Podcast appearances and mentions of wayne macphail

This week on rabble radio, journalist Wayne MacPhail interviews Deirdre Pike, of the Hamilton Alliance for Tiny Shelters. Hamilton has found itself in the middle of a housing and homelessness crisis. The Hamilton Alliance for Tiny Shelters, or HATS, is a new project inspired by Kitchener's ‘A Better Tent City,' to serve as a temporary solution to the housing crisis in Hamilton by providing small homes for people in need.  In 2020, the City of Hamilton released a report which set a framework on ending chronic homelessness by 2025. But this goal can't be achieved without concrete plans and real community action. That's where HATS comes in.  Pike is a senior social planner at the Social Planning and Research Council of Hamilton. Pike speaks with Wayne MacPhail about the challenges the project has faced so far. They discuss what the community has to say about the project, and what services will be available to people who will occupy these cabin community living spaces. “The way things are moving, we're not sure if 2025 is going to be a goal that's met in terms of ‘the end of homelessness,'” Pike says. “If it is, then that should mean small communities like this [The Hamilton Alliance for Tiny Shelters] are temporary and would fold up. But in the meantime, we're making sure that people don't live like this next winter … This is really an opportunity to have people live with some dignity and, probably for the first time in many years, an experience that this is their own place.”  If you like the show please consider subscribing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your podcasts. And please, rate, review, share rabble radio with your friends — it takes two seconds to support independent media like rabble. Follow us on social media across channels @rabbleca. Or, if you have feedback for the show, get in touch anytime at editor@rabble.ca. Photo by: Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

This week on the show, Hamilton local Wayne MacPhail interviews rabble contributor and fellow Hamilton-area local Doreen Nicoll about what she sees as the threat of urban sprawl in Hamilton, Ontario. On November 9, Hamilton City Council held a meeting to discuss whether or not to expand its urban boundary onto the surrounding farmland and the final vote will take place November 19. That farmland is squished between the current urban boundary and the Greenbelt, but is not protected. There are a number of factors at play, including the lack of affordable housing in the city, the erasure of prime farmland, and, as with anything else, the climate crisis.  IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Yesterday, November 11 was Remembrance Day, of course. Here at rabble.ca, we featured some coverage that is worth reading beyond just one day. Our own national politics reporter Stephen Wentzell wrote about the military's discriminatory history against queer folks, urging us to think about our veterans as having had intersectional identities and complex relationships with their fellow service members, the governments they served and the enemies they fought.  Ottawa writer Morgan Duchesney delves into how it's most often the working class that ends up going to war, and the upper classes that end up in politics. Our veterans, especially our wounded veterans, deserve better. "Poppies remind me that wars are fought by working people who are often discarded when their courage is no longer required," writes Duchesney. Finally, Darrell Rankin wrote about the importance of remembering the Mac-Paps. That's the nickname for the Mackenzie-Papineau battalion, which, in 1937 through 1939, fought fascism in Spain for the International Brigades -- an effort closely associated with the Communist Party. Those volunteers went to join the fight in Spain illegally, against the wishes of then-prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. When they returned, they were ostracized. Many faced discrimination and lost their jobs. All were denied official recognition as veterans, meaning there were no health benefits or military pensions available to them.  Also on the site this week:  Karl Nerenberg looks at the results from the municipal elections throughout Quebec, which concluded on November 7, and sees hope for progressives across the country. A record number of young people and women were elected, and five of the ten largest Quebec cities are now led by women, he notes. Nerenberg sees the re-instalment of Valérie Plante as mayor of Montreal as a victory not just for her, but for her party, Projet Montreal, and the progressive, grassroots movement it spawned from.  Politics in our time can be excruciatingly transactional, especially at the local level. Municipal leaders often focus intently on satisfying the narrow interests of powerful groups, particularly developers. The municipal administrations of Ottawa and Toronto are textbooks examples of that approach, writes Nerenberg. They should be taking notes.  Columnist Rachel Snow spilled some ink on the site this week as she examined the settler-colonial concept of "progress" and its detrimental relationship with First Nations. Are First Nations moving forward? If Canadians want the truth, Snow writes, they will have to understand that the way forward for First Nations people must come from the actual voices of all the First Nation people. We are still waiting to talk. Finally, Brent Patterson writes about the need for the federal government to consider the emissions of the fighter jets it is working to acquire before it signs any contracts. This, especially in the wake of calls at COP26 for military emissions to be included when countries are discussing CO2 targets. As it stands, all the fuel they burn running jets, tanks and the like just… doesn't exist, as far as many nations' CO2 emissions measurements go.  I'm your host, Chelsea Nash. Thanks for tuning in and we'll talk next week! Thanks to our producer Breanne Doyle, Wayne MacPhail and guest Doreen Nicoll. Thanks to Karl Nerenberg for the music, and all the journalists and writers who contributed to this week's content on rabble.ca.  Photo: Rick Cordeiro (Creative Commons)

