Episodes

  • Edmonton: Purple City Blues (Harbinger Soapbox Series vol. 3)

    Edmonton: Purple City Blues (Harbinger Soapbox Series vol. 3)
    May 27 2024
    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 friends Big Shiny Takes host Jeremy Appel, Emma Jackson from Common Horizon, and The Progress Report host Duncan Kinney live, on Saturday, May 25th at a legacy housing co-operative located near Whyte avenue in a conversation examining the Alberta NDP leadership race, Trans Mountain trauma, municipal politics drama and a special exclusive interview with guests Nour Salhi, Abraar Alsilwadi and Ali Ansari discussing their experience participating in the Palestine solidarity encampment at the University of Alberta.
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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • Canada: What Are We Doing Here? (Harbinger Soapbox Series vol. 2)

    Canada: What Are We Doing Here? (Harbinger Soapbox Series vol. 2)
    Mar 25 2024
    It’s another spectacular edition of our heroic HARBINGER SOAPBOX SERIES live podcast recording and community event! This edition, vol.2 - Canada: What Are We Doing Here? features your friends 49th Parahell host Rob Rousseau, Nashwa Lina Khan from Habibti Please, and Tech Won't Save Us host Paris Marx live, on Saturday, March 23rd at the historic Eglise St. Jax basement venue l'Annexe located on rue Saint-Catherine in beautiful downtown Montreal on the same day as the Brian Mulroney state funeral happening a kilometer away, in a conversation talking Tiktok bans, ArriveCAN scandals, Dollar store drama and Israeli Apartheid Week.

    Hosts:

    Nashwa Lina Khan is a community educator, facilitator, and researcher. She is also a writer and poet exploring installation and narrative methodologies and has been published in Vice, Rewire, This Magazine, and The New York Times. Nashwa is the host and producer of the podcast projects Muslim Rumspringa and Habibti Please.

    Rob Rousseau is an independent journalist and political commentator, host of the podcasts 49th Parahell and The Insurgents, as well as the daily livestream TRRS on twitch.tv. His writing has appeared in VICE, Paste Magazine, Canadian Dimension and The Maple.

    Paris Marx is a Canadian tech writer and host of the award-winning Tech Won't Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and his work has been published by Time, Wired, CBC News, and more. Paris is also the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.

    Producer:

    André Goulet is executive director of Harbinger Media, national coordinator for the independent Canadian journalism community Unrigged, host of the nationally syndicated campus and community radio show Harbinger Showcase and the producer of more than 700 podcast episodes for Spacing Magazine,The Breach Media , the Quebec solidarity journalism cooperative Pivot and others.
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    1 hr and 40 mins
  • News Sucks, We Know (Harbinger Soapbox Series vol. 1)

    News Sucks, We Know (Harbinger Soapbox Series vol. 1)
    Jan 25 2024
    Come hangout with Harbinger Media friends as they dig deep into the sorry state of Canadian journalism! Join Rob Rousseau (49th Parahell), Nashwa Lina Khan (Habibti Please), and Paris Marx (Tech Won't Save Us) on January 20th, 8pm at the historic Centre St. Jax basement venue l'Annexe located at1439 rue Saint-Catherine Ouest next to Concordia University in downtown Montreal.

    This event is licensed BYOB so bring your own beverage of choice with $15 admission or PWYC so bring some cash too. Doors are at 7, the show's at 8 and stay for the afterparty from 10pm till late see you there!

    Hosts:

    Nashwa Lina Khan is a community educator, facilitator, and researcher. She is also a writer and poet exploring installation and narrative methodologies and has been published in Vice, Rewire, This Magazine, and The New York Times. Nashwa is the host and producer of the podcast projects Muslim Rumspringa and Habibti Please.

    Rob Rousseau is an independent journalist and political commentator, host of the podcasts 49th Parahell and The Insurgents, as well as the daily livestream TRRS on twitch.tv. His writing has appeared in VICE, Paste Magazine, Canadian Dimension and The Maple.

    Paris Marx is a Canadian tech writer and host of the award-winning Tech Won't Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and his work has been published by Time, Wired, CBC News, and more. Paris is also the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.

    Producer:

    André Goulet is executive director of Harbinger Media, national coordinator for the independent Canadian journalism community Unrigged, host of the nationally syndicated campus and community radio show Harbinger Showcase and the producer of more than 700 podcast episodes for Spacing Magazine,The Breach Media , the Quebec solidarity journalism cooperative Pivot and others.
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    2 hrs
  • Fernwood Publishing Presents: The Fight for Public Dentalcare (Unpacking the News S2, E12)

    Fernwood Publishing Presents: The Fight for Public Dentalcare (Unpacking the News S2, E12)
    Jul 17 2023
    Dental care is excluded from Canada’s universal healthcare system with services provided based on the ability to pay, leading large segments of the population to neglect care resulting in poor oral health and all its consequences.

