May 15, 2024
Scholasticide and solidarity: The mind and memory of Gaza
This episode focuses on scholasticide, the destruction of educational systems, academics, teachers and students, being waged on Gaza and the global solidarity responding to it.
Needs No Introduction
A series of speeches and lectures from the finest minds of our time. Fresh ideas from speakers of note.
April 23, 2024
Inequality Inc: Corporate power vs. workers’ rights
This episode features Oxfam Canada executive director, Lauren Ravon and Workers’ Action Centre organizer, Jared Ong.
April 2, 2024
JP Hornick on Corporate power vs. labour power: It’s our work
This episode of the Courage My Friends podcast features the keynote discussion with OPSEU/SEFPO president, JP Hornick for the 32nd annual Labour Fair at George Brown College.
March 12, 2024
Climate, conflict and the meaning of peace
How does conflict and occupation worsen the climate crisis for people and the planet? Between our military commitments and our climate commitments, where do our priorities lie? Can we achieve peace and climate justice in a world of war?
January 29, 2024
Inequality Inc: Corporate power vs. public action
Lauren Ravon, Michèle Biss discuss Oxfam’s latest report on the growing power of corporate monopolies, the unprecedented rise in global inequality and the urgent need for public action.
January 15, 2024
Menopause and work in Canada: Menopause is natural, suffering is not
After a bit of an extended pause, we begin the new year with the Menopause Foundation of Canada’s latest report: Menopause and Work in Canada.
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.
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.