Justin Trudeau sucks, folks. Author Martin Lukacs' recently released book The Trudeau Formula: Seduction and betrayal in an age of discontent, is a fantastically written and well reported exploration of how Justin Trudeau's style of individualized, hyper image-driven, symbolic statecraft is just a fig leaf for maintaining the status quo for Canada's rich and powerful. From Trudeau's complicity in the genocide to Yemen, to the Liberal Party's history of corruption and deep financial connections to corporate Canada, to the details on how Justin's "reconciliation" agenda was derailed by Indigenous folks this book is a must-read for when anyone tries to guilt you into "strategically" voting Liberal because the Conservatives exist. 

Despite what Jason Kenney (and Rachel Notley) say, our neighbors in BC are not our enemies. There has been so much hype and misinformation around the pipeline debate that we reached across the Rockies to dispel some of the myths. Kai Nagata of Dogwood speaks with us about left wing populism, why he's fighting the Trans Mountain pipeline and the political realities on the ground in B.C.

Further reading:

• Dogwood
• EcoJustice throws down the gauntlet; Kenney responds with bravado; stand by legal action in 30 days
• Amnesty International urges Alberta Premier Jason Kenney to abandon ‘Fight Back Strategy’ in Open Letter
• EcoJustice's submission to the commissioner of the Alberta Public Inquiry Into Anti-Energy Campaigns

We’re breaking down organized white supremacy like a beat-em up side scroller – starting with the easiest baddies and moving on to the biggest and scariest villains at the end. We’ve also got a healthy dose of media criticism as we discuss the baffling decision by the Globe and Mail to platform Ezra Levant and the troubling trend of mainstream media getting played like a fiddle by Nazis.

Further reading:

Edmonton police investigating blog posts targeting LGBTQ gym

Patriot Pride Canada Wide 

Why Are So Many White Nationalists 'Virulently Anti-LGBT'?

Lyndsey Shepherd door knocking with Heather Leung

How Ezra Levant’s Globe Op-ed Got Published

Andy Ngo: How a Right-Wing Troll Managed to Manipulate the Mainstream Media

Undercover in Patriot Prayer: Insights From a Vancouver Democrat Who's Been Working Against the Far-Right Group from the Inside

Furries Got an Alt-Right Troll Banned From Their Convention

Resource: Confronting White Nationalism in Schools

Neo-Nazis Are Organizing Secretive Paramilitary Training Across America

Atomwaffen, an American Neo-Nazi Terror Group, Is In Canada

Police Warn that Accused Neo-Nazi Canadian Soldier Could Have Fled to U.S.

Winnipeg Free Press investigation and infiltration of The Base

The War on Everyone: An audiobook by Robert Evans

Ricardo Acuna and Sandra Azocar visit the pod to tell their stories of the CIA-backed coup by brutal Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet--the other 9/11. The one that America did.

Further reading:

CIA still refuses to reveal everything it knows about Pinochet coup in Chile

Canada’s support for the right wing coup in Chile 

Allende’s last words to the people of Chile

Documenting U.S. Role in Democracy’s Fall and Dictator’s Rise in Chile

Declassified American intelligence documents on American involvement in Chilean coup

Chile dictatorship victim toll bumped to 40,018

How the Chilean coup forever changed Canada's refugee policies

The ‘Chicago Boys’ in Chile: Economic Freedom’s Awful TollPinochet forced to mount coup, Klein says

Universities entangled in flap over Klein essay

Review clears Klein of plagiarism allegation

Further reading 

More than 4,300 overdoses reversed at Alberta supervised consumption sites since 2017: Report

Alberta Community Council on HIV: A Community-Based Report on Alberta's Supervised Consumption Services Effectiveness 

The Canadian Association of People who Use Drugs, “This Tent Saves Lives: How to Open an Overdose Prevention Site.” 

Keith Gerein: Restrictive agenda suggests the fix is in for Alberta's panel on safe consumption sites

With guests Bruce Fafard and Saba Mossagizi

In this episode we give you a look at how real union organizing works with two organizers who worked on successful certifications for two different worksites in Calgary. If you don’t know what card check or CLAC means or how to help workers build power you will by the end of the episode.

Further reading: 

Unifor grows in Kenney’s Alberta

YYC security guards win union

On The Line: The Struggle of Alberta’s Packing Plant Workers

Rebel Diaz - Which Side Are You On? Remix ft. Dead Prez and Rakaa Irriscience

Alberta Views: A Questionable Bargain, a magazine feature on CLAC

Faisal Khan Suri was giving his suggestions to the Justice Committee in the House of Commons on how to combat online hate when Conservative MP Michael Cooper confronted him by reading from the Christchurch shooter's deranged manifesto. We explore that moment and its fallout, and share a broader discussion on the ideology and goals behind white supremacist terrorism as well as how to defeat it.

Further reading 

The Guardian: The 'white replacement theory' motivates alt-right killers the world over

Hansard of Justice Committee meeting with Faisal Khan Suri

CBC premiere of Digging in the Dirt - 9/14/19 at 7pm

MP Michael Cooper disparaged 'goat herder cultures' in 2008 law class discussion, lawyers claim

PressProgress: UCP Candidate Complained ‘White Supremacist Terrorists’ Are Treated Unfairly, Leaked Messages Show

Alberta has a doppleganger state down in the US but it's not the one you're thinking of--it's Oklahoma! They've got nearly the same population, same dependence on oil and gas and same reactionary conservative politics we have here in 'Berta.

This week on the pod we've got a real live Okie in the flesh to talk about what can we learn from this near failed state. Also, we accidentally break some news about AIMCO divesting from private prison companies that were making money off of Trump's concentration camps.

More from Abdul Malik of Kino Lefter as he and Duncan chat about photojournalism in Canada. Enjoy!

It’s a team up show with two of Alberta’s best left wing podcasters. Abdul Malik of Kino Lefter is on for a wide ranging chat about the rise of the Christian Right and the culture and films they produce and Kate Jacobson of the Alberta Advantage is on to break down both the terrible Calgary arena deal but also the UCP’s stunning loss in court to the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees. 

Links:

Kino Lefter with Abdul Malik

Alberta Advantage with Kate Jacobson