No New Normal

By CKUT 90.3fm Montreal

What's No New Normal about?

The series aims to unpack the questions raised by the COVID-19 outbreak, examining the rifts exposed by the pandemic and the convergent struggles emerging in the aftermath of the quarantine.

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No New Normal episodes:

08.07.2020
Episode 4: Quarantined Without Shelter
Episode Notes QUARANTINED WITHOUT SHELTER - At the height of the lockdown, people living without shelter found themselves unable to quarantine, and without many of the services that function as basic infrastructure for those experiencing homelessness and poverty. While the city...
07.17.2020
Episode 3: People, Not Workers: Migrants and the Borders of Viral Capitalism
Episode Notes PEOPLE, NOT WORKERS: MIGRANTS AND THE BORDERS OF VIRAL CAPITALISM - Many migrant workers found themselves doing “essential work” when the pandemic was declared a public health emergency, but the industries in which they work–factories, meat packaging plants, long-term...
07.03.2020
Episode 2: Locked Down: Prisoner Justice Under Quarantine
Episode Notes LOCKED DOWN: PRISONER JUSTICE UNDER QUARANTINE discusses the response to COVID-19 in prisons, arguing that the carceral system has failed to protect prisoners from COVID-19 and has imposed arbitrary measures that only make conditions more unliveable for people on...
06.19.2020
Episode 1: Crisis in Care: COVID-19 in CHSLDs
Episode Notes CRISIS IN CARE: COVID-19 IN CHSLDs discusses the outbreak of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities in Quebec, arguing that the nearly 5,000 coronavirus-related deaths in long-term care facilities were due to decades of poor conditions in such facilities and...

What's No New Normal about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

No New Normal episodes:

Episode 4: Quarantined Without Shelter

Episode 3: People, Not Workers: Migrants and the Borders of Viral Capitalism

Episode 2: Locked Down: Prisoner Justice Under Quarantine

Episode 1: Crisis in Care: COVID-19 in CHSLDs