Dental care is excluded from Canada’s universal healthcare system with services provided based on the ability to pay, leading large segments of the population to neglect care resulting in poor oral health and all its consequences.

On a new Unpacking the News dentist and public healthcare activist Brandon Doucet joins host Andre Goulet for a conversation examining the little known history of dentistry in Canada, how private business interests have prevailed over public health, current trends in the industry like corporate ownership and cosmetic dentistry and more from his new Fernwood Publishing release ‘About Canada: Dental Care’.

The ‘About Canada’ series includes short, easy to read volumes on immigration, health care, disability rights, poverty, media among other topics. Find the series and more essential left Canadian books at www.fernwoodpublishing.ca.

Elizabeth Comack's work in the sociology of law and feminist criminology and as a member of the Manitoba Research Alliance, a consortium of academics and community partners engaged in research addressing poverty in Indigenous and inner-city communities, has informed 14 books she's written or edited including ‘Coming Back to Jail: Women, Trauma, and Criminalization’ and ‘Racialized Policing: Aboriginal People’s Encounters with Police’.

On a new Unpacking the News she joins host Andre Goulet to talk about her latest book from Fernwood ‘Realizing a Good Life: Men’s Pathways Out of Drugs and Crime’.

Find the book at your local library, independent bookstore and at https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/realizing-a-good-life

Find 'Property Wrongs: The 70 Year Fight for Public Housing in Winnipeg' at https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/property-wrongs

An amazing array of independent media convened at Christie Pits park this month as Replay’s Shama Rangwala, The Breach coordinating editor Emma Paling, analyst Chuka Ekjam, cartoonist Haus of Decline and Big Shiny Takes Institute senior fellows Marino Greco, Eric Wickham and Jeremy Appel sit down with host Andre Goulet to break down the candidates and issues, hopes and dreams and traumas and fears of Toronto's 2023 Mayoral byelection.

Plus stay tuned until the end of the episode for a very special 40th birthday best wishes segment recorded for Harbinger pal and friend of the show Rob Rousseau.

Former Saskatchewan NDP leadership candidate Kaitlyn Harvey and Edmonton city council candidate Navjot Kaur join journalist Haseena Manek and host Andre Goulet for a conversation exploring the exclusionary reflex of provincial NDP parties in the 2nd in a series of episodes produced in collaboration with Briarpatch celebrating the magazine's 50th anniversary year.

Read Maneek's piece at
https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/who-is-the-ndp-for

Find the new Fernwood Publishing release 'Making a Home' at
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/making-a-home

On May 5th through 7th the 2023 Mobilizing Data for Justice conference brought together activists, community leaders and critical researchers from around the world for skill building, community outreach and research collaboration at Concordia University's downtown campus in Montreal.

Invisible Institutions' Megan Linton and host Andre Goulet spoke with multiple presenters including conference lead organizer Dr. Chris Hurl, the Information Mobilization and Public Accountability Collective of Toronto's AJ Withers, Winnipeg scholar and activist Kevin Walby from the Centre for Access to Information and Justice, RenovictionsTO's Patricio Davilla and Montreal's Parc-ex Anti-Eviction Mapping Project about how activists and critical researchers are deploying techniques like mapping and countermapping to visualize social justice issues in new ways.

Find out more at
https://datajusticehub.ca/
https://renovictionsto.com/
https://antievictionmontreal.org/en/
https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/caij/

From May 8-12 don't miss UNPACKING THE NEWS broadcasting live from the 2023 Canadian Labour Congress with our friends at Quebec solidarity journalism cooperative Pivot!

Every day we're releasing interviews and reports from Canada's 30th tri-annual labour summit including this episode featuring a speech from Amazon Labour Union president Chris Smalls.

Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts and find more about the Congress at https://liftingeveryoneup.ca/

Theme music 'Judy is a Dick Slap' courtesy of the 2000 Belle and Sebastian EP 'Legal Man' on Jeepster Records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-thsncxieBg

From May 8-12 don't miss UNPACKING THE NEWS broadcasting live from the 2023 Canadian Labour Congress with our friends at Quebec solidarity journalism cooperative Pivot!

Every day we're releasing interviews and reports from Canada's 30th tri-annual labour summit including this episode featuring a panel from the conference floor with Emmmy and Grammy nominated Korean-American comedian and LGBTQIA2s+ activist Margaret Cho.

Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts and find more about the Congress at https://liftingeveryoneup.ca/

Watch the 30 Rock clip 'Kim Jong-il the Waiter' at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K-SmlP4U5w

Theme music 'Judy is a Dick Slap' courtesy of the 2000 Belle and Sebastian EP 'Legal Man' on Jeepster Records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-thsncxieBg

From May 8-12 don't miss UNPACKING THE NEWS' daily show broadcasting live from the 2023 Canadian Labour Congress with our friends at Quebec solidarity journalism cooperative Pivot!

Every day we're releasing interviews and reports from Canada's 30th tri-annual labour summit including this episode featuring a panel from the conference floor moderated by activist Mary Shortall with a panel including the Climate Institute’s Matt Waylan, the Broadbent Institute’s Meg Gingrich and le Directeur syndical - Service Environnement et Transition juste at the Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec Patrick Rondeau

Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts and find more about the Congress at https://liftingeveryoneup.ca/

Watch the CBC video clip 'Alberta wildfires force thousands from their homes' at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_dfrA_HSD0

Theme music 'Judy is a Dick Slap' courtesy of the 2000 Belle and Sebastian EP 'Legal Man' on Jeepster Records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-thsncxieBg

From May 8-12 don't miss UNPACKING THE NEWS' daily show broadcasting live from the 2023 Canadian Labour Congress with our friends at Quebec solidarity journalism cooperative Pivot!

Every day we're releasing interviews and reports from the floor of Canada's 30th tri-annual labour summit including this episode featuring a panel from the conference floor moderated by Broadbent Institute director Jen Hassum in conversation with economists Jim Stanford, Angella MacEwan and Yasmine Yalnizyan on 'Fighting for Fairness: Workers and the Affordability Crisis'.

Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts and find more about the Congress at https://liftingeveryoneup.ca/

From May 8-12 don't miss UNPACKING THE NEWS' daily show every morning live from the 2023 Canadian Labour Congress with our friends at Quebec solidarity journalism cooperative Pivot!

Each episode will feature interviews and reports from the floor of Canada's 30th tri-annual labour summit including this episode with prairie labour journalist Emily Leedham and host Andre Goulet exploring what to expect at convention this week, her new Press Progress piece about the PSAC-AFPC action 'Public Servants Forced Government to Improve Deal By Going on Strike' and more.

Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts and find more about the Congress at https://liftingeveryoneup.ca/

Order your copy of Building A Better World: An Introduction to the Labour Movement in Canada at https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/building-a-better-world-4th-edition