer of Helix – one of Canada's most well-known hard rock bands. They talked about everything from Helix's three-decade history to women in music videos, with a few of the band's tracks thrown in for good measure – including this one. From 1983, here's Helix with “Heavy Metal Love.” If listening to music is something you're passionate about, you probably get it any way you can. Maybe you head to the nearest record store and pay for it at the counter, the good old fashioned way. Or perhaps you opt for buying individual songs on iTunes. Or maybe – just maybe – you don't pay at all. With advances in technology, pirated material is becoming more common all the time, and so are the measures being taken to prevent copyright infringements. That's where the Pirate Party comes into play. Following its success in Sweden, the Pirate Party of Canada was formed in late 2009. Its goal is to reform the copyright and patent system to reflect changes in how the public consumes content, and to protect both our privacy and access to culture. Street Cred's Adam Bemma met for an interview with Daniel LaSalle, the Pirate Party's spokesman. Here's some of that conversation… “Getting a message out” is the theme behind the latest episode of Decoder – a new podcast put together by journalism students at the University of Western Ontario. For most people, conveying a message isn't something hard to do – we've got telephones, email, and even the classic face-to-face method, when you're feeling bold. But what about if you're behind the wheel of a big rig for hours at a time, alone on the road, with nothing to keep you company but ever-changing radio signals and your own thoughts? Well, it becomes more of a challenge. That's why there's a new community of truckers embracing the form of media you're using this very moment. Here's Curtis File's “big rig report” on how truckers are hitting the road – and the ears – through podcasting. We leave you with a song by Dramatik, a Montreal hip-hop artist who recently performed at the Artists for Haiti II concert there. The song, “40 Barz”, is the opening track off his album – “La Boite Noire.”

Jim Silver, a long time contributor to Canadian Dimension, works on inner city issues and teaches politics at the University of Winnipeg. Recently, he and some of his colleagues met with six members of a North End street gang to talk about gang related violence on the streets of Winnipeg.

What's the relation between energy security for Canadians, climate change, and the U.S. / corporate ''Security and Prosperity'' agenda to absorb Canada into the U.S.? Come to hear Gordon Laxer, Political Economy Professor at the University of Alberta, and the Director and co-founder of Parkland Institute, outline a new energy sovereignty and conservation vision for Canada. Speaker: Gordon Laxer Director, Parkland Institute and Professor of Political Economy, University of Alberta Gordon Laxer is cofounder of Parkland Institute, a non-corporate, Alberta research network, working for the common good. He has published over 30 journal articles and book chapters. He is author or editor of five books, including Open for Business. The Roots of Foreign Ownership in Canada, for which he received the 1992 John Porter Award from the Canadian Sociology Association, for the best book written about Canada. His latest book Not for Sale. Decommodifying Public Life (Broadview Press, 2006), is co-edited with Dennis Soron. Laxer was the first Chairperson of the Toronto chapter of the Waffle movement for an ‘independent Socialist Canada' (1969). He was the first President of the Edmonton Chapter of the Council of Canadians (1985), and is currently on the Council's national board. Laxer is a socially-engaged, public intellectual who has written opinion pieces for the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, The Edmonton Journal, Canadian Dimension and has given many radio, and television interviews. Laxer is currently involved in issues of Canadian sovereignty, social and economic transformation, international development, and challenging the U.S. Empire and myths about globalization. He is writing a book on energy security for Canadians and climate change. Moderator: Gordon Campbell Professor Emeritus, University of Lethbridge and Founding Member of Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs

What's the relation between energy security for Canadians, climate change, and the U.S. / corporate ''Security and Prosperity'' agenda to absorb Canada into the U.S.? Come to hear Gordon Laxer, Political Economy Professor at the University of Alberta, and the Director and co-founder of Parkland Institute, outline a new energy sovereignty and conservation vision for Canada. Speaker: Gordon Laxer Director, Parkland Institute and Professor of Political Economy, University of Alberta Gordon Laxer is cofounder of Parkland Institute, a non-corporate, Alberta research network, working for the common good. He has published over 30 journal articles and book chapters. He is author or editor of five books, including Open for Business. The Roots of Foreign Ownership in Canada, for which he received the 1992 John Porter Award from the Canadian Sociology Association, for the best book written about Canada. His latest book Not for Sale. Decommodifying Public Life (Broadview Press, 2006), is co-edited with Dennis Soron. Laxer was the first Chairperson of the Toronto chapter of the Waffle movement for an ‘independent Socialist Canada' (1969). He was the first President of the Edmonton Chapter of the Council of Canadians (1985), and is currently on the Council's national board. Laxer is a socially-engaged, public intellectual who has written opinion pieces for the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, The Edmonton Journal, Canadian Dimension and has given many radio, and television interviews. Laxer is currently involved in issues of Canadian sovereignty, social and economic transformation, international development, and challenging the U.S. Empire and myths about globalization. He is writing a book on energy security for Canadians and climate change. Moderator: Gordon Campbell Professor Emeritus, University of Lethbridge and Founding Member of Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs