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This week on rabble radio, rabble editor Nick Seebruch speaks with Karen Rodman, executive director of Just Peace Advocates. Just Peace Advocates is engaged in advocacy around the protection of human rights of Palestinians and offers advice and support to those engaged in non-violent pro-Palestinian activism. Karen Rodman is a human rights advocate, and serves as executive director of Just Peace Advocates. She is also founder of Palestine Just Trade. Rodman was ordained as a United Church of Canada minister in 2015 and has served as a human rights volunteer observer in Palestine through the World Council of Churches. She retired from senior management leadership with the Ontario Public Service, after over a three-decade career. If you like the show please consider subscribing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your podcasts. And please, rate, review, share rabble radio with your friends — it takes two seconds to support independent media like rabble. Follow us on social media across channels @rabbleca.

This week on rabble radio, labour reporter Gabriela Calugay-Casuga sits down with Jade Ho, a labour studies instructor at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. The two discuss what is possible for university students when they are given opportunities to learn about –and get involved with– social justice and labour issues in their own communities. Yi Chien Jade Ho 何宜謙 is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at SFU. Jade also teaches various courses in the Faculty of Education, Labour Studies, and Global Asia. Outside of academia, she has been an housing justice and labour organizer in Vancouver. Her doctoral work centers on developing a radical pedagogy of place through the lens of decolonization in cross-cultural contexts and the connection between place, land and identity in marginalized communities in Taiwan and in Vancouver. If you like the show please consider subscribing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your podcasts. And please, rate, review, share rabble radio with your friends — it takes two seconds to support independent media like rabble. Follow us on social media across channels @rabbleca.

Robin Browne joins rabble radio this week to talk about his activist work with the 613-819 Black Hub and his work to address anti-Black racism in Canada. Browne is an activist and communications professional based in Ottawa, ON. He is also founder of the 613-819 Black Hub, and rabble.ca's Off the Hill co-host, alongside Libby Davies. His blog is The "True" North. Read more from Robin Browne on rabble.ca here and catch up on Off the Hill here. If you like the show please consider subscribing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your podcasts. And please, rate, review, share rabble radio with your friends — it takes two seconds to support independent media like rabble. Follow us on social media across channels @rabbleca.

This week on rabble radio, we feature a segment from our most recent Off the Hill political panel. This month, our theme was 'Off the Hill: Why we're in an affordable housing crisis and what to do about it.' In this panel, our guests discussed how such a large-scale housing crisis can exist in such a wealthy country and discuss what needs to be done now to develop affordable accessible housing for people. Our panel included Tanya Burkart, Alex Hemingway and Karl Nerenberg. Co-hosted by Robin Browne and Libby Davies. If you like the show please consider subscribing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your podcasts. And please, rate, review, share rabble radio with your friends — it takes two seconds to support independent media like rabble. Follow us on social media across channels @rabbleca.

It's Islamic History Month in Canada. This week on rabble radio, we're re-releasing an episode of the show in which former host Victoria Fenner sat down with Graeme Truelove, author of: Un-Canadian: Islamophobia in the True North. The two discuss Truelove's inspiration behind the book, Islamic history as a part of Canada's history and more. Featuring Edward Moll reading excerpts of the book. You can read more from Graeme Truelove on rabble here. If you're interested in continuing the discussion on Islamophobia in Canada, we encourage you to check out last year's Off the Hill panel, Confronting Islamophobia in Canada featuring Senator Salma Ataullahjan, Monia Mazigh, Nuzhat Jafri and Karl Nerenberg here. If you like the show please consider subscribing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your podcasts. And please, rate, review, share rabble radio with your friends — it takes two seconds to support independent media like rabble. Follow us on social media across channels @rabbleca.

Ahead of World Mental Health Day on October 10, we wanted to know: what does true mental health support look like in a workplace? While we might often think of support in terms of resources and services, might true workplace wellness go deeper than that? This week on rabble radio, rabble labour reporter Gabriela Calugay-Casuga sat down with Elizabeth Houlding to talk about wellness in our workplaces. Houlding is an Ottawa-based pediatric physiotherapist and organizer with Justice for Workers and the Decent Work and Health Network. If you like the show please consider subscribing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your podcasts. And please, rate, review, share rabble radio with your friends — it takes two seconds to support independent media like rabble. Follow us on social media across channels @rabbleca.

This week on rabble radio, editor Nick Seebruch sits down with CUPE Ontario president Fred Hahn to discuss the recent momentum in the labour movement in Canada. Hahn last joined rabble radio in November last year when CUPE Ontario's negotiations with the Doug Ford government were stalling. CUPE Ontario was demanding better wages, more support services – and the Ford government wasn't budging. Instead, Ford invoked the notwithstanding clause to force a contract on the union and effectively wipe away its bargaining rights. In the days that followed Hahn's interview on rabble radio, CUPE Ontario's 55,000 education workers as well as some local chapters of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation (OSSTF) and the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (ETFO) all went on strike. In the end, Ford blinked, and labour won. Today, Hahn reflects on the impact of this historic labour action from last November, why it's so important for the labour movement to be at the forefront of social justice issues, and what CUPE Ontario is focused on today. If you like the show please consider subscribing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your podcasts. And please, rate, review, share rabble radio with your friends — it takes two seconds to support independent media like rabble. Follow us on social media across channels @rabbleca.

This week on rabble radio, we feature a segment from our most recent Off the Hill political panel. This month, our theme was 'Off the Hill: Summer of fire – what's Ottawa got to do with it?' In this panel, our guests discuss the social and environmental impact the wildfires had on Canada this summer, how Canadians can get involved in climate justice and how we can hold the federal government accountable for climate solutions. Our panel included MP Leah Gazan, Clayton Thomas-Müller, Chuka Ejeckam, Diana Yoon and Karl Nerenberg. Hosted by Robin Browne and Nick Seebruch. If you like the show please consider subscribing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your podcasts. And please, rate, review, share rabble radio with your friends — it takes two seconds to support independent media like rabble. Follow us on social media across channels @rabbleca.

Today, Friday September 15, a worldwide climate strike is happening. In Canada, people are joining the fight against climate change on Parliament Hill, calling for the government to end the funding of new fossil fuel projects. The strike on Parliament Hill is organized in part by Fridays for Future Ottawa. On rabble radio this week, rabble labour reporter Gabriela Calugay-Casuga speaks to Shana Quesnel. Ahead of this day of action, the two discuss why strikes like this are crucial and the importance of youth becoming involved in climate action. Shana Quesnel is a fifth-year student at the University of Ottawa in history and political science. She is passionate about climate activism, a scene she has been part of since 2021. She is currently a volunteer for Fridays for Future Ottawa and also the co-president of Climate Justice uOttawa. If you like the show please consider subscribing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your podcasts. And please, rate, review, share rabble radio with your friends — it takes two seconds to support independent media like rabble. Follow us on social media across channels @rabbleca.

This week on the show, national politics reporter Scott Martin sits down with Sean Smukler. Sean Smukler is an associate professor in applied biology and soil science at University of British Columbia (UBC) and director of the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm. Martin and Smukler discuss the current challenges farmers are facing in Canada due to climate change – and wonder aloud where Canada is headed. "We are facing a climate emergency, and we're pretending like it's something for the next generation to deal with. No one grasps the fact that if we don't deal with it now, the next generation can't deal with it." - Sean Smukler To learn more about the state of Canadian agriculture in the face of climate change, read Scott Martin's full piece here. If you like the show please consider subscribing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your podcasts. And please, rate, review, share rabble radio with your friends — it takes two seconds to support independent media like rabble. Follow us on social media across channels @rabbleca.