Episodes
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we dissect Canada’s participation in military occupations and failed elections in Haiti on THE BREACH SHOW, visit Palestine’s Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability and Museum of Natural History on GREEN PLANET MONITOR, say farewell to an old friend on the final episode of THE FORGOTTEN CORNER and investigate how...
Published 04/23/24
Published 04/23/24
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode: Ever since Facebook banned Canadian news in 2023, the task of building spaces for independent journalism to thrive has become more crucial than ever. Last November the independent media community teamed up to launch unrigged.ca, a new website that posts hourly content updates from a coalition of 25 local, regional and...
Published 04/16/24
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we unpack the real costs of carbon pricing on The Sierra Club’s THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA, learn how to lead de-escalation workshops and confront counter-protesters on CLIMATE ORGANIZING SHORTS, explore where music and mobilizing for Palestine intersect on FREE CITY RADIO and sit down with Canadian Centre for Policy...
Published 04/09/24
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts.  On this week's episode: Sarah Hoffman explores her vision for the future of the province In the first in a series of interviews with candidates for the Alberta NDP leadership race on THE PROGRESS REPORT, activist and journalist Dimitri Lascaris attends the Doha International Maritime Defence Exhibition & Conference on GREEN PLANET...
Published 04/02/24
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode It’s another spectacular edition of our HARBINGER SOAPBOX SERIES live podcast recording and community event. This edition, vol.2 - Canada: What Are We Doing Here? features your friends Rob Rousseau (49th Parahell), Nashwa Lina Khan (Habibti Please) and Paris Marx (Tech Won't Save Us) live on Saturday, March 23rd at the...
Published 03/26/24
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode We discuss The Palestine Solidarity Movement In Canada on VICTOR’S CHILDREN, look at the history of the Gaza blockade and how Israel has ghettoized the Palestinian population with The Electronic Intifada on THE ANTI-EMPIRE PROJECT, unpack widely-held misconceptions about the effectiveness of plastic recycling on TECH...
Published 03/19/24
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we expose Canada’s $28.5 million in military exports to Israel on The Breach Show, Sarah Jama talks about her expulsion from the Ontario NDP caucus and how Canadian political culture stifles free expression on 49th Parahell, discuss advocating for just working conditions with Professional Women's Hockey League Players...
Published 03/12/24
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we report on Israel's targeted attacks on education, knowledge and culture in Gaza on REDEYE, explore how the late NDP leader Ed Broadbent spent a lifetime seeking democracy and equality on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, unpack the new national Pharmacare legislation on THE BREACH SHOW and discuss the prairies' orphan wells...
Published 03/05/24
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we discuss the realities of the province's drug poisoning crisis on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, spend two nights with the residents of Tent City for Change in St. John’s on The Independent’s LOCK & KEY, examine what progressives get right and wrong about affordable housing on The Broadbent Institute's new podcast...
Published 02/27/24
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we visit the frontlines of apartheid in Jerusalem with progressive Israeli NGO Ir Amim on GREEN PLANET MONITOR, ask why Canada’s spy agency is investigating the nomination of an Ontario Conservative MP on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, investigate how Calgary hospital laundry workers' wildcat strikes forced Ralph Klein's PC...
Published 02/20/24
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we explore what's hidden or obscured when thinking uncritically about economic thought on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, reckon with ultimate political weirdo Jason Kenney’s legacy on THE PROGRESS REPORT, speak out against Canadian support for Israel’s genocidal violence against Gaza on THE END OF SPORT and ask why media are...
Published 02/13/24
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode the team analyze crypto-fascist petropropaganda on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, explain why the Canadian government's response to the UN's top court's ruling on Israel's genocide in Gaza exposes its "egregious double standards" towards Palestinians on THE BREACH SHOW, hear genocide scholar William Schabas' thoughts on the...
Published 02/06/24
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode come hangout with Harbinger Media friends as they dig deep into the sorry state of Canadian journalism with Rob Rousseau (49th Parahell), Nashwa Lina Khan (Habibti Please), and Paris Marx (Tech Won't Save Us) recorded live on January 20th at the historic Centre St. Jax venue l'Annexe in downtown Montreal. The Harbinger...
Published 01/30/24
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode the panel explore ideology in theory, history and how it’s even present among people who consider themselves "objective” on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, Naomi Klein explores how the online ‘mirror world’ and personal branding distort reality on TECH WON'T SAVE US. Palestinian Youth Movement’s Mousa Qasqas discusses Edmonton...
Published 01/23/24
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode the panel dismantle the legacy of fondly remembered provincial premiere Peter Lougheed on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard discusses South Africa's argument that Israel’s assault on Gaza matches the definition of genocide, a claim that he submitted to the International Criminal Court last...
Published 01/16/24
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we explain why Zionism is bad, actually, on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, unpack how capitalism creates insecurity to sustain itself with writer Astra Taylor on TECH WON'T SAVE US, reflect on Western values and the Anglo American Empire's decline with Kawsachun News’ Camilla Press on 49th PARAHELL and explore the reactionary rise...
Published 01/09/24
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode The Energy Mix's Mitchell Beer returns to talk COP28, Pivot's Francis Hérbert-Bernier speaks with labour reporter Emily Leedham about the historic 500,000 worker strike that’s shutting down Quebec on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, Martin Lukacs interviews CJPME's Dan Freeman-Maloy about Canada’s record serving imperial...
Published 12/12/23
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode The Energy Mix's Mitchell Beer talks COP28, Electronic Intifada and The Anti-Imperialism project join Rob Rousseau on the long-anticipated return of 49th Parahell, Andre Goulet and Erick Wickham speak with Green Majority about new independent Canadian progressive journalism website unrigged.ca and The Alberta Advantage...
Published 12/04/23
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we explore the eight month long Calgary Herald strike and how the 2000 labour action pushed back against right-wing editorial overreach and unfair treatment in the newsroom on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE and present a long listen from the launch day event for new national progressive journalism aggregation website UNRIGGED.CA on...
Published 11/28/23
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: unpack the political philosophy of fascism on UNMAKING SASKATCHEWANtalk leadership with Al-Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network on GREEN PLANET MONITOR explain how disinformation foments anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia on REDEYEexamine the neoliberal tilt of Saskatchewan NDP Premier Roy Romanow's 1991-2001...
Published 11/21/23
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: explore the centenary of Germany’s failed 2023 socialist revolution on VICTOR’S CHILDRENexamine the legal dimensions of Israel’s escalating Gaza assault on THE BREACH SHOWunpack the unhinged resolutions at last week’s UCP AGM on THE PROGRESS REPORTcelebrate the end of the 6 month long wildfire season on ALBERTA...
Published 11/14/23
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode we: talk international mobilization for Palestinian rights on CJPME DEBRIEFreveal how nationalistic narratives distract us from a better understanding of tech in the US and China on TECH WON’T SAVE US explain the little-known story of an early period of psychedelic research in Weyburn, Saskatchewan on DARTS &...
Published 11/07/23
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode: a proposed wind-to-hydrogen megaproject is meeting significant resistance from Newfoundland communities on THE INDEPENDENT'S BERRYGROUNDSthe environmental justice movement’s silence on Palestine on GREEN MAJORITYhow Sheltered Workshops exploit people labelled with intellectual and developmental disabilities on INVISIBLE...
Published 10/31/23
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this week's episode: Martin Lukacs reports back from the 2023 NDP convention on THE BREACH SHOWformer UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights Michael Lynk discusses war crimes in Gaza on GREEN PLANET MONITORan interview unpacking how Canadian Sikhs are in the crosshairs of an aggressive campaign of harassment from social media...
Published 10/24/23