Harbinger Showcase
News & Politics
About
Weekly highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts including Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & 55 more. This podcast is syndicated for community and campus radio at CiTR, CJSR and Co-op Radio in Vancouver, Victoria’s CFUV , CHLY in Nanaimo, CIVL in Abbotsford, CKUW and CJUM in Winnipeg, at MetRadio in Toronto, at Radio Laurier in Waterloo, at CFMU in Hamilton, at CJAM in Windsor, at Montreal’s CKUT , and at CJBU in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Find out more and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com
Episodes
- ep113: Countering Carney's War Bank + Strategies for Confronting Authoritarianism
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we explain how the new NATO-aligned global weapons bank will make Canad…
- ep112: Meet New Journalism Co-op ‘Defacto’ + Alberta's Charter School Challenge
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we meet new journalism co-op Defacto on THE NORTH STATE , learn how to…
- ep111: The Palestinian Exception On Campus + Attacks on Indigenous Rights in BC
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we discuss the surging attacks on Indigenous rights in British Columbia…
- ep110: Alberta's Attack on Trans Kids + Doug Ford vs. FOI Requests
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we discuss the US and Israel's illegal war on Iran and Lebanon on BUBBL…
- ep109: Quebec's Catholic Social Democracy + the Return of 'Unmaking Saskatchewan'
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we unpack why the economy is so uneven on SRSLY WRONG , introduce the C…
- ep108: The Avi Era Begins + Labour Action Basics 101
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we unpack the big Avi Lewis win at last week’s NDP leadership conventio…
- ep107: the John Howard Society of Manitoba interview (w/ John Samson Fellows + Emily Leedham)
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On a special new interview episode John Howard Society of Manitoba 's John Samson Fello…
- ep106: Mapping the Manosphere + Can Unapologetic Socialism Save the NDP?
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we map the Manosphere on POLITE CONVERSATIONS , explain why ‘unapologet…
- ep105: Canadian Oil & Gas and Iran + US-style Charter Schools in Alberta
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we discuss the costs of Canada’s growing partnership with India on THE…
- ep104: Alberta Separatism Rally Eyewitness + Costs of the Canada/India Partnership
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we talk Alberta separatism on PRESS PROGRESS SOURCES , investigate The…
- ep103: Fascist Aesthetics + No Arms in the Arts vs. Scotiabank
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we examine fascist aesthetics on GREEN PLANET MONITOR , concern troll t…
- ep102: Canada and Iran + Climate Emergency Unit Legacy
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we argue that Canada’s expansion of medically-assisted dying reflects a…
- ep101: Critiquing the 2026 Winter Olympics + The RCMP vs. Journalism
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we talk about the Tumbler Ridge tragedy, youth radicalization and trans…
- ep100: Cross-border Solidarity, ICE and Minneapolis Under Siege
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we discuss cross-border solidarity in the face of anti-migrant state vi…
- ep99: Billionaire Wealth Flight + The 1969 Waffle Movement
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we examine the spinelessness of Canadian news media on THE NORTH STATE…
- ep98: New Democrat Futures + The NDP Leadership Race Contenders
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we introduce the campaign to renew the NDP and put it in the hands of t…
- ep97: The Narwhal Takes the RCMP to Court + Policy Interventions to Reduce Food Insecurity
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we explain why The Narwhal is taking the RCMP to court on REDEYE , exam…
- ep96: Sweden Arms Canada + 20 years of GREEN MAJORITY RADIO
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we explain why it was a bad year for scabs and a good year for separati…
- ep95: The North State vs. CANADALAND + Fulfilling Big Oil's Wish List
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we force Canadaland publisher Jesse Brown to face journalistic accounta…
- ep94: Champagne Neoliberalism + Alberta's NDP and the LEAP Manifesto
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we look at what Mark Carney’s 2025 budget contains and how the nation b…
- ep93: BC’s Zoomer-led Greens + CANADALAND Wasteland
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we talk about Atlantic Canada’s lobster crisis on BERRYRGROUNDS , speak…
- ep92: Alberta Labour's Existential Threat + Mark Carney's Harper-esque Budget
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we talk about the Liberal government’s new Harper-esque budget on THE B…
- ep91: Inside the Budget Lockup + Wire Cutting American Tech
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we report from the federal budget journalist lockup on PRESS PROGRESS S…
- ep90: Political Cronyism and Corporate Landlords + Connecting Poverty and Climate Change
