Break In Case of Emergency

Mar 25 2025 6 ep. 37 mins 4

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A Canadian podcast about audacious climate solutions rooted in justice and workers’ rights — from the team at the Climate Emergency Unit.

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Dissecting the climate denial machine: culture wars and the climate countermovement (w/ Mary Stuart & Erin Blondeau)

Mar 25 2025 58 mins

Host Emiko Newman interviews Mary Stuart and Erin Blondeau about the rise of climate conspiracism. Mary is a masters student in political ecology at the University of Victoria studying right-wing climate denial. Erin Blondeau is the Director of Communications at the Climate Emergency Unit and an independent writer. Together, they discuss how climate disasters are being reframed as

It’s a f&%#ing climate emergency! Why aren’t we acting like it? (w/ Seth Klein)

Mar 15 2025 62 mins

This episode aired on March 15 2025. Seth Klein joins host Erin Blondeau to talk about the 6 Markers of Climate Emergency Framework. Marker 1: Spend what it takes to win. Marker 2: Create new institutions to get the job done. Marker 3: Shift from voluntary & incentive-based policies to mandatory measures. Marker 4: Tell the truth about the severity of the crisis & communica

The Ontario Snap Election Guide (w/ Bushra Asghar, Zoe Keary-Matzner, and Karishma Porwal)

Feb 19 2025 49 mins

This episode aired on February 19 2025. In this timely episode, host Erin Blondeau discusses Ontario's surprise early election with climate organizers Bushra Asghar, Zoe Keary-Matzner, and Karishma Porwal, coming up on February 27. The conversation unpacks Doug Ford's political strategy of calling an election 16 months early while positioning himself as a “patriotic” leader in

Politics, pipelines, and the price of B.C.'s climate inaction (w/ Emiko Newman)

Feb 19 2025 43 mins

This episode aired on February 19 2025. In this first episode of Break In Case of Emergency, host Erin Blondeau sits down with Emiko Newman, Coordinator of the BC Climate Emergency Campaign, to examine British Columbia's climate action record. Despite thinking of itself as a climate leader, BC received failing grades in a recent progress report that evaluated the province's respons

Preview: Meet two of your hosts from the Climate Emergency Unit

Feb 14 2025 9 mins

This episode aired on February 14 2025. In this special preview episode, join Emiko Newman and Erin Blondeau for a conversation about the origins of the Break In Case of Emergency podcast and the Climate Emergency Unit. Erin and Emiko discuss why the CEU team decided to embark on this podcast journey, touching on Seth Klein's climate book “A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Cl

Trailer: The climate crisis touches everything (w/ Anjali Appadurai & Erin Blondeau)

Feb 14 2025 1 mins

This episode aired on February 14 2025. Global average temperatures are skyrocketing. Communities are being wiped out by wildfires, floods, droughts, storms and other unnatural disasters. We are living the climate emergency. Through candid discussions with frontline activists, community leaders, and climate justice organizers, Break In Case of Emergency explores what it really mean