Best Harbinger Media Network Podcasts (2025)

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Canada vs. the Genocide Convention + Tenant Organizing 58:01

22h ago58:01

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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 look at the lawsuit challenging Canada’s role in the Gaza Genocide on CJPME’s PALESTINE DEBRIEF, explain why Trump’s tariff threat remains very real on THE ORCHARDCAST, tal…

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ep61: Progressive Publics + 51st State Blues 58:01

8d ago58:01

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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 J…

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ep60: Peeping Pierre + Trump's Tariff Tantrum 58:01

14d ago58:01

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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 explain Trump’s tariff tantrum on THE BREACH SHOW, parody ‘peeping’ Pierre Polievre on SRSLY WRONG, imagine a post neoliberal industrial policy on The Broadbent Institute’s…

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Showcase ep59 (THE BREACH SHOW, ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA, ABORSH + REDEYE) 58:01

21d ago58:01

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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 speak with El Jones about her recent trip to the occupied West Bank on THE BREACH SHOW, talk with the CUPW about the Delivering Community Power campaign on THE ENVIRONMENT …

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Industrial Policy after Neoliberalism with D.T. Cochrane 35:21

25d ago35:21

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For decades, social democrats have championed industrial policy, prioritizing the governance of the economy and market regulation as a way to build a more just and democratic society. But as a new era of neoliberalism — or post-neoliberalism — dawns, economist D.T. Cochrane sees Canada at a crossroads, in urgent need of a renewed vision of industri…

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Showcase ep58 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, SRSLY WRONG, THE NORTH STATE + OATS FOR BREAKFAST) 58:01

28d ago58:01

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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 look at 70 years of Israel/Palestine history on SRSLY WRONG, explain why immigrants aren’t to blame for the housing crisis on OATS FOR BREAKFAST, break down the state of Ca…

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Activists Make History: Meeting the Moment with Lana Payne 50:06

1M ago50:06

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Unifor president Lana Payne explains what’s at stake for Canadian workers in response to Donald Trump’s tariff threats and how unions are adapting to meet the moment. In this episode of Activists Make History, a new podcast series from Perspectives Journal, we sit down with Lana Payne, president of Unifor and a trailblazer in Canada’s labour moveme…

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Showcase ep57 (THE BREACH SHOW SPECIAL EPISODE) 58:01

1M ago58:01

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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. This week we present a special full-length 55 minute The Breach Show episode featuring Desmond Cole and editor in chief Martin Lukacs reflecting on Justin Trudeau’s near decade in power, from the in…

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Showcase ep56 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, PALESTINE DEBRIEF, THE BREACH SHOW + 49th PARAHELL) 58:01

2M ago58:01

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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 Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani discusses the expanding conflict in Syria and its broader implications for the region on PALESTINE DEBRIEF, Desmond Cole sits down with Missi…

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Power for the Public with Edgardo Sepulveda 32:38

2M ago32:38

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Earlier this fall, The Alberta Federation of Labour released a new report entitled Power in the Public Interest: Re-regulation and increased public ownership in Alberta’s electricity sector. A headline from a press release of the report reads: “Albertans have overpaid $24 billion for electricity since 2001.” This is long before the interruptions an…

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Showcase ep55 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, OATS FOR BREAKFAST, VICTOR'S CHILDREN + BROADBENT INSTITUTE'S PERSPECTIVES) 58:01

2M ago58:01

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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 what the US election results could mean for Gaza and the Middle East with Norman Finkelstein on OATS FOR BREAKFAST, respond to Trump’s return with Spectre Magazine …

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Why Canadians are Stuck Waiting for the Bus with Nate Wallace 27:11

2M ago27:11

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In a joint statement by Environmental Defence Canada released on October 28th at the Transit for Tomorrow Summit in Ottawa, a number of mayors and municipal representatives from cities across Canada, public transit activist groups and transit agencies like the STM in Montreal, declared: “Transit is the most powerful method of tackling traffic conge…

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Showcase ep54 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, EXPATS & ALLIES + THE BREACH SHOW) 58:01

3M ago58:01

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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 parallel lives of Chrystia Freeland's Nazi collaborator grandfather and Holocaust survivor Anne Charney on EXPATS & ALLIES, hear from Progress Report’s Duncan K…

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Neoliberalism’s Undead with Alex Himelfarb 35:44

