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Welcome to your weekly report from Canada's #1 podcast community!  In this edition we:

 * learn about the BDS Movement boycott app
on PALESTINE DEBRIEF


* fail to justify western seperatism
on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE

* explain why Tesla is vulnerable to a boycott

on TECH WON'T SAVE US

But first, did you know? Harbinger's Progressive Publics conference in Montreal last weekend was a big success! 



That's right -  the 2nd Progressive Publics Symposium took over Concordia University on February 28th and March 1st featuring panels with scholars and the independent journalism community including Harbinger hosts Paris Marx (Tech Won't Save Us), Shama Rangwala (Replay)Rob Rousseau (49th Parahell), Pivot's Gabrielle Brassard-Lecours (La shop est fermée) and Claire Ross (Autour de l'Info), Michael Bueckert (CJPME Debrief) The Rover's Chris Curtis and Isaac Peltz (The Midnight Choir) and Data Justice Hub (Data Decoded), plus a live recording of The Breach Show with Desmond Cole and guests, musical comedy from satirist Eve Parker-Finley and with 170+ attendees, 40 speakers and 10 organizations tabling including Palestinian Youth Movement, The Broadbent Institute, Sierra Club Canada, Fernwood Publishing, Between the Lines Books and more. 

If you missed it no problem - just subscribe to the Progressive Publics podcast presenting conversations connecting academic scholarship and independent Canadian media from our Toronto and Montreal symposiums featuring the Unrigged journalism and Harbinger communities - find it wherever you get your podcasts! 


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(Rachel Gilmore, Dr. Shama Rangwala, Dr. Rob Rousseau and Paris Marx live at Reggie's worker co-op bar in Montreal on February 28th)

Now here's the latest in new releases:

   The team expose themselves to bad poetry, absurd race science and convenient economic motivations in an episode searching for the intellectual basis justifying an independent Albertan nation. (Calgary)

   CJPME's Wissam El Cheikh Hassan speaks with official BDS Movement partner and Boycat app founder Adil Abutalha about the powerful simplicity of a tool that makes it easier for consumers to buy consciously and ethically. (Montreal) 

  Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors author Ed Niedermeyer joins Paris Marx to discuss the trouble with Tesla’s business model and how it's made Elon Musk’s power vulnerable to protest and boycott. (St. John's/Portland)

   On an extra-length preview of a salacious subscriber-only episode of the internationally acclaimed utopian leftist comedy podcast, The Wrong Boys investigate why, when the sun goes down, utopia is just getting started in a conversation that includes sex, drugs, loud music, and more. (Vancouver)

  On a new episode of Harbinger's weekly syndicated campus and community radio show we explain how the Left should respond to Trump's tariffs on VICTOR’S CHILDREN, explore the massive 1983 Operation Solidarity' protest against BC's far-right Social Credit government on THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE and more. (Edmonton/Ottawa/Montreal)

 
Author and activist Yves Engler sits down with host David Kattenburg to discuss being charged with “harassing” a pro-Israel influencer and spending five days in Montreal’s notorious Bordeaux prison.  (Amsterdam/Montreal)

 
 Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform, the Canadian Public Health Association and social scientist Cecelia Benoit join host Rachel Cairns to explore how abortion and sex work both call into play deeply rooted cultural beliefs about female sexuality. (Toronto/Ottawa)

  
Co-hosts Naomi K. Lewis and Aaron Giovannone discuss genre expectations and the Oscar-nominated animated film and bestselling middle-grade novel 'The Wild Robot' in a conversation exploring the Hobbesian idea of the social contract. (Calgary)


  Vancouver Co-op Radio's flagship news and current affairs show's 46th season continues with interviews revealing the the business lobby behind the push to remove Canada's internal trade barriers, reviewing Vancouver mayor Ken Sim's widely criticized plan for the Downtown Eastside and more. (Vancouver/Victoria)

  Lauren Latour unpacks the latest energy news with The Energy Mix's Mitchell Beer, David Gray-Donald sits down with Alberta Advantage's Joel Laforest to discuss Calgary's municipal transit debacle and more on the show's monthly best-of episode. (Ottawa/Toronto/Calgary) 


 

                                                      IN OTHER MEDIA:                                            

* CANADIANS FOR TAX FAIRNESS and THE PARKLAND INSTITUTE are hosting an affordability town hall: Fair Taxes, Affordable Futures: Building an Economy for Everyone is happening Thursday, March 6 in room L1-490 at the Edmonton Clinic Health Academy (ECHA), 11405 87 Ave NW, Edmonton. Doors at 6, event begins at 6:30pm

TECH WON'T SAVE US host Paris Marx explained (en francais) why les géants de la tech s’allient-ils à Donald Trump on Radio-Canada's weekday afternoon drivetime show Le 15-18.

* THE PROGRESS REPORT host Duncan Kinney is being targeted by the Edmonton Police and Alberta Crown Prosecution for a 10 year prison sentence on the charge of vandalism of a 14th Waffen SS cenotaph. He has pled 'not guilty' you can support his legal defense fund here.

* THE END OF SPORT co-host Nathan Kalman-Lamb was prohibited from entering the US to speak at his own book event - find out more at The Nation and find his and Derik Silva's new book The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game, available now from UNC Press.

* VICTOR'S CHILDREN host David Camfield's new book Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future is available now for pre-order from Fernwood Publishing - use code 'DC15' for 15% off any of Camfield's books.

* TECH WON'T SAVE US host Paris Marx has a new weekly tech news show with critic Brian Merchant you won't want to miss called System Crash - find new episodes wherever you get your podcasts - and don't forget to vote in Round 2 of TWSU's annual 'The Worst Person in Tech' event beginning tomorrow!

* UNRIGGED is a national journalism community featuring 25 publishers covering news and current events including BriarpatchThe IndependentThe BreachThe Hoserle Co-op de Solidarité Pivot, the Harbinger community and nineteen others - find out more at unrigged.ca.

ROB ROUSSEAU discusses topics of interest to the left M-F from 12-4 EST on Twitch with highlights available on Youtube.

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