Needs No Introduction Podcast
1) The AI hype-machine: Canada's ill-advised 'national sprint' on artificial intelligence
In episode six of the Courage My Friends' season nine, we welcome impact strategist with Animikii, Indigenous Technology, Jeff Doctor, technology and human rights lawyer with Tekhnos Law and senior fe...Show More
2) You Will Not Kill Our Imagination: Author Saeed Teebi on Palestine, writing and imagination
In episode five, we are pleased to welcome award-winning author Saeed Teebi who speaks to us about his powerful new book, You Will Not Kill Our Imagination: A Memoir of Palestine and Writing in Dark T...Show More
3) Bills C-2 and C-12: How Canada's border security acts endanger refugee rights
In episode four, we welcome co-executive director of the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change, Karen Cocq, advocacy and media relations coordinator at The Refugee Centre in Montreal, Alina Murad and Pr...Show More
4) Crisis or scandal? The deliberate dismantling of Ontario's public college system
In our third episode we welcome support staff president for the Ontario Public Service Employees Union Local 418 at St.Lawrence College. Amanda Shaw, second vice president of OPSEU Local 415 at Algonq...Show More
5) On September 20: Draw the line for people, for peace, for planet
In this episode we welcome, climate justice and Indigenous rights organizer from Stellat’en First Nation and senior advisor at the David Suzuki Foundation, Janelle Lapointe; member services and moveme...Show More
6) Lawless: The complete decriminalization of abortion… only in Canada
In our season nine premiere, we welcome Martha Paynter, nurse, scholar and author of Lawless: Abortion Under Complete Decriminalization. We discuss Canada’s complete decriminalization of abortion (the...Show More
7) Palestine and the weaponizing of hunger and the climate crisis
In episode nine of the Courage My Friends series, we welcome visiting professor and dean of the faculty of agriculture and veterinary medicine at Gaza’s Al-Azhar University, Dr. Ahmed Abu Shaban. We d...Show More
8) Labour Fair 2025: Labour now: Union responses to the polycrisis
In episode eight, we return to the George Brown College Labour Fair and a discussion with Ontario Federation of Labour president Laura Walton and chief steward and second vice president of OPSEU/SEFPO...Show More
9) Labour Fair 2025: Building a workers' first emergency response to the tariff crisis
In episode seven, we are pleased to feature executive director of the Workers’ Action Centre, Deena Ladd. In her keynote address for the 33rd annual Labour Fair at Toronto’s George Brown College, No O...Show More
10) Labour Fair 2025: The critical need for labour education
In episode six, we feature the opening discussion of the 33rd annual Labour Fair at Toronto’s George Brown College. Under this year's theme, What Are We Working For? JP Hornick, president of OPSEU/SE...Show More