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Trailer Park Boys: Great Show or Greatest Show? feat. Clinton, Rory & Tyler from The Alberta Advantage

1/28/2021

 
The boys from The Alberta Advantage—Clinton, Rory, Tyler—visit Sweater Weather to gab about the boys from the trailer park—Ricky, Julian and Bubbles. That’s right, we’re talking Trailer Park Boys!

It's one of the best Canadian television shows ever, and one of the few to find an international audience. And while its heyday was 2001-2007, Trailer Park Boys has an enduring appeal to leftists because of its depictions of class, community, and for just being so damn funny.

Rory is our resident East Coaster and he shares his deep knowledge of Nova Scotia political economy and anecdotes about that region's love of pepperoni. That's well worth the price of admission alone, but then Clinton drops snappy TPB trivia while Tyler plumbs the humanistic heart of life in Sunnyvale.

Could the Conservatives Wipe Out the NDP? feat. Steven C. High

1/23/2021

 
Will the next federal election spell doom for the NDP, out maneuvered by the Conservatives for working-class voters?

I talk to Steven C. High, professor of history at Concordia University and author of the recent article for Canadian Dimension, "Right-wing populism and the realignment of working-class politics in Canada."

Find the article here:
https://canadiandimension.com/article...


Deindustrialization in Canada & Beyond, feat. Steven C. High

1/13/2021

 
How has deindustrialization impacted the working class in Canada and around the world? How is deindustrialization, which is a side effect of global capital constantly seeking cheaper labour, shaping the politics of our time? Will the next federal election spell doom for the NDP, out maneuvered by the Conservatives for working-class voters?

This week I talk to Steven C. High, professor of history at Concordia University, who has published extensively on deindustrialization and the post-industrial transformation of North American cities. His books include Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America’s Rust Belt (U of T Press, 2003), The Deindustrialized World: Confronting Ruination in Post-Industrial Places (UBC Press, 2017), and One Job Town: Work, Belonging and Betrayal in Northern Ontario (U o T Press, 2019).

We also discuss a piece he wrote for Canadian Dimension, “Right-wing populism and the realignment of working-class politics in Canada,” as well as a new international research project he is leading titled Deindustrialization and the Politics of our Time.

Steven High’s piece in Canadian Dimension: https://canadiandimension.com/article...


Sweater Weather now available as an audio podcast!

1/6/2021

 
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I'm very excited to announce that Sweater Weather's full-length episodes will now be available as an audio podcast too! This is in addition to the video versions available on YouTube and Facebook. You can now follow the show on all major podcast platforms:
Soundcloud
Apple Podcasts
Spotify
Google Podcasts
Stitcher
Website/RSS

I've added the excellent episode with Sam Gindin to the feed just to kick things off:

Sweater Weather's Holiday Episode!

1/4/2021

 
I took a sleigh ride into the heart of darkness that is the Canadian middle class. That's right: I watched a bunch of Hallmark movies.

    Sweater Weather is a podcast and live events series about Canadian arts & culture, co-hosted by Aaron Giovannone & Naomi K. Lewis.

    Find the show on all major video, audio & social media platforms.

    Join the audience for our next live recording of Sweater Weather at the Memorial Park Library in Calgary on Treaty 7 territory.  Tickets are free.
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