Some might say the unveiling of a new cabinet is like Christmas for political nerds...I guess here at rabble we are no exception. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Trudeau introduced his new cabinet to the country, shaking up his inner circle and giving us a peek into who he trusts most. There's a lot we can learn about a government from the PM's cabinet picks. What regions are represented? Whose got the chops for the top portfolios, like finance or global affairs? While there aren't any "official" demotions… who is being given a less prestigious portfolio and who is being cast out of cabinet completely? There's a lot to unpack. This is rabble radio, and this is what's up for discussion. I'm your host and the editor of rabble.ca, Chelsea Nash. This week, I'm joined by rabble's senior politics reporter Karl Nerenberg as he breaks down the meaning behind the prime minister's cabinet decisions.  After that, I'll take you through this week's top stories at rabble.ca, including lots of talk about next week's United Nations Conference of Parties 26 - that is, the UN's global climate change conference happening in Glasgow, Scotland.  Karl and I talk about the new ministers in three key portfolios: Global Affairs, Environment and Indigenous Services. Karl has been covering Parliament Hill for rabble.ca for ten years. He's been a journalist and filmmaker for over 25 years including the eight years he spent as the producer of the CBC Radio show The House. Here's what he had to say about what we can expect from this government's newly unveiled cabinet. You can read Karl's stories about the cabinet announcement and all things Canadian politics at rabble.ca.  IN CASE YOU MISSED IT The upcoming UN climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland is a crucial one, as columnist Lois Ross points out this week on the site. Many say COP 26 is our last chance to try to reach an international agreement that will limit the global temperature change to 1.5 to two degrees. Seeing as global agriculture contributes 20 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, Ross argues that figuring out how to slash emissions in this industry should be a keystone discussion at the conference.  COP 26 isn't just about a gathering of world leaders, however. Joyce Nelson reports on three major issues that activists will be pushing on the sidelines next week, both before, during and after the conference which runs October 31 through November 12.  Activists want the 197 participant countries to include at least three more sectors in the requirements for nations' emissions reporting and cutting. The first sector is the plastics industry, which the fossil fuel sector has fully embraced as its financial life-line. When we think of plastics, we may think of the thousands of plastic particles polluting our oceans and drinking water, or we might think of wildlife getting caught in plastic trash. The plastics industry has more to answer for than that, writes Nelson, as a new report from the Beyond Plastics program at Bennington College in the U.S. reveals that plastics production is on track to release more emissions than coal.  The second sector is the world's militaries, which are currently exempt from having to report on emissions at all, thanks to the United States' insistence that the Pentagon be exempted from all international climate agreements during the 1997-98 negotiations for the Kyoto Accord on climate. Apparently, it's a matter of national security. During those same negotiations, the U.S. obtained an exemption for all countries' militaries from having to report or cut their carbon emissions.  Lastly, activists would like to see large hydro-dam projects held accountable for the emissions they produce, despite often being touted as a climate “solution.”  Also on the site this week:  Stephen Wentzell spoke to new Nunavut MP Lori Idlout about the water crisis in Iqaluit. Idlout only won her seat in the federal election two weeks before she received the news about her city's water contamination. In early October, Iqaluit residents began writing Facebook posts complaining of a foul odour in their tap water stemming from a municipal water service. That foul odour was fuel. This presented a big challenge to the territory's rookie MP, especially as the water crisis started just before a territorial election.  As Toni Morrison wrote, “all water has a perfect memory.” The revelation that an MP is being forced to live without safe drinking water should be a wakeup call for all Canadians, Wentzell writes. And, Monia Mazigh has a task list for Justin Trudeau if he is actually going to prove he is as serious about fighting Islamophobia as he made out during last month's Islamophobia summit. You'll remember that summit was organized in the wake of the fatal attack on a Muslim family in London, Ontario.  Finally, David Climenhaga has the latest in what he's now calling the implosion of the government of Alberta. He breaks down the sexual harassment allegations being levied against members of Jason Kenney's cabinet -- the latest scandal in a government that cannot seem to catch a break. There ain't no rest for the wicked. Catch up on this and all the latest headlines as always at rabble.ca.  That's a wrap for this week's episode of rabble radio. Stay tuned for more of our social and political coverage next week -- I'm sure we'll be bringing you more coverage of COP 26 as it unfolds. If you like the show please consider subscribing wherever you listen to your podcasts. Rate, review, share it with your friends -- everything helps. Follow us on social media across channels @rabbleca.  If after listening, you feel like you have something to tell me, I'd love to hear from you. Get in touch anytime at editor@rabble.ca. I can't always promise I'll respond, but I do read everything. As always, check the site for the latest in-depth analysis, insightful opinions and breaking news. I'm your host, Chelsea Nash. Thanks for listening!  Thanks and welcome to our new podcast producer Breanne Doyle, Wayne MacPhail for his advisement, Karl Nerenberg for the music, and all the journalists and writers who contributed to this week's content on rabble.ca.  Image: Saffron Blaze, via http://www.mackenzie.co 

