Category Archives: Radio

Radio — Defending reproductive rights in Alberta

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Scott

Kathy Dawson is a board member of the Alberta Pro-Choice Coalition (APCC), which brings together groups from across the province to “protect and support sexual health and reproductive rights in Alberta.” As a provincial election looms that may well bring … Continue reading →

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Radio — Fighting harassment and discrimination in the workplace

Posted on February 26, 2019 by Scott

Liane Tessier is a former firefighter who fought a landmark human rights case related to workplace harassment and gender discrimination in Halifax. Judy Haiven is a retired professor from the business school at Saint Mary’s University who taught industrial relations. … Continue reading →

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John Clarke’s decades of militant anti-poverty organizing in Ontario

Posted on February 19, 2019 by Scott

John Clarke was an organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) from its founding in 1990 until his retirement in late January 2019. Though he intends to remain a very active member of the group, this still marks a … Continue reading →

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Radio — Sex-positive parenting and social justice

Posted on February 12, 2019 by Scott

Mike Reynolds is a father of two girls and an online content creator and community builder under the banners of Everday Girl Dad and the Sew Manly Podcast. Frédérique Chabot is a mother, also of two girls, and the director … Continue reading →

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Radio — A successful campaign against medical colonialism

Posted on February 5, 2019 by Scott

Samir Shaheen-Hussain is a pediatric emergency physician who practices in Montreal and a professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. He has also been involved in grassroots social justice organizing around issues like … Continue reading →

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Radio — Anti-Black city-building and Black community resistance in Halifax

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Scott

LaMeia Reddick is a community worker and consultant in Halifax. Ted Rutland is an associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment at Concordia University in Montreal and the author of Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in … Continue reading →

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Radio — Cindy Blackstock’s long fight for the rights of First Nations children

Posted on January 22, 2019 by Scott

Cindy Blackstock is a member of the Gitksan First Nation, a social worker, a professor at McGill University in Montreal, and the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada. She is also the most … Continue reading →

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