December 3, 2021
Off the Hill: Games of the Throne
We share a clip from our most recent monthly political panel, Off the Hill, featuring El Jones, Clayton Thomas-Muller, and MP Leah Gazan.
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November 26, 2021
Women in politics: a conversation with Dr. Jeanette Ashe
Libby Davies sits down with Dr. Jeanette Ashe to discuss the barriers that continue to exist for women in Canadian politics, despite the fact that the electorate is actually more likely to support women candidates.
November 19, 2021
Fairy Creek, Lee Maracle and activism during a climate crisis
Libby Davies and Rita Wong discuss Fairy Creek — the site of ongoing protests against old-growth logging on the southern portion of Vancouver Island. The protests have been going on for over a year now, with many activists — Rita included — travelling to and from the region when they can at the invitation of Pacheedaht First Nation elder Bill Jones and hereditary leader Victor Peter, upon whose lands the logging is taking place.
November 12, 2021
The threat of urban sprawl
This week on the show, Hamilton local Wayne MacPhail interviews rabble contributor and fellow Hamilton-area local Doreen Nicoll about what she sees as the threat of urban sprawl in Hamilton, Ontario.
November 5, 2021
How the Supreme Court is enabling racialized policing in the United States
Stephen Wentzell speaks with American legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky to talk about his new book: Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights
October 29, 2021
What Trudeau’s cabinet shuffle means for Canadian politics
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Trudeau introduced his new cabinet to the country, shaking up his inner circle and giving us a peek into who he trusts most. There’s a lot we can learn about a government from the PM’s cabinet picks. What regions are represented? Whose got the chops for the top portfolios, like finance or global affairs? While there aren’t any “official” demotions… who is being given a less prestigious portfolio and who is being cast out of cabinet completely? There’s a lot to unpack.
October 22, 2021
What to do about Facebook?
National politics reporter Stephen Wentzell speaks with Michael Geist this week for rabble.ca as part of his report on Facebook regulation in Canada. Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law. He’s also the author of the 2015 book Law, Privacy, and Surveillance in Canada in the Post-Snowden Era.
October 15, 2021
Off the Hill – Back to a minority Parliament. How do we make it work for people?
Every election cycle, the conversation of electoral reform is revived to some extent. 2021 was no different. Consider this: In Toronto, the Liberals only won 48.9 per cent of the votes, but they won more than 90 per cent of the seats in Canada’s largest city, electing 48 of the 53 MPs there. The…
October 7, 2021
Where’s the beef, chicken and agriculture in our political discourse?
This week on the show, we’re talking about the absence of agriculture from Canada’s political discourse. Of course, during an election campaign that was only five weeks long, it’s hard to fit everything in, but rabble columnist Lois Ross makes the case for turning our politicians’ relatively scattered attention span to agriculture.
October 1, 2021
What did the media miss in their coverage of Election 2021?
This week on the show, rabble editor Chelsea Nash sat down for a conversation with rabble’s own columnist Chuka Ejeckam. Chuka is a writer and policy researcher who works in the labour movement. The son of Igbo immigrants to Canada, he grew up in Winnipeg. They talked about what was missing from this federal election,…
September 24, 2021
Why Access to Abortion Remains an Election Issue
Today on the show, I meet up with Joyce Arthur, the executive director of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada who is also a rabble columnist. You’ll hear that conversation in just a moment, after which I’ll take you through the stories of the week you might have missed.
September 18, 2021
#ELXNN44: Down to the Wire
On Sept 17 we heard from our amazing panelists at our live politics panel: Off the Hill. You’ll hear a clip of their discussion. Host Robin Browne takes panelists through an insightful discussion of the real issues facing us on E-Day, and how we can make this election count. We’re down to the wire, after all.
Plus our rundown on what you might have missed on rabble.ca this week.