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- NLR Minute 01/14 - Interest Rate Worries
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The crisis in housing is reaching fever pitch across Canada, with it hitting especially hard right at home for one of our co-hosts.
It's being reported that the Bank of Canada is going to be raising the overnight lending rate next week in what will be the beginning of a series of increases seeking to control inflation. It's bad news for the working class and the same tired monetary policy that got us into this mess.
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33 min - NLR Counterpoint - The Politics of COVID w/ Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook & Andrew LawtonFan of the show? https://www.patreon.com/newleftradio (Support us on Patreon)!Each week, we’ll bring you a panel discussion with Canada’s leading journalists, columnists, politicos, and change-makers discussing what’s happening in the newsphere.This week, we’re joined by physician and medical researcher Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook, and columnist and commentator Andrew Lawton, to discuss the politics of COVID-19, lockdowns, and compulsory vaccine mandates.About Dr. Genevieve EastabrookDr. Eastabrook completed medical school at the University of Calgary, residency training at the University of British Columbia, and a fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine, as well as the Royal College certified Clinical Investigator Program, also at UBC. In 2012, she joined Western University’s division of Maternal Fetal Medicine as a clinician-researcher and in 2017, she took on the role of director of the MFM subspecialty training program. As a member of the Pregnancy Research Group, Dr. Eastabrook’s current research focus is on placental dysfunction and cardiovascular maladaptation to pregnancy, particularly within the obese population.About Andrew LawtonAndrew Lawton is a broadcaster and columnist. Currently, he is a fellow at True North and a weekly columnist for Loonie Politics. His written work has been published across the world, including in the Washington Post, the National Post, the Toronto Sun, the Edmonton Sun, and Global News. Andrew has appeared as a commentator on CBC, CTV, TVO, CTS, and on BBC World. Andrew ran as a Progressive Conservative candidate in Ontario’s 2018 provincial election.Stay connected with the latest from New Left Radio by https://newleft.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8227a4372fe8dc22bdbf0e3dbandid=e99d6c70b4 (joining our mailing list) today!_________1 hr 6 min
- NLR Minute 10/12 - Where’s the Government?
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After federal teasing of mandatory vaccines, Quebec Premier Legault announces a “financial penalty” for Quebeckers who refuse to vaccinate. It draws serious questions about bodily sovereignty and the ability of the wealthy to avoid vaccination.
Conservative leader Erin O’Toole claims that Canada-US relations have never been worse. It’s definitely not true. Has O’Toole lost the script and where is the opposition right now? Is there even a government right now?
CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn joins us in the CUPE Ontario Union Hall to discuss the extreme failures of the Ford government as Omicron cases surge and overwhelm Ontario’s healthcare system. It’s so much more than COVID though. It didn’t have to be this way and Ford is to blame.
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42 min - What Is To Be Done - Interview w/ Slavoj Žižek
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World renowned leftist philosopher Slavoj Žižek joins for a sweeping and wide ranging conversation on the urgency of this moment as we struggle through COVID-19 while trying to cling to failed paradigms. In a world where the status quo realizes that the old way must give way to the new, there is little action being taken to transition to what Žižek calls the “communism of necessity”. How can the left win in the face of a century of losses? How do we battle against the losses of the working class to the politics of the right? What is to be done?
About his new book Heaven In Disorder
As we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage: outrageous inequality, climate disaster, desperate refugees, mounting tensions of a new cold war. The abiding motif of our time is relentless chaos.
Acknowledging the possibilities for new beginnings at such moments, Mao Zedong famously proclaimed “There is great disorder under heaven; the situation is excellent.” The contemporary relevance of Mao’s observation depends on whether today’s catastrophes can be a catalyst for progress or have passed over into something terrible and irretrievable. Perhaps the disorder is no longer under, but in heaven itself.
Characteristically rich in paradoxes and reversals that entertain as well as illuminate, Slavoj Žižek’s new book treats with equal analytical depth the lessons of Rammstein and Corbyn, Morales and Orwell, Lenin and Christ. It excavates universal truths from local political sites across Palestine and Chile, France and Kurdistan, and beyond.
Heaven In Disorder looks with fervid dispassion at the fracturing of the Left, the empty promises of liberal democracy, and the tepid compromises offered by the powerful. From the ashes of these failures, Žižek asserts the need for international solidarity, economic transformation, and—above all—an urgent, “wartime” communism.
