April 7, 2023
How privateers are privatizing public services
The global union Public Services International is helping its affiliates bring privatized public services back to public ownership.
Podcasts
April 7, 2023
Creating safer and more inclusive workplaces for 2SLGBTQIA+ Canadians
This week on rabble radio, labour reporter Gabriela Calugay-Casuga sits down with Jade Pichette from Pride at Work to discuss creating safe and inclusive workplaces for trans, non-binary and agender people.
March 31, 2023
Hong Kong’s crackdown on unions
Today, Marc Bélanger interviews the executive director of the Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor, Christopher Siu-Tat Mung.
March 31, 2023
Building a livable Ontario means addressing the housing and climate crises
Georgia Kelly sits down with Franz Hartmann from The Alliance for a Livable Ontario. The two discuss the Alliance’s goals for holding the Ontario government accountable and creating vibrant communities across the province.
March 27, 2023
Labour education: film, fair and organizing
In the first episode of our fourth series, we welcome CLiFF (Canadian Labour International Film Festival board members, Lorene Oikawa and Derek Blackadder and George Brown College faculty and organizer with the Labour Fair, Kathryn Payne.
March 24, 2023
What will the 2023 federal budget bring for Canadians?
This week on rabble radio, we feature a segment from our most recent Off the Hill political panel. This month, our theme was ‘Off the Hill: Mind the gap – the federal budget and income equality.’
March 17, 2023
The expectations and assumptions of care work in Canada
Ethel Tungohan joins rabble radio to talk about how care work is viewed in Canada. She also explains why a complete breakdown of colonized thinking, learning and working in Canada must take place.
March 17, 2023
Artificial intelligence in the workplace
The International Trade Union Confederation has produced a report describing how automation, algorithms and artificial intelligence systems are effecting workplaces.
March 10, 2023
Providing abortion care in prison and the need for universal contraception coverage
This week, national politics reporter Stephen Wentzell is joined by Dr. Martha Paynter. The two discuss a new guidebook for providing abortion care in prison, a new jail facility being built in N.B., and the need for universal contraception coverage in Nova Scotia.
March 10, 2023
UN’s Status of Women conference opens
Many unionists are attending the 67th session of the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women being held in New York until March 17, 2023.
March 3, 2023
Ukraine children killed, wounded and traumatized
Teachers are helping by purchasing generators for the schools and their bomb shelters plus organizing mental health programmes for the children.
March 3, 2023
Democracy Watch wants to hold dishonest politicians accountable
This week on the show, rabble contributor Doreen Nicoll speaks to Duff Conacher, co-founder of Democracy Watch, to talk about an ‘honesty in politics’ law and the fight to stop secret, unethical lobbying.