Episode 23 – is the left failing to train new activists?
Where do young activists learn their skills? In this episode Sandy and Nora talk about the student movement and how the left needs to renew itself through targeting training (education, campaigns, jobs) for young people.
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Episode 22: it’s time to shittalk #ONELXN
With just over one week to go, the Ontario election is spinning out to be the most exciting one to watch in a generation — if by exciting we mean hilarious, which we do! Sandy and Nora take time with each party and examine all the reasons for why they cannot be taken seriously, and...
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Episode 21: Canada’s racist border policies
Sandy and Nora talk about Canada’s borders: from refugee claimants from the United States to CBSA, where innocent people are housed in maximum security facilities, Canadians need to start asking questions about what their government is doing to families who are seeking Canada for a better life.
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Episode 20: Profits, pipelines and progressive confusion
After many requests from friends, Sandy and Nora have finally decided to talk about pipelines.
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Episode 9: Injustice and Tina Fontaine
In this podcast, Sandy and Nora talk about the Raymond Cormier trial, his acquittal, and the racist, colonial systems at play that consistently deny justice to Indigenous women and girls, like Tina Fontaine. There can be no justice on stolen land.
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Episode 8: From Me too Us: the limits of the Me Too movement
This episode explores the Me Too movement. From Patrick Brown, to the poisonous and pervasive sexism within politics, to broader movement issues and questions, we take a tour of the state of feminism today. This issue deals with the matter with a mix of humour and anger: our best survival tools. Skip the first 15...
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Episode 7: No justice for Colten Boushie — Canada’s white supremacy problem
This episode starts off featuring Jade Tootootsis, Colten Boushie’s cousin, at a press conference following the acquittal of Gerald Stanley in Colten’s death. Jade reminds people to get organized and be mobilized to fight for justice. Sandy and Nora talk about colonialism, injustice and how nothing will change if people don’t heed Jade’s call: that...
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Episode 6: police, racism and journalists who just don’t get it
On the long-awaited Episode 6, Sandy and Nora talk about financial literacy curriculum, Nazis in the Toronto Library and police in schools, and how on each story, journalists keep getting it wrong.
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Episode 5: Scheming Liberals and their Schemey Schemes
Has there ever been a scheme with a progressive veneer and a regressive outcome that the Liberals haven’t loved? In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the Ontario budget, Liberal Schemes and how progressives need to resist Liberal logic that is intended to confuse Canadians into supporting them. Specifically we talk: free tuition fees,...
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Episode 3: The white supremacy episode
2017 might just be the year where mainstream Canada reckons with white supremacy — or maybe not. From Justin Trudeau being a white supremacist to marches promoting hatred happening across Canada, Sandy and Nora make the necessary connections of these flashpoint events to broader systems and structures of white supremacy. With M103, the anti-Islamophobia motion...
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Episode 2: “Feminist” Trudeau provides progressive cover for sexist Trump
In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about Trudump: the meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Donald Trump. Spoiler: feminism was used to hide deeply unfeminist cross-border cooperation plans.
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Episode 26 – HAPPY CANADA DAY TO …
It’s the Canada Day episode! Nora and Sandy talk about all the things that they’re thinking about for Canada Day. Are you thinking about the same things we’re thinking about? Tune in to find out. Also, please consider donating to: https://www.gofundme.com/justice-for-olando-brown We will add the GoFundMe for Jon Styres when we have the link. This...
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