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About Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek (b. 1949) is a Slovenian-born philosopher and psychoanalyst. He is a professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS, a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, and founder and president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana. Aside from these appointments, Žižek tirelessly gives lectures around the globe and is often described as “the Elvis of cultural theory”. Although, more seriously, as British critical theorist Terry Eagleton confers, Žižek is the “most formidably brilliant” theorist to have emerged from Europe in decades. Many, in fact, now consider Žižek to be “the most dangerous philosopher in the West.”
He grew up in in Ljubljana, Slovenia, which at the time was part of the former Yugoslavia. The regime’s more permissive, albeit “pernicious,” policies allowed for Žižek’s exposure to Western theory and culture, in particular film, English detective novels, German Idealism, French structuralism, and Jacques Lacan. Studying at the University of Ljubljana, he completed his master’s degree in philosophy in 1975 with a thesis on French structuralism and his Doctoral degree in philosophy in 1981 with a dissertation on German Idealism. He then went to Paris, along with Mladen Dolar, to study Lacan under Jacques Alain-Miller (Lacan’s son-in-law and disciple). During this time in Paris, from 1981–85, Žižek completed another dissertation on the work of Hegel, Marx, and Kripke through a Lacanian lens. After his return to...
55 min - NLR Minute 12/10 - Let’s Fix the Housing Crisis
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Remember when we were promised action in the housing crisis during the 2021 election? What happened to that? How about some new ideas to solve the problem?
Ottawa has agreed to a settlement with Indigenous communities to end the cycle of court cases. In true Liberal fashion, it’s non-binding. Will the dollars ever be paid?
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21 min - NLR Minute 12/07 - Tragedy of the Commons
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After a disastrous and unnecessary election call, former Nova Scotia Premier Iain Rankin calls it quits. He’s stepping down from leadership of the party and will likely fade into obscurity, or at least the world of corporate lobbying.
Canadian media giants ask the government to protect their profit from social media giants. Social media giants threaten to block news from their platforms. This is what happens when we hand over the public commons to private corporations.
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27 min - NLR Minute 12/05 - Lockdown Minus Support
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Omicron is ravaging us. With policy changing daily, and the announcements at and furious, one thing is clear — there will be none of the supports, financial or otherwise, of 2020.
The Canadian Dream is alive? A new initiative is pushing for Canada to grow to 100 million people by the year 2100. Is 100 million really a game changer? Without making significant changes to our economy today aren’t we damning millions more to life in an unaffordable and unjust system?
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32 min - NLR Minute 01/03 - Shut Up and Die
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Omicron is devouring Ontario’s healthy and Premier Doug Ford has sent a fairly clear message — we don’t care about you. Go to work, shut up, and die if you have to.
As he has since the beginning of this crisis, PM Justin Trudeau has the authority to take control through the Emergencies Act. Spoiler alert, he won’t use it.
$10 a day childcare seems to be all but a done deal with the rumours that Ontario will announce it is joining the federal government’s scheme. What other problems could they solve so quickly?
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32 min - NLR Minute 12/22 - The ‘Cynical’ Left
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Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan appears to be dead, and Justin Trudeau’s threats had nothing to do with it. In the aftermath, we wonder, does Justin Trudeau think that the status quo is good enough for Canadian workers?
Justin Trudeau has done a series of in depth interviews lately, in one of which he laments the ‘cynicism of the left’. Is it cynicism or seeing calling out broken promises and unfulfilled advancement?
CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn drops by the CUPE Ontario Union Hall to discuss the highs and lows of 2021, the struggle we’re all feeling with Omicron, and his hopes for building a better Ontario in 2022.
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37 min - NLR Minute 12/20 - A Nation of Poor Judgement
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We’re taking a mental health day today but enjoy this unreleased episode from last Monday when we had technical difficulties!
Justin Trudeau doubles down against US climate legislation by threatening tariffs. Who is he fighting for and who is he kidding with this?
You probably remember Liberal MP George Chahal as the guy who stole Conservative campaign lit from the doorstep and was caught on a Ring doorbell cam. If that wasn’t bad enough, he’s back in the news, accused of advising a constituent on how to commit CERB fraud when he was a city councilor.
Then, Quebec’s Bill 21 is against our values. Period. It’s in the news again for the absolute wrong reasons.
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About New Left Radio
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New Left Radio is bringing you news and commentary from behind the front lines of late-stage capitalism through daily coverage of current events, and weekly long-form interviews and debates with…
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