November 13, 2023
Gaza: Humanitarian agencies call for a ceasefire now
Representatives from Save the Children Canada and Oxfam Canada discuss the devastating humanitarian crisis taking place in the Gaza strip and the urgent need for a ceasefire now.
Needs No Introduction
A series of speeches and lectures from the finest minds of our time. Fresh ideas from speakers of note.
October 30, 2023
Mouth open story jump out: Storytelling for change
Just in time for Halloween, we return with our annual ‘mouth open, story jump out’ episode on the power of storytelling for community work and transformational change.
October 16, 2023
At the Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival
This week on the show, we spotlight the 24th annual Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival (PIF), running from October 12th to 22nd at Toronto’s Paradise Theatre.
September 20, 2023
BRICS: Summits, coups and a changing world order
In our season launch, Vijay Prashad discusses the incredible shifts of an empowered Global South, BRICS and what this means for a rapidly changing world.
July 17, 2023
Labour Fair 2023: Food justice, labour rights and social gastronomy
Our seventh and final episode of season four of the Courage My Friends podcast series takes us back to the George Brown College Labour Fair and its panel on food justice, food access and the rights of workers across food industries.
June 26, 2023
Iron & Earth: From the oil patch to the renewable economy
Ana Guerra Marin and Dara Wawaite-Chabot of Iron and Earth, discuss what a just transition must look like for those working and living in Canada’s oil patch and for Indigenous communities.
June 5, 2023
Labour Fair 2023: Gig workers and precarity in the 21st century
Our fifth episode takes us back to the George Brown College Labour Fair and its panel on the dignity and rights of workers trapped in precarious jobs and the gig economy.
May 22, 2023
Asking for a friend: Living organ donations, a gift beyond words
In our fourth episode, William Woolrich, friend, faculty and kidney transplant hopeful and Candice Coghlan, from UHN’s Ajmera Transplant Centre in Toronto, discuss the need and profound meaning of living organ donations.
April 24, 2023
Good jobs, clean economy: Pushing for a Just Transition
Jamie Kirkpatrick of Blue Green Canada discusses the necessary alliance between organized labour and the climate movement toward a Just Transition to a sustainable future.
April 10, 2023
Senator Hassan Yussuff on ‘The other P3s: pandemic, privatization, precarity … and planet!!’
In this episode of the Courage My Friends podcast series, Senator Hassan Yussuff delivers the keynote speech at George Brown College’s 31st annual Labour Fair.
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 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.