Harbinger Showcase
Harbinger Showcase
Harbinger Media Network
Weekly highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts including Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & 55 more.This podcast is syndicated for community and campus radio at CiTR, CJSR and Co-op Radio in Vancouver, Victoria’s CFUV, CHLY in Nanaimo, CIVL in Abbotsford, CKUW and CJUM in Winnipeg, at MetRadio in Toronto, at Radio Laurier in Waterloo, at CFMU in Hamilton, at CJAM in Windsor, at Montreal’s CKUT, and at CJBU in Sydney, Nova Scotia.Find out more and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com
ep89: Pushing the NDP to the Left + the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we discuss how the NDP leadership race could turn the party into a vehicle for bold left politics or cement its decline on THE BREACH SHOW, talk about the health risks of zoonotic diseases and the political circus surrounding a flock of BC ostriches on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, look back at the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike on ANTI-EMPIRE PROJECT and explore Marxism, Chinese culture and ecology on CITED.The Harbinger Media Network includes 83 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, at CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo, on CJUM 101.5FM and CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, at CiTR 101.9FM, CJSF 90.1FM and at CFRO 100.5FM in Vancouver, at Hamilton's CFMU 93.3FM, at Radio Laurier in Waterloo, at CJTM 1280AM in Toronto, at CJAM 99.1FM in Windsor and at CJBU 107.3FM in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com.
Oct 27, 2025
58 min
ep88: Médéric Lanctôt, Canada's 1st Social Democrat + Three Mining Companies in a Trenchcoat
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we discuss the dismissal of a federal government lawyer for calling for Divestment from Israel on CJPME's PALESTINE DEBRIEF, explain why the federal government’s Bill C-9 legislation to combat hate crimes is a threat to civil liberties on REDEYE, explore the history of - 19th century Montreal journalist, politician, and union leader Médéric Lanctôt, Canada’s first social democrat on the Broadbent Institute’s PERSPECTIVES and dig into how the state facilitates resource extraction domestically and globally at the expense of the common good on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.The Harbinger Media Network includes 83 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, at CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo, on CJUM 101.5FM and CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, at CiTR 101.9FM, CJSF 90.1FM and at CFRO 100.5FM in Vancouver, at Hamilton's CFMU 93.3FM, at Radio Laurier in Waterloo, at CJTM 1280AM in Toronto, at CJAM 99.1FM in Windsor and at CJBU 107.3FM in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com.
Oct 21, 2025
58 min
ep87: AI's Illusion of Convenience + Challenging Complacency in a New Fascist Era
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we look at the rise of the extreme-right in Canada on Rachel Gilmore's BUBBLE POP, talk about a recent report unpacking the changing status of endangered species in BC since 2010 on Sierra Club Canada's THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA, investigate the importance of challenging political complacency in a time of rising fascist politics on FREE CITY RADIO and discuss the illusion of convenience that AI offers on CYBORG GODDESS.This episode is brought to you by the new Between the Lines Books release Troubling Criminology by Michael C. K. Ma and Mike Larsen examining how crime, justice, and deviance are socially constructed, shaped by historical and cultural contexts and influenced by power, inequality, and systemic oppression.  Find your copy of Troubling Criminology at btlbooks.com.The Harbinger Media Network includes 83 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, at CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo, on CJUM 101.5FM and CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, at CiTR 101.9FM, CJSF 90.1FM and at CFRO 100.5FM in Vancouver, at Hamilton's CFMU 93.3FM, at Radio Laurier in Waterloo, at CJTM 1280AM in Toronto, at CJAM 99.1FM in Windsor and at CJBU 107.3FM in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com.
