Needs No Introduction Podcast
1) 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
2) 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
3) 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
4) 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
5) 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
6) Rebranded fascism, higher education and the burden of conscience
In episode five, we are pleased to welcome back Henry Giroux, scholar, cultural critic and author, most recently of The Burden of Conscience: Educating Beyond the Veil of Silence. We discuss the rise ...Show More
7) George Brown College’s 25th annual Mental Health Conference: Decolonizing learning and creating conditions for student well-being
In episode 4, we focus on the upcoming 25th annual Mental Health Conference at George Brown College in Toronto and this year’s theme, Thriving Together in the Classroom: Creating the Conditions for St...Show More
8) Oxfam Inequality Report 2025: Billionaire colonialism in Canada
In part two of our focus on Oxfam’s latest report: Takers Not Makers: The Unjust Poverty and Unearned Wealth of Colonialism, we welcome associate professor and faculty chair of the Indigenous Relatio...Show More
9) Oxfam Inequality Report 2025: The takers not makers of billionaire colonialism
In part one of this discussion, executive director of Oxfam Canada Lauren Ravon returns to discuss Oxfam’s latest report: Takers Not Makers: The Unjust Poverty and Unearned Wealth of Colonialism. Rav...Show More
10) Do we need a new progressive alternative in Canada?
In our season eight premiere, we welcome independent journalist and public historian Taylor C. Noakes, author, political economist and senior researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative...Show More