November 6, 2020
Ontario government withholds $9 billion in COVID funding
RadioLabour’s Canada Report: 500 Ontario schools hit by virus while government withholds money. Union organizing during a pandemic.
Podcasts
October 30, 2020
Make Air Canada the people’s airline again
RadioLabour’s Canada Report: An Air Canada bailout should mean government shares. The Canadian Labour International Film Festival. And more.
October 23, 2020
Extraditing Julian Assange would criminalize journalism
RadioLabour’s Canada Report: Why Assange should not be extradited from the U.K. to the U.S. The Newfoundland strike for Canadian grocery workers. And more.
October 16, 2020
How a little newspaper started labour journalism in Canada
RadioLabour’s Canada Report: More than a century ago the Rossland Evening World in B.C. showed what a union newspaper could be. Plus the plight of Amazon workers.
October 9, 2020
21,000 health-care workers infected with COVID-19
RadioLabour’s Canada Report: Nurses’ union says governments have mismanaged the pandemic. And the Ontario Labour Relations Board rules against education unions.
October 2, 2020
The huge holes in Canada’s social safety net
RadioLabour’s Canada Report: Labour is demanding services such as unemployment insurance must be fixed now.
September 25, 2020
Farmer group outlines strategies linking climate change and post-COVID-19 recovery
Dana Penrice, a Manitoba farmer, talks about a new study by Farmers for Climate Solutions outlining a post-COVID recovery strategy aligned with climate change mitigation.
September 25, 2020
Fighting anti-Indigenous racism in media coverage
RadioLabour’s Canada Report: a Unifor webinar focused on racism and genocide against Indigenous people and provided solutions.
September 18, 2020
Striking Dominion workers fighting for all grocery employees
RadioLabour’s Canada Report: grocery workers in Newfoundland and Labrador on strike to maintain pandemic pay and full-time jobs. Reforming post-pandemic corporations. And more.
September 16, 2020
Canada’s place in the world — Green party leadership debate
On September 10, rabble.ca and the Canadian Foreign Policy Policy Institute hosted a debate with Green party leadership hopefuls. Listen to it here.
September 11, 2020
Labour’s action plan for a post-pandemic Canada
RadioLabour’s Canada Report returns with a new season. The Canadian Labour Congress program for a greener economy and full employment.
September 4, 2020
The growing threat of privatization
The COVID crisis is showing us more consequences of putting profits before people. Hear a panel discussion from the Canadian Labour Congress about the problem and some possible solutions.