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| Anti-Imperial organizing in Calgary: An Interview with Wesam Cooley | 02 Jul 2026 | 01:18:04 | |
Activist and organizer Wesam Cooley sits down with Team Advantage to discuss the pragmatics of organizing street actions in a city like Calgary. We discuss a bit of Wesam's personal history, the experience and theory he brings to his efforts, the challenges of coalition building in a radical movement, and how to deal with police repression. Wesam also tells us about the Calgary People's Assembly and the upcoming event on July 5. | |||
| Prairie Unpopulism - How the west wasn't won (A Nenshi & Beck Story) | 20 May 2026 | 01:51:04 | |
Team Advantage joins forces with Team Unmaking Saskatchewan to dig into just what is wrong with our provincial wings of the New Democratic Party. The liberal outsider in Nenshi and the establishment backed pragmatist in Beck both seem allergic to doing politics. Are left populism and robust social democratic policy impossible here, or is there another path these parties could take. Resources:
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| In Solidarity With Trans Children | 16 Apr 2026 | 01:09:14 | |
In Alberta as elsewhere reactionary backlash is targeting trans people, particularly trans children. Team Advantage examines the framing of this backlash and explores how it may be rooted in the cultural construction of childhood and education. We also review the history of trans identity, working towards a better framing and ways to stand in solidarity with trans children CONTENT WARNING - Discussions of childhood sexual abuse and suicide. Timestamp: 22:30- ~28:30. Also flagged in the audio so you can skip to avoid. Additional Resources
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| Student Power with Dr. Roberta Lexier | 19 Mar 2026 | 01:09:26 | |
In 2024 university campuses across Canada saw encampments and other protest actions. In a new book and podcast series Dr. Roberta Lexier places these actions within the broader history of student activism in Canada since the 1960s. In this discussion we ask her how student activism differes between Québec and the rest of Canada, how radical praxis can be maintained in a rapidly turning over student population, how student activism intersects with off-campus politics and when and why the state responds with violent force. Follow Dr. Lexier at @robertalexier.bsky.social and check out her work here: | |||
| Champagne Neoliberalism OR Effervescent Austerity | 18 Nov 2025 | 00:51:50 | |
In the lead up to the federal budget, the government signalled that it would include sharp cuts, referencing the steep austerity of the 1995 federal budget. Team Advantage takes a look at what the budget actually contains, situates it in the current political moment and examines how it actually compares to 1995. We ask how the nation building rhetoric Carney campaigned on could actually have been implemented, and what can be done about a government at war with workers. Further Reading
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| Alberta Teachers and the End of Collective Bargaining: Text Resist to 55255 | 04 Nov 2025 | 00:46:27 | |
Alberta's teachers have been ordered back to work, and their right to strike, collectively bargain, or even present a legal challenge have been stripped away by Danielle Smith's UCP. How is organized labour in Alberta responding to this existential threat? Previous episodes on public education: "Balance" in Climate Change, Cursive Writing: Alberta's Curriculum Review Previous episodes on trade unions and collective bargaining: Watch the entirety of the AFL's October 29 response to Bill 2. Read Gil McGowan's feedback on Roberta Lexier's presentation about the need to organize towards a general strike: https://x.com/gilmcgowan/status/1681761153826033666 Further reading:
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| Escape from the Planet of the Mines - Canada's Resource Imperialism | 10 Oct 2025 | 00:58:13 | |
Canada exists to put holes in the ground and extract surplus value for shareholders. In this episode, originally recorded in 2021, Team Advantage opens the Canadian trench-coat to find total corporate impunity. We discus how the Canadian state facilitates resource extraction within its borders and around the world at the expense of the common good, then imagine what mining might look like in a better society. Works Cited:
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| The Death and Life of Canadian Socialism - Live at the Progressive Publics Symposium | 14 Aug 2025 | 01:34:38 | |
Every century or so the Canadian left gathers at the Royal Canadian Legion #1 in downtown Calgary to inagurate a new era of progress. In 1932 it was J.S. Woodworth and the gang in 1932 at the founding of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (which would become the NDP). On July 13, 2025 it was Team Advantage, Shama Rangwala, André Goulet, Roberta Lexier and Rob Rousseau. This live recording begins with a discussion of what the Progressive Publics symposium is all about before saying goodbye to the NDP with a brief history. Then the team discusses the possibilities of a socialist project to come. With live heckling from the audience! (Mostly Jeremy Appel.) | |||
| Elbows to the Left – Is Canada Worth Fighting For? | 15 Jul 2025 | 01:10:07 | |
Support our podcast! Rhetorical and real threats to Canadian sovereignty pose a tough question to critics of the Canadian state: Do we align with liberal nationalists in defense of the Canadian project or do we remain skeptical?
