PressProgress Sources

Aug 30 2024 29 ep. 35 mins 43

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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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Stopping the Infernos: Alberta After the Jasper Fire

Aug 30 2024 33 mins

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 Firefi

My Dinner With Eric: Grocery Prices and the Loblaws Boycott

Jun 23 2024 34 mins

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 Sou

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

May 14 2024 50 mins

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

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

May 11 2024 24 mins

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”

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

Apr 29 2024 52 mins

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 4

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

Mar 15 2024 48 mins

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 H

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

Feb 22 2024 58 mins

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 contri

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

Feb 13 2024 26 mins

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 join

Quebec's Common Front w/ Francis Hébert-Bernier

Dec 08 2023 18 mins

Francis Hébert-Bernier, a reporter with Quebec’s independent news outlet Pivot, speaks about the historic public sector strikes currently underway in the province.These strikes are part of the Common Front movement where multiple public sector unions are bargaining at once with Premier Francois Legault's government. These are the largest strikes in the history of Canada and Nort

"Not In My Name" with Dr. Roberta Lexier

Nov 30 2023 44 mins

Dr. Roberta Lexier joins Stephen Magusiak to discuss her recent OpEd in Medicine Hat News, where, as a Jewish Canadian, she strongly condemned the violence and oppression happening to Palestinians in Gaza.In this episode we explore the narratives that dominate mainstream media and politics in Canada.Support the show