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.
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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. The focus of the conference is on recruiting women into STEM jobs – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. But there is also the problem of women dropping out of STEM jobs…
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. The focus of the conference is on recruiting women into STEM jobs – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. But there is also the problem of women dropping out of STEM jobs…
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.
March 2, 2023
Telling Black Histories: Writing, Recuperation and Resistance | Part II
In part II of this episode, poet and novelist George Elliott Clarke discusses decolonization, power and shaping effective resistance.
February 27, 2023
Telling Black histories: Writing recuperation and resistance | Part I
In part I of this episode, poet and novelist George Elliott Clarke discusses Black history in Canada and the importance of recuperating Black histories through writing.
February 24, 2023
Labour helping Pakistani garment workers
The global unions UNI and IndustriALL created a successful programme to protect garment workers in Bangladesh after the Rana Plaza disaster which killed over 3000 people. A RadioLabour interview with the deputy general secretary of UNI Global Union, Alke Boessiger.
February 24, 2023
Code Pink's global efforts toward a peaceful solution in Ukraine
This week on the show, rabble editor Nick Seebruch speaks to Medea Benjamin, co-founder of women-led peace group Code Pink. Code Pink is a grassroots NGO with an anti-war mandate. The Russian invasion of Ukraine began on the morning of February 24, 2022, which makes today the one year anniversary. Today, Seebruch and Benjamin discuss…
February 24, 2023
Code Pink's global efforts toward a peaceful solution in Ukraine
This week on the show, rabble editor Nick Seebruch speaks to Medea Benjamin, co-founder of women-led peace group Code Pink. Code Pink is a grassroots NGO with an anti-war mandate. The Russian invasion of Ukraine began on the morning of February 24, 2022, which makes today the one year anniversary. Today, Seebruch and Benjamin discuss…