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PressProgress Sources
PressProgress Sources
43 episodes
4 days ago
Mark Carney is billing his first budget as an "investment budget," but with plans to eliminate 40,000 jobs in the federal public service and cut $60 billion in program spending, is this really an "investment budget" or is it an austerity budget? The 2025 federal budget gives Canadians a first look at the details behind Carney's plans to have federal departments cut 15% in spending, reduce the federal workforce by 10% and spend tens of billions of dollars on so-called "nation-building projects...
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Mark Carney is billing his first budget as an "investment budget," but with plans to eliminate 40,000 jobs in the federal public service and cut $60 billion in program spending, is this really an "investment budget" or is it an austerity budget? The 2025 federal budget gives Canadians a first look at the details behind Carney's plans to have federal departments cut 15% in spending, reduce the federal workforce by 10% and spend tens of billions of dollars on so-called "nation-building projects...
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PressProgress Sources
Looking Inside Mark Carney’s ‘Extremely Orwellian’ Austerity Budget
Mark Carney is billing his first budget as an "investment budget," but with plans to eliminate 40,000 jobs in the federal public service and cut $60 billion in program spending, is this really an "investment budget" or is it an austerity budget? The 2025 federal budget gives Canadians a first look at the details behind Carney's plans to have federal departments cut 15% in spending, reduce the federal workforce by 10% and spend tens of billions of dollars on so-called "nation-building projects...
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4 days ago
17 minutes

PressProgress Sources
Ostriches and deer and viruses, oh my!
An ostrich farm in rural British Columbia keeps making national and international headlines. It's the subject of a federal cull order, after 69 birds were found dead from an H5N1 or avian flu outbreak — routine procedure to stamp out further spread. But that's not entirely why they've caught the attention of U.S. politicians. On this episode of Sources, virologist and University of Saskatchewan professor Dr. Angela Rasmussen joins PressProgress health reporter Brishti Basu to talk about the v...
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2 weeks ago
38 minutes

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What a New Court Ruling Means for Encampments in Ontario
As the housing crisis persists throughout Ontario and across Canada, more and more municipalities are struggling with how to manage vulnerable residents in need of support. In Barrie, the mayor declared a state of emergency, so the city could more aggressively move to take apart encampments. But in Kitchener, a recent court decision concerning a longstanding encampment blocked the forcible removal of its residents, at least for now. On this episode of Sources, Ontario reporter Eric Wickham...
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1 month ago
21 minutes

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What You Need to Know About Air Canada’s Flight Attendants’ Strike
One of the top news stories in Canada this week was the tense stand-off between Air Canada and its 10,000 flight attendants. The Air Canada flight attendants' strike saw planes grounded across Canada as flight attendants demanded better pay, including an end to unpaid ground work. Then Mark Carney's government intervened and invoked a controversial section of the labour code to order flight attendants back-to-work, leading the flight attendants to announce they would be defying the Carney gov...
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2 months ago
23 minutes

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How Doug Ford Is Changing Ontario
In the months since winning its third consecutive majority, Doug Ford’s government has proposed or passed a flurry of laws with the potential to reshape Ontario. But with aggressively vague names like the “Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act,” it can be hard to keep track of which bill does what — let alone all the ways they’ll impact the lives of the people who call the province home. On this episode of Sources, PressProgress Ontario reporter Eric Wickham asks The Trillium’s Jack...
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4 months ago
55 minutes

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Making Work Safer for Racialized Immigrant Women
Racialized immigrant women are some of the most disadvantaged workers in Canada, with an employment rate significantly lower than racialized immigrant men and non-racialized immigrant women. Often, certifications and work experience from their home countries aren’t recognized, pushing many into low-wage, precarious jobs. If they experience harassment or unsafe working conditions, reaching out for help is made more complicated by language barriers, systemic racism and unfamiliar bureaucracy. C...
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5 months ago
33 minutes

PressProgress Sources
Alberta’s Separatist Stampede
Alberta separatism is making headlines again, this time driven largely by figures associated with far-right politics and the Freedom Convoy who are disgruntled about the federal election results. Groups within the province are now organizing a petition for a referendum and it looks increasingly like they may succeed at putting a question about Alberta independence on the ballot in some form or another next year. How likely is it that the Alberta independence movement could achieve its goals? ...
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5 months ago
29 minutes

PressProgress Sources
What Canadians Need to Know About Germany’s AfD and the Far-Right’s Threat to Democracy
Far-right parties are on the rise across Europe. Germany’s recent federal election saw a dramatic and concerning rise in support for the Alternative für Deutschland, or AfD, a far-right party that is considered a right-wing extremist organization and a threat to democracy. The AfD’s recent campaign was emboldened following endorsements by foreign billionaire Elon Musk and words of support from US Vice President JD Vance. As European far-right political parties like the AfD grow and build orga...
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6 months ago
38 minutes

