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Alberta Advantage Podcast
Hosted by Team Advantage · EN
Fresh from the birthplace of the CCF! Commentary and analysis on local and provincial politics from a left perspective.
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Colonialism and Capitalism: Bryan Palmer on Canadian History
Apr 9, 202501:22:35Tap to summarizeSupport our podcast! Team Advantage sits down with Bryan D. Palmer on his stop through Calgary to discuss his new book, and discuss how labour and anti-colonial movements have historically challenged the Canadian state. We ask what it might take to forge a united front and what the present moment of Canadian Nationalism might mean for left politics. Buy Palmer's book from Lorimer Books or your local independent bookseller. Further reading recommendations from Bryan Palmer: Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition by Glen Coulthard Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States by Audra Simpson Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes Grounded Authority: The Algonquins of Barriere Lake Against the State by Shiri Pasternak
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Imagined Alberta: Western Canadian National Fantasies
Mar 2, 202500:47:42Tap to summarizeWARNING: This episode begins with slam poetry. Team Advantage subjects themselves to some favourite books of UCP ministers and Western Standard columnists in search of the intellectual basis for justifying an independent Albertan nation. We find bad poetry, absurd race science, and convenient economic motivations. We contend that there is a long-standing nationalist rhetorical tradition in this province, place this tradition within a broader history of nationalism, seek out it's through-lines and examine how such rhetoric spreads out from the writings of right-wing cranks and enters more mainstream discourse. Primary Sources Canada and Her Colonies by Alwyn Bramley-Moore The Unfinished Revolt by John Bar and Owen Anderson Mavericks by Aretha Van Herk Secondary Sources Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson Nations and Nationalism since 1780 by Eric Hobsbawm Liberalism: A Counter-History by Domenico Losurdo Of Passionate Intensity by Trevor Harrison Dreamscapes of Modernity by Sheila Jasanoff and Sang-Hyun Kim Land as Pedagogy by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Support this podcast!
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James Wilt on the Winnipeg Police
Jan 20, 202501:24:51Tap to summarizeSupport this podcast! The Winnipeg Police Service is 100 years old - a century they've used to repress dissent, censor media, bungle investigations and devour city budgets. Author James Wilt joins Team Advantage to discuss his new book, Dogged and Destructive: Essays on the Winnipeg Police which explores this history of policing, resistance, and what a vision for a Winnipeg beyond police might look like. A Local History of Queer Abolitionist Organizing and a Call for Police Abolition by Leon Laidlaw Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom by Sara A. Seo Disaggregating the Policing Function by Barry Friedman An Equity-Based Review of Police Involvement in Schools: The School Resource Officer Program in the Louis Riel School Division by Fadi Ennab Bar None Winnipeg
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Vote Harder! Justice Warriors 2 w/ Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson
Dec 7, 202400:22:04Tap to summarizeIt's election season in Bubble City, the ultra-protected enclave that keeps the rich safe from the mutants of the so-called Uninhabited Zone. When veteran officer Swamp Cop embarks on a dangerous undercover mission, politics just might wind up coming between him and his beloved partner, Officer Schitt. Team Advantage chats with Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson, authors of Justice Warriors Vol. 2: Vote Harder, and discusses the quaint features of placid Canadian life. Follow Matt Bors on Twitter @mattbors and BlueSky @mattbors.bsky.social Follow Ben Clarkson on Twitter @benclarkson and Bluesky @benclarkson.bsky.social Purchase Justice Warriors: Vote Harder direct from Matt's webstore or wherever fine books are sold.
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