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Fernwood Publishing Presents: The Fight for Public Dentalcare

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Realizing a Good Life: Men’s Pathways Out of Drugs and Crime

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Chow, More Than Ever: The 2023 Toronto Election (w/ The Breach, Big Shiny Takes + more)

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Briarpatch Presents: Who Is the NDP For....?

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Live at the 2023 Mobilizing Data for Justice conference

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CLC Day 4: Taking on a Titan: An Inside Look at the Amazon Labour Union (w/ Chris Smalls)

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CLC Day 3: Choosing to Stay and Fight (w/ comedian Margaret Cho)

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CLC Day 2: A Worker’s Plan to Tackle the Climate Crisis

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CLC Day 1: Workers and the Affordability Crisis

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Exploring the 2023 Canadian Labour Congress w/ Press Progress

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Disability Justice, Labour and the Left (w/ Briarpatch)

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PP vs. The CBC (w/ The Independent’s Justin Brake)

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Announcing UNPACKING THE NEWS SEASON 2 launching April 2023!

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Back to School at Podcast High

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The Intersect: The Rent and Housing Crisis (Housing Party ep5)

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The Intersect: Prisons and Pandemic

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The Intersect: How to Defund the Police

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The 20th Century: Mackenzie King and the Canadian Subconscious (w/ Kino Lefter)

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The Intersect: Fighting for a Free Transit Future

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The Intersect: Homelessness in an Era of COVID-19 (Housing Party ep4)

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The End of the Beginning of the End (w/ Martin Lukacs)

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Pandemic Pals: Calgary (w/ Kate Jacobson + Sean Willett)

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Pandemic Pals: Winnipeg (w/ Emily Leedham + James Wilt)

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Pandemic Pals: Ottawa (w/ David Moscrop)

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Pandemic Pals: Newfoundland (w/ Drew Brown)

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Pandemic Pals: Vancouver (w/ Charlie Demers + David Harris)

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Pandemic Pals: Montreal (w/ Rob Rousseau + Marla Williams)

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love COVID-19

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Blockades, Occupations and White Liberal Hypocrisy

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Crisis Democracy in a Fictional Country

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Quebec's Quiet Dystopia: Fake News, the Values Test and Law 21

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Ecological Sustainability, Economic Democracy and Labour's Fight for Climate Justice

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The New Left Canadian Media Insurgency

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Tension and Solidarity at the Regina Refinery Lockout

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Economic Development and Disparity in Parc-Extension (Housing Party ep3)

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Donut Discourse + the Wet’suwet’en Pipeline Standoff

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2020 Division: Foreign Policy Fails and a Fractured Political Year Ahead

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2019: The Way We Were

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A Very Orthodox Jewish Christmas

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The Cold War Tragedy of Canadian Communist Fred Rose (ep110 preview w/ Tommy Schnurmacher)

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White Supremacy and the Green Rhetoric of Ecofascism

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Inclusion and Gentrification in the Smart City (Face au Future ep1)

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Wexit and Jason Kenney's War on Alberta

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Call it a Coup (ep108 preview w/ Duncan Kinney)

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The Fight for Affordable Housing in the Cities (Housing Party ep2)

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Fake Victory: Election 2019 Analysis From Coast to Coast

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Singh’s Surge, Broken Democratic Norms and an Election About Race

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Debate Fails, Toxic Discourse and the Myth of Scheer as the Everyman

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Liz May, the Climate Strike and the Rise of the Greens

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Systemic Racism, Canada and Justin Trudeau

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2019 Election Analysis en Francais (le Plancher des Vaches ep1)

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Election of a Thousand Laughs

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Our Pals at The Post Millenial (ep100)

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Manitoba Election a Referendum on Austerity

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The Cities vs. AirBnB (Housing Party, ep1)

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Why the Globe & Mail is Wrong About Genocide

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Wet Hot Chocolate Milk Summer

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Seance at Lougheed Manor

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Unequal Opportunity: Sexism in Canadian Journalism

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Early Summer Fall Election Preview (3rd Birthday Edition)

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Jagmeet Singh on the NDP's Green New Deal

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The Extremely Online Subculture of Canada’s New Far-right

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Teens Against Empire: Gravel 2020 and the Anti-Imperialist Left

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The Rise of the Unpaid Intern Strike Movement

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Elizabeth May Day Special: Sleepwalking into Authoritarianism

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The Case for Nationalizing General Motors

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Welcome to Hellberta: The Kenney Era Begins

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Jason Kenney's Twisted Political Legacy

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The Covert Jody Wilson-Raybould Recording is Devastating (Bonus Audio Clip)

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The Cunning and Cowardice of Maxime Bernier

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What the SNC-Lavalin Scandal Teaches Us About Canadian Democracy

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The Case for Jody Wilson-Raybould

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Who Cares About Toxic Masculinity?

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Mr. Singh Goes to Ottawa

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Trudeau’s SNC-Lavelin Scandal is Hypocrisy 101

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Falling in Love with Andrew Scheer

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The NDP We Want

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Chrystia Freeland Supports Our Coups + Making the Case for Jagmeet Singh

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2018: Goodbye to the Dumbest Year

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A Trudeau Christmas Miracle

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The Gilets Jaunes Movement and Detached Neoliberalism

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Unpacking the Tomb: Bury Me in Winnipeg

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Red Chamber Blues: Inside the Senate

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Amnesty, Addiction and Legalization

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Left Internationalism and Indie Media: the Borderless/Ricochet Interview

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2018 a Breakout Election for Québec Solidaire

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2018 QC Election: Provincial NDP Return After 24 Year Hiatus

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2018 QC Election: An Existential Crisis for the Parti Québécois

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2018 QC Election: The Parties, the Personalities, the Issues

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Politics of Fear: Evangelical Support for Trump Not a Contradiction

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Herongate: Ottawa Community Fights Mass Eviction

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Heritage Front Minutes: Police, Spies and White Supremacy

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Alberta NDP Give Province a Political Education

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Stephen Harper's Post-Politics Grift

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Decolonizing Journalism: How to Disrupt Canadian Media

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Quebec Fascism, US Socialism and Canada’s Child Detention Hypocrisy

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Canada-US Relations Enter the Abyss

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Ontario Election Autopsy: Fördderdämmerung

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Surveillance, Secret Trials and Bill C-59's Attack on the Charter

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How Canadian Media Normalizes the Far-right