Every election cycle, the conversation of electoral reform is revived to some extent. 2021 was no different.    Consider this: ​​In Toronto, the Liberals only won 48.9 per cent of the votes, but they won more than 90 per cent of the seats in Canada's largest city, electing 48 of the 53 MPs there. The NDP won 14.5 per cent of the vote in Toronto, but ended up with no seats. The nearly 400,000 voters who voted for them now have no representation in Parliament.    This is rabble radio, and this is what's up for discussion. I'm your host and the editor of rabble.ca, Chelsea Nash. Let's dive in.   On Thursday evening, rabble hosted its monthly live politics panel Off the Hill. This time, the theme was Back to a Hung Parliament: How do we make it work for people? This was the first time our illustrious panelists were able to get together since the recent election, and, seeing as how we're still waiting for Parliament to be recalled sometime this fall, the topic of discussion was about lessons learned from this election campaign, and, if the election results were really more or less the same, how can we make this minority government different?    Robin Browne and Libby Davies are Off the Hill's co-hosts. Robin is a communications professional and the co-lead of the 613-819 Black Hub, living in Ottawa. Libby Davies is the author of Outside In: a Political Memoir. She served as the MP for Vancouver East from 1997-2015, and is former NDP Deputy Leader and House Leader.   Guests include:    Leah Gazan, who was recently re-elected to her post as Member of Parliament for Winnipeg Centre. She is currently the NDP Critic for Children, Families, and Social Development, as well as the Deputy Critic for Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship. Leah is a member of Wood Mountain Lakota Nation, located in Saskatchewan, Treaty 4 territory.   Chuka Ejeckam is a political researcher and writer, and works in the labour movement in British Columbia. He focuses on political and economic inequity and inequality, both within Canada and as produced by Canadian policy. Read Chuka's regular column on rabble.ca.    Rachel Snow is Iyahe Nakoda and the daughter of late Reverend Dr. Chief John Snow. She holds a juris doctor from the College of Law, University of Saskatchewan and is an outspoken educator, speaker, writer and co-contact person for the Indigneous Activist Networks.    Last but not least: Karl Nerenberg is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and filmmaker, working in both English and French languages. He joined rabble as parliamentary correspondent in 2011.   IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Let me remind you what we talked about at the beginning of this episode; how the Liberals won 90 per cent of the seats in Toronto with less than half of the popular vote. This means that more than half of Toronto voters won't have their interests represented on Parliament Hill or in various caucus meetings.    Nerenberg points out how the first-past-the-post system serves to deepen Canada's regional differences, painting entire sections -- or entire cities -- with broad swaths of Conservative blue or Liberal red, with some of the NDP's orange and the Bloc's light blue peeking through.    Take Saskatchewan, for instance. In that prairie province, the NDP managed to garner more than one-fifth of the votes, 21.1 per cent. That is more than three points higher than the NDP's national popular vote share. But the New Democrats didn't win a single Saskatchewan seat. The Conservatives won all 14.    The voter demographic in Saskatchewan and other prairie provinces is not nearly as monochrome as our electoral results suggest. This pits entire regions against one another rather than taking into account the nuance of demographic voting habits across the country. Read the rest of Karl's analysis at rabble.ca.    Also this week, Stephen Wentzell writes about five ways the incoming Parliament could make history. First on the list? Commit to more ambitious emissions targets.    With increased heat waves, drought, wildfires and more extreme weather events, Canada is warming at twice the global rate. Five-year targets on our way to a net-zero 2050 aren't cutting it -- and as overnight temperatures hit records in addition to days above 20 degrees Celsius -- Canadians don't have time for deliberating anymore; we need leadership on climate action, writes Wentzell.    He also writes that this new session could implement universal pharmacare with dental care, enhance resources and supports for nurses who have been left burnt out by the pandemic, extend COVID-19 financial supports which are set to expire on October 23. And, finally, this new Parliament could end the discriminatory ban on the donation of LGBTQ+ individuals' blood.    Also on the site this week:    Cathy Crowe writes that every month in Toronto, there is a monthly homeless memorial that's been hosted for over twenty years. While there used to be between one and five names of unhoused people, the numbers are now routinely in the double digits. The October memorial saw 15 names of people added. It's a tragedy, writes Crowe, but one that is avoidable. Toronto's Shelter and Housing Justice Network (SHJN) recently released its evidence based winter and spring plan to provide emergency and shelter support and infrastructure so the city's homeless population can have a shot at surviving the fast-approaching winter.    Brent Patterson breaks down everything we know about the RCMP's militarized "resource extraction protection unit" which has been arresting and perpetuating violence upon land defenders across the country.   And, Philip Lee writes about how the lack of language diversity on the internet actually makes it a whole lot less accessible than we might think it is.   All that and more at rabble.ca.   EXTRO That's a wrap for this week's episode of rabble radio. Stay tuned for more of our social and political coverage next week. If you like the show please consider subscribing wherever you listen to your podcasts. Rate, review, share it with your friends and, maybe more importantly, your enemies. Follow us on social media across channels @rabbleca.  If after listening, you feel like you have something to tell me, I'd love to hear from you. Get in touch anytime at editor@rabble.ca. I can't always promise I'll respond, but I do read everything. As always, check the site for the latest in-depth analysis, insightful opinions and breaking news. I'm your host, Chelsea Nash. Thanks for listening!  Thanks to Victoria Fenner for production, Wayne MacPhail for advisement, Karl Nerenberg for the music, and all the journalists and writers who contributed to this week's content on rabble.ca.