3M ago35:44

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Alex Himelfarb argues that neoliberalism – or “capitalism with the gloves off” – has become embedded in the fabric of Canadian government and society, and has not yet died off despite its reckoning. Neoliberalism is not dead, according to former Clerk of the Privy Council and Broadbent Institute research fellow Alex Himelfarb. The ideology that per…

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Activists Make History: Winning Renters’ Rights with Chiara Padovani 30:48

3M ago30:48

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Chiara Padovani details her political journey in organizing renters and defending tenant rights against the encroachment of for-profit interests in housing. Toronto, like other cities across Canada, has been coping with the rising housing affordability crisis as inflated rents, increased evictions, and massive real estate investment firms have beco…

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Showcase ep53 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, PALESTINE DEBRIEF, REDEYE + CITED) 58:01

3M ago58:01

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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 speak with Canadians who have suffered mentally, emotionally and financially in their attempts to reunite with family under the government's Temporary Resident Visa Program…

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Showcase ep52 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, THE BREACH SHOW, FREE CITY RADIO + SRSLY WRONG) 58:01

3M ago58:01

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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 Desmond Cole speaks with United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese on THE BREACH SHOW, the panel examine the weather phenome…

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Correcting the Record on Trans Deaths with Dylana Thompson 26:56

3M ago26:56

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It is important for policymakers to use evidence, like data and statistics, to make sound policy decisions. However, governments across Canada and in other places around the world continue to make policy decisions that affect trans lives and livelihoods, while data collection and maintenance on trans people remain lacking or incomplete. Despite adv…

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The Continuing Battle for Universal Pharmacare with Marc-André Gagnon 32:47

3M ago32:47

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Despite Canada’s celebrated health care model, a lack of robust and universal drug coverage has resulted in a “fragmented system” that leaves ordinary Canadians without adequate care. Bill C-64 titled An Act Respecting Pharmacare was recently passed in Canada. Providing the framework for universal public drug coverage in Canada, Bill C-64 has been …

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Showcase ep51 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, THE NORTH STATE, OATS FOR BREAKFAST + PULLBACK) 58:01

3M ago58:01

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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 look at Canada's foundational alignment with Israel on THE NORTH STATE, examine Trump’s unholy alliance of Silicon Valley tech billionaires and Christian nationalists on OA…

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Showcase ep50 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, GREEN PLANET MONITOR, THE BREACH SHOW, THE BROADBENT INSTITUTE'S PERSPECTIVES 58:01

3M ago58:01

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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 Dimitri Lascasris reports on Israel’s invasion of Lebanon from Beirut on GREEN PLANET MONITOR, we examine how the rise of private nursing agencies is affecting public healthca…

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Activists Make History: Organizing the First Walmart Warehouse Union in Canada with Angela Drew Kimelman 27:18

4M ago27:18

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Walmart is notorious for its anti-union practices, pouring millions of dollars into union-busting campaigns every year. But this didn’t stop Angela Drew Kimelman, an Organizer at Unifor, from helping unionize over 800 workers at a Walmart warehouse in Mississauga, Ontario. In our first episode of Activists Make History, a new podcast series from Pe…

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Activists Make History - Series Preview 1:09

4M ago1:09

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'Activists Make History' is a new podcast series from Perspectives Journal, hosted by Peggy Nash, author of 'Women Winning Office: An Activist’s Guide to Getting Elected' As a union activist, feminist advocate, and former member of Parliament in Canada's House of Commons, Nash knows what it's like to start from scratch against the odds. In Activist…

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Showcase ep49 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, PALESTINE DEBRIEF, UNMAKING SASKATCHEWAN + VICTOR'S CHILDREN) 58:01

4M ago58:01

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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 investigate the role Big Tech plays in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza on PALESTINE DEBRIEF, dive into the history of prairie brute Scott Moe on UNMAKING SASKATCHEWAN, expla…

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Settler Supremacy Revival: Saskatchewan Under Scott Moe 48:23

4M ago48:23

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Scott Moe became leader of the Saskatchewan Party (and premier of the province) in 2018, after a hotly contested (and often unpleasant) leadership race. Considered "centre right" and someone who was likely to keep close to the party's status quo, Moe has instead marched the party (and the province) steadily rightward. Read more: https://breachmedia…

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Showcase ep48 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, THE BREACH SHOW, PULLBACK, MIDNIGHT CHOIR) 58:01

