Don talks about more of his adventures abroad, in France and the Middle East and we discuss the Punic Wars and their impact on our imaginative empathy.

Don talks about more of his adventures abroad, in France and the Middle East and we discuss the Punic Wars and their impact on our imaginative empathy.

Cocktail Hour - S02E23: Don Todd/Jack Daniels

Don talks about his trips to Europe following retirement. 

Don talks about his trips to Europe following retirement.

Cocktail Hours - S02E22: Don Todd/Jack Daniels

This interview covers the period from 1963 to the 1990s when he worked as a professor of philosophy first at UBC then at SFU. Here we get Don's take on the hippie movement, the discipline of philosophy and anti-intellectual fads, past and present.

This interview covers the period from 1963 to the 1990s when he worked as a professor of philosophy first at UBC then at SFU. Here we get Don's take on the hippie movement, the discipline of philosophy and anti-intellectual fads, past and present.

Cocktail Hour - S02E21: Don Todd/Jack Daniels

Part two of our program finale wherein Don recounts his encounter with the Beat movement.

Part two of our program finale wherein Don recounts his encounter with the Beat movement.

Cocktail Hour - S02E20: Don Todd/Jack Daniels

This is the first part of Cocktail Hour's five-episode finale featuring the philosopher Don Todd

This is the first part of Cocktail Hour's five-episode finale featuring the philosopher Don Todd

Cocktail Hour - S02E19: Don Todd/Jack Daniels

Los Altos Institute hosted Ira Zbarsky, a lifelong supporter of communities seeking autonomy through bioregional self-reliance and fair trade on November 28th in Vancouver.

Los Altos Institute hosted Ira Zbarsky, a lifelong supporter of communities seeking autonomy through bioregional self-reliance and fair trade on November 28th in Vancouver.

Cocktail Hour - S02E18: Ira Zbarsky's Public Lecture on Fair Trade and Eco-Anarchism

This second of two episodes of my political baby photos covers 1996 and 1997. The first interview is the Green Party's first appearance on Rafe Mair's (or any other major radio) talkshow on April 16, 1996 in response to a vigorous campaign by our supporters to break the six-year media blackout under which we had been labouring. 

This second of two episodes of my political baby photos covers 1996 and 1997. The first interview is the Green Party's first appearance on Rafe Mair's (or any other major radio) talkshow on April 16, 1996 in response to a vigorous campaign by our supporters to break the six-year media blackout under which we had been labouring.

Cocktail Hour - S02E17: Stuart Parker/My Baby Pictures #2

While you wait for me to finish the Don Todd interviews, here is the radio equivalent of my baby pictures, featuring four interviews I did when I was 17, back in 1989. I talk about what animated me at the time: youth suffrage, McDonald's ozone-damaging packaging and the proposed Stanley Park zoo expansion.

While you wait for me to finish the Don Todd interviews, here is the radio equivalent of my baby pictures, featuring four interviews I did when I was 17, back in 1989. I talk about what animated me at the time: youth suffrage, McDonald's ozone-damaging packaging and the proposed Stanley Park zoo expansion.

Cocktail Hour - S02E16: Stuart Parker/My Baby Pictures

Stuart Parker

Jon and I meant to discuss three issues on the show but discovered that an hour had passed talking about the first one, the state of the modern university.

Jon and I meant to discuss three issues on the show but discovered that an hour had passed talking about the first one, the state of the modern university.

Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E15: Jon Beasley-Murray/Margaritas

Sam wanted to talk about men's experience of miscarriages, which, other than wine, is mostly what we talked about.

Sam wanted to talk about men's experience of miscarriages, which, other than wine, is mostly what we talked about.

Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E14: Sam Schechter/Cotes du Rhone Guigal

This is the podcast for Stuart Parker's weekly public affairs show, which began on Prince George's CFIS 93.1 as After Nine - Monday Edition and has now moved to CFUR 88.7.

In the show, we drink passionfruit mezcal cocktails discuss Tabasco sauce, Oaxaca cheese, the background and mixed record of Pope Francis, the rise of Latin American Pentecostalism and the relationship between neoliberal healthcare austerity and rising magical belief.

In the show, we drink passionfruit mezcal cocktails discuss Tabasco sauce, Oaxaca cheese, the background and mixed record of Pope Francis, the rise of Latin American Pentecostalism and the relationship between neoliberal healthcare austerity and rising magical belief.

Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E13: Andrew Chestnut/Maracuyas

Cherry Smiley is a dark horse candidate for leader of the BC New Democratic Party running on a feminist platform. We spend seventy minutes talking provincial issues and about the challenges of participating in the NDP.

Cherry Smiley is a dark horse candidate for leader of the BC New Democratic Party running on a feminist platform. We spend seventy minutes talking provincial issues and about the challenges of participating in the NDP.

Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E12: Cherry Smiley/Dry

Nathan Giede, Prince George-based Assiniboine columnist, podcaster, Catholic traditionalist, former Tory candidate joins us to talk about all and sundry as we relaunch the show.

Nathan Giede, Prince George-based Assiniboine columnist, podcaster, Catholic traditionalist, former Tory candidate joins us to talk about all and sundry as we relaunch the show.

Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E11: Nathan Giede/Rum and Coke

In this episode I interview my longtime friend John Thompson, military man, defense policy analyst and now author of a new book on the Second World War. We drink rum; Thompson's bum leg went out so he couldn't make it to the shops and had to subsist on his emergency navy rum supply.

In this episode I interview my longtime friend John Thompson, military man, defense policy analyst and now author of a new book on the Second World War. We drink rum; Thompson's bum leg went out so he couldn't make it to the shops and had to subsist on his emergency navy rum supply.

Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E10: John Thompson/Rum Drinks

After a two month hiatus, the Cocktail Hour is back on the air with the amazing Edward Kopp, navy man, chef, public intellectual and candidate in the Democratic Party 2024 Brooklyn congressional primary.

After a two month hiatus, the Cocktail Hour is back on the air with the amazing Edward Kopp, navy man, chef, public intellectual and candidate in the Democratic Party 2024 Brooklyn congressional primary.

Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E09: Edward Kopp/Manhattans

This is a show produced for Los Altos Institute's podcast channel being reposted here. It's a panel discussion on the Ukraine conflict with Jonathan Sheps, Stuart Parker, Tom Ewasiuk and RT Hatfield.

This is a show produced for Los Altos Institute's podcast channel being reposted here. It's a panel discussion on the Ukraine conflict with Jonathan Sheps, Stuart Parker, Tom Ewasiuk and RT Hatfield.

Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E08: Ukraine Panel Substitute Episode

We interview Bill Tieleman, long-time political operator in British Columbia on the left and law enforcement, as well as the state of the New Democratic Party. 

We interview Bill Tieleman, long-time political operator in British Columbia on the left and law enforcement, as well as the state of the New Democratic Party.

Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E07: Bill Tieleman/Manhattans

This week, the conversation was over tea with Lierre Keith, co-founder of Deep Green Resistance, founder of Women's Liberation Front (WOLF) and author of several books on feminism and the ecological crisis. 

This week, the conversation was over tea with Lierre Keith, co-founder of Deep Green Resistance, founder of Women's Liberation Front (WOLF) and author of several books on feminism and the ecological crisis.

Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E06: Lierre Keith/Dry

This episode of Cocktail Hour, I interview my friend and comrade, geneticist Jonathan Sheps. We talk politics, diaspora and Zionism but we also get to hear his potentially world-changing synthesis of DNA research into bedbugs, lice, syphilis and early hominids. There is even something for sasquatch and yeti enthusiasts.

This episode of Cocktail Hour, I interview my friend and comrade, geneticist Jonathan Sheps. We talk politics, diaspora and Zionism but we also get to hear his potentially world-changing synthesis of DNA research into bedbugs, lice, syphilis and early hominids. There is even something for sasquatch and yeti enthusiasts.

Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E05: Jonathan Sheps/Black Russian

My second interview with Derrick Jensen of Deep Green Resistance covers his up coming book, Marijuana: A Love Story, chronicling the perverse effects of marijuana legalization. We then move on to discussing the problem of scale, properties of capitalism and the Identitarian turn of the eco-left.

My second interview with Derrick Jensen of Deep Green Resistance covers his up coming book, Marijuana: A Love Story, chronicling the perverse effects of marijuana legalization. We then move on to discussing the problem of scale, properties of capitalism and the Identitarian turn of the eco-left.

Cocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E04: Derrick Jensen/Dry

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