Careful conversations from Canadian movements.
Talking Radical Radio gives long-form space to people involved in organizing, activism, and social change work across Canadian struggles. Its best episodes move from personal experience into systemic analysis, with careful attention to power, policy, and the practical work of resistance.
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Talking Radical Radio is a long-running Canadian interview series about people trying to change the conditions around them. It is serious, patient, and grounded. The show gives organizers and community advocates room to explain not only the issue they face, but the structures that keep reproducing it. Episodes often begin with careful framing before shifting into an extended conversation. That structure matters. A discussion of injured workers becomes a story about stigma, appeals, mental health, peer support, and the power of the Workers' Compensation Board, now the WSIB. A conversation about sexual health becomes a look at clickbait, social platforms, misinformation, and whose bodies are ignored by narrow public education. Climate episodes connect practical infrastructure and policy with broader arguments about colonialism, capitalism, and the danger of treating decarbonization as a technical fix alone. The show is comfortable with movement language, but it keeps returning to concrete examples. It notices meetings, Zoom sessions, direct action, press strategy, and the everyday labor of keeping people connected. Its political commitments are clear. It takes anti-racism, decolonial solidarity, labor organizing, climate justice, reproductive rights, and abolitionist school politics seriously as living struggles rather than debate topics. Some episodes are emotionally heavy. They deal with police violence, workplace injury, exploitation, crisis, and the exhaustion of organizing in institutions that move slowly or do harm. The tone stays steady. Scott Nye appears across the excerpts as the named recurring voice, introducing guests and setting the stage without pulling attention away from them. The show also functions as an archive. Its final-era episodes look back at a 10-year weekly run while still asking what grassroots media, independent platforms, and activist storytelling need next. For PlayNext listeners, the appeal is depth. These are not clipped arguments built for quick outrage. They are conversations for people who want to hear how movements understand themselves, how participants learn from one another, and how personal stories become collective analysis.
Made for: For listeners interested in Canadian activism, labor struggles, climate justice, decolonial politics, media criticism, and community organizing. It suits people who prefer patient interviews and grounded movement analysis over fast commentary.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by letting guests build context at length, moving from lived experience to collective strategy without turning the conversation into punditry. Its Canadian movement focus gives local specificity to issues often discussed only in broad terms.
Talking Radical Radio brings you grassroots voices from across Canada. It features in-depth interview with people involved in a wide range of activism, organizing, and other social change work, and gives them a chance to take a longer view as they talk about what they're doing, how they're doing it, and why they're doing it.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Scott Nye turns organizer interviews into clear accounts of how institutional power is experienced, contested, and changed at ground level.
Scott Nye gives organizers room to explain how power operates at ground level and how people respond to it. His interviews move patiently from immediate conditions to strategy, connecting public policy and institutional decisions with their consequences for communities.
This is where you go when the news cycle has flattened grassroots organizing into a slogan.
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A patient farewell that maps how grassroots media lost ground and began to regroup.
Talking Radical Radio ends its 10-year weekly run with a sober, useful look at what has changed for grassroots media in Canada. Scott Nye brings Saima Desai, Dave Gray Donald, and Sharmeen Khan into a conversation that tracks the loss of on-the-ground activist reporting, the…
A local fight over compensation becomes a clear study in injury, stigma, and organizing.
This hour of Talking Radical Radio follows injured workers in Thunder Bay as they describe long waits for compensation and medical attention, plus the stigma that can start at once and the strain of not feeling heard by doctors.
A patient interview connects climate action to colonial history, shallow reconciliation and climate promises, and collective work toward a just transition.
Talking Radical Radio frames a just transition as a test of whether climate politics can reckon with the history it inherits. Emily Eaton's warning that decarbonization could still produce a society built on "greened theft" sets the terms, and Bronwyn Tucker helps extend the…
A careful look at how online sexual-health claims gain authority, and what their gaps can cost young people.
Sexual-health misinformation is treated as a media-literacy problem, but also as a problem of whose lives the usual information leaves out. Talking Radical Radio brings Victoria Romero and Emily Tang, university students and members of the National Youth Advisory Council for…
A clear, grounded look at why ending school police also means building real support around youth.
Talking Radical Radio looks at the successful campaign to end Ottawa's school resource officer program, then turns to the more difficult question of what should take its place.
A grounded look at the work of moving climate justice from shared principle into union practice.
Talking Radical Radio frames climate justice organizing as a matter of movement mechanics, through a conversation with a teacher in British Columbia.
A grounded account of extraction's effects on water, food, wildlife, wetlands, forests, and Indigenous-led protection work.
Indigenous-led water protection is framed through the effects of resource extraction in Alberta and the Northwest Territories, then rooted in Jesse Cardinal's land-based upbringing and her work as executive director of Keepers of the Water.
Policy, survival, and the politics of care.
Moral questions with consequences for minds, machines, and power.
WSJ reporters unpack the Epstein files, surrogacy industry abuses, and true-crime court battles.
Dan Carlin's solo essays connecting executive power, historical collapse, and American democracy.
An interview with Mark Nichols about his work organizing low-wage workers in Newfoundland and the challenges they face.
An interview with climate activist Emma Norton about the need for both practical infrastructure changes and policy shifts to address the climate emergency.
An interview with members of the Naujawan Support Network about challenging exploitation of international students and immigrant workers in Brampton, Ontario.
Host Scott Nye interviews Jesse Cardinal, executive director of Keepers of the Water, an Indigenous-led organization founded in 2006.
Scott Nye interviews Tara Erke, a teacher and labor activist in British Columbia, about climate justice organizing within the labor movement.
Scott Nye closes Talking Radical Radio's 10-year weekly run with an episode about the future of grassroots media in Canada.
Scott Nye opens by naming the stigma injured workers can face when they seek medical attention.
Talking Radical Radio opens with Scott Nye introducing Emily Eaton's warning that decarbonization, without a wider reckoning, could leave society with theft simply painted green.
Talking Radical Radio’s episode on "Challenging mis- and disinformation about sexual health and rights" brings Scott Nye together with Victoria Romero, Emily Tang, and Matthew Johnson around SRH Week 2023’s "Get the Facts" theme.
Haley Yasmeen Dash and Mae Mason of Asilu Collective describe how an Ottawa campaign ended school resource officers across all four city school boards.
An interview with Kate Turner and Chantal Pelletier about coordinated grassroots action across Canada.