Category Archives: Radio

Radio: Preserving and popularizing the history of working-class Toronto

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Scott

Craig Heron, Holly Kirkconnell, and David Kidd are active with the Toronto Workers’ History Project (TWHP), an initiative devoted to preserving and promoting the history of working people in Toronto. Scott Neigh interviews them about the enthusiasm they have found … Continue reading →

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Radio: Pushing Ontario to fix its massive school repair backlog

Posted on May 24, 2022 by Scott

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 … Continue reading →

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Radio: Challenging government abandonment of citizens detained abroad

Posted on May 17, 2022 by Scott

Sally Lane is the mother of Jack Letts, a Canadian citizen who has been detained for more than five years in northeastern Syria in conditions akin to torture. Matthew Behrens is a long-time activist and a member of Stop Canadian … Continue reading →

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Radio: Long years of grassroots work for missing and murdered Indigenous women

Posted on May 10, 2022 by Scott

Darlene Okemaysim-Sicotte is part of a grassroots group called Iskwewuk E-wichiwitochik, or Women Walking Together, that has been working for many years in Saskatoon on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Scott Neigh interviews her about … Continue reading →

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Radio: Defending the forest in southwest Nova Scotia

Posted on May 3, 2022 by Scott

Nina Newington is a long-time activist and an organizer of the Last Hope Camp, whose participants have been living in tents on the land since December to block the logging of an ecologically important forest in southwest Nova Scotia. Scott … Continue reading →

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Radio: Union members pushing their pension plan to divest from fossil fuels

Posted on April 26, 2022 by Scott

Jillian Maguire and Kim Benson are teachers in British Columbia. As such, they are both members of the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF), and they have recently been organizing to get their pension plan to divest from fossil fuel industries. … Continue reading →

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Radio: Ottawa residents against the convoy, and for solidarity and social justice

Posted on April 19, 2022 by Scott

Alex Silas and Angella MacEwen live in Ottawa and are active in their unions and their communities. This includes as members of Community Solidarity Ottawa (CSO), a coalition of unions, community organizations, and residents that came together during the recent … Continue reading →

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