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.
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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.
October 10, 2025
CUPE cries for an end to fascism in federal government
We share a speech from Mark Hancock, national president of CUPE made at the union’s national convention this week.
October 10, 2025
What ethical reporting on Gaza looks like in 2025
Nick Seebruch sits down with Inori Roy, co-founder of Canadian Journalists for Justice in Palestine, to discuss why many journalists in Canada remain hesitant to cover Palestine.
October 3, 2025
Dissecting the closed work permit system with Gauri Sreenivasan
Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program’s closed permit system leaves foreign workers vulnerable to exploitation and ties them to a single employer.
October 3, 2025
Fighting for children’s education in Ontario
Ontario’s Ford government is attacking school trustees and school board unions. An interview with the president of CUPE’s Ontario Council of School Board Unions, Joe Tigani.
October 1, 2025
Crisis or scandal? The deliberate dismantling of Ontario’s public college system
In episode three of this latest season of the Courage My Friends series, Amanda Shaw, Martin Lee and Ben McCarthy discuss the deliberate dismantling of Ontario’s public college system by Ontario’s Ford government.
September 26, 2025
What is a far-leftist in the US?
The Republican party says anybody who doesn’t agree with its politics is a far-left radical. Thom Hartmann, the host of a long-running radio programme in the US accepts the title and presents a far-left manifesto.
September 26, 2025
Off the Hill: Parliament’s back in session
This week on rabble radio, we feature a segment from our most recent Off the Hill political panel, featuring OFL president Laura Walton, and former Ontario NDP MPP Joel Harden, activist Chuka Ejeckam and rabble’s parliamentary reporter Karl Nerenberg.