In The Reeds host Jennifer Sanford is joined by the pod’s former host, Wayne MacPhail, as they celebrate the best and brightest moments of the year. Together, they open the vault to 20 previously aired episodes. Don’t miss the end, as Jennifer shares what inspires the spirit of the pod.

InfoLab imagined newspapers' transition from print to digital, creating multimedia digital news in the basement of The Hamilton Spectator back in the early '90s. Jesse talks to its former director, journalist Wayne MacPhail, about what the InfoLab did, and why it shut down shortly after Conrad Black's company bought the newspaper chain.  This episode is brought to you by our listeners. Please consider becoming a monthly supporter.  Support CANADALAND: http://canadalandshow.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In episode 15 (yes, it’s been a while!), host David Willows speaks with Globe & Mail contributors Wayne MacPhail and Paul Benedetti about the schism that exists in the Canadian chiropractic community. It is a cautionary tale on the limits of self-regulation.

In episode 15 (yes, it’s been a while!), producer Sarah Murphy and host David Willows discuss the controversial nature of this podcast (@1:16). David welcomes Globe & Mail contributors Wayne MacPhail and Paul Benedetti, as well as a GSC’s leader Pharmacy and Health Provider Strategy, Ned Pojskic (now a familiar voice), to the podcast studio (@3:28). Wayne and Paul discuss their research findings that led to a book and articles for the Globe & Mail (@4:55) and the schism that exists in the Canadian chiropractic community (@21:10). Ned, Wayne and Paul share their views about the need for quality evidence from the broader paramedical community (@27:23). Then the trio discuss the potential need for government regulation versus self-regulation, and the obvious limits of self-regulation (@34:37). The conversation wraps with a look to the future of health care practice regulation (@39:30).

