| Sam Gindin on what's ahead for the global economic crisis, Carlo Fanelli on the cuts at Toronto City Hall and Dennis Pilon asks if municipal amalgamation produces right-wing mayors like Rob Ford.

| Who will make the best leader of the NDP and does it matter? Some surprising answers from Murray Dobbin, Corvin Russell, Simon Tremblay Pepin, Josh Brandon, Herman Rosenfeld and Stefan Christoff.

| OpenMedia.ca's Lindsey Pinto on Harper's online spying bill, columnist Tom Walkom on Ontario's Drummond report and professor David McNally on the rise of Communist China as a state capitalist power.

| This week, Alert! interviews Sara Flounders and Yves Engler, two of the presenters at a University of Toronto forum on the Geopolitics of Sanctions and War Against Iran.

| Tracking Israel Apartheid Week in Montreal, Halifax, Toronto, and Winnipeg, and Tess Tesalona describes a unique International Women's Day program sponsored by Women of Diverse Origins in Montreal.

| This episode of Alert! gives a taste of the Left Forum, a unique conference that convenes a broad spectrum of progressive intellectuals, activists, academics, organizations and the interested public.

| The NDP under a Mulcair leadership. How different would it be? The tar sands not so bad as coal and natural gas? Greenpeace begs to differ!

| On Alert! Radio #209: another community leader murdered for protesting against a Canadian mining company, the historic Quebec students' strike and why Mulcair's victory is a setback.

| What the federal budget tells us about Harper’s plans to reshape Canada. Why a special issue on de-growth in Canadian Dimension?

| Today's interviews on Alert! Radio focus on foreign intervention in Syria and the federal budget's impact on women.

| This week on Alert! Radio: The roots of Wildrose. Harper terminates NAHO as part of his agenda to silence all dissent. Free public transit -- an idea whose time has come?

| On this edition of Alert! Radio: Why Wildrose lost, Quebec student strike still going strong and B.C. mayors against Harper on the Kinder Morgan pipeline.

| On this episode, Clayton Thomas Muller on Indigenous resistance, Mae Burrows' quest for a living wage in B.C. and Noam Chomsky calls for more comprehensive activist goals.