Episodes 200
Avg. Duration 48m
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Apple Rating 4.5 (16)
Since Oct 2017
Latest Episode May 2026

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Fresh from the birthplace of the CCF! Commentary and analysis on local and provincial politics from a left perspective.

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Prairie Unpopulism - How the west wasn't won (A Nenshi & Beck Story)

May 20, 2026 1h 51m

Team Advantage joins forces with Team Unmaking Saskatchewan to dig into just what is wrong with our provincial wings of the New Democratic Party. The liberal outsider in Nenshi and the establishment…

In Solidarity With Trans Children

Apr 16, 2026 1h 9m

In Alberta as elsewhere reactionary backlash is targeting trans people, particularly trans children. Team Advantage examines the framing of this backlash and explores how it may be rooted in the…

Student Power with Dr. Roberta Lexier

Mar 19, 2026 1h 9m

In 2024 university campuses across Canada saw encampments and other protest actions. In a new book and podcast series Dr. Roberta Lexier places these actions within the broader history of student…

Champagne Neoliberalism OR Effervescent Austerity

Nov 18, 2025 51m

In the lead up to the federal budget, the government signalled that it would include sharp cuts, referencing the steep austerity of the 1995 federal budget. Team Advantage takes a look at what the…

Alberta Teachers and the End of Collective Bargaining: Text Resist to 55255

Nov 04, 2025 46m

Alberta's teachers have been ordered back to work, and their right to strike, collectively bargain, or even present a legal challenge have been stripped away by Danielle Smith's UCP. How is organized…

Escape from the Planet of the Mines - Canada's Resource Imperialism

Oct 10, 2025 58m

Canada exists to put holes in the ground and extract surplus value for shareholders. In this episode, originally recorded in 2021, Team Advantage opens the Canadian trench-coat to find total…

The Death and Life of Canadian Socialism - Live at the Progressive Publics Symposium

Aug 14, 2025 1h 34m

Every century or so the Canadian left gathers at the Royal Canadian Legion #1 in downtown Calgary to inagurate a new era of progress. In 1932 it was J.S. Woodworth and the gang in 1932 at the…

Elbows to the Left – Is Canada Worth Fighting For?

Jul 15, 2025 1h 10m

Support our podcast! Rhetorical and real threats to Canadian sovereignty pose a tough question to critics of the Canadian state: Do we align with liberal nationalists in defense of the Canadian…

Pension Paradox: How deferred wages go to work for capital, with Tom Fraser

Jun 10, 2025 57m

Join our live show Friday June 13 6PM - Royal Canadian Legion #1, 116 7 Ave SE, Calgary - Free Entry - Register here! Public sector pensions are one of the hard-won victories of the 20th century…

Colonialism and Capitalism: Bryan Palmer on Canadian History

Apr 09, 2025 1h 22m

Support 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…

Imagined Alberta: Western Canadian National Fantasies

Mar 02, 2025 47m

WARNING: 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…

James Wilt on the Winnipeg Police

Jan 20, 2025 1h 24m

Support 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…

Vote Harder! Justice Warriors 2 w/ Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson

Dec 07, 2024 22m

It'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…

Canada's Hot Union Summer: what comes next?

Nov 29, 2024 51m

This past year saw a sequence of labour unrest: Teamsters locked out of both CPKC and CN railways, Westjet mechanics striking over Canada Day long weekend, Air Canada pilots reaching a last-minute…

Posties on Strike! On the Picket Line with CUPW

Nov 25, 2024 14m

The 55,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers have been on a nationwide strike since November 15th after negotiations at the bargaining table stalled with their employer Canada Post.…

Kenney vs Jeremy Appel

Sep 24, 2024 58m

In this live recording, Jeremy tells us how Kenney has shaped Alberta politics, and expounds on his ideological commitments, his flair for conspiracy and his effective use of political stunts. We…

Sous les pavés: Student radicalism from the '60s to today

May 13, 2024 1h 25m

Gaza solidarity encampments on university campuses in the U.S. and Canada are experiencing violent police crackdowns. How do the student movements of the past inform what's going on now? Team…

COVID-19 in 2024

Apr 07, 2024 42m

What can we learn about the ongoing pandemic and how it's been handled? How's the whole global public health infrastructure, campaign for clean air, and renewed push for workplace going? Does this…

Zionism Sucks

Dec 17, 2023 1h 46m

Israel is on a genocidal rampage through Gaza. Team Advantage, joined by intrepid independent journalist Jeremy Appel, examine the historical roots and basic assumptions that underlie Zionism, and…

Why does Canada love Ukrainian Nazis?

Nov 20, 2023 1h 29m

In late September 2023, Canadian Parliament clapped for "Ukrainian hero" Yaroslav Hunka, who fought with the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), a unit in the Nazi German…

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