Eugene Lefrancois, Steve Mantis, and Janet Paterson are injured workers living in Thunder Bay, Ontario, on the north shore of Lake Superior. Lefrancois is the president of the Thunder Bay and District Injured Workers Support Group, while Mantis is that group’s treasurer. And Paterson is the president of the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups. …
Sandee Lovas and Silke Force are members of the Alliance Against Poverty, a grassroots anti-poverty group in Kitchener-Waterloo, which is an hour southwest of Toronto in southern Ontario. Scott Neigh interviews them about the impact of poverty on their lives and their community, and about the group’s campaigns around public transit, housing and homelessness, and …
Thank-you to Sandee and Silke of Waterloo Region’s Alliance Against Poverty for the interview just now about their grassroots work around transit, housing, and other poverty issues. Listen for it soon on Talking Radical Radio!
Thanks to Heather, Kate, and Hannah of Ontario School Safety for the interview about their grassroots effort to use the legal system to push the Ontario government to implement adequate, science-based COVID protections in schools. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio soon!
Thank-you to Saleh Waziruddin for the interview just now about the work of the Niagara Region Anti-Racism Association. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in the next few weeks!
Mili Roy and Angela Bischoff are involved, in different capacities, in the Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign (OCEC), a broad, loose, non-partisan coalition of individuals and groups working hard to get Ontario to improve its response to the climate crisis. Scott Neigh interviews them about the crisis, about the campaign’s 12-point Climate Action Plan to address …
Thanks to Mili of Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment and Angela of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance for the interview just now about the Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign, a broad-based campaign in Ontario pushing for action on the climate crisis. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in August!
Krista Wylie is a mother of one current and one former student in public schools in Toronto, and she is a co-founder of the Fix Our Schools campaign. Scott Neigh interviews her about the $16.8 billion repair backlog in Ontario schools and about her years of campaigning to get the provincial government to take seriously …
Thanks to Krista of Fix Our Schools for the interview just now about the campaign to push the Ontario government to address the $16.8 billion infrastructure deficit in the province’s schools, and their take on the current provincial election. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio!
Don McLean, Sue Carson, and Nancy Hurst are members of Hamilton 350, a group that engages in climate activism in the city of Hamilton on the west end of Lake Ontario, in loose affiliation with the North America-wide 350.org. Scott Neigh interviews them about the group’s new Conservation Watch project. Since Hamilton 350’s founding in …