Our discussion about life and politics in Western Canada continues. We talk more about indigenous-settler relations and get into chatting about the oil sands, forest fires, and about whether there's hope for turning the tide.

Oats for Breakfast sits down to discuss life and politics in Western Canada. We get into talking about Alberta's premier Jason Kenney, what public education is like in Alberta and British Columbia, and about indigenous-settler relations in the two provinces.

We continue our discussion about labour standards with sociologist Adam King. This time we get into talking about what it's like to be a temporary employee and also compare labour standards in Canada with standards elsewhere, including Sweden and Australia.

Oats for Breakfast chats with sociologist Adam King about labour standards. Adam recently wrote an article "assessing what a Sanders presidency would mean for labour." We talk to him about the article and about labour policy in the US and Canada more broadly. Adam's article: http://theconversation.com/on-may-day-assessing-what-a-sanders-presidency-would-mean-for-labour-116133

We continue talking with the Toronto-based independent journalist Benjamin Bilgen about public transit. In this segment we compare our experiences using transit in Toronto with transit systems elsewhere. Our discussion travels to cities across the planet—including Antalya (Turkey), Islamabad (Pakistan), London (UK), as well as Montreal and Vancouver. In the latter part of the segment we chat about the ways in which transit intersects with the homelessness crisis.

The TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) recently unveiled an ad campaign that uses images captured by security cameras to publicly shame those trying to avoid paying the fare. We talk to the independent journalist Benjamin Bilgen about how the campaign violates the TTC's own video recording policy. Plus we get into chatting about transit enforcement more generally. Articles by Benjamin that are referenced in the episode: 1: http://everydayzine.com/jane-station-the-politics-of-surveillance-and-transit-design/ 2: http://everydayzine.com/ttc-fare-evasion-ad-campaign-violates-its-own-video-recording-policy/

Food delivery couriers working for the app-based company Foodora recently launched a union organizing drive in Toronto. We talk to Brice Sopher, who works as a Foodora courier, about the effort. Check out the Justice for Foodora Couriers website: http://foodstersunited.ca

We continue our discussion of the HBO miniseries Chernobyl. In this segment, disagreements arise over whether the series offers a critique of Trumpian populism as well about the nature and limits of liberal-democratic judicial regimes.

Oats takes up the takes up the recent HBO miniseries Chernobyl. We talk about the political commentary the series is trying to offer, the fact that historical inaccuracies were a major part of telling a story whose ostensible purpose was to highlight the importance of the truth, and why liberal centrism is not necessarily an objective standpoint from which to look at the world.

Sadia Khan, Corvin Russell, and Sharmeen Khan continue their discussion on how we can work to build socialism in Canada. They talk about the role of disruptive tactics, the logistics of organizing something on the scale of a general strike, and the need to assess whether the work we're doing is having any impact.