September 14, 2022
Privatization of public health: Protecting universal healthcare for the common good
What do decades of erosion and current threats of privatization mean for our public healthcare systems? And what does this say about us now?
Needs No Introduction
A series of speeches and lectures from the finest minds of our time. Fresh ideas from speakers of note.
July 18, 2022
Climate anxiety and climate justice organizing: Fearing the future, finding hope and fighting for our planet – Part 2
In the final episode of our summer series, Aliya Hirji and Mari Dolcetti-Koros discuss the global climate crisis, its impacts on our younger populations and the ways in which youth are organizing and taking leadership in securing a truly just and sustainable world for us all.
July 11, 2022
Climate anxiety and climate justice organizing: Fearing the future, finding hope and fighting for our planet – Part 1
Combating climate change means recognizing Indigenous rights and combating colonialism and capitalist greed.
July 4, 2022
COVID, inequality and the billionaire space-race
Amid a growing concentration of wealth in fewer hands, how do we understand billionaire wealth? And what do billionaires signal about our economic and democratic systems?
June 27, 2022
Covid, capitalism, climate: The standard of double-standards between the global north and the global south
As the Global South stands on the front-lines of the converging crises of COVID, capitalism and climate, isn’t it time to pay attention to the world’s majority? Isn’t it time for their knowledge, expertise and even leadership?
June 20, 2022
Mental health in the workplace: Are we working well?
Guests Jon Weier and Tom Parkin discuss their upcoming report on “Mental Health and Wellness in the Workplace”. How does work impact our mental health? Is work culture in Canada good for us? Can it be?
June 13, 2022
Conflict, climate and refugees: Borderless crises in a bordered world and the politics of asylum
Loly Rico and Rachel Bryce talk about the issues facing those fleeing poverty and Canada’s responsibility to provide asylum to refugees.
June 6, 2022
Ecological grief: Mourning the past, fearing the future and finding hope
Guest Ashlee Cunsolo discusses the climate crisis and ecological grief. What does it look like? How do we mourn our ecosystems and planet? And is there a hope and a power to be found within this grief?
May 30, 2022
Education, critical pedagogy and the future of learning in a post-pandemic world
Welcome back to the Courage My Friends podcast! Kicking us off, we welcome author, public intellectual and celebrated scholar, Henry Giroux.
September 16, 2020
Canada’s place in the world — Green party leadership debate
On September 10, rabble.ca and the Canadian Foreign Policy Policy Institute hosted a debate with Green party leadership hopefuls. Listen to it here.
September 4, 2020
The growing threat of privatization
The COVID crisis is showing us more consequences of putting profits before people. Hear a panel discussion from the Canadian Labour Congress about the problem and some possible solutions.
August 28, 2020
Canada’s interference in Venezuela
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza speaks to Canadians at a webinar by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute on August 20, 2020.