    On a new Unpacking the News dentist and public healthcare activist Brandon Doucet joins host Andre Goulet for a conversation examining the little known history of dentistry in Canada, how private business interests have prevailed over public health, current trends in the industry like corporate ownership and cosmetic dentistry and more from his new Fernwood Publishing release ‘About Canada: Dental Care’.

    The ‘About Canada’ series includes short, easy to read volumes on immigration, health care, disability rights, poverty, media among other topics. Find the series and more essential left Canadian books at www.fernwoodpublishing.ca.
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    41 mins
  • Realizing a Good Life: Men’s Pathways Out of Drugs and Crime (Unpacking the News S2, E11)

    Realizing a Good Life: Men’s Pathways Out of Drugs and Crime (Unpacking the News S2, E11)
    Jul 3 2023
    Elizabeth Comack's work in the sociology of law and feminist criminology and as a member of the Manitoba Research Alliance, a consortium of academics and community partners engaged in research addressing poverty in Indigenous and inner-city communities, has informed 14 books she's written or edited including ‘Coming Back to Jail: Women, Trauma, and Criminalization’ and ‘Racialized Policing: Aboriginal People’s Encounters with Police’.

    On a new Unpacking the News she joins host Andre Goulet to talk about her latest book from Fernwood ‘Realizing a Good Life: Men’s Pathways Out of Drugs and Crime’.

    Find the book at your local library, independent bookstore and at https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/realizing-a-good-life

    Find 'Property Wrongs: The 70 Year Fight for Public Housing in Winnipeg' at https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/property-wrongs
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    41 mins
  • Chow, More Than Ever: The 2023 Toronto Election (Unpacking the News S2, E10)

    Chow, More Than Ever: The 2023 Toronto Election (Unpacking the News S2, E10)
    Jun 19 2023
    On a new Unpacking the News an amazing array of independent media convene at Christie Pits park as Replay’s Shama Rangwala, The Breach coordinating editor Emma Paling, analyst Chuka Ekjam, cartoonist Haus of Decline and Big Shiny Takes Institute senior fellows Marino Greco, Eric Wickham and Jeremy Appel sit down with host Andre Goulet to break down the candidates and issues, hopes and dreams and traumas and fears of Toronto's 2023 Mayoral byelection.

    Plus stay tuned until the end of the episode for a very special 40th birthday best wishes segment recorded for Harbinger pal and friend of the show Rob Rousseau.
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    39 mins
  • Briarpatch Presents: Who Is the NDP For?

    Briarpatch Presents: Who Is the NDP For?
    Jun 19 2023
    Former Saskatchewan NDP leadership candidate Kaitlyn Harvey and Edmonton city council candidate Navjot Kaur join journalist Haseena Manek and host Andre Goulet for a conversation exploring the exclusionary reflex of provincial NDP parties in the 2nd in a series of episodes produced in collaboration with Briarpatch celebrating the magazine's 50th anniversary year.

    Read Maneek's piece at
    https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/who-is-the-ndp-for

    Find the new Fernwood Publishing release 'Making a Home' at
    https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/making-a-home
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Live at the 2023 Mobilizing Data for Justice conference (Unpacking the News S2, E8)

    Live at the 2023 Mobilizing Data for Justice conference (Unpacking the News S2, E8)
    May 22 2023
    On May 5th through 7th the 2023 Mobilizing Data for Justice conference brought together activists, community leaders and critical researchers from around the world for skill building, community outreach and research collaboration at Concordia University's downtown campus in Montreal.

    On a new episode of Unpacking the News Invisible Institutions' Megan Linton and host Andre Goulet spoke with multiple presenters including conference lead organizer Dr. Chris Hurl, the Information Mobilization and Public Accountability Collective of Toronto's AJ Withers, Winnipeg scholar and activist Kevin Walby from the Centre for Access to Information and Justice, RenovictionsTO's Patricio Davilla and Montreal's Parc-ex Anti-Eviction Mapping Project about how activists and critical researchers are deploying techniques like mapping and countermapping to visualize social justice issues in new ways.

    Find out more at
    https://datajusticehub.ca/
    https://renovictionsto.com/
    https://antievictionmontreal.org/en/
    https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/caij/
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    1 hr and 1 min