What a year it was. Coming off of the maddening, disappointing and very scary U.S. election, it's too easy to look back and wish that we could have just fast forwarded from December 31, 2015 right to January 1, 2017. But that's not the whole story. In many ways it was also a really good year. Admittedly, we have to work a little harder to lift our spirits in this holiday season than in other years. But we know that rabble listeners and readers know that these things happen in cycles. Better days are ahead. Lots of work for us to do in the new year to help restore this planet to health and happiness. But for now, take a break and have a listen to some of our faves. 1.) Ears on the Earth – an excerpt from one of five daily programs we did from the World Social Forum. The excerpt you just heard was our last program, which focused on the Leap Manifesto. Thanks to rabble radio team members David Kattenburg, Sophia Reuss, Campbell McClintock and Greg MacDougall who did a fabulous job running all over Montreal gathering stories to hit some pretty tight deadlines on some of the hottest days of the year. Just one example of the kind of projects we want to do more of in 2017.   We talked about media democracy, explained what the World Social Forum was about, talked about releasing the corporate stranglehold, new types of storytelling and why The LEAP Manifesto is important enough to deserve its own program. 2.) We had a radio drama this year. The Strange Wax Cylinders of Thaddeus Barnes was a six part steampunk adventure involving retro scientific gadgetry, inventor Nicola Tesla and a mystery to be solved. It was produced by Wayne MacPhail for HarrowsmithNow. And Harrowsmith invited us to run the series on the rabble podcast network. 3.) And final excerpt today is to help you start the new year with some quiet contemplation about what matters and what doesn't. Perspective is a wonderful thing, so here is an excerpt from Drolkar McCallum on finding happiness, Buddhism and meditation. She talks to David Peck, host and producer of the podcast Face2Face.  You can see the full list of Victoria's podcast picks here.  There are many more great podcasts from the year that was. We wish we could list them all. Thanks from all of us at rabble.ca to all the podcasters of the rabble podcast network for sharing their hard work and perspectives on social change.   Like this podcast? rabble is reader/listener supported journalism.

There were hundreds of panel discussions at the World Social Forum. The hard thing was to make a choice which one to go to. There weren't a lot of descriptions in the handbook sometimes, so often we just had to pick one and see how it all turned out. You never knew what you were going to get.   And there were so many interviews and recordings that we weren't able to fit in to Ears on the Earth, our daily podcast during the Forum. In weeks to come, we'll bring you more of the sounds, conversations and panels that we gathered.  Today, two more. 1) Joseph Wawatie is an Algonquin Elder from Barriere Lake in western Quebec. In 2012, he was arrested for protesting logging on his traditional territory — land which remains unceded territory. He was part of a panel discussion at the World Social Forum called Indigenous Peoples' Struggles and Resistance. He speaks of his traditional life in the bush, and the challenges his nation faces. 2) Norman Stockwell, publisher of The Progressive: rabble radio host and rabble podcast network exec producer Victoria Fenner talked to Norman about the role of alternative media in this fractitious, extraordinary presidential election campaign that's happening right now. Bernie Sanders was a great choice for president. Hillary Clinton — well, opinion is mixed on that. Yet, if they don't want Donald Trump for president, Hillary's it. So what's a progressive to do when there are no good alternatives? 3) Looking ahead — we have a new podcast on the rpn. Who is Thaddeus Barnes and why do you need to hunt for his Strange Copper Cylinders.  With rabble podcast network and co-founder Wayne MacPhail, who is also now a dramatist, director and audio playwright. Find out more on Harrowsmith Now!

