Fresh from the birthplace of the CCF! Commentary and analysis on local and provincial politics from a left perspective.
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Join Jeremy Bolm, vocalist of Touché Amoré and founder of the record label Secret Voice, for his latest project, The First Ever Podcast. This is an honest look at the humble beginnings of all kinds of different artists - from actors and musicians to poets and photographers. Through conversation, Jeremy explores how their first experiences with their art form lead them to where they are today. In today’s world of instant gratification, it’s important to be reminded that not everything happens ...
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Jody Tomchishen (He/They) is covering labour in Canada. A weekly podcast covering union news: interviewing academics, activists, and organizers.
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A podcast that digs deeper into important and often unreported issues, by the award-winning non-profit news organization PressProgress. Join the PressProgress team for conversations with experts and newsmakers across the country, including Luke LeBrun, Prairie correspondent Emily Leedham, Ontario correspondent Mitch Thompson, Alberta correspondent Stephen Magusiak and BC correspondent Rumneek Johal. Produced by Eric Wickham, Publisher Romy Garrido.
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In this live recording, Jeremy tells us how Kenney has shaped Alberta politics, and expounds on his ideological commitments, his flair for conspiracy and his effective use of political stunts. We also learn of Kenney's taste in music and get Jeremy's response to the toughest question he's been asked since the book came out. Order Kenneyism by Jerem…
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Residents of Jasper Alberta are finally returning to the town that made international headlines after it was devastated by a monster wildfire in July. Nearly a third of the town was damaged or destroyed, and the spot is currently closed to tourists for the foreseeable future. How do we prevent climate change disasters in the future? It’s complicate…
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Canada’s expert on the rising costs at the grocery store (no, not that one) joins host Stephen Magusiak to discuss his latest project, the Grocery Tracker, which monitors the price of food staples Eric Wickham is a data journalist for the Toronto-based Hoser. He co-hosts and produces the Big Shiny Takes podcast. Wickham recently wrote about the Lob…
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After the assassination of a Canadian Sikh on Canadian soil, what did (or didn’t) the foreign interference commission reveal?
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The foreign interference commission published its preliminary report — but the Sikh community in Canada says the inquiry largely overlooked India despite their role as a major threat of foreign interference in Canada. In the foreign interference commission’s final report it was revealed that "India directed foreign interference activities related t…
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Sous les pavés: Student radicalism from the '60s to today
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Gaza solidarity encampments on university campuses in the U.S. and Canada are experiencing violent police crackdowns. How do the student movements of the past inform what's going on now? Team Advantage digs into the history of student radicalism and speaks to encampment supporters about their experiences with police.…
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Canada has been seeing an unusual wave of anti-LGBTQ+ protests over the last year. These rallies and marches targeted drag storytime events at libraries, they targeted local school board meetings – in fact, they even targeted high schools and elementary schools in residential neighborhoods. This organized wave of hate climaxed with a so-called “one…
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Capital gains – what are they and why is everyone talking about them? This year’s federal budget, released on April 16, is rolling out changes to the way capital gains are taxed in order to make wealthy Canadians “pay their fair share.” According to Finance Canada, these changes are targeted at the wealthiest of the wealthy – Canada’s top 0.13%, a …
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What can we learn about the ongoing pandemic and how it's been handled? How's the whole global public health infrastructure, campaign for clean air, and renewed push for workplace going? Does this bode well for future pandemics and crises, and how can we learn from what's happened so far to shape our future demands?…
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Author and journalist Jeremy Appel joins host Stephen Magusiak to discuss (almost) all things Jason Kenney: his quest for power, his influence in building the Conservative Party of Canada, his undoing, and, most recently, the conclusion of a massive 5-year RCMP investigation surrounding his campaign to take over Alberta's United Conservatives. Once…
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You might know Ed Broadbent as the former leader of Canada's federal NDP. But Broadbent was more than just a political party leader -- he also spent a lifetime seeking social and democratic change outside partisan politics in academia and civil society, both in Canada and around the world. On this episode of Sources, PressProgress Editor Luke LeBru…
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Wrongdoing, threats to security, or something of that nature: The CSIS investigation into an Ontario Conservative nomination race
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Canada’s spy agency is investigating the nomination of an Ontario Conservative MP, according to evidence from a recent investigation by PressProgress Associate Editor Rumneek Johal. Questions surround the nomination of MP Arpan Khanna, who was allegedly favored by the party establishment with ties to figures including Jason Kenney, Stephen Harper a…
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Zionism Sucks
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Israel is on a genocidal rampage through Gaza. Team Advantage, joined by intrepid independent journalist Jeremy Appel, examine the historical roots and basic assumptions that underlie Zionism, and discuss a few light topics, like discourse-policing, denouncing Hamas, antisemitism, and settler-colonialism.…
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Francis Hébert-Bernier, a reporter with Quebec’s independent news outlet Pivot, speaks about the historic public sector strikes currently underway in the province. These strikes are part of the Common Front movement where multiple public sector unions are bargaining at once with Premier Francois Legault's government. These are the largest strikes i…
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Dr. Roberta Lexier joins Stephen Magusiak to discuss her recent OpEd in Medicine Hat News, where, as a Jewish Canadian, she strongly condemned the violence and oppression happening to Palestinians in Gaza. In this episode we explore the narratives that dominate mainstream media and politics in Canada. Support the show…
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Why does Canada love Ukrainian Nazis?
