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PressProgress Sources

A podcast that digs deeper into important and often unreported issues, by the award-winning non-profit news organization PressProgress. Join the PressProgress team for conversations with experts and newsmakers across the country, including Editor Luke LeBrun, Alberta reporter Stephen Magusiak, and Associate Editor Rumneek Johal. Produced by Eric Wickham, Publisher Romy Garrido.

  1. AUG 30

    Stopping the Infernos: Alberta After the Jasper Fire

    Residents of Jasper Alberta are finally returning to the town that made international headlines after it was devastated by a monster wildfire in July.Nearly a third of the town was damaged or destroyed, and the spot is currently closed to tourists for the foreseeable future.How do we prevent climate change disasters in the future? It’s complicated, according former Alberta Firefighter Matt Rieger, who spent years on the front lines battling blazes while stationed at bases across the province....

    34 min

  2. JUN 23

    My Dinner With Eric: Grocery Prices and the Loblaws Boycott

    Canada’s expert on the rising costs at the grocery store (no, not that one) joins host Stephen Magusiak to discuss his latest project, the Grocery Tracker, which monitors the price of food staplesEric Wickham is a data journalist for the Toronto-based Hoser. He co-hosts and produces the Big Shiny Takes podcast.Wickham recently wrote about the Loblaws boycott. He also produces Sources.Support the show

    34 min

  3. MAY 14

    After the assassination of a Canadian Sikh on Canadian soil, what did (or didn’t) the foreign interference commission reveal?

    The foreign interference commission published its preliminary report — but the Sikh community in Canada says the inquiry largely overlooked India despite their role as a major threat of foreign interference in Canada. In the foreign interference commission’s final report it was revealed that "India directed foreign interference activities related to the 2019 & 2021 general elections.”The commission also revealed that CSIS considered India a “clear second to (China) in terms of the le...

    51 min

  4. MAY 11

    Rainbow Rallies: How Canada is Fighting Back Against a Wave of Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate

    Canada has been seeing an unusual wave of anti-LGBTQ+ protests over the last year. These rallies and marches targeted drag storytime events at libraries, they targeted local school board meetings – in fact, they even targeted high schools and elementary schools in residential neighborhoods.This organized wave of hate climaxed with a so-called “one million march for children” which took place in cities across Canada last September.Now the pendulum is swinging the other way, and 2SLGBTQIA commu...

    24 min

  5. APR 29

    Capital Gains Taxes: What Are They and Why Are Canada’s Ultra Rich Freaking Out?

    Capital gains – what are they and why is everyone talking about them?This year’s federal budget, released on April 16, is rolling out changes to the way capital gains are taxed in order to make wealthy Canadians “pay their fair share.”According to Finance Canada, these changes are targeted at the wealthiest of the wealthy – Canada’s top 0.13%, a group of approximately 40,000 Canadians with average incomes of 1.4 million dollars.As one can imagine, the capital gains tax changes are already gen...

    52 min

  6. MAR 15

    Jason Kenney's rocky and scandal ridden pursuit of power, with Jeremy Appel

    Author and journalist Jeremy Appel joins host Stephen Magusiak to discuss (almost) all things Jason Kenney: his quest for power, his influence in building the Conservative Party of Canada, his undoing, and, most recently, the conclusion of a massive 5-year RCMP investigation surrounding his campaign to take over Alberta's United Conservatives.Once a key figure in building Stephen Harper's conservatives, in the end Kenney failed to win over the grassroots in Canada's conservative heartland.We ...

    49 min

  7. FEB 22

    Ed Broadbent Spent a Lifetime Seeking Democracy, Equality and Real Freedom

    You might know Ed Broadbent as the former leader of Canada's federal NDP.But Broadbent was more than just a political party leader -- he also spent a lifetime seeking social and democratic change outside partisan politics in academia and civil society, both in Canada and around the world.On this episode of Sources, PressProgress Editor Luke LeBrun is joined by Luke Savage, a contributor to Jacobin and co-author of Broadbent's book Seeking Social Democracy, to explain and remember Ed Bro...

    59 min

  8. FEB 13

    Wrongdoing, threats to security, or something of that nature: The CSIS investigation into an Ontario Conservative nomination race

    Canada’s spy agency is investigating the nomination of an Ontario Conservative MP, according to evidence from a recent investigation by PressProgress Associate Editor Rumneek Johal. Questions surround the nomination of MP Arpan Khanna, who was allegedly favored by the party establishment with ties to figures including Jason Kenney, Stephen Harper and Pierre Pollievre.Rumneek joins Stephen Magusiak to talk about what happened with the Oxford nomination in 2019, and why CSIS would be looki...

    27 min
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A podcast that digs deeper into important and often unreported issues, by the award-winning non-profit news organization PressProgress. Join the PressProgress team for conversations with experts and newsmakers across the country, including Editor Luke LeBrun, Alberta reporter Stephen Magusiak, and Associate Editor Rumneek Johal. Produced by Eric Wickham, Publisher Romy Garrido.

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    PressProgress Sources
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2024
  • Episodes
    29
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