A series of speeches and lectures from the finest minds of our time. Fresh ideas from speakers of note.
In the season 11 premiere of the Courage My Friends podcast, Tamara Lorincz and Keith Stewart discuss the social and climate costs of Canada’s militarized economy.
Community worker and homelessness advocate Diana Chan McNally discusses her campaign for City Councillor of Parkdale-High Park in Toronto’s October 26th municipal elections.
This week, we welcome and spotlight community worker, homelessness advocate, and candidate for Toronto City Council, Diana Chan McNally. 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…
Today’s episode of the Courage My Friends podcast series features the keynote discussion from the 34th annual Labour Fair at Toronto’s George Brown College. Founding representative of the Toronto Airport Workers’ Council Sean Smith and member of the Parkdale Housing Justice Network (PHJN) Matt Whitfield, discuss the crises of labour precarity and housing insecurity, how…
Labour Fair keynote speakers Sean Smith and Matt Whitfield discuss effective grassroots and labour organizing amid growing precarity and housing insecurity.
In episode six we welcome national director of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Sandra Schwartz and CPAWS economic analyst, Jason Wong, lead author of the CPAWS white paper, Widely Enjoyed but Inadequately Valued: Understanding the Economic, Environmental and Health Benefits of Canada’s Protected and Conserved Areas. We discuss the first of its kind report…
Sandra Schwartz and Jason Wong discuss CPAWS report on the economic case for conserving and protecting land, water and biodiversity in Canada.
This latest episode of the Courage My Friends podcast series features “The Radical Labour of Care” panel discussion with: Indigenous midwife, leader, and educator, Claire Dion Fletcher; crisis outreach worker, case manager, and advocate in Toronto’s Downtown East, Lorraine Lam; and program director of the Latinx Womyn’s Program at the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women…
In the latest instalment of the Courage My Friends series, Claire Dion Fletcher, Grissel Orellana and Lorraine Lam discuss radical care work, from midwifery to crisis outreach to supporting survivors of sexual violence, as a pathway to a more liveable city.
In the latest episode of the Courage My Friends series, we welcome organizer with the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network Kara Anderson and welcome back Canada organizer for World Beyond War and coordinator of the Arms Embargo Now Campaign, Rachel Small. We discuss Canada’s radical turn toward militarism and its ramping up of defence spending, the…
Rachel Small and Kara Anderson discuss Canada’s decided shift toward militarism, its deep connections to mining, and solidarity organizing against arms and extractivism.
In our third episode of the season, Tom Fraser, a union researcher and author of Invested in Crisis: Public Sector Pensions Against the Future, and Becca Steckle, a research and policy analyst with Just Peace Advocates, join us to discuss how Canada’s public sector pensions are funding crises from housing to genocide, the restructuring of…