In this episode Team Advantage traces a brief history of Canadian nationalisms, including earlier attempts at imagining a socialist national project, in order to better understand the current moment of rising nationalist sentiment. We ask if it's even possible to extricate a good Canadian nationalism from the history of colonial land theft and genocide that undergirds this state, revisit the one time Canada was actually cool, and offer trenchant critiques of Canadian civic statuary.
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| Pension Paradox: How deferred wages go to work for capital, with Tom Fraser | 10 Jun 2025 | 00:57:06 | |
Join our live show Friday June 13 6PM - Royal Canadian Legion #1, 116 7 Ave SE, Calgary - Free Entry - Register here! Public sector pensions are one of the hard-won victories of the 20th century labour movement, but they did not come through the neoliberal era unchanged. They are now managed like any other investment fund and are implicated in all the faults of global capital. Union researcher Tom Fraser joins Team Advantage to discuss the political economy of pension funds and the forgotten horizons of revolutionary possibility they once represented.Check out Tom's new book - Invested in Crisis: Public Sector Pensions Against the Future Other works mentioned by Tom:
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| Colonialism and Capitalism: Bryan Palmer on Canadian History | 09 Apr 2025 | 01:22:35 | |
Support our podcast! Team Advantage sits down with Bryan D. Palmer on his stop through Calgary to discuss his new book, and discuss how labour and anti-colonial movements have historically challenged the Canadian state. We ask what it might take to forge a united front and what the present moment of Canadian Nationalism might mean for left politics.
Buy Palmer's book from Lorimer Books or your local independent bookseller.
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| Imagined Alberta: Western Canadian National Fantasies | 02 Mar 2025 | 00:47:42 | |
WARNING: This episode begins with slam poetry. Team Advantage subjects themselves to some favourite books of UCP ministers and Western Standard columnists in search of the intellectual basis for justifying an independent Albertan nation. We find bad poetry, absurd race science, and convenient economic motivations. We contend that there is a long-standing nationalist rhetorical tradition in this province, place this tradition within a broader history of nationalism, seek out it's through-lines and examine how such rhetoric spreads out from the writings of right-wing cranks and enters more mainstream discourse.
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| James Wilt on the Winnipeg Police | 20 Jan 2025 | 01:24:51 | |
The Winnipeg Police Service is 100 years old - a century they've used to repress dissent, censor media, bungle investigations and devour city budgets. Author James Wilt joins Team Advantage to discuss his new book, Dogged and Destructive: Essays on the Winnipeg Police which explores this history of policing, resistance, and what a vision for a Winnipeg beyond police might look like.
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| Vote Harder! Justice Warriors 2 w/ Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson | 07 Dec 2024 | 00:22:04 | |
It's election season in Bubble City, the ultra-protected enclave that keeps the rich safe from the mutants of the so-called Uninhabited Zone. When veteran officer Swamp Cop embarks on a dangerous undercover mission, politics just might wind up coming between him and his beloved partner, Officer Schitt. Team Advantage chats with Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson, authors of Justice Warriors Vol. 2: Vote Harder, and discusses the quaint features of placid Canadian life.
Follow Matt Bors on Twitter @mattbors and BlueSky @mattbors.bsky.social
Follow Ben Clarkson on Twitter @benclarkson and Bluesky @benclarkson.bsky.social
Purchase Justice Warriors: Vote Harder direct from Matt's webstore or wherever fine books are sold. | |||
| Canada's Hot Union Summer: what comes next? | 29 Nov 2024 | 00:51:18 | |
This past year saw a sequence of labour unrest: Teamsters locked out of both CPKC and CN railways, Westjet mechanics striking over Canada Day long weekend, Air Canada pilots reaching a last-minute deal, grain terminal workers in Vancouver striking, and dockworkers getting locked out in Montreal. How is the post-war labour "peace" holding up, and should we be thinking and planning beyond the Rand formula?