The media landscape isn't at all the same today as it was 15 years ago when rabble.ca first started publishing on the Internet. In 2001, we looked at web pages. They were mostly text and image which didn't move. And there wasn't much to hear either except your hands clicking on the keyboard. YouTube wasn't invented until 2005 (the same year rabble established the podcast network). And the terms “apps” and “social media” wouldn't come into common usage for at least five years after  … Snapchat, Twitter … what's that? Now, in 2016, everyone who works in media is working in an extremely challenging, ever-shifting environment. On the June 17 weekend, rabble staff gathered in Toronto for a weekend planning retreat to start to chart our NEXT 15 years.  The weekend began with a provocative discussion by our director of emerging media, Wayne MacPhail on “Soapboxes, Sellouts and Upstarts: The Canadian Media Landscape — and where rabble fits in,” with an introduction by rabble co-founder Judy Rebick. This month's rabble radio is an excerpted version of that discussion.  

What a couple of months it's been in media land. Newspapers folding, television stations getting out of local news… all because of the Internet, they say. We don't hear much about radio, though. 1. Today we go to Podcamp Toronto and hear about something that hasn't changed in radio. There still are way too few women on the air. rabble radio contributor Kveshe Be tells us about a study on diversity in radio done by Ryerson University Professor Lori Beckstead.  2. Yes, you can do a podcast — Podcast DIY. Some great advice from rabble podcast network cofounder Wayne MacPhail from way back on October 17, 2005. Surprisingly, very little has changed. Except that we're not using mini-disc recorders anymore and the tools are cheaper and easier than ever.   3. There's a little corner of rabble that we're especially proud of. It's called The Lynn Williams Activist Toolkit. And we're happy happy happy to announce the return of Constructing Change, the podcast of the Lynn Williams Activist Toolkit. Here's a replay of the episode that went up just a week ago.

Peter Aprile, Natalie Worsfold, and Wayne MacPhail (guest host), discuss NewLaw, the reasons that Peter and Natalie started BNL and what listeners can expect in Season 1.

It's been a great autumn for podcast anniversaries! 1.) One year ago on October 6, Indian and Cowboy made its internet debut. Indian & Cowboy is a listener supported media network consisting of Indigenous media makers, artists, storytellers, musicians & producers rooted firmly at the intersection between digital media art, podcasting & Indigenous Storytelling.  Roshini Nair did this feature for rabble radio with Ryan McMahon, the founder of Indian and Cowboy. (click on the link for a transcript of Roshini's entire interview for rabble.ca) And 2.) The rabble podcast network celebrated its 10th birthday on September 10, 2015 in Toronto.  It was a dynamic night, full of lots of things for us to think about as we look back and consider the future of podcasting. On the panel — Meagan Perry, who was our podcast network executive producer before she was bumped up the ladder to rabble.ca's editor in chief. Victoria Fenner, who took over from Meagan as executive producer of the rpn, moderated the evening.   Also on the panel were Wayne MacPhail, one of our co-founders of the network, and Rick Harp of MEDIA INDIGENA , an interactive, multimedia magazine dedicated to Indigenous news, views and creative expression. And Nora Young, co-founder of the podcast The Sniffer and also host and producer of CBC Radio's program Spark. Nora begins our excerpt from the rabble 10th anniversary by talking about the big broadcasters and podcasting.

Happy Birthday to us! Has it been 10 years of podcasting at rabble.ca already? Let the celebrations begin! rabble.ca led the pack when it came to podcasting. In 2005, iTunes didn't yet exist. There were no iPhones. It was truly the dark and silent ages. But our visionary crew saw and heard great potential. Today as we begin our celebrations we talk about the original idea behind the podcast network. Victoria Fenner, current rpn executive producer, talks to Meagan Perry, former exec of the rpn and now rabble.ca's editor-in-chief, for some of the highlights. Wayne MacPhail, The Podfather of the rabble podcast network, and director of emerging media for rabble.ca, talks about how it all got started. Charlotte Scott, the first exec producer of the rpn takes us to Podfest in Ontario, California in 2005, where people were marvelling that there were 15,000 podcasts on the Internet. (Apple says there are now 250,000 podcasts in 100 different languages on iTunes) A couple of Meagan's faves. Kevin Neish was detained in Israel for two days after the humanitarian ship Mavi Marmara, part of the Free Gaza Flotilla, was attacked and activists arrested. In this podcast he talks about his release and what activism means. From rabble radio 109. The Queering of Alberta: Darrin Hagen is a ground-breaking drag artist and author of a book about the drag scene in Alberta called “The Edmonton Queen.” He is also a longtime producer for the Loud and Queer cabaret and writer of Queering the Way: an anthology from the Loud and Queer Cabaret. rabble.ca's Kaitlin McNabb called Darrin Hagen to talk about the book and some of the myths about queer culture in the place formerly known as Texas of the North. From rabble radio 137. You are invited! Come join the rabble podcast network as a volunteer. We're always looking for new podcast series, as well as people to do single interviews and recordings for our rabble programs rabble radio, rabble book lounge and Needs No Introduction. Email Victoria Fenner, the rabble podcast network's executive producer, at victoria[at]rabble.ca. Help us build the next 10 years of progressive Canadian history in sound! RABBLE IS READER-SUPPORTED JOURNALISM Like this article? Chip in to keep stories like these coming.