PressProgress Sources
Meet the Corporate Lobbyists Connected to Pierre Poilievre and his Inner-Circle
Who is lobbying Pierre Poilievre? An interactive map from DeSmog shines a light on the links between Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and various corporate lobbying interests and right-wing advocacy groups. The map connects the dots between top figures in Poilievre’s Conservative party, including Poilievre's top advisor Jenni Byrne and Campaign Chair John Baird, with big names like Elon Musk, Stephen Harper and Koch Industries -- no wonder top Conservative Party officials voted down a res...
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6 months ago
34 minutes

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Organizing Against Queer and Trans Hate Ahead of Rumoured Election
As Justin Trudeau announced that he’s stepping down as Liberal leader, and many are saying that a federal election is just around the corner, one community is getting organized to make sure they’re needs are heard by politicians. A Mass Organizing Call for members and allies of the LGBTQ+ community in Canada is taking place on March 9. Its organizer is hoping that this event will help people push back against rising hate, and make sure their concerns are heard by politicians before the next f...
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8 months ago
15 minutes

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Why Ontario Schools Are in Crisis Under Doug Ford
As education workers in Ontario experience unprecedented levels of violence in the workplace, staff shortages and burnout, experts say education is in crisis under Doug Ford. Educational assistants, custodians, secretaries, lunch supervisors, maintenance staff overwhelmingly agree there is not enough personnel in schools to do jobs properly and many now find themselves doing the work of multiple staff members. But there could be a simple solution to the compounding issues affecting education ...
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8 months ago
18 minutes

PressProgress Sources
Donald Trump’s Tariff War Against Canada
Canada and the United States walked back from the brink of a full-blown trade war after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% tariffs on products from Canada. While Trump has granted Canada a temporary 30-day "pause" on his threatened trade war, if he makes good on his threats, Canada's economy could be facing an apocalyptic scenario with food and gas prices skyrocketing, hundreds of thousands of job losses and communities across Canada getting hollowed out as key industries shut...
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9 months ago
46 minutes

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Why 3 Ontario Cities Just Declared Food Insecurity Emergencies
While Ontario is gearing up for Doug Ford’s early election, many Ontarians are struggling to make ends meet.With one-in-three residents struggling to put food on their table, Kingston, Ontario just declared a food insecurity emergency — the third city in Ontario to recently declare this kind of emergency, following Toronto and Mississauga.In their announcements, all three cities asked the provincial government to increase the amount of money the province gives recipients of social assistance....
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9 months ago
24 minutes

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Edmonton Police Versus Duncan Kinney
Duncan Kinney is an Edmonton-based journalist and editor of a digital publication focused on Alberta politics called The Progress Report.From scrutinizing police budgets, shining a light on how police handle the city's unhoused population or drug poisoning crisis and exposing partisan connections between senior officers and Alberta's governing United Conservative Party, it's undeniable Kinney plays a role as a critical watchdog of Edmonton Police.But Kinney has also been a thorn in the side o...
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10 months ago
19 minutes

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Stopping the Infernos: Alberta After the Jasper Fire
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 complicated, according former Alberta Firefighter Matt Rieger, who spent years on the front lines battling blazes while stationed at bases across the province....
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1 year ago
33 minutes

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My Dinner With Eric: Grocery Prices and the Loblaws Boycott
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 staplesEric 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 Loblaws boycott. He also produces Sources.Support the show
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1 year ago
34 minutes

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After the assassination of a Canadian Sikh on Canadian soil, what did (or didn’t) the foreign interference commission reveal?
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 to the 2019 & 2021 general elections.”The commission also revealed that CSIS considered India a “clear second to (China) in terms of the le...
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1 year ago
50 minutes

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Rainbow Rallies: How Canada is Fighting Back Against a Wave of Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate
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 million march for children” which took place in cities across Canada last September.Now the pendulum is swinging the other way, and 2SLGBTQIA commu...
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1 year ago
24 minutes

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Capital Gains Taxes: What Are They and Why Are Canada’s Ultra Rich Freaking Out?
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 group of approximately 40,000 Canadians with average incomes of 1.4 million dollars.As one can imagine, the capital gains tax changes are already gen...
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1 year ago
52 minutes

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Jason Kenney's rocky and scandal ridden pursuit of power, with Jeremy Appel
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 a key figure in building Stephen Harper's conservatives, in the end Kenney failed to win over the grassroots in Canada's conservative heartland.We ...
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1 year ago
48 minutes

PressProgress Sources
Mark Carney is billing his first budget as an "investment budget," but with plans to eliminate 40,000 jobs in the federal public service and cut $60 billion in program spending, is this really an "investment budget" or is it an austerity budget? The 2025 federal budget gives Canadians a first look at the details behind Carney's plans to have federal departments cut 15% in spending, reduce the federal workforce by 10% and spend tens of billions of dollars on so-called "nation-building projects...