Thanks to Adam D.K. King for joining this episode. Read more of his work here, and follow him @AdamDKKing1.
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| Posties on Strike! On the Picket Line with CUPW | 25 Nov 2024 | 00:14:25 | |
The 55,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers have been on a nationwide strike since November 15th after negotiations at the bargaining table stalled with their employer Canada Post. Workers are fighting to protect pensions, improve working conditions, and a wage increase that keeps pace with inflation.
Support your local CUPW picket line!
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| Kenney vs Jeremy Appel | 24 Sep 2024 | 00:58:41 | |
In this live recording, Jeremy tells us how Kenney has shaped Alberta politics, and expounds on his ideological commitments, his flair for conspiracy and his effective use of political stunts. We also learn of Kenney's taste in music and get Jeremy's response to the toughest question he's been asked since the book came out. | |||
| Sous les pavés: Student radicalism from the '60s to today | 13 May 2024 | 01:25:27 | |
Gaza solidarity encampments on university campuses in the U.S. and Canada are experiencing violent police crackdowns. How do the student movements of the past inform what's going on now? Team Advantage digs into the history of student radicalism and speaks to encampment supporters about their experiences with police. | |||
| COVID-19 in 2024 | 07 Apr 2024 | 00:42:52 | |
What can we learn about the ongoing pandemic and how it's been handled? How's the whole global public health infrastructure, campaign for clean air, and renewed push for workplace going? Does this bode well for future pandemics and crises, and how can we learn from what's happened so far to shape our future demands? | |||
| Zionism Sucks | 17 Dec 2023 | 01:46:20 | |
Israel is on a genocidal rampage through Gaza. Team Advantage, joined by intrepid independent journalist Jeremy Appel, examine the historical roots and basic assumptions that underlie Zionism, and discuss a few light topics, like discourse-policing, denouncing Hamas, antisemitism, and settler-colonialism. | |||
| Why does Canada love Ukrainian Nazis? | 20 Nov 2023 | 01:29:30 | |
In late September 2023, Canadian Parliament clapped for "Ukrainian hero" Yaroslav Hunka, who fought with the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), a unit in the Nazi German military. Why did Canada let so many Ukrainian Nazis into the country after WW2, and how did this wave of right-wing Ukrainian nationalist shape Canada's Ukrainian diaspora? Team Advantage digs into the working-class origins of Ukrainians in Canada, Canada's efforts at post-war anticommunism, and the Canadian government's careful management of "multiculturalism." | |||
| Wildfire Season Concludes | 05 Nov 2023 | 01:04:40 | |
The area burned by wildfires in Canada this year exceeded 18 million hectares and burned 1,740 megatonnes of CO2, roughly three times Canada's human-made emissions from 2022. As fire season winds down, Team Advantage examines this new, fun, half-year-long weather phenomenon, and considers the role of fossil fuels and the end of "cheap nature." | |||
| Notley Loses Again! Alberta's 2023 Election | 08 Jun 2023 | 01:00:10 | |
Support this podcast! Rachel Notley led the Alberta NDP to their second major electoral defeat in Alberta's latest general election. What does this election say about Albertans and our political culture? How might we make basic social democratic values popular? How should we organize as we anticipate Premier Danielle Smith? And what's next for the Alberta NDP? | |||
| Clearing the Plains in 2023: Alberta's Drug Poisoning Crisis | 29 May 2023 | 01:05:22 | |
Support this podcast! What link is there between pushing Indigenous people off land, into reserves, into residential schools, and into forced treatment? How are conversations about "public safety" and policing being mobilized to harm vulnerable people? How has the politicization of the opioid epidemic obscured what's needed to address increasing drug poisoning deaths? Harm reduction advocate Euan Thomson joins Team Advantage to discuss the realities of Alberta's drug poisoning crisis.
Follow Euan @elsthomson and subscribe to his Drug Data Decoded newsletter.
Listen to our 2020 episode on this topic with Garth Mullins and Jeremy Appel.
Mentioned in this episode is Dustin Godfrey's video essay "Is Vancouver Dying? A definitely non-exhaustive review." Also mentioned is a recent B.C. Federation of Labour resolution to lobby the B.C. government for safe supply. | |||
| Can Socialists Like Hockey? | 14 May 2023 | 01:16:13 | |
Culture wars, long-term injury, workplace violence, sexual assaults, nationalistic militarism, and the appropriation of working-class aesthetics... is it possible to like hockey from the left? Can sport unite the working class? Is hockey a serious game for serious men, or a silly game for silly people? Cass Kislenko, Tyler Shipley and Doug Nesbitt join Team Advantage to discuss Canada's game.
