- Who’s afraid of Chrystia Freeland?
Thursday, December 19th 2024
In the wake of Chrystia Freeland’s explosive departure from the Liberal cabinet, Martin Lukacs and El Jones discuss the establishment media’s infatuation with Ottawa’s palace intrigue and what the future for a hobbled Trudeau government might look like.
Plus, we answer listener questions just in time for the holidays.
- Why this Canadian mayor is criticizing her city’s spiralling police budget
Thursday, December 12th 2024
Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish recently generated headlines when she stepped down from her local police services board, calling the city’s escalating police budget “out of control.”
Desmond Cole visits her office to discuss her resignation and the alternatives to policing.
- A weekend at the Davos of warmongering
Thursday, November 28th 2024
It was a big week for the military-industrial complex in Canada, with the west’s war-making establishment convening in Halifax for the annual International Security Forum (then hopping over to Montreal for a NATO summit).
El Jones fills Martin Lukacs in on her attempts to report on the Security Forum, where the hand towels were plush, the security uptight, and the drumbeat for increased Canadian military spending strong.
- Little Nazi-sympathizing surveillance state on the prairie
Sunday, November 24th 2024
Independent journalist Duncan Kinney of Progress Report was charged with mischief for allegedly spraypainting two monuments dedicated to Nazis and their collaborators—a charge he says the Edmonton Police have used to surveil and silence him. Kinney sits down with Desmond Cole to discuss his case.
To donate to Kinney's legal fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/duncan-kinney-legal-defense-fund
- UN expert on how Canada helps shield Israel from accountability
Thursday, November 14th 2024
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, sits down with Desmond Cole to discuss Canada’s ‘crystal clear’ complicity in the Israeli destruction of Gaza and the ‘hope that remains in this darkness.’
