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

* explain how to vote for values
on PALESTINE DEBRIEF

* discuss military conscription in Canada

on THE NORTH STATE

 * unpack a world in polycrisis
on GREEN PLANET MONITOR


But first: hey it's our 22nd exceptional wave of expansion bringing our slate to 83 podcasts - check out these three new shows!



⭐  THE ROVER - ELECTION 2025: join investigative journalist and The Rover editor-in-chief Chris CurtisPivot and Ricochet co-founder Gabrielle Brassard-Lecours and Instagram journalist Isaac Peltz for a weekly breakdown of all the events, gossip and breaking news of the 2025 Canadian federal election

BUBBLE POP: every week your least favourite person’s least favourite journalist Rachel Gilmore breaks down the main headlines so you don’t have to doomscroll - find Rachel's substack newsletter here


THE INDY BROADCAST: a Newfoundland-based weekly news video and audio broadcast released every Saturday morning from your friends at The Independent featuring editor-in-chief Justin Brake and contributing journalists from St. John’s and around the island

Also: join progressive activists, democratic institutions and the labour movement to fight for a better world at the Broadbent Institute’s 2025 Progress SummitDaring to Take on Today’s Crises, taking place in Ottawa at the City Centre Delta Hotel from April 9th to 11th with some of your favourite Harbinger hosts including director Andre Goulet, board member Gabrielle Brassard Lecours, Press Progress Sources' Eric Wickham, Stephen Magusiak and Luke Lebrun, Invisible Insitutions' Megan Linton plus an event with The Breach Show's Martin Lukacs introducing his new book "The Poilievre Project: A radical blueprint for corporate rule" - you can RSVP here.


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Now here's the latest in new releases:

  Palestine Youth Movement's 
Yara Shoufani joins the show to talk about the Vote Palestine initiative and why the 2025 Federal Election marks a crucial moment for voters who care about justice and human rights(Montreal)


   Former United States government Digital Service engineers Kate Green and Milo join Paris Marx to discuss how Elon Musk’s DOGE is dismantling the US Digital Service and the consequences that has on really improving service delivery in government. (St. John's/Washington,DC)

  On episode 55 of The Sierra Club's flagship podcast the team explain explain how Tim Houston's Nova Scotia government is trying to enact measures to limit media access to elected leaders and give the government the power to fire civil servants without cause. (Montreal/Toronto) 

 
On a new episode of The Broadbent Institute's PERSPECTIVES journal podcast organizer Josel Angelica Gerardo sits down with host Peggy Nash to share how she's helping to drive democratic engagement in the Filipino-Canadian community.  (Toronto)

  
Le balado électoral de Pivot revient enfin pour couvrir les élections fédérales de 2025!  Au programme de ce premier épisode: la situation politique canadienne depuis 2021, la menace américaine, le différents partis et quelques prédictions avec Ludvic Moquin-Beaudry, Isaac Peltz et Gabrielle Brassard-Lecours. (Montreal)

  Host Jeremy Appel welcomes Press Progress' Eric Wickham to contrast the juggernaut political identity of Ontario premier Doug Ford as a strong, steady leader in times of political crisis with the reality of how he governs, then recovering Liberal Party organizer and commentator Jake Landau discusses tax cuts, housing, offshore tax havens and more in a conversation reviewing week 1 of the 2025 federal election on two new episodes.  (Edmonton/Toronto)

  Rachel Cairns 
sits down with CanAge, the National Institute on Ageing, the Child Care Research Unit and Child Care Now to explore the intersection of paid and unpaid caregiving and its contributions to creating healthy communities and society. (Toronto/Hamilton)

  The Cascade Institute's Thomas Homer-Dixon and host David Kattenburg explore how human societies develop and can come undone in self-amplifying cascades in a conversation anticipating the future of polycrisis. (Victoria/Amsterdam)

  Co-hosts Naomi K. Lewis and Aaron Giovannone discuss Michael Moore's shockingly prescient Canadian Bacon, the 1995 John Candy-starring satirical film about an American president who declares war on Canada to boost his approval ratings. (Calgary)

  Vancouver Co-op Radio's flagship news and current affairs show's 46th season continues with interviews assessing re-criminalization of drug possession through a public health lens, introducing the Israeli youth on tour in Canada speaking about their refusal to serve with the IDF and more. (Vancouver/Victoria)

 
On a new episode of Harbinger's weekly syndicated campus and community radio show we bid a bittersweet goodbye to our pals at BIG SHINY TAKES, explore what can be learned from a lifetime on the Canadian left with Andrew Jackson in a conversation unpacking his 2021 Between the Lines Books release The Fire and the Ashes: Rekindling Democratic Socialism on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE and more. (Calgary/Edmonton/Toronto)

 
Host Patrick Esmond-White explains why the tools to build a Democracy Toolkit of peace, order and good government must be sharpened and used in a fight for survival if we know what we want Canada to be like in 75 years.  (Ottawa)

  On the March monthly highlight show The Energy Mix's Mitchell Beer talks emissions caps, Ontario Place For All's Norm Di Pasquale reports on Therme Spa's 100-year lease and more. (Ottawa/Toronto) 
 

                                                    IN OTHER MEDIA:                                            

* CITED landed on the shortlist for the New York Festivals 2025 Radio Awards - see who they're up against including the BBC, NPR and more.

* BUBBLE POP host Rachel Gilmore's election fact-checking analysis segment on CTV was cancelled in response to political pressure From Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives Party - find out more at this week's Press Progress story.

* 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, and find his new piece 'Against imperialism, without exception' at Briarpatch magazine. 

* 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.

* 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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We'll be back next Wednesday with a new newsletter featuring the best in progressive Canadian podcasts talk to you then ❄️❄️❄️
 

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