November 14, 2025
Heather McPherson’s fight against company unions
NDP leadership candidate and MP Heather McPherson talks about one of the proposals from her campaign: calling for a ban on company unions.
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November 14, 2025
Considering sectoral bargaining in Canada
Dr. Adam King joins rabble labour reporter Gabriela Calugay-Casuga to talk about what sectoral bargaining might look like in Canada and what sectoral bargaining would mean for the right to strike.
November 7, 2025
A banker’s budget is not a worker’s budget
The proposed federal budget released by the Carney government is designed for bankers, not workers. The LabourStart report about union events.
November 7, 2025
Carney’s ‘generational’ budget falls short of expectations
This week, Prime Minister Mark Carney shared Budget 2025: a budget that Carney says is “to build Canada strong.” The budget emphasized the importance of investing over spending—but what does that really mean?
November 5, 2025
You Will Not Kill Our Imagination: Author Saeed Teebi on Palestine, writing and imagination
We are pleased to welcome award-winning author Saeed Teebi who speaks to us about his powerful new book, You Will Not Kill Our Imagination: A Memoir of Palestine and Writing in Dark Times.
October 31, 2025
Reviewing Muslim representation in Canadian media
Sadaf Ahsan takes us through the common trends and stereotypes surrounding Muslim characters in the media and the pop culture figures who are offering more nuanced and multifaceted representations.
October 31, 2025
Rob Ashton: Canada needs bold action for workers now
Rob Ashton, a candidate for the leadership of the federal NDP, says working people need better representation at the federal level. This is the second in RadioLabour’s series covering the NDP leadership race.
October 24, 2025
Avi Lewis: How to create thousands of unionized jobs
Avi Lewis says the federal government could be using public policy to fight the Trump tariffs, build a green, care economy and produce many unionized jobs.
October 24, 2025
What are the priorities in these early days of the NDP leadership race?
Nick Seebruch and Sarah Sahagian sit down to discuss the federal NDP leadership race. The two weigh in on the “insiders” and “outsiders” of the race, the concept of political “purity tests” and the importance of English-French bilingualism for a federal leader.
October 17, 2025
New border security bills endanger refugee rights
A clip from Courage my Friends discusses Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new border security acts, Bill C-2 and its questionable make-over with the recently tabled Bill C-12 and how they effectively rewrite Canada’s approach to refugee rights and protections.
October 17, 2025
Choose: More nurses per patient or worse health care
Nurses unions across the country have been trying to convince governments to increase nurse-to-patient ratios in order improve the provision of health care. An interview with the president of the BC Nurses Union, Adriane Gear.
October 15, 2025
Bills C-2 and C-12: How Canada’s border security acts endanger refugee rights
Karen Cocq, Aisling Bondy and Alina Murad discuss the dangers to refugee rights and protections posed by the Carney Government’s new border Bills C-2 and C-12.