October 28, 2022
Fighting for health and housing in a pandemic
National politics reporter Stephen Wentzell speaks to Cathy Crowe and Greg Cook about their book: Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic.
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October 20, 2022
Confronting Islamophobia in Canada
This month’s panel dove into what political actions are needed to confront the rise of Islamophobia in Canada. Our panel also explored what role the media has in all of this.
October 14, 2022
Destigmatizing poverty and addiction to reduce health inequity
Poverty can create barriers to health care and drug addiction treatment. Health Providers Against Poverty works to raise awareness of these issues to help to bring down these barriers.
October 7, 2022
Keep calm and carry on: Reviewing the Royals in Canada
Indigenous peoples of Canada never got an apology with regard to residential schools from Queen Elizabeth II before her passing. Might the new King Charles III make that apology? And how might a new sovereign leader might affect public opinion of the monarchy in Canada?
September 30, 2022
Joshua Whitehead’s genre-bending memoir is a ‘radical act of freedom’
This week on rabble radio, Stephen Wentzell sits down with Joshua Whitehead, First Nations two-spirit author of ‘Making Love with the Land.”
September 23, 2022
Let’s talk about reconciliACTION
Off the Hill: What does reconciliACTION look like? Our included MP Leah Gazan, Georgina Lazore, and Breanne Lavallée-Heckert.
September 16, 2022
The ongoing fight against privatized healthcare
This week, JP Hornick, president of OPSEU, and Dr. Naheed Dosani, health justice activist, discuss the crisis facing public healthcare.
September 9, 2022
Kimberly Carroll, a coach for changemakers
“I was seeing so many of these amazing people getting burnt out, running into debilitating compassion fatigue, or getting too angry or depressed to be effective. And I thought: who is helping the helpers?”
September 2, 2022
Protecting female journalists in Canada
In 2021, Canada was ranked one of the top five countries in the world guilty of cyber violence against women, according to The Coalition for Women in Journalism. We must do better.
August 26, 2022
Anjali Appadurai’s ‘hopeful vision’ of governance in B.C.
Anjali Appadurai talks about how her experience in grassroots organizing is guiding her campaign.
August 19, 2022
There is no climate justice without Indigenous governance
Research manager at Indigenous Climate Action, Breanne Lavallée-Heckert, talks about the importance of Indigenous stewardship in regard to the climate crisis.
August 12, 2022
Ending child and family poverty during COVID-19
The federal government’s decision to clawback CERB repayments will have the gravest effect on mothers with multiple children, according to Campaign 2000.