Agricultural land commission co-founder Harold Steves discusses how the signing of a First Nations treaty two years ago has opened the door to the destruction of farmland. Rabble.ca technology columnist Wayne MacPhail shares his thoughts on the civil society implications of wearable media. Huffington Post Canada business writer Rachel Mendleson talks about her publication's reporting on income inequality in this country. And our rabble-rousing panel - David Cubberley, Eleanor Gregory the Times Colonist's Dave Obee and Allan Warnke - share their thoughts on the week that was in provincial and federal politics.

June Swadron is a successful writing coach, author, and therapist. In this interview with Lyn Thompson from rabble.ca's Living on Purpose podcast, she talks about learning to write about one of her most secret truths, living with bi-polar disorder. The Reel Women have a spy movie for you that you might not have heard of. It is a good one for long winter nights. Loud Fast Rules. It's a rerelease of The Stimulators' 1982 album. And if watching a movie on the couch doesn't get your blood pumping, this song just might: Loud Fast Rules OS Chrome is an operating system for cheap, fast netbooks. And it is coming out later this year, but there is a cheap fast alternative. Wayne MacPhail tells us what it is. Getting more eco-conscious is a new year's goal for many. rabble.ca's Alternatives podcast has an interview to inspire you. Andrew Heintzman is a venture capitalist who's book The New Entrepreneurs: Building a Green Economy For the Future, talks about why the environment and the economy don't need to be at loggerheads.

Welcome to  episode seven!Run time: 22:19Community Divas on iTunesA podcast about communities and social media toolsIn this episode:- An interview with Cameron MacLean and Josh Freeman about their Online Journalism course- Discussion by Eden and Connie about a comment from Keith Burtis of Magic Woodworks.Cameron MacLean and Josh Freeman are students in the Master of Arts in Journalism program at the University of Western Ontario. We interviewed them about the Online Journalism course they are currently taking with instructor and social media consultant Wayne MacPhail. 00:01 Intro by Jay Moonah00:09 Eden Spodek and Connie Crosby00:15 Summary of today’s episode00:27 Introducing this week's guests Cameron MacLean and Josh Freeman00:58 The Divas welcome Cameron and Josh01:10 What does community mean to them? Cameron and Josh talk about both online and in-person communities.02:38 Building rapport between class members and people from outside the class, for example Bill Deys and Picard102 (John Leschinski). Some are auditing the class via the web. Wayne MacPhail uses livestreaming video to include others in the class.04:39 Other tools used successfully in the class:  Ning and Twitter05:48 Ning is being used exclusively for this class. Other classes use Web CT for chat and file sharing.06:24 How online community tools have allowed the students to get to know each other. In addition to Ning and Twitter, the students first got to know each other using Facebook to talk before they met in person. UWO Journalism 2008-09 Facebook group (Facebook registration may be required to view).08:24 Other tools they have discussed in class: Seesmic, Ustream.tv, Delicious, the onlinewestern tag on Delicious.09:44 How do they learn to apply these tools to journalism? The tools can be used to gather information. Twitter feed regarding Hurricane Gustav with updates from people in New Orleans acting as citizen journalists.  They also discuss use of Twitter by people attending a political rally for Stephen Harper. 12:40 Use of blogs by newspapers13:59 Does the use of blogs help newspapers build readership and community? Maclean's magazine - Andrew Potter's blog versus Rabble.ca's election blog.  BBC.com  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/default.stm16:48 Wrapping up the interview.16:59 Comment from Keith Burtis from http://www.magicwoodworks.com/blog/: how can he use social networking tools to bring experienced woodturners who are inside a "walled garden" to interact with younger woodturners not inside that social networking space. He mentions Seth Godin's latest book Tribes. Eden and Connie discuss Keith's comment and Eden has a suggestion for Keith. 21:29 Connie and Eden wrap up the episode.Our cool theme music “Get Out of My Face” is by Uncle Seth and is from the Podsafe Music Network. We hope to hear from you! Send your comments to communitydivas@gmail.com or post them on the blog at communitydivas.com. Follow us on Twitter, our Facebook page or our FriendFeed room. Some registration may be required.