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In late September 2023, Canadian Parliament clapped for "Ukrainian hero" Yaroslav Hunka, who fought with the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), a unit in the Nazi German military. Why did Canada let so many Ukrainian Nazis into the country after WW2, and how did this wave of right-wing Ukrainian nationalist shape Canada's Ukra…
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Wildfire Season Concludes
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The area burned by wildfires in Canada this year exceeded 18 million hectares and burned 1,740 megatonnes of CO2, roughly three times Canada's human-made emissions from 2022. As fire season winds down, Team Advantage examines this new, fun, half-year-long weather phenomenon, and considers the role of fossil fuels and the end of "cheap nature." Furt…
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Social media companies are enforcing an Indian Law that censors social media content critical of the Indian government and its ongoing crackdown in the Punjab state. Canadian Sikhs have found themselves in the crosshairs of this aggressive campaign of censorship, harassment, and intimidation. The campaign has escalated on Facebook since the assassi…
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Dark money networks from out of province have set their sights on Manitoba. Emily Leedham joins Stephen Magusiak to discuss her investigative series into the Canada Growth Council, a registered third party advertiser tied to Alberta and Saskatchewan conservatives, oil lobbyists, and an obscure religious sect known as the Plymouth Brethren. Support …
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Far-right groups are planning a convoy to Toronto to “Save the Children,” and it’s already spinning out of control. PressProgress Editor Luke Lebrun joins Host Stephen Magusiak to talk about the convoy movement’s latest conspiratorial obsession, and what they have planned for the fall if they can get along enough to organize it. Support the show…
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Episode 7: Alex Silas On The PSAC Agreement
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In this episode of Labour Intensive Jody Tomchishen sits down with Alex Silas, Regional Executive Vice-President of the National Capital Region with the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC). We discuss the deal reached between the government and PSAC workers in the treasury board and Canadian revenue workers. This deal ended a historic strike b…
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In this episode of Labour Intensive Jody Tomchishen sits down with Jordan House (assistant professor in the Department of Labour Studies at Brock University) and Asaf Rashid (criminal defence, immigration and prison lawyer, and a member of the Canadian Prison Law Association). Together they have written a book with Fernwood Publishing called Solida…
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Researcher Kurt Phillips with Canadian Anti-Hate Network joins Stephen Magusiak for a look at the recent wave of anti-LGBTQ2SA+ protests and hate crimes happening in Alberta and across Canada. From acts of vandalism, mobbing town councils and school board meetings, and chemtrail conspiracy theories, we take a look at what its about and where its co…
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In this episode of Labour Intensive Jody Tomchishen sits down with activists Taneeta Doma and Chris Ramsaroop of Justice For Migrant Workers to discuss the demands of migrant workers for regularization. Under the current legal framework migrant workers are exploited with few legal protections, as they worry about speaking out for fear of deportatio…
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In this episode of Labour Intensive Jody Tomchishen sits down with historian Sal Mercogliano to discuss the American and Canadian International Longshore Worker Union (ILWU) ongoing labour disputes. The American ILWU had just reached a tentative agreement, and the Canadian ILWU voted 99% in favour of a strike. Sal helps sort through what is at stak…
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In this episode of Labour Intensive Jody Tomchishen sits down with economist Jim Stanford to discuss inflation, interest rates, and bargaining for better wages. Visit his website: https://centreforfuturework.ca/ Follow him on Twitter: @JimboStanford Sign up for the Shift Work newsletter for union updates curated by Emily Leedham of PressProgress: h…
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PressProgress Ontario Reporter Mitchell Thompson joins Stephen Magusiak to talk about the Toronto mayoral race, and one unlikely candidate who stands out in the crowded field of conservative hopefuls. Though still a long shot, former Toronto Sun columnist Anthony Furey has seen some momentum in the polls with his right wing populist positions and s…
