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  • Fighting Healthcare Privatization

    In this episode we begin a dive into the underfunding and privatization threats

    facing Canada’s Public Healthcare system, with Natalie Mehra from the Ontario Health
    Coalition.
    While a majority of Canadians continue to view Medicare a defining feature of our
    national identity, others are losing patience with a system bogged down by a series of
    aggravating chronic problems including:

    • a crisis in access to family doctors;
    • the “hallway medicine” of our emergency departments, and
    • long waiting lists for specialist appointments and surgical procedures
      • Privatization, in one form or another, is being sold to us by provincial governments as a
      means to address the pressures on the public system without, they claim, undermining
      its core principles.
      Privatization critics, on the other hand, argue that the increasing presence of for-profit
      providers inevitably leads to a two-tiered system that rations access on the basis of
      ability to pay.
      This is the first of a planned series looking at the various kinds of privatization facing
      Canada’s Medicare System.
      57 min
    • Carney’s Climate Contradictions

      Carney’s Climate Contradictions

      with Mitchell Beer, Sept 24, 2026

      Mark Carney rose to power as Canada’s 24th Prime Minister in the midst of

      both external and internal threats to Canadian sovereignty.
      Prior to becoming PM, Carney garnered a reputation as a champion of
      aggressive public and private climate action in support of a managed
      transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Since attaining power,
      however, Carney’s actions have led many to conclude that he has
      abandoned his previous climate commitments.
      Well has he or hasn’t he? Or, as some argue, is it more complicated than
      that?
      This PH episode features a conversation about Mark Carney’s Climate
      Contractions with Mitchell Beer, the editor of The Energy Mix, a go-to
      source of information on all things happening on the energy and climate
      fronts.

      57 min
    • Can We Afford Ford’s Costly Nuclear Buildout?

      This episode of Planet Haliburton takes a hard look at Premier Doug Ford’s massive new $300 - $400 billion expansion of nuclear power while tax and ratepayers are still paying off the debt from the last one.

      That 1980s-1990s nuclear build-out came close to bankrupting Ontario Hydro, resulting in its breakup up and partial privatization.
      Electricity rates are already being dramatically increased as Ford passes the interest costs associated with his nuclear expansion program directly onto our electrical bills - before his new reactors even start generating power.
      With renewable energy costs falling to a fraction of the cost of nuclear while the climate emergency gets worse by the day, me and my guest, “Seniors for Climate Action Now SCAN!)” energy analyst, David Roberston, ask “Can We Afford Ford’s Costly Nuclear Buildout?”

      57 min
    • ‘Metabolic Rifts’ with Ian Angus,

      Animated by advances in Earth System Science, ecosocialist

      researchers have been rediscovering important insights from
      an older ecological framework called ‘metabolic rift theory’.

      This theory emphasizes that all life on earth lives in a dynamic two-

      way relationship with the earth’s biosphere - that thin layer of living
      matter created by life to sustain life - that’s exhibiting such increasing signs
      of distress these days.

      To explore the underlying causes of this distress, my guest on this episode

      of Planet Haliburton is Ian Angus, author of the 2026 book ‘Metabolic Rifts:
      Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System’.

      PH Resource List for “Metabolic Rifts – Capitalism’s Assault on the

      Earth System”, with Ian Angus, 1st Airing, July 23, 2026

      1. Ian Angus Biographical Information:
        2. https://www.amazon.ca/stores/author/B001KIZU38/about
      2. Reviews, Excerpts and Discussion of ‘Metabolic Rifts’
        3. • Monthly Review:

        https://climateandcapitalism.com/2026/03/25/metabolic-rifts-

        capitalisms-assault-on-the-earth-system/

        • Global Ecosocialist Network: https://monthlyreview.org/april-

        25th-ecosocialism-forum-to-host-ian-angus-author-of-metabolic-
        rifts/

        • Green Left:

        https://www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1452/culture/metabolic-rifts-and-

        capitalisms-assault-earth

        • Canadian Dimention Magazine: “A New Reign of Climate

        Chaos”: https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/a-new-reign-

        of-climate-chaos

        1. Previous Planet Haliburton Interview with Ian Angus on “Facing
          2. the Anthropocene”:

          https://planethaliburton.zencast.website/episodes/capitalism-killing-

          the-climate-w-ian-angus

          1 hr
        2. Adaptation, Health and Safety and the Climate Emergency

          This episode looks at the growing calls for urgent Climate Change Adaptation action as the climate emergency deepens.

