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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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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From May 8-12 don't miss UNPACKING THE NEWS broadcasting live from the 2023 Canadian Labour Congress with our friends at Quebec solidarity journalism cooperative Pivot!

Every day we're releasing interviews and reports from Canada's 30th tri-annual labour summit including this episode featuring a speech from Amazon Labour Union president Chris Smalls.

Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts and find more about the Congress at https://liftingeveryoneup.ca/

Theme music 'Judy is a Dick Slap' courtesy of the 2000 Belle and Sebastian EP 'Legal Man' on Jeepster Records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-thsncxieBg

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From May 8-12 don't miss UNPACKING THE NEWS broadcasting live from the 2023 Canadian Labour Congress with our friends at Quebec solidarity journalism cooperative Pivot!

Every day we're releasing interviews and reports from Canada's 30th tri-annual labour summit including this episode featuring a panel from the conference floor with Emmmy and Grammy nominated Korean-American comedian and LGBTQIA2s+ activist Margaret Cho.

Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts and find more about the Congress at https://liftingeveryoneup.ca/

Watch the 30 Rock clip 'Kim Jong-il the Waiter' at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K-SmlP4U5w

Theme music 'Judy is a Dick Slap' courtesy of the 2000 Belle and Sebastian EP 'Legal Man' on Jeepster Records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-thsncxieBg

NOTE: SUBSCRIBE TO UNPACKING THE NEWS TO CONTINUE RECEIVING NEW EPISODES ON YOUR FEED WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS!

From May 8-12 don't miss UNPACKING THE NEWS' daily show broadcasting live from the 2023 Canadian Labour Congress with our friends at Quebec solidarity journalism cooperative Pivot!

Every day we're releasing interviews and reports from Canada's 30th tri-annual labour summit including this episode featuring a panel from the conference floor moderated by activist Mary Shortall with a panel including the Climate Institute’s Matt Waylan, the Broadbent Institute’s Meg Gingrich and le Directeur syndical - Service Environnement et Transition juste at the Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec Patrick Rondeau

Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts and find more about the Congress at https://liftingeveryoneup.ca/

Watch the CBC video clip 'Alberta wildfires force thousands from their homes' at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_dfrA_HSD0

Theme music 'Judy is a Dick Slap' courtesy of the 2000 Belle and Sebastian EP 'Legal Man' on Jeepster Records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-thsncxieBg

From May 8-12 don't miss UNPACKING THE NEWS' daily show broadcasting live from the 2023 Canadian Labour Congress with our friends at Quebec solidarity journalism cooperative Pivot!

Every day we're releasing interviews and reports from the floor of Canada's 30th tri-annual labour summit including this episode featuring a panel from the conference floor moderated by Broadbent Institute director Jen Hassum in conversation with economists Jim Stanford, Angella MacEwan and Yasmine Yalnizyan on 'Fighting for Fairness: Workers and the Affordability Crisis'.

Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts and find more about the Congress at https://liftingeveryoneup.ca/

From May 8-12 don't miss UNPACKING THE NEWS' daily show every morning live from the 2023 Canadian Labour Congress with our friends at Quebec solidarity journalism cooperative Pivot!

Each episode will feature interviews and reports from the floor of Canada's 30th tri-annual labour summit including this episode with prairie labour journalist Emily Leedham and host Andre Goulet exploring what to expect at convention this week, her new Press Progress piece about the PSAC-AFPC action 'Public Servants Forced Government to Improve Deal By Going on Strike' and more.

Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts and find more about the Congress at https://liftingeveryoneup.ca/

Order your copy of Building A Better World: An Introduction to the Labour Movement in Canada at https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/building-a-better-world-4th-edition

The fiercely independent, proudly polemical and reader-supported BRIARPATCH has been publishing award-winning, hard-hitting journalism and critical commentary out of Regina, Saskatchewan since 1973. In it's 50th anniversary year Unpacking the News is excited to partner with so-called Canada's oldest legacy Left media space for bi-monthly episodes featuring journalists talking about their original insight, analysis and grassroots reporting from the magazine's latest issue.

On this episode social service work educator Griffin Epstein and trauma-informed adult educator Kate Klein discuss disability justice as a lens for organizing collective safety in the labour movement and what the Left risks by erasing or “moving on” from COVID in their new piece 'THEY DON’T KNOW HOW TO FIGHT FOR THIS' in the May/June issue of Briarpatch, available now.

For more visit briarpatchmag.com
Support Unpacking the News on Patreon.

Subscribe to Unpacking the News wherever you get your podcasts.

