On ep109 journalist Anna Bianca Roach sits down with University of Toronto research and policy analyst Abtin Parnia to explore how the extreme Right's anti-immigration ideology and population control rhetoric co-opts Green politics and the struggle for a sustainable and ecological future.

This conversation was recorded on December 2nd, 2019.

Articles cited on this episode include:

Betsy Hartmann, “Population Control I: Birth of an Ideology,” and “PopulationControl II:The Population Establishment Today,” International Journal of Health Services,1997, 27(3): 523-557

Nicholas Kulish and Mike McIntire, “Why an Heiress Spent Her Fortune Trying to Keep Immigrants Out”. NY Times (August 14, 2019). https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/us/anti-immigration-cordelia-scaife-may.html?action=click&module=Intentional&pgtype=Article

Natasha Lennard. “The El Paso Shooter Embraced Eco-Fascism. We Can’t Let the Far Right Co-Opt the Environmental Struggle”. The intercept (August 5, 2019). https://theintercept.com/2019/08/05/el-paso-shooting-eco-fascism-migration/

Courtney Parker. “An act of genocide: canada’s coerced sterilization of first nations women”. Intercontinental cry (November 15, 2019) https://intercontinentalcry.org/canadas-coerced-sterilization-of-first-nations-women/

Sarah Manavis. “Eco-fascism: The ideology marrying environmentalism and white supremacy thriving online”. New Stateman (September 21, 2018) https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2018/09/eco-fascism-ideology-marrying-environmentalism-and-white-supremacy

Normandin, Sebastian, and Sean A. Valles. "How a network of conservationists and population control activists created the contemporary US anti-immigration movement." Endeavour 39.2 (2015): 95-105.

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Presenting the first of three special French-language episodes of Spacing Magazine's Future Fix, this is 'Face au Futur' hosted by Katia Gaid and produced by Andre Goulet.

How do post-secondary institutions, and specifically their campuses, fit into the smart city landscape? The Université of Montréal's new Campus MIL gives us an idea. Geneviève O'Meara, Université of Montréal spokesperson talks to us about how Campus MIL inclusively and responsibly re-purposed old industrial lands with temporary urban interventions, tech installations, bike lanes, safe walkways, and other features that even landed them a LEED certification. But Sasha Dyck, a resident of Parc-Extention, is wary of MIL Campus located some 500 metres from where he lives. This may be a story of innovation and technological progress for some, but Sasha tells us about the impact all of this can have on one of Canada's poorest neighbourhoods. As innovative, tech-enabled spaces make their way into our cities we have to ask ourselves: Who is being left behind?

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On ep108 Progress Alberta executive director and 'The Progress Report' host Duncan Kinney joins Andre Goulet to explain how Jason Kenney's 2019 budget is an opening salvo in the United Conservative Party's war against Alberta civil society. Plus: in spite of massive media hype and hysteria, does support for Wexit actually hold up? (Short answer: nope)

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This conversation was recorded on November 11th, 2019.

On an episode 108 preview, Progress Alberta executive director and host of 'The Progress Report' podcast Duncan Kinney joins the show to ask why Canada's foreign policy establishment is supporting Bolivia's military-led coup against a popularly elected socialist leader.

Tune in next week as Duncan and host Andre Goulet unpack Wexit and explore the cruelty of Jason Kenney's 2019 Alberta budget.

This conversation was recorded on November 11th, 2019.

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On a new episode of 'Housing Party' housing and human rights scholar David DesBaillets speaks with Projet Montréal city councilor Craig Sauvé on how the city's progressive civic government is making gains for housing access and affordability in its ambitious 20/20/20 agenda.

Join DesBaillets every two months for a new conversation on housing in Canada with experts, policy wonks and scholars examining the challenges cities face in providing affordable, adequate and accessible housing for Canadians.

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On ep106 of Unpacking the News, a cavalcade of comrades and commentators from across the country join host Andre Goulet to explain why, in the aftermath of the demented fever dream of Canada's 43rd federal election, everyone's a loser.

