Welcome! Minutes to Midnight is a radio show hosted on Localfm 107.3
Community members Cat and Finch discuss how the economic, political, and social systems we live under are connected and invite everyone to work towards a better future with imagination that works for all, not just a few.
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12. Police and the Myth of Safety
27 March 2026
In this conversation, we discuss the racial, gendered and class logics that sit at the heart of I.C.E. style violence against immigrants and also against houseless folks in our communities. Massive budgets for war, borders and local law enforcement are normalized in the name of safety. Safety for who? and at what cost? We discuss community, safety and non-policing options that don’t involve private corporations and millions of dollars.
Music: Cherry Beach Express (Pukka Orchestra), Bad Apple (Lambrini Girls), Bandeh (Indian Ocean).
11. Art: Food for the Soul
19 February 2026
The journey from the household artisan to the suave career artist of today is the story of colonial expansion and the rise of capitalism. The separation of art from life and its professionalization has turned art into an asset, a consumable, a hobby, a vehicle for propaganda, making it inaccessible. In this conversation, we talk about making bad art, being whimsical, A.I. trash, imagination and finding our way from being consumers to becoming creators.
Music: Sell Out (Reel Big Fish), Kletka (Molchat Doma), Boys in the Band (Lambrini Girls).
10. Relationships Unshackled
26 January 2026
The constrained settings of life – nuclear consumer families, in competition, paranoid and exhausted, emotionally isolated, forced to perform defined roles, do not allow for expansive ideas of community and love. Passion, spontaneity and joy are lost from this ‘normal’. Love should be a part of building broad communities, where people can meet each other’s needs in responsible ways. We discuss monogamy, communication, queer love and relationship anarchy!
Music: World Love (Magnetic Fields), Compersion Part 1 (Arab Strap).
9. Growth & Degrowth
15 December 2025
Growth and progress are gospel in capitalist societies. These words are often used to mean consumption and GDP. This fragile and loop sided state of affairs comes at an enormous cost – destruction of entire ecosystems and the suffering of living beings. In this conversation, we discuss degrowth and how it can be healthier for all of us and for the planet.
Music: Mali Huriye (DAM), Shouting at the Wall (MC Abdul), Pomawsuwinuwok Wonakiyawolotuwok (Jeremy Dutcher).
8. The Law
30 November 2025
The law – an all pervasive structure that governs our lives through administrative, legal and policing mechanisms. We unpack different pieces of this structure – who holds power and who is dispossessed, who is a criminal and who gets to be ‘safe’. Can we organize communities, build relationships and deal with harm without complicated legal mechanisms and incarceration? Of course we can!
Music: Magic Clap (The Coup), Enjoy Enjaami (Dhee ft. Arivu).
7. Mental Health
28 October 2025
An ideal emotional state that a ‘normal’ individual is expected to experience can be found everywhere – from movies to advertisements to social media. This plays a key role in suppressing emotional responses of trauma and outrage to our many oppressive experiences. We discuss the issues with medical approaches to mental health, alternate community based healing practices, MAD pride and more!
Music: Hurt All Over (Emily Nenni), Better (Jessica Pearson and the East Wind), Been Worryin’ (Cat Clyde and Jeremie Albino).
6. Housing
28 September 2025
The contradiction at the core of the Canadian housing system – an investor’s apparent right to profit versus the human right to housing, turns housing into a commodity and out of reach. This system of profit-making is sustained by the state, through planning and policing. How do we make housing accessible to all? – we discuss rent regulation, abolition of the housing market and cooperative, de-commodified housing!
Music: Priceless (Rascalz), Work Everyday (Brother Ali).
5. Racism
8 June 2025
Race – a socially created system of hierarchy based on biological and/or ethnic differences to justify oppression, exclusion and genocide. In this conversation, we discuss examples, connections to colonialism and impacts of racism on communities. Racism is about power and control, not skin color. What does racism look like in everyday life? What is allyship? – listen, learn and engage!
Music: Is it because I’m black? (Ken Boothe), The healer (Digging Roots), They aim at us (The Neighborhood Kids).
4. Patriarchy
4 May 2025
Men’s historical dominance over women and queer folks has justified male superiority, violence and control. This manifests in the media, in politics, in relationships, in sports, as a difference in power. In this conversation, we talk about how we “learn” to be patriarchal, how it harms everyone (including men) and intersectionality. Now what? – consider decolonial ideas of gender and relationships. They give us a path to healing our broken society.
Music: Dam (Ben Hanna Wa Maana), No Obligation (The Linda Lindas), Sad Femme Club (Kimmortal).
3. Colonialism
6 April 2025
The long and bloody history of colonialism was the bedrock for capitalism to emerge and dominate the world. In this conversation, we throw in some history along with present forms of colonialism and its more subtle cousin – imperialism. Decolonial thought and action involves challenging the status quo in all aspects of life – work, relationships, money and property, education, food and more. Let’s go!
Music: Hum Dekhenge (Faiz Ahmed Faiz), Warpath (Drezus), Inn Ann (Daboor & Shabjdeed), Red Future (Snotty Nose Rez Kids).
2. Capitalism
9 March 2025
In this conversation, we discuss the dominant economic system of our world – capitalism. How it came to be, how it touches our lives and hijacks our basic needs to make a profit. The alternative? – there are exciting projects and possibilities based on cooperation and care, instead of competition and extraction.
1. Introduction
2 February 2025
What’s this new show? why the name? In this conversation, we talk about the value of building a shared understanding of the world we live in. The world is approaching midnight with the convergence of many crises, but this won’t be the end, we’re imaging the new day!
Music: I Pity the Country (Willie Dunn), Links on the Chain (Phil Ochs), Black Day in July (Gordon Lightfoot), All I Want (The Almanac Singers), Dissonance-Demo (AJJ).