Trailblazing progressive podcast UNPACKING THE NEWS is back after a 30 month hiatus for an all-new Season 2! In this kick-off episode BERRYGROUNDS' Justin Brake joins host Andre Goulet to explore how his work as The Independent interim editor will be afflicting the comfortable in Newfoundland and Labrador society and politics, his background in unapologetic, confrontational journalism and how Pierre Poilievre’s attacks on the CBC distort the reality of public broadcasting in so-called Canada.

Watch for new episodes this spring and summer co-produced with Briarpatch contributors celebrating the magazine's 50th anniversary, Fernwood Publishing authors discussing new releases, conversations with data activists at the Mobilizing Data for Justice conference May 5-7 plus a week-long daily show at the 2023 Canadian Labour Congress covering events at the year's big union conference happening May 8-12 in collaboration with our friends at Quebec solidarity journalism cooperative Pivot.

If you like the work we do consider supporting the show on Patreon.

Find out more about Newfoundland and Labrador's #1 progressive news source at https://theindependent.ca/

We're back!

Returning after a two and a half year hiatus Unpacking the News is a weekly progressive podcast featuring in-depth interviews and panel conversations on Canadian society, culture and politics with journalists, academics and activists from coast to coast. Hosted by André Goulet in Montréal, this season will include episodes co-produced with:

• Council of Canadians campaign organizers
• Briarpatch contributors celebrating the magazine’s 50th anniversary
• Fernwood Publishing authors discussing new book releases
• a week-long daily live series recorded at the 2023 Canadian Labour Congress
• a live episode recorded at Concordia University's Mobilizing Data for Justice conference
• and much more over a 15 episode season

New episodes drop every Wednesday in late April, May and June and it's going to be so much fun! Tell a friend, support the show at https://www.patreon.com/unpackingthenews and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

Music on this preview 'We're Coming Back' is courtesy of Titus Andronicus, from their 2022 album 'An Anomaly. Find out more about "The Rock Fan's Rock Band" at http://titusandronicus.net/

For the first time since Canada's premiere politically and socially progressive conference launched in 2014 this year's Progress Summit included a workshop exploring how podcasts can be a force for change in a time of division in a special showcase convened by the Harbinger community.

An astonishing 14 network hosts sat down for the 90 minute panel including TECH WON’T SAVE US' Paris Marx, INVISIBLE INSTITUTIONS' Megan Linton, BIG SHINY TAKES' Eric Wickham, PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES' Stephen Magusiak and Rumneek Johal, PULLBACK's Kristen Pue, PIVOT QUEBEC's Gabrielle Brassard-Lecours, THE HOSER MEDIA's Shannon Carranco and Kevin Taghabon, DARTS & LETTERS' Gordon Katic, ALBERTA ADVANTAGE's William Gillies and GREEN MAJORITY's Stefan Hostetter and Lauren Latour and moderator Andre Goulet.

Big thanks to the Broadbent Institute for the opportunity to talk about how Harbinger values like collaboration, community and social justice are leading the fight against radical right-wing voices in Canadian media and working towards a more fair and progressive Canada.


This panel was recorded on Friday, March 10th 2023 in Ottawa.

The Harbinger Media Network's showcase at next month's 2023 Progress Summit will pick up on this year’s conference theme of ‘Stronger Together: Forging Unity in a Time of Division’. On episode 48 of Harbinger Society Presents Megan Linton from Invisible Institutions, Big Shiny Takes' Eric Wickham and Tech Won't Save Us host Paris Marx join Andre Goulet to explain why solidarity, collaboration and mutual aid are some of the key characteristics of Harbinger’s approach to building a media community.

The 2023 Progress Summit is happening March 8-10 in Ottawa! Join Eric, Megan, Paris, Andre plus Stephen Magusiak and Rumneek Johal (Press Progress), Kristen Pue (Pullback), Gabrielle Brassard-Lecours (Pivot), Shannon Carranco and Kevin Taghabon (The Hoser), Gordon Katic (Darts & Letters), Will Gillies (Alberta Advantage) and Stefan Hostetter and Lauren Latour (Green Majority) for a 90 minute showcase/workshop begining at 1pm at the Delta Hotel.

Tickets are available at broadbentinstitute.ca/summit202

This panel was recorded for our campus and community radio pals at CKUW! Since 1963 CKUW 95.9FM has been Manitoba's #1 community radio station and hosts the Harbinger Spotlight, a weekly show highlighting new episodes from Canada's favourite podcast network. Their annual telethon goal is $60,000 - call now at 204-774-6877 to support their work or make a donation at ckuw.ca/donate before February 24th.