4M ago58:01

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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 introduce Citizen's Assemblies on PULLBACK, unpack the crackdown on the Palestine solidarity movement in Canada on THE BREACH SHOW, and examine socialism or barbarism with …

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Opening the Black Box: Nursing Agencies in Canada with Joan Almost 26:23

4M ago26:23

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Private nursing agencies are have grown in number and use amid the crises facing the healthcare sector by filling the gaps in chronic understaffing. The Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions’ new report Opening the black box: Unpacking the use of nursing agencies in Canada reveals just how much this reliance on nursing agencies has cost. Dr. Joan Al…

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Showcase ep47 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, THE NORTH STATE, GREEN MAJORITY, REDEYE) 58:01

4M ago58:01

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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 investigate how Canadian news media has distorted coverage of Israel’s crimes in Gaza on THE NORTH STATE, discuss climate change as class war on GREEN MAJORITY, look at two…

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Showcase ep46 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, GREEN PLANET MONITOR, PERSPECTIVES + SWEATER WEATHER) 58:01

4M ago58:01

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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 discuss Jewish anti-Zionism with Independent Jewish Voices founding member Sid Shniad on GREEN PLANET MONITOR, look at the history of the Ku Klux Klan on the prairies on ALBER…

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Corporate Tax Breaks, Housing Heartbreaks with Silas Xuereb 17:59

4M ago17:59

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Corporate tax breaks and loopholes in Canada have contributed heavily to the affordability crisis argues Silas Xuereb, researcher at Canadian for Tax Fairness, PhD candidate at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of a new report entitled, How tax breaks are worsening Canada's housing affordability crisis. Outside of calls to build hous…

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Escaping the Consulting Trap with Chris Hurl and Leah Werner 40:08

5M ago40:08

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When public services malfunction, such as the Phoenix Pay scandal or the failure of the pandemic travel ArriveCan app occur, it is easy to point the finger at the government and the political party in power. As Chris Hurl and Leah Werner describe in our latest Perspectives Journal podcast episode, there is some truth to this, but The Consulting Tra…

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Showcase ep45 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, PALESTINE DEBRIEF, PULLBACK + UNMAKING SASKATCHEWAN) 58:01

5M ago58:01

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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 unpack the implications of the Canada Revenue Agency’s decision to revoke the Jewish National Fund of Canada's charitable status on PALESTINE DEBRIEF, argue for the end of …

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Showcase ep44 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, SRSLY WRONG, THE MIDNIGHT CHOIR + STUDIO LA CONVERSE) 58:01

5M ago58:01

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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 the show welcomes three new podcasts to the community as we highlight solutions for the housing crisis on long-running Vancouver utopian socialist comedy show SRSLY WRONG, spe…

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Showcase ep43 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, TECH WON'T SAVE US, EXPATS & ALLIES, THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA) 58:01

5M ago58:01

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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 discuss the complicity of Google, Amazon, and Microsoft in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and how tech workers are organizing to stop it on TECH WON’T SAVE US, investiga…

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Is Market-based Climate Action Working for Canadians? with Brendan Haley 23:18

5M ago23:18

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The price of carbon is in the news again with Conservatives in Canada, and around the world where carbon pricing schemes exist, fuel backlash against the climate policy. Adding to their opposition to carbon pricing policy is today's profit-induced inflation and affordability crisis. For the centrist regimes that pushed for this market-mechanism as …

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Showcase ep42 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, GREEN PLANET MONITOR, PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, VICTOR'S CHILDREN) 58:01

5M ago58:01

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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 discuss Israel’s genocidal war with Middle East Council on Global Affairs analyst Mouin Rabbani on GREEN PLANET MONITOR, unpack the scale of effort it would take to meaning…

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Good Enough to Work, Good Enough to Stay: Fixing Canada's Immigration System with Pablo Godoy 33:53

6M ago33:53

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After a long summer break for the Perspectives Journal Podcast, we’re back! With the problematic Temporary Foreign Workers Program in the news, as well as growing anti-immigrant sentiment across Canada and other Western countries, we kicked off this season asking what’s behind this narrative, who’s to blame, and what the working-class is doing to f…

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Showcase ep41 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, PALESTINE DEBRIEF, THE BREACH SHOW, TECH WON'T SAVE US) 58:01

