Podcast appearances and mentions of doug nesbitt

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 expose Canada's $28.5 million in military exports to Israel on The Breach Show, Sarah Jama talks about her expulsion from the Ontario NDP caucus and how Canadian political culture stifles free expression on 49th Parahell, discuss advocating for just working conditions with Professional Women's Hockey League Players Association executive committee member Liz Knox on The End of Sport and learn how the Canadian business lobby and media establishment manufactured a fiscal crisis and drove the Liberal Party's '90s austerity policy with rankandfile.ca editor Doug Nesbitt.The Harbinger Media Network includes 66 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio at CIUT 89.5FM in Toronto, CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg and at Vancouver Co-op Radio.Financial support on this episode is courtesy of The Alberta Advantage. Find out more about Calgary's #1 podcast albertaadvantagepod.com.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 expose Canada's $28.5 million in military exports to Israel on The Breach Show, Sarah Jama talks about her expulsion from the Ontario NDP caucus and how Canadian political culture stifles free expression on 49th Parahell, discuss advocating for just working conditions with Professional Women's Hockey League Players Association executive committee member Liz Knox on The End of Sport and learn how the Canadian business lobby and media establishment manufactured a fiscal crisis and drove the Liberal Party's '90s austerity policy with rankandfile.ca editor Doug Nesbitt.The Harbinger Media Network includes 66 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio at CIUT 89.5FM in Toronto, CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg and at Vancouver Co-op Radio.Financial support on this episode is courtesy of The Alberta Advantage. Find out more about Calgary's #1 podcast albertaadvantagepod.com.Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com

Culture wars, long-term injury, workplace violence, sexual assaults, nationalistic militarism, and the appropriation of working-class aesthetics... is it possible to like hockey from the left? Can sport unite the working class? Is hockey a serious game for serious men, or a silly game for silly people? Cass Kislenko, Tyler Shipley and Doug Nesbitt join Team Advantage to discuss Canada's game. Doug mentions the short film Valery's Ankle by Brett Kashmere. Tyler refers to the 2016 film Hello Destroyer. Follow Cass Kislenko @redkislenko Follow Tyler Shipley @le_shipster Definitely don't follow Doug Nesbitt because he's not @standingthegaff

The Labour Front in Canada Today The cost of living is rising, unemployment is low, and a recession triggered by the Bank of Canada pushing up interest rates is coming. The number of strikes is also up, with the number of private sector workers who struck in the first half of 2022 being especially noteworthy. What's happening? How can workers take advantage of the moment to win as much as possible? Doug Nesbitt and Tara Olivetree (Ehrcke) discuss these and other questions. Doug is a cofounder of RankAndFile.ca, where you can find many articles he's written. https://www.rankandfile.ca A 2021 article by Tara: Power, Workers, and the Fight for Climate Justice. https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/power-workers-and-the-fight-for-climate-justice/

What happens when sensible social democrats pick up the pieces after a terrible, no-good conservative government ruins the province? Team Advantage examines the reign of Saskatchewan NDP Premier Roy Romanow from 1991-2001, who oversaw the closure of rural hospitals and fostered the skills of a young Janice McKinnon as his Finance Minister. What does the all-party austerity consensus look like when it's orange? Featuring special guest Doug Nesbitt, whose work can be found at rankandfile.ca and on twitter at @StandingTheGaff.

Support this podcast! Watch our livestream! Sign up for our newsletter! What is the history of Canada's second-oldest political party, and how does it inform their politics today? In this in-depth examination of the Communist Party of Canada, Team Advantage serves up a broad historical overview of the Party's history, and considers what role the CPC could play in the struggle for socialism today. Follow our guest Doug Nesbitt at @StandingTheGaff and at rankandfile.ca.

Support this podcast What is the employer-friendly CEWS, the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy, and how is it funneling public funds to big businesses? Doug Nesbitt joins Team Advantage to discuss the generosity of the Canadian state with regards to employers, and how this differs substantially from the approach taken towards workers. Why did the NDP and major labour leaders support a program that is essentially trickle-down economics on steroids? Who benefits from this program? And how will the costs it creates be used against working people in the future? Follow Doug Nesbitt on Twitter @StandingTheGaff, and read his work at rankandfile.ca.

A wide-ranging conversation with Emily Leedham touching on the Stella's Café strike in Winnipeg, the Saskatchewan election and corporate money, and the tactics of union-busting. Guest host: Doug Nesbitt, editor of Rankandfile.ca.

Support this podcast Remember when the Liberals campaigned on expanding national child care, but eviscerated the welfare state instead? Oh, the 90s! Doug Nesbitt, founding editor of rankandfile.ca, joins Team Advantage to discuss the reign of Canada's Liberal Party through the 1990s. How did austerity and double-digit unemployment become normalized? What happened to Canada's social programs? How did the business lobby exert such influence? How did the media manufacture a fiscal crisis?

Re-Upload of July 15, 2018 Episode. Had to be briefly taken down due to space constrictions on SoundCloud. On this episode: a look at the various responses from labour unions and activists regarding Greyhound's announcement to pull out all bus routes in Western Canada - except one - by October 31. Could this be a good time to call for a publicly funded inter- city bus service? Guest: Doug Nesbitt lives in Kingston, Ontario where he is an editor of Rankandfile.ca which he co-founded in 2012. He recently wrote a history of the Ontario Days of Action for his doctoral degree in history at Queen’s University. He is active in the Kingston chapter of the Fight for $15, and works for CUPE as an community organizer.

In the second episdoe in our series on Why Canada Sucks, Scott and Greg talk to historian Doug Nesbitt on why Canadian Confederation sucked. Doug goes through all the resistance to Canadian Confederation and how that legacy has created battle lines across Canada to this day. They also discuss why Canadian history being presented as bland and boring is an ideological project. Check out Doug's work and other great reporting on the Canadian labour movement at http://rankandfile.ca/ Like us on Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/radiofreewinnipeg Follow us on Twitter  @Radio_Free_Wpg Send us an email-  radiofreewpg@gmail.com      

We talk about the Donkin Mine, the Irving Shipyard and the Trans Mountain Pipeline, all of which exemplify the ruling class' absolute disdain for human life. In the second half Doug Nesbitt joins us to talk about Mike Harris, Doug Ford, and organizing against austerity.   http://rankandfile.ca/  

Last Thursday was a dark day in Ontario as the Conservative Party led by businessman-bully-bullshitter Doug Ford won a majority in the provincial election. Two guests assess the factors behind the Ford’s win and the chances for building an effective opposition to the coming right-wing agenda for Canada’s most populous province. First up, Doug Nesbitt, […]

In episode #71 of Talking Radical Radio (July 9, 2014), organizers Christine Bro and Doug Nesbitt talk about the "Justice for Janitors" campaign in Ottawa. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2014/07/09/trr-j4j_ottawa/

The National Energy Board’s Northern Gateway hearings just began and are expected to carry on through the summer and beyond. Ben West of BC’s Wilderness Committee takes us through the process and tells us what to expect. Is the lockout of CAW workers at the Electro-Motive plant in London, Ontario, the beginning of an assault against private sector unionism in Canada? Labour commentator Doug Nesbitt discusses this question and offers some radical strategies for the labour movement, including occupation. What’s the real story behind the accusation that Iran is working to build a nuclear weapons capacity? Reporter Alex Kane comments from New York.