Wayne MacPhail attends a Hamilton vigil for Teenage Head's Frankie Venom. Frankie Venom died October 16. He was 52.  Part of the panel discussion from Rabble.ca's relaunch party. Speakers include Duncan Cameron, Maude Barlow, Jessica Yee, Murray Dobbin, and Anne Lagace Dowson. Studs Terkel, speaking at Chicago University in 2005. Terkel died October 31, 2008. He was 96.

In this episode Keith Gottschalk thinks maybe, just maybe, Obama might make a difference. Wayne MacPhail reviews Sprouts, a new way to create Flash content, we hear a bittersweet memory of Kenya from Victoria Fenner and the Reel Women, Judy Rebick and Cathi Bond go "woohoo" for Zodiac. Our music comes from The Creaking Tree String Quartet (http://www.creakingtree.com/) Thanks guys!

In this episode Keith Gottschalk thinks maybe, just maybe, Obama might make a difference. Wayne MacPhail reviews Sprouts, a new way to create Flash content, we hear a bittersweet memory of Kenya from Victoria Fenner and the Reel Women, Judy Rebick and Cathi Bond go "woohoo" for Zodiac. Our music comes from The Creaking Tree String Quartet (http://www.creakingtree.com/) Thanks guys!

Keith Gottschalk bemoans the loss of spring, and wonders when the U.S. government will do something about global warming. Promo for our feature documentary, Listen to the Land: A Season With the Quinte Organic Farmer's Co-op. Adria Vasil speaks with rabble radio's Charlotte Scott about her new book Ecoholic: Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Information, Products and Services in Canada. Plunkett, a singer-songwriter duo who make their home in Italy. You can find them online at www.plunkett.it. The song is The River.  Reel Women Cathi Bond and Judy Rebick talk about a unclassifiable, unquantifiable movie called Save the Green Planet. You can hear the full piece at rabble.ca/ree. This review was recorded in March of 2006. It's the first one at the bottom of the reel women page. The frogs from MacGregor Point Provincial Park, all recorded by Wayne MacPhail. Part 1 of Listen to the Land: A Season with the Quinte Organic Farmer's Co-op. Podcasts wraps with Plunket, Just Rise. 

Keith Gottschalk is on the road and checking out Canada wherever he goes! Toronto's Pomegranate are a band of queer women with a conscious klezmer mission. You can check them out at sonicpomegranate.com While he was recently at the Media Giraffe Conference in Amherst, Massachusetts, cohost Wayne MacPhail sat down with Cho and Ilona Meagher, of E Plurbis Media. E Plurbis Media is a citizen journalism collective from across the U.S. doing rigorous investigative journalism. The group is part of a growing trend towards "by the people, for the people" media online. (http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/). DVDiva is looking back at a group of screen sirens who made it to her doorway Should a person speak up when they witness cruelty to the dog next door? Auntie has a few solutions.

Keith Gottschalk reminds us of the power of peace love and understanding. Cathi Bond, our DVDiva gets happily horrified. Co-host Wayne MacPhail and his wife, Barbara Ledger, share a sound seeing tour of their recent hike thorugh Algonquin Park, close encounter included. Jen Moore brings us a freshly perked Homebrew that looks at the digital divide through the prism of gender.  Harris Newman is a noted Montreal-based finger-style guitarist, who weaves very calming, acoustic instrumental tracks http://www.indieville.com/reviews/harrisnewman.htm

rabble podcast network executive producer Wayne MacPhail introduces the podcast and announces Ralph Nader as our first guest speaker.