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we discuss how Doug Ford and Mark Carney’s housing policies heavily fav…
- ep89: Pushing the NDP to the Left + the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we discuss how the NDP leadership race could turn the party into a vehi…
- ep88: Médéric Lanctôt, Canada's 1st Social Democrat + Three Mining Companies in a Trenchcoat
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we discuss the dismissal of a federal government lawyer for calling for…
- ep87: AI's Illusion of Convenience + Challenging Complacency in a New Fascist Era
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we look at the rise of the extreme-right in Canada on Rachel Gilmore 's…
- ep86: The Carney Doctrine + Socialism and the CCF-NDP
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we explain how the Liberals’ harsher immigration policies negatively af…
- ep85: Unionizing Amazon and Uber in BC + Carney's Western Ideological Orientation
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we report on the recent successful union certification drives for Uber…
- ep84: Rent Control is Good, Actually + 1971 New Brunswick NDP Trotskyists
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we reveal why rent control is good, actually, on SRSLY WRONG , discuss…
- ep83: Carney's Complicity in Gaza's Genocide + Naomi Klein on the Rise of End-of-the-World Fascism
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode: we discuss how Mark Carney and establishment media’s complicity in Isr…
- ep82: The Death and Life of Canadian Socialism - Live at the Progressive Publics Symposium
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode: every century or so the Canadian left gathers at the Royal Canadian Le…
- ep81: Air Canada vs. 10,000 Flight Attendants + The Senate Calls Out Israel's Genocide
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we unpack August’s tense stand-off between Air Canada and its 10,000 fl…
- ep80: The New Nationalism + Non-market Solutions for a Housing Crisis
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we find non-market solutions to the housing crisis with the Canadian Ce…
- ep79: CAF's Facebook Extremists + Vancouver Grassroots Politics w/ Sean Orr
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we talk with Vancouver socialist city councillor Sean Orr about the com…
- ep78: The Case for a Digital Detox + Doug Ford and Ontario Decline
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we look at how Doug Ford is dismantling Ontario on PRESS PROGRESS SOURC…
- ep77: Who's the Canadian Zohan? + Progressives in Edmonton's 2025 Municipal Election
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode break down what Canadian progressives can learn from Zohran Mamdani’ s…
- ep76: Saving the NDP From Party Insiders + Organizing for an Anti-War World
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we ask if the NDP establishment wants a short, rigged leadership race o…
- ep75: Meta News Ban Drives the Far-right + Origins of the CCF
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we explore the absence of the role of international law in the context…
- ep74: 'We're So Back' Theory + the Federal NDP Saskatchewan Collapse
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we explain why we thought it was so over when we were actually almost s…
- ep73: Canadian Colonialism & Capitalism + Election 2025 Aftermath
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we explain why we think Mark Carney will adapt a Conservative agenda on…
- ep72: Highlights from The Breach Election 2025 livestream
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we tune in to The Breach's election night coverage for sharp political…
- ep71: The 2025 Leadership Debates + Managing Disaster Justice
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we analyze week three of the campaign on THE ROVER - ELECTION 2025 , re…
- ep70: Press Freedom in Election 2025 + Industrial Policy is Sexy
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we analyze week 2 of the 2025 federal election campaign on THE BREACH S…
- ep69: Values Voting + the Witchcraft of Election Polling
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we explain how to vote for values on PALESTINE DEBRIEF , demystify the…
- ep68: Tech Bros Take Ottawa + Reimagining Democratic Socialism
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we discuss how Silicon Valley thinking is creeping into Canadian politi…
- ep67: Opposing War, Fighting Racism + Collapse of the International Legal Order
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we explain why increasing wages and capping rent is an investment in su…
- ep66: Canada’s Colonial Courts + The Alberta Sovereignty Imaginary
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we discuss Canada’s colonial courts, police violence and land defense o…
- ep65: The BDS Boycott App + Are the NDP Relevant?
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we introduce the BDS Movement’s official boycott app on PALESTINE DEBRI…
- ep64: Climate Change as Class War + Operation Solidarity 1983
Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts. On this episode we explore how the Left should respond to Trump's tariffs on VICTOR’S C…