Doug mentions the short film Valery's Ankle by Brett Kashmere.
Tyler refers to the 2016 film Hello Destroyer.
Follow Cass Kislenko @redkislenko | |||
| Take Back Alberta (from Woke Jason Kenney) | 01 May 2023 | 00:30:51 | |
A group known as Take Back Alberta appears to have seized control over sizable parts of the United Conservative Party and secured the leadership of Danielle Smith. What is this group? What motivates them, and who are their key figures? PressProgress writer Stephen Magusiak joins Team Advantage to discuss his recent piece, Who Is 'Take Back Alberta' and What Do They Really Want?
Follow Stephen at @magusiak, PressProgress at @PressProgress, and sign up for the ShiftWork newsletter.
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| Recession Ahead? w/ Jim Stanford | 30 Mar 2023 | 00:45:36 | |
Support this podcast! Watch our livestream! Sign up for our newsletter! The Bank of Canada is explicitly trying to increase unemployment by raising the cost of borrowing money. Is excessive employment the cause of inflation, and if not, what are the consequences of this policy likely to be? Economist Jim Stanford joins Team Advantage to talk about profiteering, the housing market, and the potential for a recession within the next year. Follow Jim Stanford on twitter @JimboStanford, and check out Economics for Everyone at economicsforeveryone.ca. | |||
| TORIES: Calgary Laundry Workers vs Ralph Klein | 28 Feb 2023 | 01:19:18 | |
Building a Community Movement for Better Transit feat. James Wilt: Saturday, March 18th | University of Alberta. RSVP: michaeljanz.ca/transitcamp2023 A few short years into Alberta PC Premier Ralph Klein's deficit-slashing austerity regime, Calgary's hospital laundry workers were given devastating news: they were going to be fired. Having been pushed to the brink, they took to the streets the next day on a wildcat strike. Soon, the city would be galvanized by the strike, with sympathy strikes soon forcing Klein's government to cancel health spending cuts and talk of a general strike in the air.
Our episode ends with an excerpt from Yvette Lynch, laundry worker and CUPE 8 member.
Listen to our previous episode on TORIES: Peter Lougheed, and check out our two-part series on why Ralph Klein sucked: Part 1, Part 2.
Further Reading: Foster, Jason. "Revolution, Retrenchment, and the New Normal: The 1990s and Beyond." In Working People in Alberta: A History, edited by Alvin Finkel, 205–241. Edmonton: AU Press, 2012. Reshef, Yonaton, and Sandra Rastin. Unions in the Time of Revolution: Government Restructuring in Alberta and Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Taylor, Jeff. "Labour in the Klein Revolution." In The Trojan Horse: Alberta and the Future of Canada, edited by Gordon Laxer and Trevor Harrison, 301–313. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1995. | |||
| Declaring Sovereignty | 30 Jan 2023 | 00:49:35 | |
Alberta, under the incredible leadership of Premier Danielle Smith, has declared sovereignty — or rather, proclaimed itself "sovereign within a united Canada," whatever that means. What even is sovereignty? How might it to relate to Indigenous sovereignty? Who even wants this? | |||
| Danielle Smith Thought | 03 Oct 2022 | 01:26:21 | |
You see, the woke establishment wants to control what media Albertans see, what vaccines we take, the resources we develop — and even what we are allowed to grow and eat. Independent journalist Jeremy Appel joins Team Advantage to explore Danielle Smith Thought. Follow Jeremy @JeremyAppel1025 and subscribe to his newsletter, The Orchard, at theorchard.substack.com. Support this podcast! Watch our livestream! Sign up for our newsletter! | |||
| The Free Trade Debate: Then and Now | 27 Jun 2022 | 01:02:39 | |
In the 1980s and 1990s, free trade and economic integration were intensely debated topics and the subject of debate in national elections, and generally opposed by the political left. Most recently, right-populist political formations — like Trump and Brexit — have resurfaced the issue of free trade, critiquing it for their own purposes. Why is it that nobody except the political right wants to talk about free trade anymore, especially when our countries have strategic decisions on the horizon— like resourcing pandemic responses and mitigating climate change? | |||
| Canadian vs U.S. Unions | 25 Apr 2022 | 00:59:02 | |
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| Inflation Fantasies | 07 Feb 2022 | 00:51:38 | |