6M ago58:01

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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 ask why Canada continues to support Israel with the Middle East at the brink of war on PALESTINE DEBRIEF, examine Shopify's connection to right-wing politics on TECH WON'T …

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The Fall of Saskatchewan: The Sask Party Under Brad Wall 1:28:52

6M ago1:28:52

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In 1999 Brad wall was elected for the first time as a Sask Party MLA. Within 8 years, Wall would be premier. A free market capitalist and charismatic salesman, over the next decade Wall would weave a new narrative for saskatchewan to understand itself, changing the province's political culture forever.…

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Showcase ep40 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, GREEN PLANET MONITOR, FREE CITY RADIO, OATS FOR BREAKFAST) 58:01

7M ago58:01

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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 speak with the World Peace Foundation about Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war on GREEN PLANET MONITOR, hear voices from spaces of solidarity organizing for Pale…

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Showcase ep39 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, GREEN MAJORITY, BIG SHINY TAKES, UNMAKING SASKATCHEWAN) 58:01

7M ago58:01

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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 speak with Dr. Chandni Desai about Israel, Canada, and settler-colonialism on GREEN MAJORITY, explain how Roy Romanow’s reactionary 90’s NDP government created the conditio…

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Showcase ep38 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, PALESTINE DEBRIEF, EXPATS & ALLIES, CITED) 58:01

7M ago58:01

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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 speak with Dr. Yipeng Ge about Israel’s targeted assault on hospitals and healthcare workers in Gaza on CJPME's PALESTINE DEBRIEF, explore the history of fascist movements …

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Bad Trees Bear Bad Fruit: How the Liberals, PCs, and NDP Sowed the Sask Party 1:04:01

8M ago1:04:01

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In the 1990s Saskatchewan was in almost as dire a position as it had been during the Great Depression. The province was on the verge of bankruptcy, people were leaving in droves, the PC party was collapsing under the weight of the fraud scandal, the Liberals were in freefall, and the NDP, led by Roy Romanow, was slashing services to the bone. The c…

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Showcase ep37 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, THE END OF SPORT, PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES + SWEATER WEATHER) 58:01

8M ago58:01

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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 speak with York University athlete Charlotte Phillips about playing on the Palestinian National Soccer Team member on THE END OF SPORT, discuss grocery prices and the Lobla…

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Showcase ep36 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, GREEN PLANET MONITOR, VICTOR'S CHILDREN, GREEN MAJORITY) 58:01

8M ago58:01

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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 examine how big corporations benefit from small businesses being the friendly face of modern capitalism on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, speak with UN Special Rapporteur on the Right …

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Showcase ep35 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, OATS FOR BREAKFAST, FREE CITY RADIO, THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA) 58:01

8M ago58:01

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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 speak with Montreal-based journalist Anaïs Elboujdaïni about her reporting from Gaza on OATS FOR BREAKFAST, sit down with anti poverty organizer John Clarke for a conversat…

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Showcase ep34 (ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, BROADBENT INSTITUTE'S PERSPECTIVES, CLIMATE ORGANIZING SHORTS) 58:01

8M ago58:01

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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 speak to Palestine solidarity encampment supporters about their experiences with violent police crackdowns and explore how student movements of the past inform the present …

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Profits, Inflation and Survival in an Age of Emergencies with Isabella Weber 50:05

8M ago50:05

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The 2024 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture was held on Thursday, May 30th in partnership with Toronto Metropolitan University’s Faculty of Arts. A special thanks to TMU Interim Dean of Arts Amy Peng for hosting this Broadbent Institute event. Ellen Meiksins Wood was one of the left’s foremost theorists on democracy and history, and often promoted the ide…

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Showcase ep33 (LIVE SHOW #3 w/ Jeremy Appel, Emma Jackson & Duncan Kinney) 58:01

9M ago58:01

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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 it’s another spectacular edition of the HARBINGER SOAPBOX SERIES live podcast recording and community event! This edition, vol.3 - Edmonton: Purple City Blues features your fr…

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The Rise of Investor Ownership and the Housing Crisis with Jeremy Withers 37:49

9M ago37:49

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The housing crisis is apparent for most ordinary Canadians, especially for those paying rents and mortgages that feel increasingly out of reach. Recent data shows that among wealthy countries, Canada's housing cost increases have seen the fastest decoupling from income growth, and with that accelerated price inflation, according to Jeremy Withers, …

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