Oct 14, 2025
58 min
ep86: The Carney Doctrine + Socialism and the CCF-NDP
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we explain how the Liberals’ harsher immigration policies negatively affect all workers on THE BREACH SHOW, examine the ‘Carney Doctrine’ with Jacobin’s Luke Savage on THE ORCHARD, talk about the Liberal government’ gaslighting around Indigenous relations on GREEN MAJORITY and examine Gary Teeple's 1972 essay, 'Liberals in a hurry': socialism and the CCF-NDP in a conversation asking if moralizing about capitalism's ill effects is a useful strategy to bring about political change on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.This episode is brought to you by Canada’s coalition of 31 progressive publishers at unrigged.ca and by your friends at The Alberta Advantage.The Harbinger Media Network includes 83 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, at CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo, on CJUM 101.5FM and CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, at CiTR 101.9FM, CJSF 90.1FM and at CFRO 100.5FM in Vancouver, at Hamilton's CFMU 93.3FM, at Radio Laurier in Waterloo, at CJTM 1280AM in Toronto, at CJAM 99.1FM in Windsor and at CJBU 107.3FM in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com.
Oct 7, 2025
58 min
ep85: Unionizing Amazon and Uber in BC + Carney's Western Ideological Orientation
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we report on the recent successful union certification drives for Uber drivers and Amazon workers in BC on REDEYE, look at healthcare, colonialism, and liberation struggle on HABIBTI PLEASE, investigate the Prime Minister’s Western ideological orientation on the Broadbent Institute's PERSPECTIVES and look at the Canadian origins of "eco-development" and liberal environmentalism on CITED.This episode is brought to you by the new Between the Lines Books release ‘Strangely, Friends: A History of Cuban-Canadian Encounters', by Canada’s coalition of 31 progressive publishers at unrigged.ca and by your friends at The Alberta Advantage.The Harbinger Media Network includes 83 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, at CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo, on CJUM 101.5FM and CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, at CiTR 101.9FM, CJSF 90.1FM and at CFRO 100.5FM in Vancouver, at Hamilton's CFMU 93.3FM, at Radio Laurier in Waterloo, at CJTM 1280AM in Toronto, at CJAM 99.1FM in Windsor and at CJBU 107.3FM in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com.
Sep 30, 2025
58 min
ep84: Rent Control is Good, Actually + 1971 New Brunswick NDP Trotskyists
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we reveal why rent control is good, actually, on SRSLY WRONG, discuss ways the climate movement can be more inclusive on PULLBACK, explain why solution-focused energy reporting has become more important than ever on the Sierra Club’s THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA and unpack the story of how a small group of Waffle-aligned activists managed to briefly take over the 1971 New Brunswick NDP on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.This episode is brought to you by the new Between the Lines Books release ‘Strangely, Friends: A History of Cuban-Canadian Encounters', by Canada’s coalition of 31 progressive publishers at unrigged.ca and by your friends at The Alberta Advantage.The Harbinger Media Network includes 83 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, at CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo, on CJUM 101.5FM and CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, at CiTR 101.9FM, CJSF 90.1FM and at CFRO 100.5FM in Vancouver, at Hamilton's CFMU 93.3FM, at Radio Laurier in Waterloo, at CJTM 1280AM in Toronto, at CJAM 99.1FM in Windsor and at CJBU 107.3FM in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com.
Sep 23, 2025
58 min
ep83: Carney's Complicity in Gaza's Genocide + Naomi Klein on the Rise of End-of-the-World Fascism
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode: we discuss how Mark Carney and establishment media’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza continues on THE BREACH SHOW, expose Calgary’s new police dragnet on THE PROGRESS REPORT, collapse Doug Ford’s dumb highway tunnel on THE NORTH STATE and report on the Rise of End-of-the-World Fascism and Resistance from the Global South with Naomi Klein on the Broadbent Institute’s PERSPECTIVES.This episode’s been brought to you by UNRIGGED.  Learn more about Canada’s coalition of 31 progressive publishers, and get all your progressive news, videos and podcasts in one place, at unrigged.ca.  The Harbinger Media Network includes 83 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, at CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo, on CJUM 101.5FM and CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, at CiTR 101.9FM, CJSF 90.1FM and at CFRO 100.5FM in Vancouver, at Hamilton's CFMU 93.3FM, at Radio Laurier in Waterloo, at CJTM 1280AM in Toronto, at CJAM 99.1FM in Windsor and at CJBU 107.3FM in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com.