          The failure to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions has come home to roost in the form of more frequent and intense extreme weather events including increased flooding, droughts, heat domes, and wildfire with all the associated increased risk to human health and safety that entails.
          Jennifer Penney, a longtime health policy advocate, activist and chair of the Adaptation Working Group of Seniors for Climate action Now (SCAN!), joins me for this timely conversation.

          51 min
        3. The Right To Repair with Dr. Natasha Tusikov.

          Virtually everyone these days has a story about being forced to throw away an otherwise perfectly serviceable appliance, tool or device simply because one small part has failed. You know the line … “it’s more ‘cost-effective’ to waste it and buy new than repair it.

          Few of us, though, are aware of the extent to which planned obsolescence has been extended into every aspect of our lives in an era dominated by an ubiquitous, digitally-connected always on “Internet of Things”.

          To help shed some light on how the rise of digital mega-corporations, like Apple, Google and Meta, is linked to new forms of planned obsolescence and the production of digitally-driven waste, I’m joined by Dr. Natasha Tusikov , co-author of a 2023 book entitled “The New Knowledge: Information, Data, and The Remaking of Global Power”.

          56 min
        4. “Cobalt: The Making of a Mining Superpower”

          This week on Planet Haliburton, Charlie Angus, the NDP Member of Parliament for the current Federal Riding of Timmins, James Bay, which covers an area greater than a quarter of Ontario’s entire land mass is our guest.

          In addition to that “day job”, the Honourable Member is a practicing musician – with the iconic band The Grievous Angels - and the author of 8, soon to be 9, books.

          His 8th book entitled “Cobalt: The Making of a Mining Superpower”, is a fascinating look at the role his adopted home town of Cobalt, Ontario played in making Canada the world’s preeminent resource extraction superpower it is today.

          This interview highlights some of the key themes in Cobalt including the outrageous power and excess of wealthy mine owners and related state-sponsored attempts to steal Indigenous Lands. At the same time, Angus foregrounds the amazing level of solidarity and resistance to corporate power and colonialism put up by Indigenous People, miners and the Union they built to defend themselves.

          This is not the “Empire Ontario” history we were taught in school that's embedded in our national myths and the truths they hide.

          This is the Real Deal.

          57 min
        5. Energy Poverty

          Abhilash Kantamneni (Abhi) is an Efficiency Canada research manager specializing in energy poverty and low-income energy efficiency. His community-based approach to energy efficiency, civic engagement and capacity building has earned him wide recognition including being named a ‘40 Under 40 Energy Leader’ by the Midwest Energy News and a Canada Storyteller Award by SSHRC-CRSH. Abhi has a Master of Science in Physics, and in Computer Science from Michigan Tech, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Anna University.

          Resource list.

          https://canoefm.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/PH-Resource-List-for-Energy-Poverty-and-the-Climate-Emergency-Final-Mar-14-2024.pdf

          58 min
        6. Wasted: Getting Ourselves Out From Under

          This episode features a conversation about approaches to dealing the mountains of garbage being generated by our linear “Take, Make, and Waste” economy with Dr. Calvin Lakhan, Director of the “Waste Wiki Project” at York University.

          As calls for a “circular” economy that views “garbage” as a wasted “resource” have gained popularity, the notion of “Extended Producer Responsibility” or EPR has become a key waste management strategy.
          But so far EPR has failed to live up proponent claims and Ontario’s recycling rate is tanking.
          The question is why and what can be done about it?
          Issues discussed include EPR and Ontario’s Blue Box Program, incineration, “planned obsolescence’ and “The Right to Repair” movement.

          This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm

          56 min
        7. “COP28” Post-Mortem – The Good the Bad and the Ugly

          The 28th annual UN-sponsored Climate Summit or COP28 is now history.

          These annual spectacles are chocked full of contradictions and there’s no shortage of controversy about was – or wasn’t - accomplished by thousands of conference delegates from close to 200 countries between November 30th and December 13th in Dubai.
          While the last episode of Planet Haliburton was a COP28 “Pre-Mortem”, this one is its “Post-Mortem” sequel.
          Mitchell Beer, the publisher of The Energy Mix, Canada’s preeminent source on climate news and opinion, returns to help take stock of the good, the bad and the ugly aspects of COP28.

          1 hr 1 min

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