Thank-you to Ryan of the Calgary Alliance for the Common Good for the interview just now about the slow patient work of community organizing and alliance-building in Calgary. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in the next few weeks!
Simon Black is an assistant professor of Labour Studies at Brock University in St. Catherines, Ontario, who been active in the anti-poverty and labour movements since he was a teenager. He is also a founder of Labour Agains the Arms Trade. Scott Neigh interviews him about Canada’s involvement in arms production and about his group’s …
Kari Glynes Elliott is a board member of the Ottawa Transit Riders. Scott Neigh interviews her about the city’s transit system, including its troubled light rail (LRT) project, and about her group’s advocacy to make public transit in Ottawa more affordable, accessible, and reliable. Glynes Elliott has lived in Ottawa for about 20 years, and …
Sci-fi. Time travel. Near-future (and near-past, and distant-past, and really-distant-past) almost-Earth. Feminist. Very clever – in world-building, in how it deals with time-travel, in its politics. Quite liked the writing too. But it was a bit disappointing in terms of storytelling. In particular, there were a handful of scenes, mostly early on but a couple …
Just finished my third and final interview of the week. On Tuesday, I talked with Sharon Fortney, Curator of Indigenous Collections and Engagement at the Museum of Vancouver, about a show they have going on called Acts of Resistance. Still a bit uncertain about when and how I’ll use that interview — I will be …
Sheena Wilson is a professor of media, communications, and cultural studies at the University of Alberta. One of her many roles is leading an initiative called Just Powers, described on its website as “an interdisciplinary and community-engaged network of research projects focused on climate justice issues” and “on creating socially-just approaches to energy transition and …
Memoir. By a prominent French public intellectual of the left (whom I had not heard of until a friend recommended this book to me). He first made a name for himself with an important biography of Michel Foucault, cemented his reputation by producing some of the foundational scholarly work in gay studies in the French …
Just finished the second of two interviews this week! Earlier in the week, I spoke with Kari of the Ottawa Transit Riders about advocating for better, more affordable, more accessible public transit in Ottawa (as well as the fiasco that has been the implementation of light rail in that city). Today, I talked to Simon of Labour …
Dave Bleakney is the second national vice-president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). In that role, he attended the COP 25 United Nations climate change conference in Madrid in December. Scott Neigh interviews him about how his union is responding to the climate crisis, and about what CUPW has previously described as the …
Frédérique Chabot is the director of the health promotion program for Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights and Natalya Mason is a sexual health educator and a registered social worker who works for Saskatoon Sexual Health. Scott Neigh interviews them about this year’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness Week campaign, about comprehensive sexuality education …