This is the full panel of Off the Hill: Post-election plans and possibilities featuring former Green Party Member of Parliament for Kitchener Centre Mike Morrice; former NDP Member of Parliament for Ottawa Centre Joel Harden; activist and poet El Jones; and rabble’s parliamentary reporter Karl Nerenberg from Wednesday, May 21, 2025. Co-hosted by Libby Davies and Robin Browne.
About our guests
MIKE MORRICE: After being elected as the first-ever Green MP in Ontario, Morrice served as a Member of Parliament from 2021 to 2015 Ontario’s first Green MP (2021–2025), championed disability rights, climate action, and housing affordability. He pushed for the Canada Disability Benefit, fair housing policy, and corporate tax reforms. Morrice also advocated for electoral reform and a windfall tax on fossil fuel profits to fund climate and affordability solutions. Before politics, he founded Sustainable Waterloo Region and Green Economy Canada.
JOEL HARDEN: Joel Harden is a lifelong community organizer who represented Ottawa Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2018 to 2025 as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party. During his time at Queen’s Park, Harden served as the party’s Critic for Transit and Active Transportation, where he championed accessible, affordable, and sustainable public transit solutions across the province.
EL JONES: El Jones is a poet, author, journalist, professor and activist living in Halifax. She is the author of Abolitionist Intimacies (2022) and Live from the Afrikan Resistance! (2014).
KARL NERENBERG: Karl Nerenberg is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and filmmaker, working in both English and French languages. He is rabble’s senior parliamentary reporter.
About Off the Hill
Since 2019, Off the Hill has been rabble.ca’s live political panel. Through this series, we break down important national and international news stories through a progressive lens.
This webinar series invites a rotating roster of guest activists, politicians, researchers and more to discuss how to mobilize and bring about progressive change in national politics — on and off Parliament Hill. Co-hosted by Robin Browne and Libby Davies.
