A series of speeches and lectures from the finest minds of our time. Fresh ideas from speakers of note.
In our season 9 premiere, nurse, scholar and author Martha Paynter discusses Canada’s unique approach to abortion and her new book, Lawless: Abortion Under Complete Decriminalization.
Dr. Ahmed Abu Shaban discusses the weaponization of food insecurity and the climate crisis against the Palestinian people.
Laura Walton and Jeff Brown discuss education, trade wars and union responses to the polycrisis.
Labour Fair 2025 keynote speaker, Deena Ladd, discusses what’s needed for “workers’ first” response to the tariff crisis.
In the opening discussion of the 33rd annual Labour Fair at George Brown College, JP Hornick discusses labour organizing and the critical need for labour education in these times.
Henry Giroux discusses the rise of a new brand of fascism in the US, the attack on democracy and its cultural institutions and the necessity for critical education and a pedagogy of resistance.
In episode four, we focus on the upcoming 25th annual Mental Health Conference at George Brown College in Toronto and this year’s theme, Thriving Together in the Classroom: Creating the Conditions for Student Well-Being.
We continue our discussion on Oxfam’s 2025 global inequality report with Veldon Coburn and the past and present of corporate and billionaire colonialism in Canada.
Lauren Ravon discusses this year’s Oxfam International report on the extreme and obscene wealth of the billionaire class and its connection to colonialism.
In the season launch of the Courage My Friends podcast series, Taylor Noakes, John Clarke and Ricardo Tranjan discuss the need for a progressive political alternative in Canada.
In episode seven, Dr. Radhika Desai and Dr. Shaun Narine discuss the rise of the Global South, challenges to the rules-based international order of the Global North and Canada’s place within a multipolar world.
Ryan Noble of Toronto’s North York Harvest Food Bank and Marissa Alexander of Food Secure Canada discuss the alarming and exponential growth of hunger in Toronto and across Canada.