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In this episode of Labour Intensive Jody Tomchishen sits down with independent journalist Jeremy Appel to discuss how Canadian media covered the PSAC strike. Subscribe to Jeremy's Substack: https://theorchard.substack.com/ Follow him on Twitter: @JeremyAppel1025 Listen to his podcasts: https://bigshinytakes.com/ https://www.forgottencornerpod.com/ …
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Notley Loses Again! Alberta's 2023 Election
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Support this podcast! Rachel Notley led the Alberta NDP to their second major electoral defeat in Alberta's latest general election. What does this election say about Albertans and our political culture? How might we make basic social democratic values popular? How should we organize as we anticipate Premier Danielle Smith? And what's next for the …
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In this weeks episode, the very first episode of Labour Intensive, host Jody Tomchishen sits down with Al-Baraa, Arslan, Julia, and Max of Organize UW. They are currently trying to form a teaching assistant union at the University of Waterloo. Follow them on social media: https://twitter.com/OrganizeUW https://www.instagram.com/organizeuw/ Or visit…
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Clearing the Plains in 2023: Alberta's Drug Poisoning Crisis
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Support this podcast! What link is there between pushing Indigenous people off land, into reserves, into residential schools, and into forced treatment? How are conversations about "public safety" and policing being mobilized to harm vulnerable people? How has the politicization of the opioid epidemic obscured what's needed to address increasing dr…
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As funding for charter schools in Alberta increases rapidly, public schools are under attack. Rumneek Johal is joined by Wing Li with Support Our Students to discuss the rapid expansion of Charter schools in Alberta under conservative governments, and how they almost exclusively cater to elites using public funds, at the expense of everyday Alberta…
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Stephen Magusiak is joined by journalist Jeremy Appel to discuss what we know so far about the right wing group that appeared on the Alberta political landscape after the Coutts border blockade. Did Take Back Alberta come out of nowhere? We look at who their supporters are, who leads them, and what they’re trying to accomplish. Support the show…
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Can Socialists Like Hockey?
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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 …
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A group known as Take Back Alberta appears to have seized control over sizable parts of the United Conservative Party and secured the leadership of Danielle Smith. What is this group? What motivates them, and who are their key figures? PressProgress writer Stephen Magusiak joins Team Advantage to discuss his recent piece, Who Is ‘Take Back Alberta’…
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The PressProgress team is joined by investigative reporter Sam Harper with Pivot to talk about the common threads and the common funders behind the right-wing networks that stretch across Canada. We talk conspiracy theories, astroturf campaigns, Alberta dark money in Quebec, secret societies, and where the right-wing think tanks like The Fraser Ins…
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Support this podcast! Watch our livestream! Sign up for our newsletter! The Bank of Canada is explicitly trying to increase unemployment by raising the cost of borrowing money. Is excessive employment the cause of inflation, and if not, what are the consequences of this policy likely to be? Economist Jim Stanford joins Team Advantage to talk about …
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Today’s episode of Sources features an interview with Faiz Shakir, Executive Director of the labour news site More Perfect Union and Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign manager. More Perfect Union was founded in 2020 to tell working class stories through video journalism. In just a few years, More Perfect Union has amassed hundreds of thousands of follow…
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How workers at an Amazon packing facility made history by unionizing, and lessons learned to pave the way forward, with Amazon Labour Union President Chris Smalls in his first trip to Canada. Support the showPressProgress Sources
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We read Justice Roleau’s final report on the Emergencies Act Inquiry in its entirety so you don’t have to. Tune in to learn about the convoy’s origins on TikTok, the infighting among occupiers, as well as among Ottawa police, as well as some of the strange and surprising details buried in the Emergencies Act Inquiry’s final report.. PressProgress E…
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