This week we are sharing a clip from our sister podcast Courage My Friends. In the third episode of the 11th season of Courage My Friends, host Resh Budhu interviews award-winning cartoonist, author, and pioneer of comics journalism, Joe Sacco, and his newly released book, Requiem for Gaza, a profound work of graphic reportage co-authored with journalist Chris Hedges.

They discuss the experience of Palestinian families displaced by the ongoing genocide, the role of comics journalism in conveying the scale and dimensions of this moment and the imprint of history upon it, and the obligation to truth amid the sacrifices and silences of journalism in a time of arrogant power and radical change.

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This week on rabble radio, this week we are talking about education in Ontario.

Members of every major teachers union in Ontario will be voting on strike action in November.

I interviewed David Mastin, president of the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario and Martha Hradowy, president of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation about what is at stake for teachers, students, and families in Ontario.

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This week on rabble radio, we are re-sharing an interview with Toronto City Council Candidate Diana Chan McNally.

Chan McNally is a community worker, homelessness advocate, and candidate for Toronto City Council. We discuss Chan McNally’s run to become City Councillor for Toronto’s Ward 4, Parkdale-High Park, top-of-mind issues for the Ward and the city, provincial encroachment on municipal government and her vision of bringing community work to municipal politics.

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This week on rabble radio, we mark the three year anniversary of the war against the Palestinians in Gaza by re-sharing an interview from 2023 with Karen Rodman of Just Peace Advocates.

In that interview from November 10, 2023, Rodman talks about the history of pro-Palestinian activism and what she felt was needed to meet the moment just over a month after the beginning of the conflict.

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This week on rabble radio, we talk about Palestine and Gaza and how those issues are shaping the municipal elections in BC.

We speak with Tiffany Tsai of Apartheid Free Communities Canada, an activist group pushing for local politicians to stand-up for Palestine.

We also interview Solomon Yi-Kieran, a pro-Palestinian candidate running for Vancouver City Council.

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This week, we are sharing a clip from the first episode of the new season of Courage My Friends, which premiered on rabble last week.

In their first episode back, host Resh Budhu interviews Tamara Lorincz, environmentalist, feminist, peace activist and Senior Researcher with Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, and, Keith Stewart, a climate policy researcher and advocate with Greenpeace Canada.

The trio discuss the threat of growing militarism and its impacts on society and the environment. Take a listen.

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This week on rabble radio, host Nick Seebruch sits down with rabble publisher Sarah Sahagian to talk about the films she viewed at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Mark Carney’s CEO investment summit that took place in Toronto this week, and the latest in the Green Party leadership race.

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rabble radio is back with fresh interviews after a summer hiatus where we shared some of our favourite episodes from our 20-year-old archive.

This week’s episode features interviews with two guests. First, Jim Stanford speaks with host Nick Seebruch about the current trade war with the US, Carney’s gas tax holiday, and the future of free trade in North America.

Then later, Nick speaks with Guio Jacinto, an economic researcher with the United Steelworkers, on how labour is organizing in response to the trade war.

About our guests

Jim Stanford is economist and director of the Centre for Future Work, a progressive labour economics institute based in Vancouver. He has a PhD in economics from the New School for Social Research in New York, and also holds economics degrees from Cambridge University and the University of Calgary. He is the author of Economics for Everyone, which has been translated into six languages.

Guio Jacinto is an economic researcher with the United Steelworkers in the Department of Research, Collective Bargaining and Public Policy.

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This summer, we’re sharing re-released episodes of rabble radio from our archives as we mark 25 years of rabble.ca. New interviews will return in September.

As you know, we’re celebrating rabble’s 25th anniversary this year. In our final re-release over the summer, we’re sharing this interview from April of 2017 when then rabble host Victoria Fenner and rabble blogger Penney Kome speak with three women engaged in the gig economy.

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This summer, we’re sharing re-released episodes of rabble radio from our archives as we mark 25 years of rabble.ca. New interviews will return in September.

As you know, we’re celebrating rabble’s 25th anniversary this year. In our final re-release over the summer, we’re sharing this interview from 2018 with rabble founder Judy Rebick, where she joins former rabble radio host Victoria Fenner in rabble’s book lounge to discuss her memoir, Heroes in My Head. 

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This summer, we’re sharing re-released episodes of rabble radio from our archives as we mark 25 years of rabble.ca. New interviews will return in September. 

This week, we’re digging into the archives for a look back at January 2010. In this episode, a massive wave of protests hits Parliament Hill—and early social media—as Canadians rally against Harper’s prorogation of Parliament. We break down which activist strategy holds more power. Then, Olivia Ward joins the conversation to discuss the critical battle for women’s rights in Afghanistan. We’ll also cross over with the rabble podcast network show “Street Cred” for a look at the facelift transforming Regent Park.

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This summer, we’re sharing re-released episodes of rabble radio from our archives as we mark 25 years of rabble.ca. New interviews will return in September. 

Back in April of this year, rabble radio shared a special soundscape episode inspired by Earth Day. All the staff here at rabble recorded bits of audio of the nature that surrounded them and it made for, what I feel was, a very beautiful little tribute to the Earth. But that’s not the only time that we’ve talked about soundscapes on the show.

In August 2016, then- rabble radio host Victoria Fenner presented an episode entitled “Acoustic ecology and the art of listening.” The episode, celebrating World Listening Day, featured interviews from different audio artists as well as a piece of audio Fenner created herself. We’d like to share that with you today.

To listen to the full original episode from 2016, click here.

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