Showcase ep23 (Alberta Advantage, Green Planet Monitor, Press Progress Sources + more)

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 the ongoing pandemic is being handled (ie. ignored) by government, the media and society on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.The Harbinger Media Network includes 69 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio at CIUT 89.5FM in Toronto, CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg and at Vancouver Co-op Radio.Financial support on this episode is courtesy of The Alberta Advantage. Find out more about Calgary's #1 podcast albertaadvantagepod.com.Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com

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 national media outlets from coast to coast to coast. In this conversation we take you to The Broadbent Institute’s 2024 Progress Summit for our Thursday, April 11th panel featuring The Breach, Briarpatch, The Hoser, Press Progress and the Pivot solidarity journalism cooperative in conversation with Harbinger Showcase host Andre Goulet and Invisible Institutions' Megan Linton unpacking the past, present and future of the project.The Harbinger Media Network includes 69 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio at CIUT 89.5FM in Toronto, CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg and at Vancouver Co-op Radio.Financial support on this episode is courtesy of The Alberta Advantage. Find out more about Calgary's #1 podcast albertaadvantagepod.com.Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com

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 Alternatives economist Alex Hemingway to discuss the effects of massive wealth inequality in society on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.The Harbinger Media Network includes 69 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio at CIUT 89.5FM in Toronto, CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg and at Vancouver Co-op Radio.Financial support on this episode is courtesy of The Alberta Advantage. Find out more about Calgary's #1 podcast albertaadvantagepod.com.Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com

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 MONITOR, Pullback co-hosts Kristen Pue and Kyla Hewson discuss their new podcast CLIMATE ORGANIZING SHORTS on GREEN MAJORITY and the team look back at the province’s non-commercial educational broadcaster Access Television on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.This episode is brought to you by THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE and BETWEEN THE LINES BOOKS.  Find the new BTL release ‘Law and Work’ at your local public library or independent book store and at btlbooks.com.The Harbinger Media Network includes 66 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio at CIUT 89.5FM in Toronto, CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg and at Vancouver Co-op Radio.Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com

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 historic Eglise St. Jax on rue Saint-Catherine in beautiful downtown Montreal (on the same day as the Brian Mulroney state funeral happening a kilometer away lol) in a conversation talking Tiktok bans, ArriveCAN scandals, Dollar store drama and Israeli Apartheid Week.The Harbinger Media Network includes more than 60 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio at CIUT 89.5FM in Toronto, CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg and at Vancouver Co-op Radio.Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com

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 WON’T SAVE US and ask whatever happened to Pierre Trudeau’s National Energy Program with journalist Taylor C. Noakes for a conversation unpacking the genesis and legacy of the NEP and the state of the fossil fuel industry today on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.This episode is brought to you by THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE and BETWEEN THE LINES BOOKS.  Find the new BTL release ‘Ecology for the 99%: Twenty Capitalist Myths Debunked’ at your local public library or independent book store and at btlbooks.com.The Harbinger Media Network includes 66 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio at CIUT 89.5FM in Toronto, CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg and at Vancouver Co-op Radio.Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com

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 Association executive committee member Liz Knox on The End of Sport and learn how the Canadian business lobby and media establishment manufactured a fiscal crisis and drove the Liberal Party's '90s austerity policy with rankandfile.ca editor Doug Nesbitt.The Harbinger Media Network includes 66 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio at CIUT 89.5FM in Toronto, CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg and at Vancouver Co-op Radio.Financial support on this episode is courtesy of The Alberta Advantage. Find out more about Calgary's #1 podcast albertaadvantagepod.com.Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com

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 problem on a classic episode of ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.The Harbinger Media Network includes 66 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio at CIUT 89.5FM in Toronto, CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg and at Vancouver Co-op Radio.Financial support on this episode is courtesy of The Alberta Advantage. Find out more about Calgary's #1 podcast albertaadvantagepod.com.Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com

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 PERSPECTIVES and uncover the history of the 1915-1916 Armenian genocide on THE ANTI-EMPIRE PROJECT.The Harbinger Media Network includes 66 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio at CIUT 89.5FM in Toronto, CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg and at Vancouver Co-op Radio.Financial support on this episode is courtesy of The Alberta Advantage. Find out more about Calgary's #1 podcast albertaadvantagepod.com.Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com

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 government to back off from austerity in the 1990s on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE and talk about Harbinger’s big plans for 2024 in a conversation host Andre Goulet recorded last week with CKUW 95.9FM. The Harbinger Media Network includes 66 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio at CIUT 89.5FM in Toronto, CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg and at Vancouver Co-op Radio.Financial support on this episode is courtesy of The Alberta Advantage. Find out more about Calgary's #1 podcast albertaadvantagepod.com.Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com