What's inflation and why does it happen? If labour costs go up 1% but consumer prices go up 4.8%, who's pocketing that difference? Why do the CEOs of big corporate banks seem to care so much about inflation? Team Advantage explores the hottest economic phenomenon of 2022. | |||
| Shift Work! feat. Emily Leedham | 31 Jan 2022 | 00:18:43 | |
What's better than a newsletter? A weekly national roundup of labour news, that's what. Reporter Emily Leedham joins Team Advantage to discuss Shift Work, a curated newsletter summarizing strikes, lockouts, and new organizing initiatives— all while engaging the next generation of workers and organizers. Follow Emily on Twitter @Emily_Leedham_ and click here to sign up for Shift Work. | |||
| Faculty on Strike! | 08 Jan 2022 | 00:24:26 | |
The first faculty strike in Alberta's history has begun, with members of the Concordia University of Edmonton Faculty Association braving frigid temperatures and taking to the picket line on January 4th. Why is the Concordia University of Edmonton purchasing mansions when their faculty are amongst the lowest paid in the sector? Glynis Price of the Concordia university of Edmonton Faculty Association joins Team Advantage to discuss the strike and the future of post-secondary education in Alberta.
Follow @CUEfacultyassoc @CUEFAVoice and @SSCUEFA for information and updates, visit the faculty association website at cuefa.ca, and tell Concordia's President to put students and faculty before profits. | |||
| Austerity in Saskatchewan: Roy Romanow's NDP | 03 Jan 2022 | 01:01:55 | |
What happens when sensible social democrats pick up the pieces after a terrible, no-good conservative government ruins the province? Team Advantage examines the reign of Saskatchewan NDP Premier Roy Romanow from 1991-2001, who oversaw the closure of rural hospitals and fostered the skills of a young Janice McKinnon as his Finance Minister. What does the all-party austerity consensus look like when it's orange? Featuring special guest Doug Nesbitt, whose work can be found at rankandfile.ca and on twitter at @StandingTheGaff. | |||
| 100 Years of the Communist Party of Canada | 29 Nov 2021 | 01:48:02 | |
Support this podcast! Watch our livestream! Sign up for our newsletter! What is the history of Canada's second-oldest political party, and how does it inform their politics today? In this in-depth examination of the Communist Party of Canada, Team Advantage serves up a broad historical overview of the Party's history, and considers what role the CPC could play in the struggle for socialism today.
Follow our guest Doug Nesbitt at @StandingTheGaff and at rankandfile.ca. | |||
| The Postwar CCF | 12 Nov 2021 | 01:11:21 | |
What happened to the CCF in the post-war period? The 1940s saw the CCF soar in popularity, with the party forming official opposition in Ontario in 1943, and public opinion polls showing nationalizing industries to be widely popular among the Canadian population. How did the popularity of the CCF's positions get diffused, managed, or attacked in the years following the Second World War? | |||
| ORPHANED: Alberta's Oil and Gas Wells | 24 Oct 2021 | 00:36:36 | |
What happens when a symbol of prosperity becomes one of decay? There are thousands of idle oil and gas wells stranded throughout the Canadian west, orphaned by companies that went bankrupt and refused to clean them up. These orphan wells are a symptom of an industry in crisis, with the financial and ecological burden being unfairly placed upon the public. Filmmaker Gillian McKercher joins Team Advantage to discuss her new documentary film, Orphaned.
Watch Orphaned on CBC GEM, and follow Gillian on Twitter @GMcKercher and further news about the film @KinoSumProd. Learn more about Gillian at gillianmckercher.com, and more about Kino Sum Productions at kinosum.com. | |||
| What's Ideology? | 02 Oct 2021 | 00:51:55 | |
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For more examples of ideology critique, you might enjoy our previous episodes: Oil Propaganda Breakdown: Enough Is Enough, and The $30M Ad They Don't Want You to See: War Room Holiday Special. | |||
| Politicizing the Economy | 18 Sep 2021 | 00:41:12 | |
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| Vote Communist! with Elizabeth Rowley | 04 Sep 2021 | 00:25:32 | |
Elizabeth Rowley, leader of the Communist Party of Canada, joins Team Advantage in a busy community hall in Calgary. What does the Communist Party propose in its program this election, particularly in terms of a response to the pandemic and growing inequality?