Sep 16, 2025
58 min
ep82: The Death and Life of Canadian Socialism - Live at the Progressive Publics Symposium
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode: every century or so the Canadian left gathers at the Royal Canadian Legion #1 in downtown Calgary to inaugurate a new era of progress. In 1932 it was J.S. Woodworth and the gang at the founding of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (which would become the NDP), and on June 13th, 2025 it was The Alberta Advantage, Shama Rangwala, André Goulet, Roberta Lexier and Rob Rousseau saying goodbye to the NDP with a brief history of the Party and discussing the possibilities of a socialist project to come.The Harbinger Media Network includes 83 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, at CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo, on CJUM 101.5FM and CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, at CiTR 101.9FM, CJSF 90.1FM and at CFRO 100.5FM in Vancouver, at Hamilton's CFMU 93.3FM, at Radio Laurier in Waterloo, at CJTM 1280AM in Toronto, at CJAM 99.1FM in Windsor and at CJBU 107.3FM in Sydney, Nova Scotia. This episode is brought to you by the national independent journalism community unrigged.ca, by the Alberta Advantage podcast and by Between the Lines Books: find your copy of the independent progressive publisher's new release 'The Art of Solidarity: Labour Arts and Heritage in Canada' from editors Rob Kristofferson and Stephanie Ross at btlbooks.com.Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com.
Sep 9, 2025
58 min
ep81: Air Canada vs. 10,000 Flight Attendants + The Senate Calls Out Israel's Genocide
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we unpack August’s tense stand-off between Air Canada and its 10,000 flight attendants on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES, speak with Manitoba Senator Marilou McPhedran about how she and others in the Senate are calling on the government to implement punitive measures against Israel on GREEN PLANET MONITOR, break down how to understand the Hockey Canada trial and its implications on THE END OF SPORT and explain why Prime Minister Carney’s historic military spending hike will only benefit the weapons lobby on THE BREACH SHOW.The Harbinger Media Network includes 83 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, at CHLY 101.7FM in Nanaimo, on CJUM 101.5FM and CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, at CiTR 101.9FM, CJSF 90.1FM and at CFRO 100.5FM in Vancouver, at Hamilton's CFMU 93.3FM, at Radio Laurier in Waterloo, at CJTM 1280AM in Toronto, at CJAM 99.1FM in Windsor and at CJBU 107.3FM in Sydney, Nova Scotia. This episode is brought to you by the national independent journalism community unrigged.ca.Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com.
Sep 2, 2025
58 min
ep80: The New Nationalism + Non-market Solutions for a Housing Crisis
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we find non-market solutions to the housing crisis with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative’s Ricardo Tranjan and Le Front d’action populaire en réaménagement urbain’s Francois Saillant on HOUSING PARTY, unpack how housing access effects reproductive rights with the Women's National Housing and Homelessness Network and the National Right to Housing Network on ABORSH and trace a history of Canadian nationalist sentiment to understand the contemporary moment of rising nationalism on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.The Harbinger Media Network includes 83 podcasts focused on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated to community and campus radio and heard every week on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, at CFUV 101.9FM in Victoria, at CIVL 101.7FM in Abbotsford, on CJUM 101.5FM and CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, at CiTR 101.9FM, CJSF 90.1FM and at CFRO 100.5FM in Vancouver, at Hamilton's CFMU 93.3FM, at Radio Laurier in Waterloo, at CJTM 1280AM in Toronto, at CJAM 99.1FM in Windsor and at CJBU 107.3FM in Sydney, Nova Scotia. This episode is brought to you by the national independent journalism community unrigged.caand by the ALBERTA ADVANTAGE.Find out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com.
Jul 29, 2025
58 min
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