The Progress Report Podcast
1) Calgary's new police dragnet
Euan Thomson from drugdatadecoded.ca joins us on the pod once again, this time to tell us about his investigation into the Calgary police's use of facial recognition technology. * Premier's Office s...Show More
2) Alberta's measles catastrophe
In the grip of anti-vax culture and governed by an anti-vax premier, Alberta is now the site of the world's second-worst active measles outbreak, with more total cases than the entire United States of...Show More
3) At The Bouncy Castle of Madness
Jeremy recounts the harrowing tale of his visit to a separatist rally on Canada Day in Mirror, Alberta. Check out Jeremy's original article on this event on his blog The Orchard at www.readtheorchard...Show More
4) Michael Janz on Edmonton's 2025 elections
Jim and Jeremy interview Michael Janz, councillor for Edmonton's Ward Papastew, about his election campaign, the value of fighting to change public opinion, whether political parties at the muni level...Show More
5) Seven Gs
Press Progress's Stephen Magusiak joins Jim and Jeremy to talk about this week's G7 conference—and not about the unimportant parts, like global geopolitics, but about what really matters: what Alberta...Show More
6) Fasting for Gaza
Jim and Jeremy speak with participants in an ongoing 40-day fast for Gaza about the present situation in Palestine, organizing back here in Edmonton, and the difficult task of grappling with power fro...Show More
7) The end of the Gillenium?
The 20-year president of the Alberta Federation of Labour is up for re-election this Sunday. Jim and Jeremy take a look at the present situation, check out some Gil McGowan campaign literature, and sp...Show More
8) Fed election 2025 feat. Dave Cournoyer and Blake Desjarlais
2025's federal election is set to up-end politics in Western Canada and yet at the same time the campaign period has been both short and uneventful. So we tapped a couple of smart guys to un-boring it...Show More
9) Drug poisoning polycrisis & U of C crackdown, feat. Euan Thomson
Through projects including the national business coalition Each+Every and his publication Drug Data Decoded (www.drugdatadecoded.ca), Euan Thomson has put his heart and soul into combatting the ongoin...Show More
10) The battle for the Valleyview Municipal Library
Journalist Susan Thompson joins us on the pod with the latest from Valleyview, where the local library is under political siege from a batch of odd characters including a UCP VP of comms and a white n...Show More