Ep 17 - Demand the Impossible

07/15/22 • 56 min

We've been taking a little summer break and this week we're bringing you an episode we recorded in the midst of the Ontario election. As a bulwark against the ongoing trudge into barbarism and cynicism, we've dreamt up some grounded, realistic "demands" to immediately make worker's lives materially better.
Steve takes a quick look at improvements that could immediately improve housing affordability, desirability and walkability. And continues to gind his axe about landlords.
Tim (of course) wanted to talk about trains.
H-hey guys? We really should fix that enviornment, eh?
And: Is $15 "Fair"? Is $20 "Plenty?" We're well overdue a raise -- and a union.
Some stuff we mentioned:
The Trains that Subsidize Suburbia - GO Transit Commuter Rail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxWjtpzCIfA
"How Are You Going to Pay for That? Smart Answers to the Dumbest Question in Politics" by Ryan Cooper
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250272348/howareyougoingtopayforthat
IPCC Sixth's Assessment
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-ii/
Fifteen and Fairness
https://www.15andfairness.org/
Francis Bourgeois, TikTokker Loves Trains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfM6DFn_h58

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Ep. 16 - Oh... Canada 🤦

This week, Tim and a very congested Steve are joined by indigenous activist and labour organizer Carissa Taylor. A recent transplant to the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations -- also known as Vancouver -- Carissa shares how she's navigated her work with indigenous peoples on the Western Coast and how she understands Canada Day through the lens of her own identity as a settler-passing Métis woman and an anti-colonial activist.
TL;DR: fuck the flag; they can have it.
Stavros Halkias "Canada is Stupid" (RE: Land Acklowledgements)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fHzrbskBTZQ
#Next150
https://next150.indianhorse.ca/
Indigenous Blue Jays Logo:
https://twitter.com/paintsbyparkin/status/1507043245561466880
Indigenous Jets Logo:
https://www.nhl.com/news/jets-indigenous-inspired-logo-profound-experience-for-artist/c-314090206
"The Dawn of Everything" Graeber and Rengrow:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374157357/thedawnofeverything

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Ep. 18 - Constructing a Left-Feminist Foreign Policy with Kaliene Jackson

This week we're taking another look at Canada's foreign policy, through the framing of Ed Burmila's "Naught by NATO" -- an article we've referenced before.
Since the last time we tried to talk about this was frankly a bit embarrassing, we brought in a ringer to help us stumble through. Kaliene Jackson has studied the rhetoric and impacts (and the gap between them) of Canada's Feminist Foreign Aid program and helps us envision what a truly leftist foreign policy would look like.