Learn more about the CPC by contacting them at info[at]cpc-pcc.ca, 416-469-2446, and communist-party.ca | |||
| Stacking Crises on Crises | 31 Aug 2021 | 00:53:11 | |
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| Future Senator-Elect Kinney: Our Red in the Red Chamber | 18 Aug 2021 | 00:23:32 | |
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has decided that Alberta should hold a Senate election— and Progress Alberta's Executive Director, Duncan Kinney, has answered the call. Duncan joins Team Advantage to discuss the rich history of Senatorial activism, declares his support for Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism, and weighs in on the important issues facing Canada's chamber of sober second thought. | |||
| TORIES: Lougheed, 1971-1985 | 13 Aug 2021 | 00:46:19 | |
Support this podcast Want to learn more? Listen to Part One and Part Two of our episodes on Social Credit, our episode on the National Energy Program, and our episode comparing Grant Notley and Rachel Notley, Notley vs Notley. | |||
| Avi Lewis Runs for Office | 06 Aug 2021 | 00:48:48 | |
Filmmaker, climate activist, educator, and federal NDP candidate Avi Lewis joins Team Advantage to discuss his leap into electoral politics. Was the reaction to his work at the 2016 federal convention what made him decide to toss his hat in the ring? How does he expect to maintain his integrity and his outspoken voice within this new setting? Why does Canada seem to be missing the left-populist moment? And what does he think of his family's legacy within the NDP?
Follow Avi on twitter @avilewis and learn more about his campaign at avilewis.ca. | |||
| Stampede: Misogyny, White Supremacy, and Settler Colonialism | 21 Jul 2021 | 01:02:17 | |
For ten days every summer, Calgary's corporate office workers dress up like cowboys and enjoy a western-themed festival of settler colonialism. What work is the Stampede doing when it draws on the myth of the frontier— especially today, when it is largely funded by fossil fuel companies? Kimberley Williams, author of Stampede: Misogyny, White Supremacy and Settler Colonialism, joins Team Advantage to discuss the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth. Find the book in Calgary at Shelf Life Books, and online through the publisher at fernwoodpublishing.ca. | |||
| Nora Loreto: Take Back the Fight | 13 Jul 2021 | 00:55:38 | |
Did you know that the Canadian state once funded the National Action Committee on the Status of Women Canada, funding salaries and projects that allowed for shelters, child-care and daycare centres, women's drop-in centres, bookstores, and crisis lines? Writer and activist Nora Loreto joins Team Advantage to discuss her book, Take Back the Fight: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age. What happened to the feminist movement over the course of the neoliberal turn, and what opportunities and pitfalls does the modern digital landscape offer feminist and social-movement struggles? | |||
| Jokes?! Sean Devlin and Airports, Animals | 09 Jul 2021 | 00:23:43 | |
Guest host and seasoned newsletter-writer Clinton Hallahan sits down with writer, director, filmmaker, prankster, organizer and comedian Sean Devlin. In addition to joining The Yes Men in their exploits and storming the stage to frighten Stephen Harper, Sean Devlin is a seasoned stand-up comic, and his debut comedy album, Airports, Animals, is out July 9, 2021. Check out this interview to explore the burning question on everyone's mind: who is Sean Devlin's favourite racist? Check out Airports, Animals at arts-crafts.ca. Sean's work is also available through seandevlin.website and seandevlin.bandcamp.com. | |||
| Blairmore, Alberta: Canada's First Communist Town Council | 02 Jul 2021 | 00:46:26 | |
The coal-mining town of Blairmore, Alberta elected a slate of Mine Workers' Union nominees to town council in 1933— resulting in Canada's first communist town council. With Mayor Bill Knight at the council's helm, they would proceed to implement a range of substantive measures. They gathered fame for abolishing Remembrance Day and replacing it with October Revolution Day, naming the park after Karl Marx, and renaming main street "Tim Buck Boulevard" (after the Communist Party's leader). On the centenary year of the Communist Party of Canada, Team Advantage explores this rare instance of "red municipalism" in Canada. | |||