Ricochet and Jacobin: Predictions for 2018

Published: Dec. 27, 2017, 7:28 p.m.

In the conclusion to our year-end conversation, Ricochet co-founder Ethan Cox and Jacobin Podcast Coordinator and Associate Editor Micah Utrecht join host Andre Goulet to submit projections and predictions for the year to come, including:

* anticipating the death of the Kinder Morgan pipeline
* watching Alberta and B.C. NDP efforts to balance resource extraction with social democratic governance
* will marijuana legalization in Canada make everything better? (short answer: an emphatic \u2018no\u2019)

Plus: how will the Bernie Sanders effect influence the further expansion of the American Left, and what does it mean for the surging popularity of the Democratic Socialists of America?

Music on this episode is 'Auld Lang Syne' by Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians (Decca Records, 1939)