February 18, 2026
Pension divestment: From funding crises to radical pension politics
Tom Fraser and Becca Steckle discuss how Canadian public pensions are funding in crises, pension divestment and the need for a radical pension politics.
Needs No Introduction
A series of speeches and lectures from the finest minds of our time. Fresh ideas from speakers of note.
January 28, 2026
Oxfam Inequality Report 2026: Resisting the rule of the rich and protecting freedom from billionaire power
In our second episode of the season, executive director of Oxfam Canada, Lauren Ravon returns for our annual focus on the Oxfam Inequality Report and this year we are also joined by senior director of Strategy and Innovation at Family Service Toronto and national director of Campaign 2000, Leila Sarangi. We discuss Oxfam’s latest report…
January 28, 2026
Oxfam Inequality Report 2026: Resisting the rule of the rich and protecting freedom from billionaire power
Lauren Ravon and Leila Sarangi discuss Oxfam’s annual inequality report, billionaire power, democratic erosion and what this means for Canada.
January 15, 2026
Venezuela, Canada and the “Donroe Doctrine”
In the season 10 premiere of the Courage My Friends podcast series, we are pleased to welcome back journalist, author and director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, Vijay Prashad and professor of International Relations at St. Thomas University, Shaun Narine. We discuss the recent US military attack on Venezuela and the abduction of…
January 14, 2026
Venezuela, Canada and the ‘Donroe Doctrine’
In the season 10 premiere of the Courage My Friends podcast series, Vijay Prashad and Shaun Narine join Resh Budhu to discuss the US attack on Venezuela and abduction of President Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores and the implications for Canada and beyond.
December 18, 2025
December 10th Human Rights Day panel discussion: The ongoing struggle for rights in Canada
Our final episode of this Courage My Friends season features a December 10th Human Rights Day Panel Discussion, the first of a series of events celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Community Worker Program at Toronto’s George Brown College. Community workers and human rights advocates, Brianna Olson Pitawanakwat, Samira Mohyeddin, Diana Gallego, Desmond Cole and…
December 18, 2025
December 10th Human Rights Day panel discussion: The ongoing struggle for rights in Canada
This episode features a panel discussion, the first of a series celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Community Worker Program at George Brown College.
November 27, 2025
The AI hype-machine: Canada’s ill-advised ‘national sprint’ on artificial intelligence
In episode six of the Courage My Friends’ season nine, we welcome impact strategist with Animikii, Indigenous Technology, Jeff Doctor, technology and human rights lawyer with Tekhnos Law and senior fellow with The Citizen Lab, Cynthia Khoo, senior researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood. We discuss Canada’s accelerated approach to artificial…
November 26, 2025
The AI hype-machine: Canada’s ill-advised ‘national sprint’ on artificial intelligence
In the latest episode of the Courage My Friends series, Cynthia Khoo, Jeff Doctor and Hadrian Mertons-Kirkwood discuss the dangers of Canada’s accelerated approach to artificial intelligence.
November 5, 2025
You Will Not Kill Our Imagination: Author Saeed Teebi on Palestine, writing and imagination
We are pleased to welcome award-winning author Saeed Teebi who speaks to us about his powerful new book, You Will Not Kill Our Imagination: A Memoir of Palestine and Writing in Dark Times.
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 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.