This episode includes conversations with activist Hugh Stewart (Dog Island) in Halifax, political science scholar Maike Sondarjee (Le Placher des Vaches) in Quebec City, academic Christo Aivalis (Youtube's 'Left Politics, History and Culture') in Kingston, organizer Kate Jacobson (The Alberta Advantage) in Medicine Hat and Ricochet editor Derrick O'Keefe.

This conversation was recorded on October 22nd, 2019.

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Depraved debates, a Singh surge and a frustratingly full frontal attack on democratic norms from Maxime Bernier and Rebel Media.... On episode 105, political analyst Ludvic Moquin-Beaudry and attorney Laurence Ricard join host Andre Goulet to explore week 5 of Canada's 43rd Federal Election.

Plus: correspondent Savanna Craig and activist Sania Malik discuss Quebec's Law 21 and it's impact on the campaign and socialist, housing activist and NDP candidate Christine Paré explains how she's taking the fight to Justin Trudeau in his own riding of Papineau in Montreal.

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Tune in weekly for more round-table discussions en francais on 'Le Plancher des Vaches' at the end of every episode of Unpacking the News through to the end of October.

This conversation was recorded on October 13th, 2019.

Singh’s strength in the face of adversity impresses, the BQ tweets the quiet part out loud and American Andrew Scheer is....not actually an accountant? On episode 104 of the podcast journalist Martin Forgues, political analyst Ludvic Moquin-Beaudry and sociologist Julia Posca join host Andre Goulet to explore week 4 of our grim and grotesque 2019 Federal Election psychodrama.

Plus: correspondent Anna Bianca Roach speaks with Rank and File's Dave Bush to talk about Ontario’s Fight for $15 and Fairness campaign, what voters who care about labour rights should be looking for when they cast their ballot and how labour issues are, or aren’t, impacting the 43rd general election.

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Tune in weekly for more round-table discussions on 'Le Plancher des Vaches' at the end of every episode of Unpacking the News through to the end of October.

This conversation was recorded on October 6th, 2019.

If televangelist and PPC candidate Laura Lynn Tyler Thompson's claims that Maxime Bernier is the second coming of the biblical king Jehu are accurate, what can we expect from next week's Leadership debates?

To explore this hot topic issue and more, journalist Martin Forgues, political analyst Ludvic Moquin-Beaudry, politics scholar Maika Sondarjee and host Andre Goulet sit down to discuss a wild and wonderful week for Elizabeth May's 'untraditional' Green Party of Canada, the polling fallout from Trudeau's racism scandal and why the Bloc Québécois' appeal to boomers is yo, a totally rad strategy.

Plus: correspondent Savanna Craig speaks with Montreal activist Sam Kaizer about party policy and the LGBTQ+ community in this election.

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Tune in weekly for more round-table discussions with Forgues, Sondajer and Moquin-Beaudry on the show and hear 'Le Plancher des Vaches' at the end of every episode of Unpacking the News through to the end of October.

This conversation was recorded on September 29th, 2019.

After a week of secrets revealed and hypocrisies exposed journalist Martin Forgues, political analyst Ludvic Moquin-Beaudry, politics scholar Maika Sondarjee and host Andre Goulet discuss the slow-motion implosion of the Liberal campaign, how Canadian media is dramatically unequipped to handle the discourse Trudeau's 'blackface' history demands and why this country's unwillingness to grapple with systemic racism has become the underlying theme of the 2019 Federal Election.

Plus: correspondent Anna Roach speaks with labour organizer Thomas McKechnie on the movement to unionize Foodora in Toronto.

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Tune in weekly for more round-table discussions with Forgues, Sondajer and Moquin-Beaudry on the show and hear 'Le Plancher des Vaches' at the end of every episode of Unpacking the News through to the end of October.

This conversation was recorded on September 22nd, 2019.